Good Meal at Willy's

So, BA and I went out to eat at Willy's Ale Room, a scant 2 minute drive over on Rte 109. A client had given her a gift certificate and tonight was the night. I actually put a shirt with a collar on and dragged a brush through my hair.

Willy's has been an Acton fixture for I guess about 20 years now. Good food, solid service and the crowd is a mix of jovial locals and recreating lake folks from away. They have 2 Wing Nights a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have never partook. Not a fan of wings. If there was a way to breed out wings on chickens I would be all over it.

They are a waste of time cooking them and eating them as they are nothing but a delivery device for the numerous sauces each restaurant decides goes with chicken wings. Might as well just dip chips instead. Most sauces I have tasted are about heat or are obscenely sweet. I gave up on Wings 50 years ago at least. I tried to like them, but no; just couldn't keep up the charade. Not enough reward for the effort and mess involved.

Our meal was excellent as usual. But what set off the meal was I tried my first Willy's craft beer. The small brewery is at one one end of the restaurant. I chose "7 Lakes Summer Ale". Coming in at a respectable 5.3% alcohol content, it was tasty and a perfect example of a summer ale.  I had 2 and now I am buzzing quite nicely. I will be ordering it again until they stop brewing it for the season.

It is nice to see a local business do so well. Willy's has become a destination stop for many people, not just the local towns. They have a great location overlooking an apple orchard and yes, there are 7 lakes ringed with camps in the immediate area.

While I am thinking of it, that beer I drank at Willy's was so tasty, when I got home, I finally opened that 18 pack of Pabst and put 3 cans in the fridge. I wonder if they are cold yet ..............

Keep it 'tween the ditches ...............................................

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I googled "Music about Beer". I tasted a couple of tunes. I came away so unimpressed, I almost switched gears and tried to consider other choices. Then I noticed a song by Mac Davis form 1982. It is appropriately called, "The Beer Drinking Song".

As soon as I played it, I knew it was today's choice. It is so much more than a beer drinking song. I never figured Mac Davis for being political. Yet, he wrote a song that offered a solution to all the hate and discontent that swirls around us.

"Why don't we  all just get stoned" - Damn good advice in my opinion.