Lucky Bucket Brewery Humble Beginnings
Three of us, a dream, and a couple too many beers set the groundwork for Lucky Bucket Brewing Company. We pondered the unique flavor that comes from barrel-aged beers and experimented to perfect the process. Our passion grew with each barrel. Sometimes we'd nail it and sometimes it was laughable. But along the way, we brewed a lager we just couldn't stop drinking. With a grin on our face and a mug in hand, we knew this was to be our first release: Lucky Bucket Pre-Prohibition Lager, our hand-crafted, session beer. The first pint was poured in January 2009 at a small pub in Omaha, Nebraska with a great response.
What about that name? In the days before kegs and bottles were available, the only way to get beer was to take a bucket to the local brewery, fill it up and lug it back home. We admire the work it took to enjoy a great beer. Our name pays homage to our humble beginnings, the original Lucky Bucket.
Sounds like a lot of work. My luck the beer would mysteriously evaporate out of my bucket on the way home and I would have to make multiple trips to get the desired amount of beer home (I might have to call friends to help carry beer).
This beer was a difficult one to rate. It is a very complex beer with many different aromas like squash/melon, maybe a some bready hints while the flavor has a little sourness, light malty sweetness, citric notes and some mild bitterness. The beer people of the cyber world rated this beer at 2.72 which is the closest to matching my team so far. This beer drinks like a more traditional beer rather than a craft brew which will appeal to someone just venturing into the craft beer world.
I would like to thank my kindred beer souls who take time out of their busy life to read this article and enjoy the beer with me and my pals. This months fine batch of beer drinkers are Mike St Marie (dark liquid = crown royal black), Christine Vorpahl (Teener), Mitch Sloan, Duane Counter (DoC), Telal Al-Rifai (Al), Bill Bettendorf, and myself. Much missed this month was Tim Gilbert enjoying some time up nort.
Drinking Tips - Hangover Prevention (we will never need this but just in case)
- Begin by considering your height, weight and personal tolerance for alcohol when drinking (we are not all created equal).
- Drink a glass of milk to start the evening. It will retard the absorption of alcohol, and protect your stomach against irritations (and help out the farmers they help drink beer too).
- Never drink on an empty stomach. Food helps to absorb some of the alcohol and aids the body in digesting it faster. Consider eating starchy foods to slow the alcohol absorption (pasta and a porter, I am in).
- Limit yourself to less than one drink per hour and a glass of water between each beer you order (It will have to be one big beer and I am not real good at counting).
These are recommendations to help limit the after effects of alcohol consumption, not cures for overdrinking. As always we ask you to drink responsibly.
Beer Humor
Yesterday scientists in Canada revealed that beer contains small traces of female hormones. To prove their theory they fed 100 men 12 pints of beer and observed that 100% of them started talking nonsense and couldn't drive. (Forgive me wife when I call for a ride home from the bar)
Please, join me in supporting the beer makers of America and enjoy your beer.
You're Beer Buddy
Pat Best
