The other night, I found myself drinking at “Third Stop”, a slightly chi-chi restaurant with a quasi-bar on the border of Beverly Hills. Now this watering hole cannot be called a full-fledged bar because you can’t actually get a drink at the bar. One is free to place a beverage request after shimmying up to the bar, but due to some crazy liquor license issues, they have to serve it to you at your table. Quite the convoluted process…

Luckily, “Third Stop” does excel in the selection department, and I found myself enjoying a “Green Flash Extra Pale Ale”. I had just finished a bit of a marathon day at the office, and so I enjoyed sinking back into the booth and sipping on this San Diego native. It strikes your palate with a bitter sharpness that is quite refreshing. While it is certainly heavy on the hops, it is not an overbearing taste. The one drawback is that it sours a bit during that lingering after-taste period. However, I just see this as an incentive to drink it more quickly.

The nerd in me is left musing whether this brewery was somehow a side project of the Justice League; the ale that the Green Lantern and the Flash used to brew to help Aquaman get over his inferiority complex.

As the night devolved, I found myself explaining how my next Halloween costume is going to be dressing up as a contestant from “Legends of the Hidden Temple”. My fellow-drinkers were completely clueless, and had no idea what the show was. I brought the waitress over, since she looked to be my age, but she had no idea either. She did, however, have a audition up on YouTube that she was more than happy to show us courtesy of a friend’s iPhone. Come on readers, “Silver Snakes” ruled, right?