Post #721739 by AceExplorer on Sat, Jul 5, 2014 6:36 AM

No cell service last night at the bar deep inside an old downtown building.

At The Volstead we finished off Independence Day celebrations with a delicious drink called a "Sliced Bread" which I really enjoyed. It was light and flavorful, more of a "girls" drink, but that's what I needed after a long day in the sun. I also drank at least two full glasses of ice water while I was at the bar. I must have been dehydrated.

Next I ordered an Old Fashioned and really enjoyed it. Can't remember that drink from my past, the Luxardo cherries were interesting in a good sort of way.

Both are whisky/bourbon based. They currently have a very tiny selection of rums and are more of a whisky/bourbon bar. But they have been very willing to listen to suggestions. I suggested they consider a Beachcomber's Punch for their menu, and they didn't know what Demerara rum was. Sometimes it's fun to help a bar learn and perhaps even evolve beyond their original (sometimes narrow) focus. They didn't even have a bottle of Myers's on the shelf and every trad bar has a bottle of that around!

I did chide a cocktail waitress for serving Pabst Blue Ribbons to an entire table behind me. She said, "It's the Fourth, so we'll cut them some slack." Good for her, bummer for the PBR drinkers, though, who missed out on many good things.