Thanks to Matt for sending. The sign originally said “No Entry. Literally just a gross storage area.”
In March Washingtonian reported:
“someone posted a photo on Reddit of a blue door surrounded by beat-up white brick with the caption “Have you been to this speakeasy.” A commenter identified it as inside rum distillery Cotton & Reed, calling it “the best speakeasy in DC.” Soon after, people started showing up at the Union Market distillery looking for the hidden bar and asking how to get a reservation.
The problem:
it’s not a secret door disguised as a storage room. It’s actually just a storage room.”