If you kept up with this blog in the past, you would have noticed a whole lot of brewery and beer bar trips by us throughout Michigan as well as on other travels. I even have a tag for "
brewery" because there enough posts to keep anyone interested for at least an hour or two. This past year, all you read about is new restaurants popping up in
Detroit and
Metro Detroit with a local menu, including craft beer. So to kick off the new year, we headed out on a wintry evening to probably our favorite craft beer bar (not to mention, our favorite beer manager, Jason!) in
Metro Detroit,
Clubhouse BFD to watch some playoff NFL. And no, it doesn't stand for "Big F*ckin' Deal", "babies fucking drool", or "Bomb fucking diggity" as our friends hypothesized, rather, Craft Beer, Food, Drink.
Clubhouse BFD is really a craft beer bar tucked away in the suburbs of Detroit (albeit off a major Michigan highway, M-59) that happens to serves food in an atmosphere featuring a number of oddball sports touches, from fishing waders to ping-pong beer sampler paddle trays, and even some fun beer signage (the Schlitz globe is classic!). The
draft beer list is long, constantly updated (you have to follow their twitter or facebook to see what's tapping next), and genuinely the best we've seen in the area. They keep at least 15 taps filled with Michigan beer, giving the other 20 or so taps away to some pretty popular national and international breweries. They always seem to have something unique on tap, and Jason knows how to usurp the really good stuff.
Meanwhile, they don't do such a bad job with upgraded
bar food as we've tried the burger, veggie burger, tacos, and ribs, and haven't gone away hungry or disappointed. The potato tots are warm, crunchy, and sweet with just a pinch of salt to satisfy my sweet and salty fix.
Scottie and I were able to get through 2.5 paddles of 4oz. samplers, so we'd call that a victory despite the boring football game. We also yapped it up with Jason and Bubs. While I typically posted our beer ratings, I've migrated now to the
Untappd app that Scottie uses, so I'm hoping you can see
my ratings. It's actually much easier than trying to create my beer ratings chart. But I will give you my winners for the evening, in no particular order:
Cheers!
UPDATED February 9, 2013: Congratulations to
Clubhouse BFD for making
America's 100 best beer bars according to
Draft Magazine!
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