Black Label

The other week I went out in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago for a friend’s birthday, after a great dinner at Blue Line Club Car we wandered over to a bar called CANS. They specialize in serving canned beers (though apparently they will serve the occasional draft or mixed drink) and I went in thinking I would get a can of Old Style to quench my thirst. Now keep in mind this is not a dive-y place, it is actually pretty trendy (which in retrospect I wonder why I was even there – oh yeah they serve beer). As I walked up to the bar and looked across the 34 cans of beer on display to evaluate possible alternatives, a red glimmer of light reflected off the last can in the line. I was blinded for a second but as I my eyes adjusted to the light it suddenly became clear, what I was seeing was not a vision, not a dream, but and actual can of Black Label beer (fyi red can w/black label for you connoisseurs). I was overwhelmed with excitement (of which my other partners in crime at CANS that night just could not understand) and quickly placed my order (the 1^st of many). As the first drop hit my tongue the memories of picking up $4.99 cases of Black Label longnecks at the Southtown Beverages Drive-Thru and then listening to A.S.Y. (a very influential but virtually unknown Buffalo band) play their B-B-B-Black Label version of La Bamba while attending R.I.T. came flooding back. Yes, “Carling Black Label is an easy-drinking quality beer that needs no more introduction. Its distinctive black label gives it a mysterious, sensual and somewhat rebellious air.” Isn’t that what we are all looking for? Now if I can just find a Chicago bar that serves Narragansett or Ipswich Ale things will be right with the world.

More Black Label info:

Hey Mabel Black Label

Black Label Diet

History of Black Label