Clueless Wonder

This weekend some friends and I will be attending ShamrockFEST, which is a big indoor/outdoor music/drinking festival held near St. Patricks’ day every year here in DC. We’ve all signed up for the VIP passes as you might actually get a chance to sit down, there are more covered areas (weather won’t be the best) and it includes all your beer for the day as well. It’s also going to be a birthday celebration so it’s going to be a fun party regardless. If you’re going to be attending as well, let me know so we can meet up.

Just opened up a bottle Chimay Ale (Red). In case you haven’t heard of it before, Chimay’s origins reside with the Trappist monks of Chimay Belgium. It’s made from historical methods and ingredients even though they use modern technology alongside. Some friends had gotten it when we were out this past week and it was the first time I had tried it. Fairly appalling was the price at the bar. $28 for a 750ML bottle, or roughly double or more the price of a regular beer.

I happened to see it at a wine store this weekend when Stephanie and I were walking around Annapolis, MD after going for a drive with the top down to enjoy the nice weather. I decided to purchase a bottle after seeing the much more reasonable price of $10.49. For an occasional drink of a special variety for about the price of a bottle of wine, this is good value in my opinion and I’m looking forward to trying more of the Chimay offerings.

This evening some of the boys and I will be venturing into the Clarendon neighborhood in Arlington. Why, you might ask? Well Wednesday night happens to be wing night at the Hard Times Cafe! I’m not one to usually pass up opportunities like this to gorge myself on tasty baby chickens doused in hot sauce.

By the way. If anybody out there is in the metro DC area. I’ve looked more into Lima since that’s where we are heading Friday night. The place does seem kind of hip and to my liking. If the music playing on their homepage that I’ve linked to is indicative of the DJ selections, then I’ll be happy.

No, not the city in Peru. Just a club/lounge/bar somewhere in DC where I am probably headed tonight. Apparently the DJ in the club portion actually spins deep house which I would be into. The word is that the crowd is very eclectic and worldly. We shall see how well I hang with the eurotrash!

Update: Actually it wasn’t tonight that we were heading downtown. That will be Friday. So it will be metro time. Tonight we hung at Zen, which is a new asian fusion type cafe next to Asian Bistro in Pentagon Row. Had some GREAT crab wontons and they have Yuengling on tap so I was happy.