JBs & Around the World

Well last weekend I found out they demolished the old office building at The Ice House. Now most of you will remember it as the BBQ Factory, but when they first turned the old Union Ice plant into a retail center they took the old office building, moved it to the side and it was JB's Tavern. JB as in John Bryant, was meant to be a more casual cousin of the John Bryants on California Ave. This was somewhere around 1980 give or take a couple of years.

And they started a Beers Around the World promotion. Of course some of my friends and myself were right on it. I was recalling at RTs last night it was when I first had a Guinness Stout (from a bottle and no widget to make that foam). We thought is was the worst beer we had ever had. Live and learn. I never finished out the 100 beers but I was up there at 90 or so when it closed. It wasn't that we didn't have enough time, the cheap pitchers of beer often kept us from even getting to the relatively expensive and often weird 'ferign beers'. Some were good, other were just plain awful too.

Well I'm not too good with these beers of the world deals. I started and never finished Spike's and Britannia.
One of my friend finished JBs, Spikes in SLO and here both, and Britannia as well. What a drunk(HA!). Hey I really don't need any more t-shirts anyway.

A little bit of Bakersfield history gone. Damn!