Bear-Back Tracking

We return our tale to a day in Knoxville, Tennessee, home to the most amazing blonde and a curse that forces you to dance in the torrential rain.  It was our first experience with White Pizza and a new brewery on a classy urban street.  The noise was overwhelming, the postures erect, and the attire expensive.  However, the happy hour beer and a shared White pizza were perfection at half the cost. 

  It appears to be called Woodruff's, but it is, in fact, The Downtown Grill and Brewery, Knoxville TN.  I Don't have any photos of my own because this is at a date before I began thinking about doing the blog.  We did sit right there though ^_^

We were hungry and downtown are almost always expensive, comparatively, but, we decided to split a smallish pizza, since bears don't have refrigeration to store leftover's anyway, and enjoy two happy hour beers.  I wanted to share two to see what they had to offer, but, on that hot, muggy day, that would soon turn into the most amazing rain storm and the second greatest lightning storms I have ever seen, I wanted something that I found refreshing, which tend to be wheats or blondes.  Bi-Polar Bear does not generally enjoy these beers.  But, I got one anyway and hubby bear got his go-to, a stout.  The State Street Stout and Downtown Blonde Ale to be precise.  Not the most clever names, but to the point.


The State Street Stout, as I recall, didn't wow us.  We felt that it was a sturdy stout, but nothing to write home about.  But, the Downtown Blonde, o' the Downtown Blonde.  It knocked the socks off our un-socked paws.  In our reminiscing session trying to recall our experience, without trying to dredge up old bear's tales of heartache and dread, Bi-Polar Bear said, "Hey!  That’s the only blonde I’ve ever liked.”  As a brunette this was greatly appreciated... Sorry, bad pun.  Anyway, It did say something after all the beer we bears have enjoyed and with so few blondes ringing true to hubby bear, this blonde was genuinely fantastic with its lightly sweet maltiness yet crisp fruity finish without creating sour tones.  Easily two paws up for the Downtown Grill and Brewery's Downtown Blonde Ale.