Posting this in both South Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic: Need your help, DC/NoVA peeps. I'm going with my family to the Westfields Marriott in Chantilly, VA for Passover during which I cannot drink any beer. Passover ends on Tuesday night, April 18th at approximately 8:30 pm. I checked all of the local spots, and it looks like everything closes at around 10pm. At best I will only have time to visit 2 places, as I have no chance of doing any shopping on Wednesday (waaah... Aslin...). So based on my research, I will need to choose 2 of these 3 spots: Ocelot Brewing Whole Foods Fairfax Total Wine & More Fairfax I don't plan on sitting down for any drinking, so a stop at Ocelot would just be to buy bottles/fills - I don't even know how the brewery operates; there's not much info on the website, so can someone give me some details on what to expect if I go there? Anyway, I need your help to decide which 2 places to hit. I live in NY, so I would prefer at least one store with good variety/quantity with the chance for some rarities. If anyone has a suggestion for a different store, that would also be welcome. Thanks for your help, BA!
The total wine in Fairfax/Chantilly is one of the better TW's and a similar statement could be made for WF Fair Lakes. At the same time the rare stuff sells out fairly quickly. I would recommend checking out what's on tap as well through totalwine.securedev.co for TW and beer menus for WF. Can't speak to Ocelot as I have never patronized.
Bottling at Ocelot is sporadic, but keep tabs on the Facebook page for updates and then call to see if anything is left. If any IPAs are available, go. They usually seem to have something barrel aged in 750s available too, and those are very good as well.
