Brick Store Pub #2 Beer Bar in U.S.
Decatur Metro | January 5, 2009 | 6:06 pmThough Beer Advocate maddeningly doesn’t put their yearly beer bar rankings online, this comment from “brickstoredave” (aka co-owner Dave Blanchard) leads me to believe that after the remarkable achievement of ranking #3 in the U.S. last year, the Brick Store Pub has climbed a spot to #2 among the country’s best beer bars.
Pretty amazing. Congrats guys!
Aren’t we lucky?
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#2?? what’s first?
Congratulations….Brickstore and its’ staff are at the top of my favorite bars ever…and that is saying something at my middle age!
I think that’s great although I have some mixed feelings about this. When I moved to Decatur in ’01, i would go there for a late afternoon pint or two, I would bribe myself by taking work there sometimes, I would meet up with some friends later in the evening (not all on one day of course), etc. I got to know alot of the servers, they would bring me my Spaten without my asking, and it was very neighborhoody.
I haven’t been there in about a year now. After walking there several times and finding a line out the door and giving up, or getting seated and have the whole place packed to the ceiling, and the servers running like mad, its just not the relaxing place to have a pint that it once was.
Agreed Glockenspieler. I lamented BSP’s popularity last year when it ranked #3. Its just not the same. But when they’re as good as they are, I guess its inevitable.
Hopefully Leon’s will thin things out a bit. And maybe even neighboring Zucca when it opens. I can see folks saying “aww…screw the 2 hour wait…I’ll just go next door…even if the selection there will be very different.
Agreed, the only bad thing about BSP is its popularity. But of course having a hard time finding a seat is far better than not having it at all.
We started going to BSP just after they opened and agree with all. It’s a great place, but not the same place. That doesn’t bother me though because, when it opened, it was really Decatur’s one true pub (as in Public House). Yes, Trackside and Eddie’s were here, but I think you know what I’m getting at. Now, we’re blessed with all kinds of neighborhood pubs, each with its own unique vibe, so the more intimate feeling’s not necessarily lost forever. It just has a different address.
Maybe I’m partial because they’re down the block, but I find Thinking Man similar in many ways to BSP’s early days. Like Glockenspieler recalls, they refill my pint often without me having to ask…
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, it appears Brick Store is so crowded that no one goes there anymore.
We’ve really been enjoying The Grange since they moved in too. Great neighborhood pub. Seems to get a lot of traffic, but still feels like the neighborhood crowd rather than the tourists. Brickstore is great on Mondays too, when the tourists aren’t around.
But wait, there’s more! Brick Store came in at #5 in in Esquire’s ranking of The Best Bars in America.
http://www.esquire.com/bestbars/
Very cool. Thanks lump!