OK, that’s it. I’m tired of including Select 55, that piss-water of a beer, in our weekly count-down feature. Starting this week, I’m officially omitting the perpetually clicked-upon item and noting, with an asterisk (*), where it would have fallen in the Top 5, assuming it would.

With that said, here are your most-read blog posts from the week:

1. Dogfish Head & Sierra Nevada’s Collaboration Ale, Life & Limb, Coming Soon
2. Nori Amaya’s Friends and Fans Express Their Grief on Her Facebook Page (*)
   
3. P&C Market Takes Upscale Bodegas to a New Level
4. Best Food Writing 2009 Due in Bookstores Today
5. Dish of the Week: Tacos at La Placita in Hyattsville
   

If there’s anything that grips Y&H readers, it’s tragedy, and it doesn’t get much more tragic than the homicide of Nori Amaya, the co-owner of Coppi’s Organic on U Street. People were obviously desperate for information on the strangulation. Even our negligible little item was widely visited.

Here’s how the week shook out:

1. Nori Amaya’s Friends and Fans Express Their Grief on Her Facebook Page
2. A Certain Goddamn Budweiser Beer That People Can’t Stop Reading About
   
3. Birch & Barley Opens Today. What’s Inside? (This item is quickly entering Select 55 territory.)
   
4. Tom and Derek Brown to Channel Spirits and Iggy Pop at the Passenger
   
5. D’Acqua Shutters, Ping Pong Dim Sum Set to Open Next Month
   

You have probably heard this awful news by now, but Coppi’s Organic co-owner Nori Amaya was found dead yesterday in her apartment. D.C. Police Department spokeswoman Traci Hughes confirmed to Y&H this afternoon that Amaya’s death has been ruled a homicide. The cause of death is strangulation.

The horrific news has inspired an outpouring of grief on Amaya’s facebook page. Below is a selection of the comments on Amaya’s Wall:

• Nori, I had the pleasure of knowing you for years and am better to have had you in my life. We will all miss having you as a part of our lives. This is a tragedy and a shame. I wish you peace.
• I’AM SO SICK AND FUCK UP ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU BABY I LOVE YOU AND I’LL MISS U MY FRIEND , YOUR SMILE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH ME R.I.P ………………

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