Port City Brewing Company Pedals ‘N’ Pints (Ugly Holiday Sweater Edition) DEC 20

[awilkinson]

December Pedals ‘N’ Pints

Port City Brewing Company
3950 Wheeler Avenue Alexandria, VA 22304

Be a part of Port City’s Pedals ‘N’ Pints – Ugly Holiday Sweater Edition! We will work up a thirst and return to plentiful brews and food from DC Slices. Please arrive at the brewery early to get set up and ready to go! Bring out your best Ugly Holiday Sweater on Saturday, December 20th, the ride starts from the brewery at 11am.

It will be a little more than a 10-mile route from the front door of the Tasting Room out to the park, up to NVCC and back. There’s one slight climb, but otherwise the ride is open to all level of bicyclists. Mountain, cyclocross, or “hybrid” bikes are perfect for this ride. Due to debris on the path and the occasional patch of gravel or dirt, road bikes are possible, but not recommended.

Bicycle Pro Shop will be out with a shop tent and basic tools to assist riders with small repairs and on hand during the ride to assist with any mechanical issues.

All participants will need to sign a waiver beforehand. Any riders 14 years old and younger are required to wear a helmet, per law, but all riders are encouraged to wear helmets.

Feel free to reach back out to me if you have any questions.
Thanks,

Andrea Wilkinson
Port City Beer Guide, Head of Bike Committee

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[Sunyata]

Woohoo! I might actually be able to make it out for this one! 😎

[lordofthemark]

I live close to NVCC – is there any way I can join the ride there? (I would join the ride at the brewery and leave at NVCC, but I presume consumption of Port City’s fine products will be involved, and I would hardly want to do that before an 11AM ride)

[Steve O]

@awilkinson 101765 wrote:

December Pedals ‘N’ Pints

Port City Brewing Company
3950 Wheeler Avenue Alexandria, VA 22304

Be a part of Port City’s Pedals ‘N’ Pints – Ugly Holiday Sweater Edition!

I added this to the calendar.

[awilkinson]

@lordofthemark 101798 wrote:

I live close to NVCC – is there any way I can join the ride there? (I would join the ride at the brewery and leave at NVCC, but I presume consumption of Port City’s fine products will be involved, and I would hardly want to do that before an 11AM ride)

Yes feel free to join us along the route!

If the weather is looking real miserable we will call it Friday night. In that case you can still bring your sweaters to the brewery for a pint when we open at noon!

[KWL]

@awilkinson 102196 wrote:

Yes feel free to join us along the route!

If the weather is looking real miserable we will call it Friday night. In that case you can still bring your sweaters to the brewery for a pint when we open at noon!

Knowing this crowd, if the weather is so bad the ride gets cancelled, we’ll all ride to the brewery for the Noon opening.

[Sunyata]

@KWL 102203 wrote:

Knowing this crowd, if the weather is so bad the ride gets cancelled, we’ll all ride to the brewery for the Noon opening.

Yep. I have a group of three coming… Even if the weather is a little iffy.

[lordofthemark]

@awilkinson 102196 wrote:

Yes feel free to join us along the route!

If the weather is looking real miserable we will call it Friday night. In that case you can still bring your sweaters to the brewery for a pint when we open at noon!

Thanks. If the weather is good, and my wife is still out of town, I will probably try to ride to the brewery, do the round trip with y’all, and then ride home. If the weather is good but I have less time, I will probably try to meet y’all around NVCC (I presume you will be coming in on Dawes?) and ride with the group to the brewery. If the ride is cancelled but conditions are not beyond my aspiration for rule #5, I will probably ride to the brewery and put my bike on the Dash bus back.

[Sunyata]

I sure do wish the meteorologists would make up their minds! The forecast keeps changing… :confused:

So, as it stands now, Saturday is going to be nice and Sunday is going to be potentially miserable (although it says mostly sunny with a 30% change of frozen mix?).

Either way, I am looking forward to a fun ride and some tasty brews!

[cyclingfool]

@Sunyata 102324 wrote:

I sure do wish the meteorologists would make up their minds! The forecast keeps changing… :confused:

So, as it stands now, Saturday is going to be nice and Sunday is going to be potentially miserable (although it says mostly sunny with a 30% change of frozen mix?).

Either way, I am looking forward to a fun ride and some tasty brews!

Reminds me of a joke I heard recently, in which a disaffected viewer of the local weather forecast asks the weatherman to help him shovel 6″ of partly cloudy from his driveway.

[KLizotte]

I’m in! Will be my first time visiting the brewery.

[PotomacCyclist]

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[KLizotte]

Arghh, got stuck waiting for the fix-it men to show up at my apartment this morning and couldn’t go. Grrrrr Hope y’all had fun.

[lordofthemark]

Great ride. About two dozen people rode. Kwl and myself from here. I could have done without going under the fallen tree on the Holmes run trail but generally the ride was well marshalled. The beer was excellent and the atmosphere very nice. I also got to chat with Randy (handle? ) of BPAC about advocacy stuff.

[Harry Meatmotor]

missed this one, too – was hoping to get back from this morning’s ride in time, but we decided to do an extra 30 minute loop. Sounds like it was pretty fun – how was the food?

[KWL]

@Harry Meatmotor 102499 wrote:

missed this one, too – was hoping to get back from this morning’s ride in time, but we decided to do an extra 30 minute loop. Sounds like it was pretty fun – how was the food?

The DC Slices pizza was pretty good. We had the buffalo chicken plus a side of Old Bay tator tots. The beer, of course, was excellent. For the freebie first draft we chose the Maniacal IPA. Went on to a 6oz Long Black Veil black IPA and for me a 6oz pale ale with the pizza. I took home a growler of Colossal Two smoked porter.

But wait, it wasn’t all about the beer & food. The folks from the Pro Shop lead a nice ride. Everyone was watched over and accommodated. The route has been improved, as there is now no crossing of Seminary Road, which was a big pain in the a**. The only casualty was my son, who dumped it on the transition from the street to the Port City driveway on the last two feet of the ride. Pride was the only damage.

It was great to spend some time with Mr. L.O. Themark. He convinced me I need to stop by Best Buns next Wednesday morning for coffee.

And this is what kind of ride this was…

[Author]

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