yeah, flying saucer definitely has better-than-average bar food

i really like natty greene's food, too, though

10/5/2010 10:26:09 AM

I don't understand why there isn't a flying saucer in Charleston. We have very few bars with an extensive selection of good draft beers. And I don't think there is a bigger drinking population per capita anywhere in the South.

It makes me

10/5/2010 10:29:22 AM

yeah, i guess the town isn't big enough?


There is one in Columbia (been to it once, but don't remember much about it)

10/5/2010 11:30:32 AM

The food is nothing...its Applebee's with Beer

I'd imagine a city Charleston's size would have at least one place with a comparable selection

10/5/2010 11:40:42 AM

there has to be. a buddy of mine who loves craft beer went to law school down there and somehow survived. I'll have to ask him about it.

10/5/2010 11:42:17 AM

There are several places with maybe 20 beers on tap at the most, and one of those constantly has 5-10 of those beers out. The draft beer selection down here is pretty poor considering the amount of alcohol consumed.

Meant to add:

Quote :

"a buddy of mine who loves craft beer went to law school down there and somehow survived."

There is good draft beer down here...just not in large quantities and with the selection you'll find at a Flying Saucer.

[Edited on October 5, 2010 at 11:47 AM. Reason : .]

10/5/2010 11:46:13 AM

if aea can make it in here, she can tell you where her rehearsal dinner was, cause they had a pretty decent beer selection (again, not huge, but better than a normal chain)

10/5/2010 11:52:40 AM

and then you also have the Charleston Beer Exchange which i've heard is a pretty good craft beer store. not bar, but you can take home fresh growlers from kegs on tap.

10/5/2010 11:55:51 AM

^I love CBX. New Beer Tuesdays!

Only unfortunate thing about their Growlers is that South Carolina law prohibits you from tasting anything they have on tap. Not too bad because I usually love anything I put in my Growler from there...but every now and then I have a tough time deciding between two beers and a little taste would help out immensely in the decision making process.

10/5/2010 11:59:02 AM

this is completely unrelated but man i would love to eat at the kickin' chicken right about now

10/5/2010 12:04:23 PM

I would go there every trip to charleston... haven't been the last two time, and that makes me sad face

10/5/2010 12:34:37 PM

I think i'm suffering from 2muchsauceritis.

Lately they have been out of 75% of the beer we have tried to order, the waitresses have been kinda shitty, and add to that i have never been a fan of the food.

I think i'm favoring Raleigh Times more these days.

Oh yeah and why have they never picked up a second kiosk? The line was always 7 ppl or more deep at 7pm. I didn't even bother to get my slips. A shitty old desktop can run IE6, it would not cost much.

10/5/2010 1:01:49 PM

Travis was talking about that last time I saw him. About having a second kiosk to replace the ATM...

10/5/2010 1:14:20 PM

^^Are you complaining about your service last Friday? B/c while I didn't think service was that bad our waitress apologized every time she came over saying they were understaffed that night for whatever reason.

And two of the beers I asked for were also out. Two fresh Oktoberfest beers in bottled form. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get a huge shipment.

[Edited on October 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM. Reason : happens with low volume beers]

10/5/2010 1:30:07 PM

yea we took this guy from out of town and he hated the waitress so bad he didn't want to come back...eventually we had to track her down to give her our checks

plus last night they ran out of every pumpkin beer in the place at 7:30 and my gf loves those freakin pumpkin beers

raleigh times has harvest time...saucer does not

10/5/2010 1:37:22 PM

^a shame. perhaps she was too busy giving my table of high rollers more attention!

10/5/2010 2:27:00 PM

haha most certainly

i don't roll with anyone who is a master of the universe

actually i'm pretty sure when we sit with tom we get better service

[Edited on October 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM. Reason : .]

10/5/2010 2:39:56 PM

lol

10/5/2010 2:40:41 PM

^^
That's because i finish beers in about ten minutes, so they know I'm pretty much always ready for my next beer.

10/5/2010 2:47:26 PM

Second pint night in a row I'm abstaining from.

Who am I?

10/11/2010 11:03:45 AM

pint night sucks

too crowded

10/11/2010 11:36:34 AM

^

half way to plate #2! (304)

10/17/2010 4:47:50 PM

Pint night is great... Just go earlier, says this geezer who's not been there this month

10/17/2010 10:57:02 PM

I'm going for the first time in three weeks... and I bet I'll get a table right when I get there!

10/18/2010 5:59:01 PM

Here right now waiting on john kruk and nym### to get here. Going to see if they have any Oktoberfests left. Nom nom nom

11/1/2010 5:02:08 PM

How was it?

11/3/2010 3:17:01 PM

it was good, as always- tried the something moonglow... I can't remember who made it, but it was pretty good

11/4/2010 10:37:10 AM

^ psst... could you possibly pick up my new card next time you're their?

11/4/2010 10:41:02 AM

lol, I'll try to remember next time I'm there

11/4/2010 10:41:58 AM

What glass did y'all have last night? Stone vertical epic here. It's pretty rad.

11/4/2010 12:51:01 PM

dunno... I rarely go for keep the glass night anymore. I gave away a bunch of my glasses, and I still have too many of them. I will only go for reeelly cool ones

11/4/2010 12:53:17 PM

The next one ill get will be the Turkey of the year glass.

11/4/2010 1:35:18 PM

179

11/4/2010 1:42:18 PM

i love glassware. i've stopped buying the regular shaker glasses though, unless it's from a brewery i really like. Now i just get the chalices or tulips or special editions.

Wednesday night is our night though

11/4/2010 1:44:18 PM

I finally came up with my quote for the 3rd plate... let me know when you finish so we can set a date for a group party!

11/4/2010 1:44:53 PM

Anyone wanna meet up for two ~5:15?

11/4/2010 1:46:11 PM

i'm at 155. Got my Goodbeer shirt last night.

11/4/2010 1:47:51 PM

Quote :

"tried the something moonglow."

Victory

11/4/2010 1:52:21 PM

1170. Closing in on plate number 6.

11/4/2010 2:53:13 PM

Quote :

"The food is nothing...its Applebee's with Beer"

Applebee's must have vastly improved their food then. Granted, I've only had the pretzel sausage thing and the artichoke dip at the Saucer, but those are well above what I've experienced at Applebee's.

11/4/2010 3:12:17 PM

Going now. Hello 66 to go till #5, and over the weekend four friends are getting plates, only one of whose (whom's? shït!) is their first!

11/4/2010 8:09:26 PM

1178. They got some new bottles in.

11/11/2010 11:18:18 AM

^^saw fleetwud again last night, but i was wrapped up in convo across the way

i think i'm at 159

11/11/2010 11:22:05 AM

ok don't get me wrong i love saucer and all and the chicken pilly i had this weekend was alright

but the "pretzel sausage thing" is like a microwave pretzel with tiny slices of cheese added on top before it is put in the microwave with maybe 3 little tiny slices of brat on it

raleigh times gaucomole dip and nachos blow anything at saucer away

11/11/2010 11:49:14 AM

woody, I can not let you bad mouth the bratzel... you might have had one of the 1 in 200 bad ones they pushed through, but that thing is amazing. The only pretzel dish that even holds a candle to it is the crabdip covered pretzel at the big easy

11/11/2010 1:05:02 PM

After tonight I'll be at 949

11/14/2010 8:55:01 PM

^^Oh FUCK YOU SO HARD now I have to go to the Big Easy this week for one of those.

They're fucking amazing.

11/14/2010 9:04:25 PM

11/14/2010 9:55:38 PM

Anyway, my girlfriend is about to turn 21, and I realized that neither us nor any of my friends have ever been to the Flying Saucer, so I'm thinking about going.

Can anyone explain this plate stuff? It's all I ever see you guys talk about in this thread.

11/14/2010 10:04:41 PM

You can sign up for their UFO club for like $15 and after you've tried 200 different beers you get a plate on the wall with your name and a quote, plus like a $100 bar tab and some other stuff. The rewards get better with each successive plate you get.

11/14/2010 10:12:10 PM