Bar 8 The Cambridge Commons

A nice Saturday afternoon enjoying the nature in Arlington and Lexington can make a gal thirsty. What better place to quench that thirst than the Cambridge Commons in where else Cambridge. The bar has 31 rotating taps so any beer snob can find something on tap. I didn't have any food today but I have in the past and it has always been good. The beer today was Troges Sunshine Pils a hoppy pilsner which am usually not a fan of a pilsner should be a crisp clean beer but the hop thing is very trendy these days. Troges is a brewery out of Central Pennsylvania. For the hop heads Troges does make a very taste beer called Nugget Nectar.

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Bar 7 The Druid

A "sick" day at work made a perfect day to go out and find bar 7. Unfortunately for me walking this fine Friday was a rainy one but the rain wasn't going to ruin my walk to Cambridge. All that walking made me thirsty so I stopped in The Druid in Inman Square. A cute little Irish bar in a section of Cambridge that has a good selections of bars and restaurants. This place can get packed at night but in the afternoon it was just a couple old timers and some hipster in for lunch. I didn't eat here but they have a tiny little kitchen in the back and the food look very good. The beer I had to go with something a little fancier than what I have been doing on my tour since the Crazy One hasn't been happy with my choices. So the beer of today was Rapscallion 1898 which is a lager with a bit of a hop bite. I enjoyed it very much. I am not a hop head so I thought it was a perfect amount of hops. According to their web site this brew goes back to 1898 and was brewed by the Harvard Brewing company. It has been brewed by 3 other breweries since including the Rapscallion.

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Bar 6 of 52 - Marker's Mark Crossing

If there is a bar I will find it. You can't hide a bar in North Station from me. Bar 6 is tucked away next to Track 1 in North Station called Marker's Mark Crossing. What else is one to do while waiting for your train to arrive than have a few beers? Most of the time you have to head outside the station where you aren't going to see that your train arrived. Not at Marker's Mark Crossing. Want to grab a quick drink before the Bruins game? You can do that at Marker's Mark Crossing. Atmosphere really isn't this bars thing it is a bar in a train station which does all it needs to do and that is to get you alcohol. Beer selection is really lacking just you basics Sams and Coronas so I went with something I haven't had since I was 21 Killian's Irish Red. There is a reason why I didn't drink this for 11 years. Basically a red colored Bud. I don't know how they could call this an Irish Red.

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Bar 5 of 52 - Punters Pub

A nice sunny Saturday afternoon had me talking a walk around the Fenway which brought me to Punter's Pub on Huntington Avenue across the street from the MFA. This dive bar is in the midst of a slew of colleges which I am sure weekend nights are beyond crazy. Cheap beer and college students are not my scene but in the afternoon it is nice and quite place to sit and watch the game. Along the bar they have lots of crazy crap on the wall mostly local college sports photos. The bar itself is pretty big with a pool room and a nice area for darts and plenty of tables. The beer selection is what you would expect at a dive bar so I went with my new go to cheap beer the Narragansett.

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Bar 4 - The Model

Bar 4 brought me to my old stomping grounds The Model because I got kick off my own TV so other could watch Lost. I needed to watch the Devils lose to the Bruins so the model it was because it was on my way to play hockey. Lord only knows how many hours I wasted and High Lifes I have drank in this place. The Model doesn't really pick up until about 1 when all the other bars have closed but my days of closing the model are long gone actually this visit was my only visit in over a year. The place has changed a bit well at least the furniture in the dinning room has and not quite sure what kind of look they are going for. They also have DJs some nights. Back in my day the bar didn't need nights of DJs to bring in the drunks getting drunk was a good enough reason to go to the Model. The drink of choice was High Life in a bottle I do not dare to drink from the taps here. Another thing that has changed is the prices a High life is now $3.50. When I started going there a High Life was only $1.75.


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