DC Beer Week? Woohoo!

DC Beer Week? Starting Sunday? Brilliant!

(Why didn’t I notice this before?)

Quite a few events are planned for this upcoming week’s inaugural DC Beer Week, many of which are featuring local and regional breweries (national ones, too). A sample:

• Dogfish Head Happy Hour at Brasserie Beck (August 17).
• Victory Brewing Company (makers of Hop Devil and Storm King) will be hosting a party  at Commonwealth Gastropub on Wednesday, August 19. Shmaltz Brewery (Makers of He’brew and Coney Island) will be visiting the Palace of Wonders, as well…
• Brew at the Zoo after party at Asylum on Thursday,  Aug. 20.
• Friday, the 19th: DC Beer Week Happy Hour @ RFD and a Microbrew special at Nationals Park…

The rest of the weeks’ events can be found here…

Enjoy, fellow beer hounds, but make sure you’re home safely (and responsibly) before you do what Homer’s doing OK?

Update (8/15): DC Beer (a blog I’ve started following yesterday) posted a survival guide to DC Beer Week… Sweet!

A Couple of PSAs…

Raspberry Sorbet at Sam & Harry’s…

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• I’m a little late on this one (sorry!), but here’s a reminder from me anyway: DC Restaurant Week will take place the week of August 24-30. Participants will be offering a prix fixe menu for lunch and/or dinner. For lunch, a three-course fixed-price meal will cost only $20.09 (Is this a change? I’ve always remembered lunch being two-course); dinner is $35.09 (also three-course fixed-price). Participating restaurants are listed via the link in this paragraph.
• DC Foodies is  keeping a list of restaurants who are extending specials past Restaurant week (as well as linking to restaurants who’ve provided their RW menus to them). Chowhound’s Best and Worst for DCRW may also be helpful, but it’s only as recent as January 2008’s version of RW.

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By no means a Cake Wreck (more of a “Sunday Sweet”)…

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• DC-Area Cake Wrecks fans, rejoice! Jen (the lady behind the wonderfully funny blog) will be visiting Bethesda’s Barnes and Noble on October 6th to promote the new Cake Wrecks book!  Festivities start at 7 PM, and while it’s a while away, it’s best to RSVP (with even a maybe) so the hosts know how many to plan for…