...because buying a craft beer in a trendy DC pub is about the most expensive way to drink beer of which I can think? While crack is typically purchased from street vendors that don't need to finance a storefront, pay attention to pesky laws, and are quite willing to shoot you if you biatch about their prices?

Screw that. Get a couple of growlers, go to the brewery, get them filled, and you're in bliss for the evening for the cost of a cover charge at most of those stupid DC pubs. Leave the crack to the crackheads.

I used to live 3 blocks from Bardo Rodeo in Arlington. That was a nice 2 years.

More important question here people - why is this showing as greenlit @10PM when I am posting at 5:30 Wet coast time?
Huh?

shanrick: AbbeySomeone: More important question here people - why is this showing as greenlit @10PM when I am posting at 5:30 Wet coast time?
Huh?

Did you divide by zero?

F*ckin' twice dude. It's still 8:30 EST. It's blowing my mind.

Well duh, dumbitter... everyone already knows it's cheaper to smoke crack than buy a pint of good beer in DC.

/just as long as the biatch don't set you up.

I could really go for a nice bowl of crack right about now. Anyone know where I can get some?

Duhhh, Socialism!

Ask craft-beer folks about prices and they tend to stress their product's artisan quality.

Oh for God's sake. Every food that doesn't roll out of a factory these days is "craft" and "artisan". The words have lost all meaning.

some_beer_drinker: I could really go for a nice bowl of crack right about now. Anyone know where I can get some?

I read somewhere that in D.C. you can get some for less than the price of beer.

BarbadoSlim: some_beer_drinker: I could really go for a nice bowl of crack right about now. Anyone know where I can get some?

I read somewhere that in D.C. you can get some for less than the price of beer.

Not if it's artisan crack

Complaining about a $7 pint of Guinness? I'm happy with anything lower than $10.

Washington is the seat of Empire. Everything is expensive there and the thousands of little emperors don't realize they are naked. This article must have been written by a naive 20-something, the marrow of which species that town feeds upon like a bloody cannibal ape.

/Washington would collapse without all the strong, nubile 20-something backs and bottoms who are willing to do nearly anything for that one career bump that might put them over the top in the competition for resources and power. The power to buy those expensive beers for those nubile drinkers is what The Washington Game is all about, people.

jingks: Complaining about a $7 pint of Guinness? I'm happy with anything lower than $10.

In Toronto it's about $6-7 and our pint is 25% larger. And Toronto isn't cheap. And our alcohol is taxed like crazy.

So idiotic local, state, and federal laws coupled with bar politics and peoples ability to pay more or less depending on location and financial climate make up the cost of a pint of beer.

/so the same as everywhere else

HotIgneous Intruder: Washington is the seat of Empire. Everything is expensive there and the thousands of little emperors don't realize they are naked. This article must have been written by a naive 20-something, the marrow of which species that town feeds upon like a bloody cannibal ape.

Which is largely bullshiat. Washington may be the "seat of the Empire" buts there are at least a half-dozen places in the "empire" that are more expensive and more useful for a naive 20-something to live to gain advantage.

I've actually had a few friends that crack was bad to. I've known them my whole life, and only one ocassionally puffs on merryjewanna. No other drugs at all. It's the old pick up the street whore trick, which is unfair, because I know one of them picked up a woman for the first and only time in his life because the girl was hot and used to date one of his neighbors...I mean, how was he supposed to know? For whatever reason, they get pulled over (ghetto harassment) and even though the whore takes full responsibility for the crack, the cops still charged the dudes with constructive possession.

So, the question remains...is one $10 beer cheaper than a piece of crack? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop?

/The world may never know

Owned by lobbiests

Why is good beer so frickin' expensive in this town?

No different than anything else in that town.

FormlessOne: ...because buying a craft beer in a trendy DC pub is about the most expensive way to drink beer of which I can think?

Yuengling for $4.50

Ah yes.
The doe-eyed scrivener is here (new window).

If you have to ask, you can't afford it. That is the reason it's so expensive, that is the test.

Beer snob thread Yay!!!!

I'll have an MGD, thanks. Trust me I get just as drunk as you do.

I still say acid is the best value for your money.

bravian: HotIgneous Intruder: Washington is the seat of Empire. Everything is expensive there and the thousands of little emperors don't realize they are naked. This article must have been written by a naive 20-something, the marrow of which species that town feeds upon like a bloody cannibal ape.

Which is largely bullshiat. Washington may be the "seat of the Empire" buts there are at least a half-dozen places in the "empire" that are more expensive and more useful for a naive 20-something to live to gain advantage.

I can tell you've had neither social nor professional cominglings with the 20-somethings of Washington, D.C. of either sex.

EditorialSpace,I've actually had a few friends that crack was bad to.

Besides being illegal, it messes up their faces. Sheen, Winehouse, Houston, Lohan are all great examples. The hard stare, screwed up smile, the bags under the eyes. Eventally people's faces start to melt into the same look if it isn't put in check.

I live half of the year in Belgium. These threads make me chuckle. Politely.

Proximity to power is the strongest beer on the market.

Uncle Wiggly: It's taxes. No one pays taxes on illegal products.

What does the liability-insurance picture look like for establishments that serve alcoholic beverages these days? IIRC a bunch of states have passed dram-shop liability laws since the early 1980s that say, essentially, that if someone drinks in your establishment and gets in an accident on the way home, you're liable. Given that, and given the number of people in the U.S. who view the tort system as their own personal lottery, I can't imagine it's at all cheap to buy liability insurance for a bar these days. Someone has to pay it, and there's no way it's not built into the cost of the drinks.

I went to a bar in DC one night and had a 50 dollar tab, and wasnt even drunk.

/from Ohio where booze is cheap

Rents are ridiculously high here in DC, which is why it's common to see DC stores that were always busy close shop after a rent increase.

What I've learned from my ten years of barhopping in DC: people do not drink much beer. I'm talking volume, most people seem to have one or two over hours of pointless wharble, the most common phrase here is "What do you do." Too many martini/mojito drinkers, so I imagine pricing beer very near the martini price makes sense, I mean what's the alternative for the wallet conscious drinker, rail drinks?!

My friends and I no longer drink in DC, I'd rather go to Dogfish Head and get it from the source, at least then I'm only getting raked by the guys who make the stuff.

KeeptheChief: Beer snob thread Yay!!!!

I'll have an MGD, thanks. Trust me I get just as drunk as you do.

When I hear someone say beer snob, I always imagine someone who considers the Olive Garden to be authentic Italian cuisine. That puts it in perspective for me.

And the fact that you admit it's about getting drunk pretty much nails it.

Ever had a La Chouffe van 't vat? Live a little. Try flavour.

/yep - I went there
//beer snob

Uncle Wiggly: It's taxes. No one pays taxes on illegal products.

What do you call a fine for posession of a controlled substance. I consider it a tax to keep the wheels of government running, among other things.

Enemabag Jones: EditorialSpace,I've actually had a few friends that crack was bad to.

Besides being illegal, it messes up their faces. Sheen, Winehouse, Houston, Lohan are all great examples. The hard stare, screwed up smile, the bags under the eyes. Eventally people's faces start to melt into the same look if it isn't put in check.

- - -

That actually reminds of a few guys I knew in the military who had no fun at all, and were workhorses. They also happened to develop PTSD later on, as well. Hard to get any of those guys to "crack" a smile let alone remain in one piece if you joke with them about using crack.

Not news I like to hear as I start to plan a move to D.C.

/anyone know a good place to find a place to live over there?