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  1. TedE
    I'm pretty sure Kushi used to have it on occasion, but that would have been awhile ago. Also from at least a few years ago: the Snap! bubble tea house in Georgetown. The latter was not very good at all.
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    Cripes. This is a place I think everybody would want to like, but a $10+ per item average for the above list? Sorry, no.
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    The Red Porch has had Heavy Seas selections in the past; I would not be surprised to see them pop up somewhere else in the stadium based on the dcbeer post. The reason for lack of local beers is because none of them are part of the Premium Distributors portfolio.
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    Oh, it's the funnel cake place. Funnel cake = fried dough to me. I'm not enough of an expert to recognize the difference
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    There's a fried dough stand on the upper concourse, around 310 if I recall. It was doing brisk business last weekend.
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    After a soft opening on Sunday afternoon for friends and neighbors The Red Hen officially opened last night. Menu is not on the website yet, but Washingtonian has a scan. We were hoping to walk down right around 5:00, but never made it out the door; it was apparently packed (as expected given the neighborhood excitement for this place). Early Comments I've read so far are very good on the food, so-so on the value (although no cocktail is over $10, so hooray?). Portions size comes up most, but there are lots of small plates. We're very much excited to try it out. Has anyone been yet?
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    Cross post on more specific, but highly unreliable, speculation
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    Right, but I think PoP got it wrong, which was the humor. Read the comments and the various sources of a high end "5 star" establishment.
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    Which Harris Teeter? And was this something they advertised, or did they special order them for you? I'm all over that next year! I know we'd be paying out the nose at Joe's. The quality of their product is worth it. Almost. I don't think I could ever spend the money for a full dinner there, but a few claws and a cocktail would be a nice splurge.
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    Prince of Petworth on the receiving end of another game of telephone regarding rumors on Joe's Stone Crab coming to DC. (The typo in the title of that post and the subsequent comments are comedy gold). If true this is pretty awesome. We've resorted to next day FedEx of a few dozen claws when we get the hankering when stone crabs are in season. With shipping it ends up being about what you would pay at retail, but any time I've found them in this market they have been less than fresh. If there was a place I could plop down at the bar and get a half dozen or do when the urge hits ... sweet.
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    Double Take Amber Ale is the other one I noticed on the shelves in Safeway for a curiously low price. The rabbit hole is deep with this one. The brand is owned by something called World Brews which is in turn owned by an entity called The Winery Exchange, Inc.: (that's from Beer Advocate) It also seems to be linked to Hook and Ladder Brewing, and actual local brewery headquartered in Silver Spring (whose beers are blah at best)! Macro or micro? Or some weird contract brewing/marketing thing like FX Matt/Saranac Brewing who contracts brews a LOT of brand names people might not be aware of (and even brews the Kirkland Signature line for Costco).
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    Aye, there's the rub. I think Big Beer is starting to slowly learn it's lesson that craft beer is a massive growth market. The previous strategy was to simply try to physically dominate shelf space by hook or crook, and hope to cut off air supply to the micros. While this undoubtedly still happens I think they've realized that the demand for "real" beer is still taking money from their pockets. Now we are seeing them buy up larger crafts and assimilate the flagship beers while letting the niche brewing still continue (see: Goose Island). Unfortunately I think it's still too early in the game to determine what the long term effect will be. For some of these places the head brewers and staff are still in place and producing the same product; InBev and the like have just added them to the portfolio. I fear that the Borg may start noticing "inefficiencies" in these product lines over time and quality will revert to the mean, as it were. That would be sad on so many levels.
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    See the discussion here
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    This will be the 4th summer at our townhouse in the city. We don't have tons of outdoor space but are blessed with a corner lot that gets good southern/southeastern exposure. Each year I've tackled one section: initially it was just getting the space under control and weeded and severely cut back; two years ago it was digging up the east side of the porch and putting in raised beds; last year I put in underground drip irrigation with spray heads for the potted stuff; this year I completely dug up the front side that gets the most sun and amended the soil (very high clay content). Usually we get to late May/early June and I'm just getting around to thinking, "Hmmmm, maybe we should think about getting some tomatoes and eggplant in the ground". But this year I had a plan. A Plan! Direct sow some early growers like radishes, kale, broccoli rabe, spinach and start some tomatoes, peppers, leeks, etc. from seed inside. Once the early crops are ready to harvest we can dig them up and swap in the real summer plants. This is going to be great! The weather hates my ambition.
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    The brewer for the upcoming Right Proper brewpub has a side venture called WildCraft Sodas. I'm not a soft drink person by any stretch of the imagination, but this really interests me.
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    I was in the Columbia Heights d'Vines last night and they are in the process of building out the tap system for growler fills. There was no time frame given other than "when it's done", but I was told there would be up to 25(!) taps when complete. Part of the build out looks like they are putting in some nitrogen chambers and fill-from-the-bottom devices (these allow you to evacuate the air in the empty growler with nitrogen and then fill it from the bottom up, seal it without introducing oxygen into the growler to prolong shelf life). You can buy their own branded growlers now and they will give you $0.50 off each fill for the first year the system is in place. The Adams Morgan d'Vinos is apparently not getting a tap system.
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    Their 1/2 price happy hour was always restricted to the bar (for obvious reasons). The Sunday happy hour is indeed at Gallery Place only and is a fantastic way to spend a late weekend afternoon.
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    Wait, the Gallery Place Clyde's doesn't do the happy hour any more?! Nuts. The Sunday afternoon half-priced raw bar was one of the best weekend deals around.
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    The CBC is in town this week, and there is a pretty terrific line up of related beer events around town. DCBeer has a consolidated list of scheduled events here. This isn't getting the hype that DC Beer Week does, but I see some pretty noteworthy beers on tap that we wouldn't normally see. Edit: I can't count days of the week. Events run through Saturday, 3/30, the thread title is incorrect. Go to the DCBeer link for the full list.
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    They used to be included with every cup at Bohem. Now it's about 30/70 that I get one. Admittedly this is usually for to go orders. Your odds on getting one seem a lot higher with a sit down order (and that may be their policy now, something I'm totally fine with). They are quite good.
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    Simplest solution: don't offer it if you aren't going to serve it. I'd rather be told (nicely) that an establishment doesn't serve whatever mainstream choice I've chosen than be chided for choosing something that is on offer right in front of me. A lifetime ago when I was working at a new brewpub we did not serve any beer that was not brewed on premise. There was a full bar and wine program, but the only beers in the house were piped in from the brew room next door. Nothing in bottles. We had a very light-bodied wheat beer always on tap to offer anybody who asked for a Miller Lite or similar. Sure, there were grumblings from people who really weren't open to trying anything new, but we also got our fair share of converts who went on to the better beers on tap.
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    Correction: You could put somebody in the hospital with this stuff. At this strength you're basically playing with chemical burns. I don't understand the hot sauce collectible market either, but I guess people routinely pay more money for even dumber stuff. Price seems directly correlated to Scoville strength, label references to extreme pain and/or death, and tasteless references to how much you are going to rue your choice the following day If you are heading down to the Delaware shore stop by Peppers on the Rehoboth outlet strip. It really is an astounding selection of hot sauces, these extreme limited editions included. Before they became widely available I used to get my obscure Cholula and Tabasco flavors there.
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    It's just capsaicin extract. This is like slapping a label on a bottle of 100% ethanol saying "World's Strongest Vodka". And just about as useful.
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    Agreed, and I like to think about it this way: if Tom had given Suna a rave 3.5 star review would that change your opinion of the Post running it in print and online? Anybody with an answer of "Yes" to that question should rethink ascribing some ulterior motive to the publishing decision that was made.
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    Unless Dave Grohl is somehow involved I don't see the point
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