Falls Church/Fairfax County Boys’ Dining Club

 When Andrew and I decided to do our version of The Trip, but limited to restaurants within a 5 mile radius of our houses, Settle Down Easy Brewery was an obvious first choice. I moved to Falls Church in 2019, 4 minutes from this brewery, and I only realized it existed when Andrew mentioned visiting it on a house hunting trip in the area. He has since moved to Fairfax, a couple minutes down 50 from me.  I first tasted some of the offerings from Settle Down when Andrew visited me after such a house hunting trip. He brought me a growler from a brewery nearby that he said perfectly aligned with my All-American values, noting that FoxNews was on every screen in the brewery. This of course piqued my interest. The beer was forgettable, but I was still intrigued by a brewery so close by but so unseen.  To preface our actual inaugural outing, both Andrew and I are lucky enough to be fully vaccinated. However, I still wanted to ease in to things with an outdoor setting. In terms of COVID safety

For the inaugural post we decided to go with a brewery I’ve been frequenting but to which Tim has never been. Right on 29, I’ve been following them on Instagram since I got back from overseas. This place is the real america. People around us spent an hour or so comparing notes on how to use your weight to get a covid vaccine.  Tim and I had a few beers each and grabbed tacos; they have a nice set up where you can order food from a Mexican place nearby inside the brewery. The tacos there are solid. Tortillas are very good. Overall just nice that you can grab some cheap Mexican when you’re trying all the beers. It’s a really nice set up because sometime you just want like one taco, or you want to split some nachos.  I’ve tried a ton of the beers here and it’s a mixed bag—sort of par for the course for breweries local to us. The scoville imperial sting (their spicy beer) is too sweet. The German dark bach was solid and is my go-to here. We ate outside which isnt exactly great for ambience