February 29, 2012
Classic DC craft beer/dive bar. Located near the South Dupont Circle metro exit on Conn. ave next to Madhatter. Fairily unassuming exterior and interior is pretty divetastic. Nice copper plated bar though. Service is okay - bartenders are attentive and fast, wait staff is likely to forget your order or get it wrong and complain if you sit at a table with a beer already in your hand. Selection is usually good - focus is usually more local stuff but occasionally they get in some real gems (CBS, KBS, local one-offs). Prices are about average for DC. Food is perfectly average for a bar. Jam packed on weekends but a very chill happy hour spot.

February 25, 2012
Good selection, disgusting otherwise.

November 12, 2011
Another favorite haunt just on the edge of the old neighborhood. Many fond memories over the years of stopping in for a Tuppers Hop Pocket or Wild Goose, something along those lines. Black paint lining the walls, nice old red leather booths, usually a pretty decent music selection too. Food has always been pretty average, but there’s plenty of places for a nosh around goodness knows. Always been a mix of bike messengers, Dischord folk, 9 to 5ers. And oh yes, aside from the pleasant atmosphere, the beer selection has been consistently solid in all the years I’ve been popping in.

October 5, 2011
True, it is a dive bar but they have one of best selections in DC and always a chill atmosphere.

August 18, 2011
Dive bar, usually jam packed with locals. Friendly and helpful staff. OK food. Interesting stuff on tap from tim to time, but you hafta like crowds. Hint: you CAN escape from the back door in the far room, even though it looks like it’s blocked or alarmed. Just in case you think it might take you an hour to reach the front door.

July 27, 2011
I love this place, because I get left alone and get to drink good beer. Food mostly sucks, but the new tacos are pretty decent. Place looks like crap, but they have great beer, at good prices, good variety, and it’s not overpacked.

June 2, 2011
This is a solid, comfortable dive bar! Love it! It made me feel at home while in DC. Reminded me a little of The Dive Bar in Worcester MA.

May 25, 2011
Big Hunt...well Big Hunt is a very cool place and has some sort of love affair with Founders. I’m serious. The owners of Founders Brewing love Big Hunt and vice-versa. They have Founders events here all the time and expect KBS and even CBS to be on tap here occasionally (though Pizzeria Paradiso also gets these from time to time). Big Hunt is a crazy dive bar on Thurs-Sat nights but is much tamer (if you can believe it) than bars in the area such as Mad Hatter, which is a riotous shit storm that I would avoid at all costs. Big Hunt has some decent food that was pretty decent but unremarkable. The bar is actually split between two rooms. One is your normal dive bar and the other is made to look like you are inside the belly of a whale. Yes. A small tap list here is not a bad thing since there will probably something that catches your eye. I know there is a bottle list...but I’ve never gotten something off of it. Stick to the taps and soak up the atmosphere, which is a local crowded dive bar. Most people there are not beer nerds. Big Hunt has the fortune of being a regular DC going out bar that happens to have a serious craft beer selection.

January 28, 2011
This place ain’t so bad. First of all, it is less pretentious than most other DC places. There are fewer douche bags, which is a problem in every bar in this city. This and the Science Club are the only two places that hold a candle to New York low-class "cool." Anyway, it is cheesy and tacky. The bartenders hate smiling. The beer selection is not sublime, but there are Gems, I remember picking up the Victory Saison Du Buff here on tap when there were only 3 ratings for it. I also got Oak Aged Yeti, Double Bastard, and Great Lakes Burning River. They even had Jolly Pumpkin on tap that they ran out of before I was able to order it. So really, If you are a beer geek you will probably find something you like. If you like having your beer in silence without anyone around, buy a bottle and enjoy it at home.

January 6, 2011
Having recently stopped in after a lengthy hiatus, I must admit regretting the fact that my visits here have been so infrequent. It is dark and divey, the bartender is aloof if not surly, the bathrooms make one envious of the inmates at Gitmo; yet, the draft list exceeds and surprises. Check it out if you dare - look for the cheezy awning and the pseudo-safari crap.