--- title: Bar Is Giving Away Free Beer Until Local College Football Team Wins a Game description: A bar in Orlando called The Basement is giving away free beer to customers until the UCF college football team wins a game. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z' modified: '2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Food & Drink - freebies - Sports word_count: 261 canonical: https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![draught beers under tap](https://img.money.com/2015/10/151001_em_freebeer2.jpg) Earlier this week, the website of [The Basement](http://www.thebasementorlando.com/) in Orlando, Fla., was down, apparently because too many people were interested in the bar's new deal. Normally, the downtown sports bar has specials coinciding with college football games on Saturday afternoons such as $5 Jamesons and $15 mix-and-match beer buckets. But this Saturday—and perhaps even more Saturdays to come—The Basement is hosting a drink special that drew attention well beyond central Florida. As [*Sports Illustrated*](http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/09/29/ucf-knights-football-orlando-bar-free-beer) and others reported, beer is 100% free at The Basement this Saturday during the [University of Central Florida (UCF)](http://www.ucfknights.com/sports/m-footbl/) football game, which is scheduled to kickoff in New Orleans (against Tulane) at noon. As an [Instagram message](https://instagram.com/p/8MQMAjqKqL/?taken-by=thebasementorlando) posted by The Basement explained, the bar will serve free beer during every UCF game until the team—currently 0-4—wins a game. "Seriously," the Instagram post states. "Free beer during every game until we win. Because we need something to get excited about." With a drink special like this, mind you, it's likely there will be plenty of bar patrons actively rooting against UCF—because every loss promises more free beer down the line. According to [Vegas Insider](http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/las-vegas/), the UCF-Tulane game is a "Pick 'Em," meaning that neither team is favored to win. The team went 9-4 last season, and some predicted that it would [win its division](http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2015/4/30/8510651/central-florida-knights-football-2015-preview-schedule-roster) this year, so the team is bound to get a victory sooner or later. Surely there are many fans—of free beer, not the UCF Knights—who are praying it's later, and perhaps even that the team could run the table and have a winless season. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sports", "item": "https://money.com/sports/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Bar Is Giving Away Free Beer Until Local College Football Team Wins a Game" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/", "name": "Bar Is Giving Away Free Beer Until Local College Football Team Wins a Game", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Bar Is Giving Away Free Beer Until Local College Football Team Wins a Game", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/10/151001_em_freebeer2.jpg", "width": 3872, "height": 2592, "caption": "151001_EM_FreeBeer2" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z", "description": "A bar in Orlando called The Basement is giving away free beer to customers until the UCF college football team wins a game.", "abstract": "A bar in Orlando called The Basement is giving away free beer to customers until the UCF college football team wins a game.", "@id": "https://money.com/free-beer-basement-bar-ucf-college-football/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2015-09-30T22:05:38.000Z", "wordCount": 261, "keywords": [ "Food & Drink", "freebies", "Sports" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Sport", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport" ] } ] } ] } ```