We took a break after day one of the Codeworks DC conference and went to the Brickskellar. The Brickskellar is a famous institution of beer in Washington DC, noted in the Guinness Book of World Records as been the place selling the greatest number of different beers of any drinking establishment on the planet earth. We met up with the group going there in the hotel lobby. We had originally scouted out the fine dining in Alexandria, of which there is plenty. We were thinking of Overwood, 219, The Flying Fish, or others, but on a whim we decided rather to join the conference folks down at The Brickskellar. We got the address from the hotel, entered it in the TomTom, and made it there before the main group did.

We had thousands of possible beers to choose from, but we were most attracted to the pumpkin beers from local microbreweries from the taps. We enjoyed a down home meal of mussels, beef, and a crab cake sandwich and fries. A few things to point out in the pics above: Not the skull foam in the beer glass, the chocolate cake, the double chocolate stout, the elephant tap, the cans in the wall, some familiar faces from the php community, and the trappist ale. So never mind the fine dining in DC, go for the soul food and beer.