Gerst Haus

I had to go to have a laser treatment on my eye in Evansville yesterday.  When I have an eyeball shot the rest of the day is shot so I made my appointment for 2:15 instead of my normal morning preference.  The laser treatment isn't anywhere as bad as the eyeball shots so I wish I'd made it earlier.
This is the first time in a while we'd gone anywhere out of the area in quite some time.  I think I'd been to Evansville before but I can't recall when or why.  We wanted to get there in time to eat and have a beer after the 2+ hour drive and we wanted something we can't get around here.  After looking at a lot of places it came down to Gerst Haus, a german place, and Hickory Pit Stop that is owned by people we know from BBQ competitions.
I'd just cooked a pork butt and had done a brisket a couple weeks ago so we opted for Gerst Haus.  There were a lot of rain and storms yesterday but we managed to stay out of them.  I stopped in Mt Vernon In. to pick up some Yuengling and when I  went in the tornado siren was going off, oh boy.  It stopped when I left but in the 20 minutes it took to get to Evansville my phone's tornado warning went off twice.  Not much we could do so I told Lisa to keep an eye out kept going.
We found Gerst Haus pretty easily and found a parking spot around the corner from it.  It was at this point it started raining.  We went in the back door and I heard a worker saying there was a tornado on the ground where we had just been.  I haven't seen anything about it so I don't think it's accurate.
Lisa got a Gerst Amber andI got a beer that I thought the bartender said was an amberweizen but I'm really not sure.  After I drank a little of mine I didn't really care for it so  I ordered a Yuengling.  I ordered the sausage platter with a bratwurst, Berlin mett and smoked mett.  For sides I got beans and cucumbers and onions, Lisa ordered gumbo and sauerkraut rolls.
The cucumbers and onion wasn't worth eating and neither was the sauerkraut rolls.  The gumbo was very good.  I liked the brat and the smoked mett ring a lot better than the berlin mett but all three were good.  I probably should have got knockwurst or kielbase instead of the brat just to try something different.  I almost forgot the beans were surprisingly very good.
🍺🍺🍺🍺 ( really hurt by the cucumbers and onion and the sauerkraut balls).
The ride home featured 30 mph winds that made me glad we had my Durango instead of Lisa's Jeep.  Durango has a wider base and lower profile.  It also featured a nice little traffic jam at an intersection where the stoplights were out.  I was able to drive again by the time we reach Mt Vernon In and by the time we got to Marion the wind had subsided to a more normal range.