Pub Crawl Weekend Completed

As I mentioned in my previous post, Rule #1 for my brother's Seattle Pub Crawl is "no girls allowed" but I kept sneaking in here and there around town and disrupting their guy-time together. Sorry, Rich…I couldn't resist! After Nick has been in Japan for 7 months, I just wanted to see my boy! Can you blame a mom? We ran into Nick's college friend with his dad at Pyramid Alehouse before the Marine game on Saturday.

This is a very popular pre-game spot before games, a great place to meet up with people which we often do.

But before all this happened, Bruce and Nick picked up the other 6 guys for the Pub Crawl (Bruce was the designated driver) and headed for breakfast at Hale's Brewery

which not only has great beer but also excellent food. This is where we have had stout floats and they still ordered one this weekend at their 10:45 a.m. pub stop.

Before they arrived at Pyramid pre-Mariner game, they visited Maritime Brewery

then Reuben's Brew which is a new, smaller brewery in Seattle. The brewer came out to explain how they brew their beer and was very accommodating to the guys on the Pub Crawl.

Then, it was Fremont Brewery before heading to the Mariner game.

The Mariner game on Saturday was Turn Back The Clock Day

so the teams wore old time uniforms

with lots of other fun old time things happening during the game

like the hat trick

and the racing Model-T Fords

It was a very fun game but the Mariner's lost so the Pub Crawlers had to go drown their sorrows at Schooner Exact Brewery

I dropped in during this visit while they were all eating some dinner and I could see they were all being treated very well here getting another explanation about the brewery.

They hit two more breweries after this one, including Peddler's Brewing Co.

Bruce took a photo of this neat mosaic made out of pennies.

The last stop was Urban Family Brewing Co. with not a very good photo, at this point.

They ended the evening at a Seattle classic - Dick's Drive-in.

So, that was a full day, if I do say so myself. And then it started all over again today at Elysian Fields.

This is another popular meeting place before Mariner games

and we all went to the Mariner game again today. It was a beautiful day for baseball.

The Mariners lost another one so the Pub Crawlers had to go drown their sorrows again but they don't look too sad! Notice they have lost a couple of the crawlers at this point.

As I write this, the Pub Crawl is still going on out there and I've lost track of all the places they are visiting tonight, although I do know that the above pub is the Elliot Brewing Co. where they had another stout float.

They had an excellent experience at this stop because the waitress remembered all their orders of 25 different beers on 5 different sampler trays. Quite impressive.

This whole weekend was quite impressive, actually. They have visited 14 breweries and sampled 96 different beers this weekend. I'd say their mission was accomplished!

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