Here's another reason to like Jimmy Buffett

(This post was originally intended for yesterday, but an internet outage in our community caused me to post it late.)

A friend of mine in Butler County recommended a while back that I sample a bottle of Land Shark Lager, an “island style” beer that is produced by the Margaritaville Brewing Co. in St. Louis, Missouri.

This was a pretty decent beer, and it comes in a cool bottle. The 12-ounce glass bottle features a raised shark fin logo around the bottle’s neck and proudly displays the products motto: Fins Up!

According to Wikipedia, Land Shark Lager is a pale lager that’s brewed in Jacksonville, Fla. and was released in 2006 as the house lager for “Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville” restaurant chain. Many of you are probably fans of Buffett’s music and are well aware of his strong ties to Mobile and Baldwin counties in Alabama.

It’s said that the beer gets its name from Buffett’s song “Fins,” which is about men in a beach town that spend much of their time trying to woo women who are on vacation.

For more information about Land Shark Lager, visit www.landsharklager.com.