Lilly Marie Adams: February 2009

Saturday, Curtis decided to take me out to dinner in Columbus. Happily to be out with the love of my life, we went to Claddagh Irish Pub. I was a bit skeptical at first, but completely taken back when we stepped into the restaurant. It was actually kind of ritzy. The attendants asked us if we had a reservation, and because it was such a spontaneous occasion, we didn't have one. So we sat at the bar, which was equally, if not better than sitting at a table. We found a nice secluded area of the bar -- it is possible to find seculsion at a bar-- and sat down. Curtis and I are going to Ireland in March, so we were looking forward to getting our tolerances up and to test out the variety and mixtures. I decided to be DD, so I ordered a water and only tasted some of the beer he ordered. He ordered a black and tan, which was really and truly the best beer I've ever tasted.

After that was a Smithwicks and then a half and half. There are a lot of different variations. Here are just a few.

All Irish Black & Tan, aka, Blacksmith, aka, Irish Nectar, aka, Pint of Special: Guinness Stout and Smithwick's Irish Ale
Back in Black: Half Guinness and half Sid Richardson College lager.
Black Hearted Lady : Guinness and Bell's Two-Hearted Ale
Black & Bushy :Half Guinness and half New Glaurs Fat Squirrel Nut Brown Ale
Black & Cherry: Guinness and Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat
Black & Gold: Half Guinness Stout and half hard cider (e.g., Westons or Woodchuck).
Black & Gold: Half Guinness and Half Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
Black & Red: Half Guinness and half Red Stripe
Black & Red: Half chocolate stout over half raspberry or cherry lambic
Black & Sam: Guinness and Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Black & Black : A blend of Guinness Extra Stout and Guinness Draught
Black & Blue: Stout with Blue Moon Belgian White
Black & Orange: Stout and pumpkin ale
Black & White: Stout with any light colored beer.
Black Bastard, aka, Arrogant Black: Guinness and Arrogant Bastard Ale
Black Castle: Half Guinness and half Newcastle Brown Ale.
Black Christmas, aka, Kwanzaa: Guinness draught over Christmas Ale.
Black Cow: Half Guinness and half New Glarus Spotted Cow
Black Dead Guy: Half Guinness and Half Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Black Eye: Half Guinness and Half Black Eye Ale
Black Girl: Half Guinness and St. Pauli Girl
Black Hoe: Half Guinness and half Hoegaarden.
Black Honey: Half Guinness and Half Honey Brown
Black Honky: Half Guinness and Half Goose Island Honker's Ale
Black Light: Half Guinness and Half Samuel Adams Light (or other light beer) #9
Black Magic: Half Guinness and Half Magic Hat #9
Black & Blood, aka, Guinness and Black: Guinness & Ribena (Black Current)
Black Negra: Half Guinness, Half Negra Modelo
Black on Blonde, aka, Blonde Redhead' : A mixture of (slightly more than) half Guinness and (slightly less than) half Stella Artois
Black & Ornery (invented by Kevin Zinter): Half Guinness and Half Furious
Black Rock : Half Guinness and Half Rolling Rock
Black Sap: Half Guinness and Sapporo
Black Scotch Ale: Half Guinness and Half Sam Adam's Scotch Ale
Black Summer: Half Guinness and Half Sam Adam's Summer Ale
Black Tire: Half Guinness and half New Belgium Fat Tire
Blacks on Blondes: Half Young's Double Chocolate Stout and half Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde
Dark & Steamy (invented by Joe Fahrner): Half Anchor Steam Beer and half Guinness
Dirty Bush (Traditional): Half stout Guinness half Bush Light Mixed Seasonally.
Eclipse, aka, Black Moon: Half Guinness and Half Blue Moon
Garnet and Black: Guinness and Killian's Irish Red. T
The Greatness: Half Guinness and Half Great White.
Green Goblin : Half Heineken and half Hobgoblin
Guinn-ling: Half Guinness and Half Yeungling- Created by Jeff Thornton
Imperial Black & Tan : Half Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and half Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout
Innis & Guinness : Half Innis & Gunn and half Guinness
Irish Anarchist: Any Irish stout atop any Irish red ale.
Irish American: Half Guinness and half Budweiser.
Irish Canadian: Half Guinness and half Molson Canadian
Irishman in Texas: Half Guinness and half Shiner Bock
Meth Whore: Half Pabst Blue Ribbon and Half Old English 800.
October Night: Half Guinness and half Sam Adams Octoberfest
Old Dirty Englishman: Half Guinness and half Tetley's

Maybe I'll get to try all of these when I'm in Ireland. Between Curtis and I, I'm sure we can go through most of them because we'll be there for almost 2 weeks. We'll definitely be returning to Cladddagh for future dining. Not only the beer, but the food was amazing. After we were done eating our meals, we got a "trough" like dessert with 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream, brownies, chocolate icing and irish cream drizzled over top of it. The whole night was fun and amazing. THANKS CURTIS!

Ever since I can remember, I've wanted to be a Graphic Designer. I loved the thrill of surprise. I loved that I could do something so naturally that others could not. You might be thinking, "Well what does this have to do with the name Lilly?" Enter, my father. He calls me Lilly occasionally and I've grasped that name as an alias for anything design related. My Dad has always been my inspiration for design and he started motivating me from an early age. I remember one day we were drawing together and he took a white piece of paper and drew two dots about an inch apart from each other. I remember wondering to myself what it was, but knew it had to be something clever. It was a polar bear in a snow storm. So simple yet so interesting and "out of the box."

So, that's the meaning behind Lilly. My Dad. I love both of my parents very much!