Brown Jug

Every time I go here, I have a good time. Then again, every time I go anywhere I have a good time. It’s located in convenient staggering distance from my cousin’s house, which is nice. If only it would have been there when I lived there, although when I lived there I wasn’t 21, so never mind.
The last time I was here, was after Prairie Central’s last wrestling match for state quarterfinals (or seminfinals, or something). Went in with the cousin Rob, his wife, and then met up with XG. That’s probably why I had a good time. There’s a limited selection of beer (hey, consider getting Triptych on tap, if that happens, i’ll go up however often you need to change out kegs).
So, when we were there last, they had a beer from Goose Island on tap, I don’t remember which one it was, but it was a pale ale. It led to questions of «how can you drink that dark stuff?» and other similar things (the beer wasn’t dark at all).
I then went back and played the devil boxes and took them for about 300. So that was nice too.
Then I sent a text to the staggering distance away cousin saying, go outside. She was rightly freaked out, because «BRYYYYCE what are you doing here?» when I knocked on her door; so we had a smoke and giggled for a while. Probably did 2 or 3 outside things laughing and catching up before I realized I had left 4 other people at the bar, and should get back to them.
If you are big city people like me, this bar has the quaint home town feel (along with quaint home town prices). I had the same beer in CU for twice what I paid in Chenoa. It’s the kind of place that they know everyone, and someone new is a surprise. In a town this size, that’s what happens. When you explain you used to live a block that way (points north) they sort of figure out you are ok, even if you are weird looking. Then when you leave, they ask everyone in the bar «did you know him?» and your cousin is like «yeah, that’s my cousin». If I ever go to Chenoa for anything other than the street dance, I wind up in here. It’s an easy meet up space, located mere minutes away from everyone who lives in town. But then, everything is mere minutes away… even if you are walking.

We’ve eaten here several times. We stopped Monday night on the way home from a basketball game. Had a variety of food and it was all delicious. Wings, hot ham and cheese, grilled Chicken salad and chicken strips! Beer was cold, too!