PUZZLE #68 & beer

ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ P.B.R. ME A.S.A.P.] 
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]

PROGRAM: [Java]

PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ P.B.R. ME A.S.A.P.]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]

I love Pabst, so I guess that makes me an ironic hipster. Deal with it. It's the best tasting beer for the financially unable ($2 drafts and $6 pitchers at the local watering hole!). It's way better than the other economic beers: Tecate, Bud/Bud Light, I guess Black Label, certainly better than Natural Ice. Let's just say it was the beer that was polished off first at my wedding last year (ditto for at least one other friends' wedding). My reasoning: my guests know a good beer when they see one (that or my uncle wanted to relive his drinking years as a poor graduate student).

That's not to say I don't like other beers. Harpoon I.P.A. (really, almost every I.P.A.) is a favorite (gotta thank my old roommate for that one as he generally polished off some Sierra Nevada nightly). I try and make it a point to drink a couple locally brewed beers while I'm out and about jet-setting. Of course a Guinness every now and again is pretty good. (Liz, for the record, only drinks Amstel Light). But for the most part, I live a Pabst-only lifestyle.

It has not always been the cheap beer of choice my whole life. Way back in my days of Hip Tanaka the beer of choice was (wait for it) Red Dog! (Oh dear.) And shortly after I moved into Boston I stumbled upon probably the only $1 draft in all of Massachusetts, but I shudder to think what I was drinking, probably some mystery bugjuice concoction of whatever rolloff swill came from the other kegs.

Well anyway, even if you never drink "the Ribbon," or any beer for that matter, this one shouldn't pose too much of a problem. New puzzle on Friday.