Last night after a long day working with one of my company’s clients downtown, Chris (a co-worker and fellow alum of RPI) and I stopped in for dinner and brew at The Brickskeller, a bar near Dupont Circle that serves up more than 1000 different brands of beers from all over the world. They have a lot of micro brews from this part of the US, and they have an even larger international selection. I had a Drax, bottled in and imported from Romania. As you can imagine, there was a picture of a vampire on the bottle. I also had an Oxford Raspberry, which I had first sampled at the Old Dominion Beer Festival earlier this month.
According to their website, the founder of the establishment was tired of going into commercialized bars (in hotels, etc) and getting snubbed when he asked for a slightly atypical beer. Also, if it’s distributed in the area, he will put it in stock. The display of beers in the glass coolers as you walk in the door is quite impressive.
As a funny side note, while I was searching for the website for The Brickskeller, I found a website about a fort that some kids made in a spring bed during the summer of 1995. The last line on the page is classic: “someone had nothing better to do named their bar after our fort we though this was funny they have lots of beer”.