1,000 Bars in a Year

It might not be the holiest pilgrimmage, but it sounds pretty good to us: Link. Excerpts:

The Brooklynite set out Jan. 1 to visit 1,000 bars in a single year, a cocktail lounge quest that began with one scotch and soda in Mike's Pelham Grill. Barely five months and 499 bars later, the Don Quixote of drink is halfway to completing his boozy impossible dream. Why 1,000 bars, you ask? Why not?

"There wasn't any grand scheme," explained Freeman, a tall draft beer in hand at bar No. 500, The Gate in Brooklyn. "I just wanted to see how many bars you could hit in a year, and 1,000 seemed reasonable."

"I'm jealous as all hell of you," said Dan Ross of Brooklyn, sipping a beer and shaking Freeman's free hand. Another fan offered this post on the blog: "Congrats to you and your liver."

Freeman, no surprise, is a character - charming, gregarious, well-traveled. He sported a baseball cap plugging "Fiji Bitter, The Sportsman's Beer." He wore a bright blue and orange shirt, with his quick smile flashing often through a white beard.

He aims to visit four or five bars a day, although that number varies. He's knocked back a Sam Adams at the Raccoon Lodge in lower Manhattan, a sake at the Kotobuki Bistro in Brooklyn, and a gin and tonic at Hobson's Choice in Hoboken, N.J.

We can't wait for the movie.