The Bar
Visited 5/29/20 @ 6:30pm.
The Drink
Frozen swirl. Rum punch, blue raspberry vodka lemonade. $6.
I hate frozen drinks, but if you make it sweet and (more importantly) cheap enough, you'll have a a happy hour drink I can grudgingly get behind, especially if the temperature is bumping up against 90 degrees like it was that day. The red swirl is the rum punch, with the blue raspberry lemonade entwined. I've been a big blue raspberry fan ever since I was a child, and I'll drink just about anything with that flavor. I didn't know that it wasn't invented
until 1958. The highest compliment I can give a frozen drink is that I'm not disgusted with it by the time that I finish it, and I would put this in the upper echelon of the frozen drinks I've been served.
The Crew
Karen, Aaron.
Notes
Replacing Austin Ale House at the corner of Sixth and Lavaca, The Iron Bear is a gay bar that moved to this location due to the
redevelopment of their old location on Eighth. I never went to the old location and quite frankly I didn't actually get to see much of the new location since we spent basically the whole time people-watching on their patio, but in the brief moments I was inside it seemed pretty understated and almost divey compared to the other gay bars I've been in, and I understand that this is a deliberate choice on the part of the proprietors. I can't really evaluate it well in terms of its function as a gay bar, but it was a fairly chill spot to hang out and just drink, which is good enough for me.
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