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Kegger at the Zoo! DC's National Zoo Literally Taps into Summer

June 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM | by | Comments (0)

The National Zoo, which as we've mentioned before is mere feet away from Jaunted's Washington DC offices, is literally a work in progress. When you walk through the park you see construction everywhere, with signs promising that huge changes are right around the corner. In the meantime they've managed to get baby otters and baby monkeys and baby cheetahs and baby wolves—all of which combine to ensure that visitors remain interested and distracted while the under-construction buildings and exhibits inch toward completion.

And just to make sure that people stay interested, zoo officials are hosting an evening of beer drinking on July 12. As a description, we can't do much better than the blurb on the official event page: "Conservationists around the globe are plagued by the same question, 'What can we do to help?' Here at the National Zoo, we have an answer: Drink beer." We like all of the things in all of those sentences.

The big event takes place between 6pm to 9pm. Visitors have the option of purchasing regular tickets ($50 for members / $65 for nonmembers) or VIP tickets ($85 for members / $100 for nonmembers). Everyone who buys a ticket gets beer samplings and a commemorative mug.

VIP ticket holders also get free parking, the chance to play Wii games on a giant TV, restaurant tastings, full pours, some other stuff, and access to games and a photobooth that has props. Insert your hipster punchline here. Details and purchase links here.

Note 1: Brew at the Zoo will be held rain or shine, which is an awful bold proclamation for an event being held in DC's "kill yourself to escape the heat and humidity" summer. Note 2: "proceeds support animal care, conservation science, education, and sustainability at the National Zoo." Note 3: "All but $25 of your ticket price is tax-deductible." Note 4: you can purchase a kind of designated driver ticket for $30, where you won't get served but your friends will get visibly drunk.

Note 5: the picture from the top is of a National Zoo tiger playing with a keg. Apropos, no?

[Photo: Smithsonian's National Zoo / Flickr]

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