The Pub Beer/Pub Reviews Das Bierfest!!
| 04 March 2009
Greetings new (and hopefully loyal) readers. The staff of Armchair culture held a staff meeting near Daytona, FL this weekend.
When staff members get together, chances of binge drinking are high, and this weekend was certainly no exception. We stumbled across perhaps one of the greatest ideas a bar could ever have..... of course I am talking about drinking competitions.
Das Bavarian Frauhaus holds Bierfest competitions every Friday night. Unfortunately, we could only get one team to challenge us. They were a bunch of scrubs.... except for their anchor in every event.... lets just call him, "Ogre".
Anyways, the basic premise is $5 per man entry, winning team gets a $50 bar tab. The $5 you pay more than covers the amount of alcohol consumed in the events. Teams of 5 and you HAVE to have a girl frauline on your team. Now, on to the events... My memory is a blur, so anyone can correct me if I am wrong:
Event #1: Mug Slide.....
This is the only event that doesnt involve drinking. The object is to slide empty mug as close to a line on the bar without going over. The scrubs are up first, and only 1 out of the 5 puts it close. We are up next. Our first member slides the mug closer than the whole team, and its over. We are winning 1-0 after 1 event.
Next up is Das Boat Race:
This event involved a lot of drinking... The anchor takes a liter while everyone else takes a pint. I took the lead to get us off to a fast start. We destroyed their starters. We were on our 3rd drinker before their first was even half way done with his first...... however, we hit a speed bump.....
The beer was too cold, and the event was stolen from us.... Ogre threw down his liter as female Nagel was still on her 'cold' bier. We lose, tied 1-1.
The nest event is very similar. It's the same as the boat race, except before you can drink you have to flip and catch a coaster off the bar. We were supposed to progressively increase the amount of coasters down the line, but for some reason that didnt happen.... Anyways, I move to the anchor-liter leg and we move female Nagel to leadoff. same result....
I had to pound a liter in shame...
Now we are down 1-2. This is where my memory starts blurring quite a bit. I believe the next event was Das Strong Man. Since we didnt have anyone named Magnus on our team, we went for the least out of shape option we had. The object is to hold one liter of water straight out to your side while you pound a pint. Then the next minute, you have to hold a liter of water out in each hand while someone pours a pint down your throat. Then the 3rd minute, you have to keep both liters out, while standing on one leg, and pounding the 3rd pint.
Our strategy did not work, we lost... Now that we are down 3-1... Love Without Nagel himself guaranteed a victory in the next event, the inverted frauline (we got a special exception to get both teams to sub in a frau for the frauline. LWN had to be held upside down and chug through a straw...... Our camera ran out of batteries at this point, so here is a drawing of the event:
yeah, the guarantee did not hold up, we lost the event and the match... however we had one more event for pride, Das Scuba Chug!
Snorkel pounding is apparantly something we are good at. We got a win in there............. Final score 4-2 Bad guys
Ok, so it wasnt the best showing, but we will be back, and stronger than ever.
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