One of the best outdoor events of the year is less than three weeks away. Art on Tap, the Dixon Museum’s annual fundraiser, will be held Friday, September 7 from 6 to 9 PM. Here’s how it works: You pay $35 for a ticket ($25 if you’re a Dixon member, free if you’re a Young at Art member). You show up and get a 5-ounce taster glass. You then get to walk around and try as many different beers as you can in 3 hours. All the major local distributors are there, as well as the Bluff City Brewers homebrew club. There are over 100 beers total. There will also be food by Blue Coast Burrito, Elfo’s, and Jimmy’s Chicago Style Dogs, Pizza and Beef – all included in your $35 admission fee. And, there will be music by the Sallymacs.
I went to Art on Tap for the first time last year. For weeks before I waffled – friends told me it was a lot of fun, but it’s hard to get me fired up enough about anything to convince me to leave downtown on the weekends. Finally they talked me into it, and WOW! Nearly every person I knew was there. The place was packed and everyone was having a great time drinking, dancing and socializing. Even some of my Beer Goddesses were there, working the table for one of the distributors. Highlight of the evening was listening to fellow blogger East Bumblefuck Kat make snarky comments about then-Saucer waitress The Romanian Sensation: “She sure is short. There certainly isn’t much to that dress she’s wearing.” The Sensation won’t be back for ’07 Art on Tap, so Kat will have to find someone else to be jeal- er, um, I mean, someone else to make witty, insightful comments about.
THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE CANNOT-MISS. Be there. Put it on your calendars. Also, the place gets packed right from the beginning and some of the beers run out, so this is not an event when you want to show up fashionably late. Ladies, if it takes you 2 hours to get ready for this kind of event, you may want to take off work early that day.
Attn Downtowners: Anyone want to split a cab for this? This definitely isn’t an event you want to drive to. If we got 3-4 people together, it could hold down costs. I figure we could meet up about 5:30, walk over to the Peabody and find a cab (there are usually 2 or 3 waiting in the parking lot there). Getting a cab back Downtown from East Memphis can be a bit more challenging, but usually if you tip the driver well on the way out there and get his cell number, you’re set. If anyone is interested in splitting a cab, let me know.