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Black Friday 2013: Beer doorbuster draws big crowd to Lakefront Brewery.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 11-29-13 | Rick Romell

Posted on 11/29/2013 10:15:11 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

It doesn't get more Milwaukee than this:

Hundreds of beer lovers lined up at Lakefront Brewery on N. Commerce Street - 350 of them by 7:30 a.m. - to buy the local craft brewer's special "Black Friday" ale.

"I was here at midnight - midnight!" said first-in-line Derek Fry, 28, of Franklin.

And he was happy to be there. The annual sale of the India-style pale ale - a potent 10% alcohol brew offered in 22-ounce bottles at $10 each - is as more festival than doorbuster.

"This is the quintessential beer community," Fry said as he waited for his share (there's a three-bottle limit). "Just strangers coming together over a common beer denominator."

For Fry and his Black Friday friends, who chatted, drank beer and ate George Webb hamburgers as they waited, the experience trumps the big-box-store shopping frenzy.

"If you're gonna wait five hours for a TV," he said, "I'm gonna wait five hours for a beer."

(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: 2013; alcohol; blackfriday; brewery; wisconsin

1 posted on 11/29/2013 10:15:11 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; ...

Black Friday Ale

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2 posted on 11/29/2013 10:16:20 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

No fights, stabbings or shootings either.


3 posted on 11/29/2013 10:18:44 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Rebelbase

LOLOLOL!


4 posted on 11/29/2013 10:19:26 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

22-oz $10 bottle..

Hmmmmm, does the math.. Sip.

I’m a lagerhead anyway.


5 posted on 11/29/2013 10:21:22 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Rebelbase
"No fights, stabbings or shootings either."

Just as long as they don't do something stupid on par with what the Baltimore Orioles organization did some years ago. "Beer and a Bat Night": free souvenir baseball bat with every pitcher of beer sold. Yep…seemed like a good idea at the time.
6 posted on 11/29/2013 10:34:10 AM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I love me a IPA.

/johnny

7 posted on 11/29/2013 10:46:18 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
When I am traveling for business, sometimes I like to go to a local pub, sit at the bar and order a cheeseburger and fries with bacon and swiss cheese.

During that time, I will make it a point to consume 2-3 pints of the local brew from the taps. I find some very good beers this way.

Has anybody ever heard the song "A Spaceman Came Traveling" by Chris DeBurgh? I can't get that song out of my head this weekend.

8 posted on 11/29/2013 10:57:06 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Ahhhhh! George Webb Hamburgers. Couple before the gig, then breakfast at 3am. I miss Webb’s!


9 posted on 11/29/2013 11:41:46 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: PowderMonkey

Was that before or after their ‘releasing live turkeys from the helicopter promotion’ for Thanksgiving? (The Big Guy moved from Cincinatti to Baltimore?)


10 posted on 11/29/2013 12:03:47 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

LOL! I’d nearly forgotten that debacle. If memory serves, the turkey drop happened years before (early 1960s), and wound up being that great segment of the old “WKRP Cincinnati” TV sitcom.


11 posted on 11/29/2013 12:40:51 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: PowderMonkey
Apparently the 'Turkey Drop' was part of the annual 'Turkey Trot Festival' in Yellville, Arkansas and the 'WKRP in Cincinatti' episode was based on this.


12 posted on 11/29/2013 1:05:18 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was lost but now I'm found; blind but now I see.)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

“OH! THE HUMANITY!”


13 posted on 11/29/2013 1:22:03 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

and the big pair of clocks


14 posted on 11/29/2013 3:12:04 PM PST by mouse1
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To: mouse1

Yeah! The clocks! Burgers were better than White Castle too.


15 posted on 11/29/2013 3:17:36 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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