Who Doesn't Love Free Beer?

If there is one thing we love, it's free stuff. So this week we scored big. Our first stop this week was at Old Chicago where we held a little piece of paper giving us a free appetizer for simply answering a survey. It was also the night where you buy two beers and get one free. To make that deal even better, our waitress messed up and brought both of us another beer after our first one, since our plan was to share the free beer because #1) we are responsible drinkers and #2) because we are cheap.  Truth be known, though, #2 is actually #1 and #1 isn't always true. She apologized for messing up (yeah, shame on her--insert shaming finger wag here) and said we could have both for free. Our bill for an appetizer and four good craft beers: $9.75.  Win!  Of course we tipped her well and headed out for Costco, our new favorite date night stop, where we found that with our membership we can get a brand spanking new black convertible Camero for a discount.  'Nuff said.  Probably a separate blog topic in itself.

Our Rock Bottom grub and free beer.

We ended the evening at Rock Bottom for one last chance at the Fire Chief Ale before it leaves April 4. We each ordered a Fire Chief and decided to split a chicken sandwich. Then low and behold, the waitress set before us another Fire Chief ale. She explained she had made a mistake and had poured one too many. Rather than pouring it out, she said she thought we would enjoy it. Fantastic, since the bar was actually kind of full and she picked us!  We smiled and made a toast to the date gods and savored our last beer of the night. And left another nice tip, of course.

Our new beer of the week was a Lucky Bucket Lager from Lucky Bucket Brewing in La Vista, Nebraska. We honestly both thought Lucky Bucket was located in Iowa but were wrong [editor's note--for the record the "she" in this relationship suggested Nebraska during said discussion.  Just sayin']. Nevertheless, it was a nice hearty lager that went down smooth and easy.