What? I'd never had them before!

The only thing exciting about this update is the fact that these two new beers resulted from a snowed in slumber party with my good friend Cheryl. She called me well into the winter weather's arrival but nothing had stuck yet. We decided to go out to dinner with her man and my also good friend Gurzo yesterday evening. The idea started with Baja Fresh but ended with the much better idea of Jose Tejas, an excellent restaurant that is usually super duper busy, but we got a table without a problem due to the fact that the snow began to stick by then.

I enjoyed my black bean and corn empanadas with a Lone Star. Why? Because it was the only one on the menu that I hadn't had before. And while the people of the internet have expressed nothing but dislike for this beer, I didn't mind it. It was a very straightforward, unexciting lager, which goes very well with the delicious Tex Mex cuisine. Not too bubbly, not too dull, just right and refreshing. This falls under the heading of "American Adjunct Lager" as all of the things I labelled Mexican Lager do, but this didn't taste like all of the beers I had in Mexico. I suppose you could put a lime in it if you wanted to, but I don't think it's really worth it. It's boring, but I think that was fine under the circumstances. I might even order it again under similar circumstances, although the restaurant also had Modelo Negra, one of my favorite beers I tried in Mexico (also one of the darkest, which is a very, very relative description)... so maybe not. We'll see.

After dinner, we went back to their house to watch the Olympics because we love them. I had a Fosters. Why? Because it was left over from our Olympics Opening Ceremony party and I hadn't had it before. We watched women's figure skating and some men's freestyle ski jumping while I enjoyed another pretty boring American Adjunct Lager, which Beer Advocate describes as focusing less on flavor and more on mass production. True story, but another not so bad straightforward "whatever lager". I could see it being more refreshing after a long day of hard work in hot weather, as I found most of the other American Adjunct Lagers that I've tried, but since it was snowing quite a lot and we were just sitting under blankets watching women's figure skating finals, it was not overwhelmingly memorable or impressive.

The women's figure skating finals, however, totally were.

Another lovely evening with lovely friends, another couple of beers on my list.
Colleen: 205
Paul: 200