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This storefront beer emporium is your favorite beer tasting room meets your favorite beer store. The front of Top Hops is sort of general store wood decor with a curved bar and maybe 15 beers on tap. A chalkboard behind the bar tells you beer style, ABV, when the keg was tapped, when the beer lines were cleaned etc. The back of the store is all standing cases stocked with more than 600 bottles. If you live, dream and love to talk about beer, this is your kind of place. They seemed to have a good selection of N.E. American beers that you don't see much in these parts. I enjoyed a Boris the Spider Russian Imperial Stout (10% ABV) from Spider Bite Beer Company in Long Island.- 3 replies
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I have visited Downtown Crown Wine and Beer a few times to browse their selection of beer. I have never been a patron until this weekend. It is located in the new Crown development in Gaithersburg, right by the Sam Eig exit from I-270. As far as Montgomery County goes, they may have the best beer selection available (I can't speak to the wine). In addition to their selection of bottles, they have 15 draft lines. They sell beer by the glass and growler. They also sell wine by the glass. Food is limited to a few cheese/meat boards, and other little nibbles. I went on Saturday with a few friends. We sat outside, they had live music and we got to drink Alpine Nelson, which made its debut in Montgomery County and perhaps Maryland. (As a side note, Alpine Nelson is one of the best beers I have ever had). It was a great atmosphere, nice staff, and all in all we had a really nice time. Prices for drafts here are about as good as it gets in Montgomery County. Check them out if you are close by.
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The time is nigh for Right Proper to open its doors in Shaw around the corner from the burgeoning row of eateries on 7th St. City Paper has a write up on what to expect and when ("early December", permits pending). Initial focus seems to be getting some standard regular beers on rotation using the new system, but it will be very interesting to see what Zeender comes up with once the place is operating on all cylinders. "Farmhouse ales" fermented with brett and other funky strains of yeasts seem to be the next big thing on the microbrewing front, but it looks like he is really going to walk the walk (open fermentation in wooden vats, lots of barrel aging). It's a bit of a gamble for a small storefront enterprise, but it could pay off handsomely. Lord knows he has the chops when it comes to funky, unusual beers. This place should be a like a smaller Bluejacket, but even further out on the edge of normal brewpub offerings. Very excited, I've been watching the build out with anticipation. Oh, and growlers! But "prefilled growlers" gives me pause. Here's hoping you at least have the option to have one filled fresh from the tap. -
Surprised this didn't show up in a search - maybe my litte secret. As expected in a brewpub, the food at Growlers is casual and 'manly' - basic meats, pizzas, burgers and such. I'm thowing it up for consideration as they really do put in an effort in the kitchen. The personal pizzas are a very thin, house made crust with fresh toppings. The Athenian was awesome, with sharp feta and onions. My wife had the basic pizza and it was also good. The bugers are also good - they aren't dense like some and the buns are light and fresh - a complement, not a detriment. We've tried the choriburger (nice, but frankly the chorizo flavor was lost in the rest of the burger), the Portobella burger (solid, didn't seem like a huge sacrifice to go veggie) and the 2 Greeks which was really interesting. The menu has featured sausage dishes and irish-inspired fare in the past. I'm not a beer aficianado but the few glasses I've tried have been nice accompaniments to my meals. The building is historic and cozy - a perfect space for a neighborhood brew-pub. There's been a long history of efforts to make a good business there and maybe Growler's has finally found the formula - it seems to have a better than expected crowd for that night of the week each time we've gone. This isn't 'fine cuisine' but it has been reliably exceeding my expectations and is now in our regular rotation. I wouldn't drive extensively out of my way for it. There are a fair number of decent ethnic choices around but if you just want a decent burger and a relaxing time, I'd 'hit it'. Full disclosure: there was no evidence of any actual growlers being sold. So I suppose this might be added to the list of such potentially misleading places as Black Hog BBQ, Good Stuff Eatery, Panda Express and Applebees (for which I checked with my sister who is a regular there. Still no bees and very few apples).
