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I thought I had RSVP’d but it appears that I didn’t. So here I am with a RSVP.

Yes.

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Bigger! With a few additions.

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Couldn’t sleep so I put the time to good use and put together a map of breweries/brewpubs that seem to be within a day trip. Many of them were already listed for me on http://www.bikeablebrews.com/ There are a lot of them, and I’m pretty sure I missed some. Happy drinking!

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Beer the 4
Atlas Brew Works
District common
California common.
OG: 12.0
Malt: 2-row, victory, c-40, carapils
Hops: Bravo, Saaz
ABV: 5.1%
IBU: 20

Clean easy beer. Not much to write home about, but it’s an easy drinker and only 1.5 miles from my house.

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@sjclaeys 130642 wrote:

I’m willing to count home brew consumed at the location of where it was brewed so as to support the art of home brewing. However, I am also willing to admit that one of the scariest things that you can hear from a home brewer is, “Here, try this and let me know what you think!” The example of New District would count also.

Does your own home brew at home after a ride count? I took a 15 mile detour between the couch and the fridge.

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Beer the three, in four parts.
Bluejacket, Navy Yard
Shortly after completing my first Hills of Anacostia ride with BicycleSpace, I rolled downhill (thank god) to Bluejacket for a beer. 2 hours and 21 minutes with a bunch of gnarly hills over 27.3 miles had gotten my thirst up.

Coaltown
“English Brown Ale (Dry-hopped w/ East Kent Goldings hops in the cask)
roast + soft & silky / abv 4.9% / temp 55F / nonic pint
a classic english brown ale brewed with 5 malts, hopped exclusively with east kent goldings & open-fermented. nutty, dark ready flavors join notes of coca & hints of fruit on the palate of this smooth & sessionable ale.”

Severed at a proper ale temperature of 12C, it allows subtle notes to emerge that are normally frozen in very cold beer. What those notes are I’m not sure, but I like them.

Bear Mountain
“Raspberry Farmhouse Ale
fruit & spice + bright / abv 8.7% / temp 54F / pokal
a strong, dry saison fermented 4 weeks with a blend of farmhouse ale yeasts + a blend of brettanomyces bruxellensis & brettanomyces claussenii, then aged for 3 weeks on 300 pounds of locally-grown red raspberries (sourced from sucker farms (lancaster, pa)).”

I’ve not tasted this yet but the red liquid in the glass is speaking to me, calling to my baser instincts. A deep inhalation of the heady aroma yields a sour note, as if aggressively challenging me. A first sip is surprising, begging for more. In consideration, it has a plain mouthfeel and seems underwhelming whilst upon the tongue. There is a lingering sour at the back of the mouth that is not my favourite thing, but also not unpleasant. Whilst an enjoyable experience I’m glad I only got the 4 oz pour.

Mexican Radio: S’mores Edition
“Spiced Sweet Stout (Finished w/ marshmallow fluff in the cask)
roast + dark & dry / abv 7.4% / temp 55F / snifter
a spiced stout brewed with oats & lactose milk sugar, then finished with vanilla beans, ancho chili peppers, cinnamon sticks & locally-roasted cacao nibs (from undone chocolate).”

This is one of those beers you try because of the weird thing they did to it. In this case, it’s finished in a cask with marshmallow fluff. This is a dark beer. This is a complex beer. This complexity is probably wasted on me. It’s not a bad beer, but it probably isn’t something I’m going to have more than one of.

Nobody’s Darling
“Imperial Schwarzbier
profile = roast + dark & dry / abv 12% / temp 54F / snifter
amped up black lager combining 7 different malts & flaked oats + columbus & saaz hops; richly roasted & exceedingly smooth, w/ suggestions of dark bread, blonde coffee, leafy hops & black pepper; brewed in collaboration w/ great raft brewing (shreveport, louisiana).

The final beer of this four beer journey. It is as dark as the Mexican Radio, but with finer bubbles as it is from a keg instead of drawn from a cask. On first taste I think I may have saved the best for last. It is full bodied with a clean finish with delightful roasted malt. Mmm

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Would this be a good place to ask about a leader board issue? The two people currently holding us all on their shoulders only have 1 point each, but show 1 mile and 1 day ridden. Other 1 mile/1 day riders show 11 points. Did they just ride short miles?

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Beer the 2.
Breakfast Porter 7.3%
The Public Option
Mmm breakfast beer. This is yummy!

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@lordofthemark 130654 wrote:

Are all the beers sold at any GB brewed at that location? None trucked in from other GB’s? And Sweetwater – I have not been, they are (or were?) owned by the Georgia brewery of the same name, but somewhere I read that they brew some beers on premises? I assume all beers at Dogfishhead alehouse in Seven Corners come from Delaware, and at Heavy Seas in Rosslyn come from Maryland.

I was at GB today and the menu said all beers brewed on location unless otherwise noted. None were noted today at their Gallery Place location.

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Beer the 1.
Golden Export. “Light and refreshing German belles lager with a crisp, clean finish. Single malt, single hop. OG: 11.5, ABV: 5.0%, IBU: 17”

After 46 miles I decided I needed a beer. So I rode over to Gordon Biersch downtown and ordered the Golden Export. This has turned out to be a mistake. Whilst it has a traditional lager colour and traditional lager cooling upon the initial sip, it is quickly followed by a poor aftertaste, one that reminds me of used dishwashing water. Certainly disappointing after the perfectly pedestrian beginning. Alas, it could not maintain a sense of normalcy and the inoffensive blandness of a mass market larger.

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Troegs is only 132 miles from my house!

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I am going to win everything by winning this.

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This may be a silly question, but are the gates there because they close the park at night?

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Is it time to ride a bike yet?

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Wasn’t there going to be an attempt at regional teams?

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