Well, at least they got good beer

And it was in fine form, too. The Primator ležak in the other pub that carries it can’t hold a candle to how well the beer is poured here. Christ, I had to wait almost twenty minutes for my pint, and it wasn’t due to snail service – he was building it up the entire time.

But too bad it won’t be for long – The owner has already decided not to serve 12 degree anymore due to the fact that ‘everyone drinks only 10°.’ Looking at the guy who was sitting at the bar across from him, I’d say that he was there more for the shots of Bozkov rum than for the light beer.

If I had it my way, which I won’t, no matter how much I daydream about it, there would be 16° on tap, Augustus Pablo playing through the speakers, and 5 different kinds of marinated cheeses to go with my beer.

What a strange world I live in.

Anyway, he did mention that he might replace the 12° with “maybe this ‘stout’”. He was staring at a poster he had got from the brewery advertising the new beer from Nachod. I could tell he had never tasted it. I knew that his clientele would never want to taste it. I told him it was a black beer, like Guinness. He was still clueless. I then mentioned it’s British beer. Jasne! [Of course it is!] he replied.

My bad, you should never test the bartender’s intelligence.

So instead I tested how well he knew his local market. I told him I had tried the stout at the other place here that serves Primator.

What other place? He replied. Don’t even know your competitors, huh?

So I asked him if he got any stout in bottles – Christ, maybe the brewery sent him a tester and he just mixed it up with the 13° polotomave and the vaiyz-zen- co? weizenbier beer he couldn’t pronounce and didn’t know what was as he was going through the beers in his fridge looking for it.

Man, you should have just stuck with Gambrinus. But probably their new 11° threw your head in a spin.

You are advertised as a sports bar, how come there's no TV?

But in the end, I was the guy twenty or so crowns short while he and his rum-drinking, cigarette-smoking buddy were living it up - God, isn’t it the best? A package of Startky1, a shot of rum, and a tall cold beer to wash all the conversation down with?

And here I am thinking of such trivial things as stout, 16°beers on tap, and Augustus Pablo.
Damn it man, I don't even have my own pub.


1. Cheap domestic cigarettes.

UPDATE 25 Feb 2009

Pub closed down.