High Life Hero #4: Frankie Miller

Frankie Miller is our kind of guy. Why? Because he's clever.

In 1973 Frankie had an idea that I can only assume was the result of drinking High Life. He thought, "Hey, my last name's Miller! That's the same name as the manufacturer of the greatest beer known to man! I need to take advantage of this on my next record..." And there you have it folks, Frankie Miller's High Life. The closest thing we've seen to an album dedicated to the Champagne of Beers.

He's so damn happy on the cover! He's probably thinking of all the other famous Millers who COULD have taken advantage of that blessing but didn't! HAHA! Suckers! It probably went something like this:
Steve Miller - screw you!
Dennis Miller* - you're not famous yet, so whatever!
Glenn Miller - damn dude, you died in a plane wreck and they never found you?? That sucks...

*Dennis Miller has also tried to take advantage of the last name with his crappy "Miller Time" segment on The O'Reilly Factor. It falls short buddy. Real short.

High Life bar crawl

It's official:

The first annual High Life bar crawl is happening. The crawl will start in south slope, moving up to Flatbush.

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List of bars and more details to follow.

Save the date!

Manmosa

I can't believe I hadn't heard of this before, or thought of it myself, but someone (clearly a lover of the High Life) has created a variation of the Mimosa/Brass Monkey called the Manmosa, which consists of OJ, High Life & Ice. I haven't given it a shot yet, but since one of the ingredients is High Life, I don't see how you could go wrong.
In digging around I've also noticed there's a few morons out there who claim that a Manmosa contains another kind of beer, such as Blue Moon, PBR or Miller Lite. Nice one douchebag - way to miss the point:
A. What other beer could serve as a better replacement for Champagne in a cocktail than the Champagne of Beers?
B. Why would you WANT another kind of beer?
C. What is your problem?

I can't imagine a better time to enjoy one of these than the morning following the 2009 Miller High Life pub crawl. Details to follow shortly...

High Life Hero #3: Bobby Allison

Okay, so we'll admit we don't often sit around and watch NASCAR in our spare time, but that doesn't mean we don't respect the men who drive those tin cans at over 200 mph, trusting their lives not only to their own skill, but to the other drivers on the course, and a bunch of grease-monkeys whose only goal is to make them move faster.



And the guy we admire the most is Bobby Allison. #12 was the engine that ran on High Life, and, not surprisingly, was pretty successful at that. 3rd on the all-time wins list, Allison won the Daytona 500 - NASCAR's premier event - four times, and won the season championship in 1983.

While we don't condone drinking High Life ever when driving, we do condone it all times when driving is not necessary. So does Mr. Allison. Cheers to him.