Group Ride – Cap City Brewery to Port City Brewery – 1/26/13 12:00pm

[Steve]

Hello all!

So my first attempt at putting together a social group ride didn’t go so well. I figured this time I’d offer something that bike riders can rarely pass up: beer.

I’m putting together a casual group ride from Capital City Brewery in Shirlington to Port City Brewery in Alexandria. The plan is to meet up and depart Cap City at noon on Saturday, January 26th. The ride will take the mostly easy rolling 6.3 mile trip down to Port City for a tour and/or tasting. We will leave Port City around 3 to make sure people get back to Shirlington before the sun starts to go down. The details of the route are on the mapmyrun link below, and the facebook page for the event is below as well. Hope to see some folks there!

Steve

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Arlington-Bicycling-Community/530304786996988?sk=events#!/events/343649039075774/

http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/160104104

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[vvill]

Mmm. Stouts and porters are my favourite beers. Although I don’t really discriminate too much. Arrowine is on one of my regular commuting routes too.

[sjclaeys]

Not to get too off topic on a bike forum, but Stone’s Enjoy By 2-15-13 is an outstanding double IPA. Good after a ride home in the snow.

[baiskeli]

@DaveK 41693 wrote:

This is my big beer news: http://www.arlnow.com/2013/01/25/your-beermonger-milk-stout-nitro/

I don’t generally like stouts but Milk Stout on nitro is absolutely sublime. Creamy and delicious. If you’re ever in Longmont, CO, their tap room is awesome and on the weekends they have food trucks and live music.

Next week’s ride – Arlington to Longmont.

[baiskeli]

@Bilsko 41635 wrote:

for IPAs, you must head West (and/or south as the case may be).

For India Pale Ales, you can’t go wrong with going to India.

And that reminds me of an amusing story, which I will happily share at Port City Tomorrow. See y’all there. I’m the guy with the greying Shaggy goatee (a true ones, sans ‘stache). In fact, I need to an avatar here.

P.S. Look, it’s me! Damn I look good in red and yellow.

[baiskeli]

Look, it’s me!

[Arlingtonrider]

Steve, Thanks so much for organizing this fun event yesterday. We had a great group. Consularrider, DismalScientist and Sjclaeys rode to Port City and several more of us joined them there. The brewery tour was interesting, and all of the beers were good!

[Steve]

@Arlingtonrider 41808 wrote:

Steve, Thanks so much for organizing this fun event yesterday. We had a great group. Consularrider, DismalScientist and Sjclaeys rode to Port City and several more of us joined them there. The brewery tour was interesting, and all of the beers were good!

Thank you! And thanks to all who came. I had a great time and look forward to doing it again with more riders. The brewery tweeted a picture of the 2pm tour so I’ll try to post it here tomorrow. You can find at least one HiViz jacket in the crowd.

[Bilsko]

@sjclaeys 41736 wrote:

Not to get too off topic on a bike forum, but Stone’s Enjoy By 2-15-13 is an outstanding double IPA. Good after a ride home in the snow.

I’ve seen this mentioned in a few places recently – been meaning to try it out. Now I just need to find it around town. Or ask my guy at MacArthur liquors to source some — one of the benefits of buddying up with liquor store beer purveyors.

[baiskeli]

Yes, thanks for organizing, Steve.

[sjclaeys]

Yes, it was a great time, though I missed Baiskeli telling his amusing story related to IPAs. Thanks to Consularrider and DismalScientist for leading me there and back from Arlington.

[Steve]

Picture from Port City’s Twitter page…..can you spot Arlingtonrider, Consularrider, sjclaeys, and DismalScientist?

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[consularrider]

@Steve 41810 wrote:

… You can find at least one HiViz jacket in the crowd.

That would be me! Thanks again for suggesting and organizing this.

[baiskeli]

@sjclaeys 42273 wrote:

Yes, it was a great time, though I missed Baiskeli telling his amusing story related to IPAs. Thanks to Consularrider and DismalScientist for leading me there and back from Arlington.

Ah, yes, forgot that. It was actually a story related to India, not IPAs. Here it is.

My wife’s uncle is from Manhattan. He’s a grumpy old guy who thinks Manhattan is the center of the universe.

He came down here for our rehearsal dinner for our wedding, and was thrilled to see that it was at an Indian restaurant. “I love Indian food” he said. He lived near a street in New York that had 14 Indian restaurants in a row.

Digging in, he proclaimed that the Virginia Indian food was surprisingly satisfactory. “This is good. It’s hard to find good Indian food outside of New York City.”

Seeing my opportunity to knock him down from his Manhattan perch, I said “Uh, well, you can probably find good Indian food in India, don’t you think?”

He was sufficiently humbled.

[creadinger]

Seeing my opportunity to knock him down from his Manhattan perch, I said “Uh, well, you can probably find good Indian food in India, don’t you think?”

Word on the street (from actual Indians) is that DC actually does have really good Indian restaurants. Rasika being one great example in the city. There are several other local gems that aren’t high on the radar too. Manhattan-grouches annoy me. He should try going to London! I bet their Indian food blows Manhattan Indian food away. Chicken tikka masala is the national dish of England for chrissake!

[DaveK]

@creadinger 42320 wrote:

Word on the street (from actual Indians) is that DC actually does have really good Indian restaurants. Rasika being one great example in the city. There are several other local gems that aren’t high on the radar too. Manhattan-grouches annoy me. He should try going to London! I bet their Indian food blows Manhattan Indian food away. Chicken tikka masala is the national dish of England for chrissake!

Rasika is a great example of what’s wrong with the food scene in the District. It’s easy to find great food if you’re willing to pay for it, but in lots of other place I’d be able to find that quality of food off a plastic tray without the fancy dining room. You can still get that in the suburbs (Vietnamese in Falls Church and Arlington, Korean in Annandale, Chinese in Rockville, Salvadoran… everywhere) but it’s harder and harder to find in the city, at least in my neighborhood. Everything new that opens is $20 a plate table service, even on H Street (H&pizza and Shawafel being the exceptions).

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