(NOTE: Been a busy day – this is my SIXTH post today, so if you’re checking the blog for the first time scroll down and make sure you see everything. You’ll probably hate me if you’re a smoker)
The Flying Saucer will be running a lot of specials for the month of October, to celebrate Oktoberfest. See flyer below (click it for larger image):
I want to draw special attention to The Blessing of the Kegs, to happen each Friday during Happy Hour. The Saucer will have a monk (well, actually someone dressed as a monk) bless the kegs and then they will be tapped, just like they do it over in Bavaria. So, who have they asked to dress up as the monk? None other than Sunday brunch crew member/Handling-Panhandling discussion forum co-founder MIKEY. For those of you who don’t know who Mikey is, there’s a picture of him to the right. He’s Mikey… and he’ll be a Monk… maybe we could abbreviate and just call him Monkey for short.
In addition to the Blessing of the Kegs, German appetizers will be buy one, get one free for the entire month from 4 to 7 PM Monday through Friday. Looking at the menu, it looks like that would include anything involving bratwurst (bratwurst plates, brats on a bun, beer brat nachos, brat con queso, and the Saucer bratzel). Not sure about the beer cheese soup, the regular pretzels, and the sausage and cheese platters – those are kind of marginally German.
There will also be beer specials on Oktoberfest beers every day – that’s a good thing because it means I’ll always have an alternative if they put something nasty on Fire Sale.
There will also be a brat eating contest at some point in the month. (I had typed a crass comment here but thought better of it and deleted it – you never know who reads this blog)
The Saucer is now 21+, so you can still enjoy your disgusting, stinky cancer-causing sticks of death in the Garden, even with the new smoking ban in effect. I’ve been told that the indoor room will now be nonsmoking ’round the clock, where before it was only ’til 8 PM.
Who knows… there may be a seventh post before the afternoon is out… I’m not even close to being out of topics… so check back.