Quick story time.....my royals traveling crew and I became obsessed with the Shocktop Pretzel Wheat while on a trip to Table Rock in the summer of 2014....Let it be known I hate normal Shocktop.....but anyways. After that trip we couldn't find it anywhere....until. September 2014....Royals are making the crazy run to the WC. We usually always go out to Andrew Zimmer's canteen place with the meat skewers in RF. What did we see on our way? A shocktop stand....WITH PRETZEL WHEAT. As delicious as we remembered it. So after that...every game. Down to RF, pretzel wheat. 3rd inning? another. Wildcard game....PW. Every Division game....PW. Every Championship game....PW. Every World Series game....PW. Lose in game 7.....didn't have another that year. I couldn't.
So low and behold....2015 rolls around, Roys are rolling....we'd still walk by the Shock top stand and give it a quick look but we knew PW wasn't going to be there yet....but you know what fellas? September 2015? Guess what was there waiting for us? Pretzel. Wheat. In attendance when we won the division....go out the next day basically to see the division garb around the stadium and pound some PW to the champs......Friend scored me Diamond/crown seats a couple times that September..."excuse me waitresses, no PW? I'll be back".....So playoffs again....every playoff game...at least one PW.....you see our seats were in the upper deck anyways but for the playoffs we were row PP upper deck. To head down to RF concourse took some skill and timing to not miss much. We'd pound those outfield RF stairs two at a time to get back to our seats with our sweet nectar as fast as possible......so World Series rolls around again and we're getting to the stadium stupid early to get our PW....our Zimmer Kabob and get to our seats. Esky knocks that insider the parker in Game 1? Pretzel wheat was by our side. (as an aside, the RF area during the world series in both years had the best deal in the stadium....hot chocolate with booze in a WS souvenir cup...like $11. Best deal I've seen at a stadium.)
So that brings us to today. The Roys fresh off getting pounded by the As and all but eliminated.....head to the liquor store to get booze for tomorrow's Qatz tailgate....what do I see for the first time in 2016? You got it. Pretzel Wheat. I have to get some right? So I did.....I get home and open one up, will it be the same?.....I swear to you, first taste I immediately flashed back to watching Esky round the bases in Game 1 from row PP of the K....then I flash back to sitting in Vegas alone watching the Royals clinch Game 5....then to my overnight flight back and making the parade. Then I just sat there looking at this crappy shocktop logo thing wondering why I've tied the best two years of my Royals fanboi'ness to this beer.....but whatever, it is what it is.
Great times guys....don't ever,ever,ever forget it....and A-B...don't ever quit making Shocktop Pretzel Wheat.....
