So lat night I went to Novare Res in Portland Maine. Their beer selection is ridiculous, they have hundreds of beers to choose from which is awesome. What is not so awesome is how difficult it is to actually get one of those beers. Our waitress who was not nice or bright was so annoyingly absent from the main seating section. If you were able to track her down and put your order in with her, well she didn't always bring you your beers. She forgot on 2-3 separate occasions to bring us our beers and was not really surprised when she did forget. Kind of like the character Lisa Kudrow played on the 90's sitcom Mad About You.
Another puzzling thing about my night last night was that this Belgium beer bar doesn't carry Chouffe. also one of their cask conditioned beers was bad. Our waitress showed her lack of beer knowledge (and I understand that not everyone needs to be a beer geek like me, but don't work in a crazy beer bar and act like you know so much about beer when you don't) when she was overly rude when we had to send back the beer. She said that is how it should be served. We know what cask beer is like, we travel the world for cask beer, we go hunting for cask beer, and let me tell you, that beer was flat. Anyone that knows anything about cask will agree that beer you server like that needs to be drank in a very short period of time. That is why we don't have as much of it here in the US. Cask sitting around for weeks (as their 40 was last PM) is not always good.
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