Music and Beer

Music is my life. It is such a part of my life that I cannot and refuse to imagine a life without music. I let music dictate my life and have no problem doing that at all. If you want a kick ass soundtrack that kind of defines what I like to listen to here you go. This soundtrack is 31 songs long and these are some of the more known artists that I listen to.



This is the type of music that I love to listen to. I know that I love much of this because I also play bass. Here is my baby.

My Growler and I love to play almost any type of music. Granted, the bass guitar is not my primary instrument. I also rock one of these bad bitches.

What I love about both of these, is that they both have a place that allows for each of them to be used in modern music. Take a look at this video from The Roots. They use both the Sousaphone and a bass.





I absolutely love The Roots. I love to play them, I love to listen to them, and I cannot wait till I get to see them live. Here's another killer video of them with Ice Cube.



As much as I love music, I love it more when combined with beer. Beer and music go hand in hand. This is my favorite beer. 312 out of Chicago hits the spot every time that I drink it. I drink craft beers mostly. That's not to say that I won't drink a Coors Light, but I generally prefer to consider myself a beer snob. I think that my total count of different beers that I have tried is sitting around 200-220 different beers at this point.

I find it awesome how good music gets when you are drinking beer or altering your sobriety in another way (prop 19-type of ways). Playing tuba drunk is one of my favorite things to do. It may sound nerdy or geeky or whatever you want to call it, but I think that it is so fracking goofy that it doesn't matter. Whenever I have played anything other than jazz (because I've mainly played jazz with my fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha), I have been not sober. Playing music is so much fun. There are few things in life that are better than playing music.

Drinking beer for enjoyment and not to get drunk is also always good. Granted, getting drunk is pretty good too. I think that part of my love for beer came from my love of music and more specifically, my tuba. Seeing as how the tuba was developed in Germany, and the German's have great beer (Oktoberfest is my favorite time of the year). I frequently associate playing tuba with drinking beer.

The midwest has a great selection of breweries that brew craft beers. Here's a list of great breweries in and around Indiana.

Goose Island
Upland
Bells
Sun King
3 Floyds
Oaken Barrel
Founders
Mad Anthony
Barley Island

This list is a small sampling. There are a plethora of beers and I think that there is a beer for everyone. You could say that you don't like beer and I challenge that notion and say that you haven't found the beer you like. Look around. There are literally thousands of beers to try.

Everyone has their own tastes in music and I would definitely say that everyone has their own tastes in beer. You just have to find what you like and stick to it.