So far, we’ve sampled Beck’s Premier Light and Yuengling Light Lager as our Super Bowl pre-game beer. For kickoff, we kicked it up a notch with Pale Ales…Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Sweetwater 420 Extra Pale Ale and Yazoo Pale Ale. Now it’s time to mellow out while we watch The Boss rock the half-time show. What better way to watch The Boss than to kick back with a classic American Lager?

Samuel Adams Boston Lager is one of (if not the best) BIG BEER…beers. It’s a classic lager…dark golden in color. Really smooth and really good. We could elaborate with fancy words but that’s kinda lame. Buy this instead of Budweiser and you’ll impress your friends. Also, their website is amazing! It’s an education in beer…styles, history, food pairings. We highly recommend you take the field trip!

The other lager we recommend for your Super Bowl half-time show comes from Holland. Grolsch is one of our absolute favorite lagers. 6 packs are easy to find in grocery stores. They also bottle a 22 oz. filp-top which looks extra fancy. We recommend that one. It’s like the Harvard of beer bottles.ac

Our review of 3 Crow Bar in East Nashville: This place is amazing! We tasted 2 beers. 1 was awesome. 1 was bland.

Classroom: 3 Crow Bar

Total of 30 Beers on tap, over 70 beers in the bottle!  A brand new bigger patio and a food menu that includes Sandwiches, wraps, pizza, snacks….etc  But enough “classroom” details, on to the BEER!

Josh started with the GROLSCH FLIP TOP and Brian went for the COOPERS PALE ALE.

The Grolsch is one of the best lagers we’ve had.  Right up there with Samuel Smith’s.  It’s really smooth, a tad sweet (but not over-bearing) and it’s really easy to drink.  Hahaha that makes us laugh, “really easy to drink” …. like beer is ever literally ‘difficult’ to drink ~ GRADE : A

The Coopers Pale Ale.  hhhmmmm, hhmmpphhhh, ugh…. and all those other words.  We really wanted to like this one.  We drank the Coopers Lager at Olde World Leaf and Ale in Brentwood and it was a decent Australian lager.   The lager is like the next step up from Foster’s.  You all probably know the Foster’s “Oil Can”…. that was the good beer we (Brian) would buy in college, aaahhh the memories.  Anyway we digress.  If Foster’s is Australian for beer, Coopers lager is Australian for “great” beer, Coopers Pale is Australian for bland.  It’s just kind of……there.  There is sediment in the bottle of this pale.  Which normally indicates a good, healthy, strong brew.  Not so much here, we think they put it in for show.  GRADE : C-

So, back to 3 CROW BAR.  We really like this place.  It’s a no frills East Nashville bar.  Some of the best bar sandwiches we’ve had and they’ve got a killer beer selection.  Don’t be scared, venture into the East side, and go to 3 CROW BAR!