9:30 Club

5/16/2008 3:35:40 AM, friday, may 16, 2008
I remember a small but impressively different range of beers on tap. The cost is high, but not too bad for a concert venue.

5/14/2008 1:53:52 AM, wednesday, may 14, 2008
Hmmm, tough one. Great selection for a concert venue. But it is a concert venue, and that means it’s a shitty place to enjoy beer. Also expensive. But you don’t come here just to drink beer. You come here to see a band you love, otherwise you wouldn’t put up with the place at all. The good beers are a bonus.

3/19/2007 9:11:56 PM, monday, march 19, 2007
came here for a thievery corporation show. Great concert hall with a great draft selection. Old Rasputin, DFH to name a few. Good place. Why can’t Buffalo have a place like this?

8/14/2006 3:57:44 PM, monday, august 14, 2006
As concert venues go, this place is great. As beer selections at concert venues go, the 9:30 has very few, if any, equals. There’s regional (Clipper City n Dogfish Head) and international (Boddingtons n Leffe) brews and usually enough places to sit down and enjoy yr beer.

3/22/2006 6:54:35 PM, wednesday, march 22, 2006
Definately the greatest music venue in the D.C. area, and probably the best venue I have ever been. The beer selection is quite decent as well. I ordered several dogfish head drafts, which is more than I can say about most of the smaller music venues I have visited. A nice place, nice beer selection, great music (provided you like the band you bought the tickets for, and I guess that is a given, since you did purchase the tickets to see the band). Overall, a nice place for a good beer while listening to good music, plus they have many vegetarian options for food!

12/13/2005 9:15:37 AM, tuesday, december 13, 2005
I’m not even sure why 9:30 Club has been rated on RateBeer.com -- it has some of the worst beer I’ve ever had. Poor selection, poor quality, and it’s all watered down and skunky. Please do not insult RateBeer.com and beerdrinkers across DC.

11/6/2005 9:47:03 AM, sunday, november 06, 2005
Great place to catch live music acts. Mixed crowd of hipsters, college students, grad students, business types and the ever-present DC lawer. Good beer selection. The place is kind of like an old house and it almost feels like you’re hanging out a a college party house.

7/5/2005 12:45:21 PM, tuesday, july 05, 2005
This is a good music venue, and they have a good beer selection, but half the time the beers, both on tap and in bottles, are old and very skunky. I get real tired of that.

4/11/2005 2:25:12 PM, monday, april 11, 2005
Gave it such a high overall rating because where else can you see Brigt Eyes or David Byrne on a club stage while drinking a Dogfish. Helluva concert venue (everybody plays here!), and the grimy little bar downstairs is a cool place to take refuge if the opening act sucks.

3/15/2005 9:42:54 AM, tuesday, march 15, 2005
Probably one of the best music venues I’ve been to. Plenty of barspace on multiple levels to get your drink - and that drink includes some excellent beers on draught. I’ve never seen a club with beers like rasputin, DFH, lindemans and others on tap. You can be just about anywhere in this place and feel like you’re close to the band on stage.