Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Drinks Blackstone Wins Silver!
Posted by Chris Chamberlain on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:32 AM
Luckily, Stephanie Weins, owner and general manager at Blackstone Restaurant & Brewery showed me the light and re-sent the press release announcing that their St. Charles Porter had won a Silver Medal. They have entered that beer 15 times over the years and have won seven awards in the Brown Porter category, making it the most decorated Brown Porter ever at the Great American Beer Festival.
That's definitely something worth celebrating, perhaps with a beer.
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This is what your editors allowed Lee Stabert (good riddance) to publish on this very blog, and she ain't even talking about the food (or beer) yet:
"Yesterday, I headed to Blackstone for some of the highly recommended fish and chips. I had never been there before and understood, the second I walked in the door, why. These are the types of places I instinctively hate. Sterile and generic, the place seems to be aiming to look and feel like a national chain restaurant. (Yes, I'm a snob when it comes to this stuff.)"
If that is not bias it is just hateful.
Link here:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/bites/archives/2009/03/05/fish-n-chips-update-lunch-at-blackstone
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sorry frank lloyd, i have to agree with that stabert post you linked to. the atmosphere at blackstone is about as rousing as vanilla pudding and the food I've had is akin to a satisfactory version of Chili's. And based on the comments on your linked post, I'm wondering if you work for blackstone? talk about faux pas, bringing a year and a half old post up on an article that was more than conciliatory and polite toward anyone upset about blackstone not being included enough here...
Since you're reading the old comments, DFF, I'll stand by everything I said then as well.
And I will turn this back to the topic at hand and say Congratulations, Kent and Stephanie (and Dave, who kept winning awards for Kent's recipes much to his own chagrin).
and thanks, Chris, for taking the high road.
Nope - don't work or represent them in any way. I just, it seems, keep finding myself running interference for these people. Stabert shits on them as does Will Ayers. They have a perfect simple as you can get menu unlike the weird meals at Bosco's. Now if you want *real* architectural atmosphere in your beer joint just go to Yazoo's new taproom on Division. There you can relive all of your high school memories in their cafeteria-cum-taproom.
Mind you kids, this all started with the Scene once again congratulating Yazoo and Corsair just weeks ago and totally neglecting Blackstone. Lets count Yazoo's medals vs Blackstone and decide who is the culprit here.
Or as the OP says: "I'm not biased; I'm just ignorant."
