Hello All – I hope you’ve had a great week so far. I tried the Dallas Craft Kitchen and Community Tap Room in The Colony this past Sunday. Community Tap Room means beer and they had close to one hundred beers or so. One was the Deep Ellum Dallas Blonde. It was a slightly hoppy, medium-bodied beer. I’d recommend it to the lighter beer drinkers. However, the experience was where I’m at a bit of a loss. They had a music selection that didn’t reflect a Community Tap Room experience or my expectations of a Community Tap Room are a bit off. Granted this was a Sunday afternoon, so I could see a “Saturday in the Park” by Chicago being applicable here (except it was actually Sunday here in The Colony). Instead, I was greeted with “Oh Sheila” by Ready for the World when I walked in the Community Tap Room. I thought nothing of it at the time, but things got more interesting. About three sips into my slightly hoppy beer, I started involuntarily swaying to “Hands to Heaven” by Breathe. I later ordered a Fireman’s 4, but was told they were sold out and I was sad. However, my mood soon recovered due to the good feeling tune of “All Night Long” by Lionel Richie. David Foster helped me keep it real though by his slightly whimsical, slightly melancholy “Love Theme from St. Elmo’s Fire”. It played to my heart strings. I was brought back to tears with Smokey Robinson’s “One Heartbeat” not because that’s a sad song, but it was a sad attempt at his foray into 80’s music. Don’t get me wrong, that man is a legend, but that song made my cry the “Tears of a Clown”. There was a lot of sheet metal and black and green in this Community Tap Room, so I’m thinking 80’s track must mean some Crue right? Nope, nothing says manly, beer-drinking, sheet metal Tap Room better than Animotion’s “Obsession”.
Have we become such over-accommodating pansies catering to all individuals that we forgot how to swill beer? Is a Community Tap Room not the beer hall of yore? I will say this…they really need to put in some footrails because I just don’t like my legs to dangle. Anyway, what has happened to the take-it-or-leave-it mentality of the beer-drinkin’ joint? You go, you order beer, you order fried food, and you listen to some Skynyrd with Waylon, Willie and the Boys.
Nowadays “You put your hands together and pray…and pray…that you’ll sit down and enjoy your Dogfish IPA…heeyyy. Tonight I need your stout Guinness, hold me in its darkness. Tonight I drink your Scottish Ale by Nexus, You relieve my Incurable Sadness (Irish Stout)”.
Have a great rest of the week and an outstanding weekend!