“We had literally just gotten our drinks of white Chimay!” Politico reporter Helena Andrews tells the City Paper regarding her recent night out inside a smoldering (literally) D.C. bar.

“They were humongous. We were downing our glasses. They were trying to kick us out, but we had just gotten our drinks, and we were going to finish them. And we did.”

It’s unknown just how many drinks Andrews had had up to that point.