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More good local beer news — DC Brau and DC United are teaming up for a new beer. Here’s the DCU release – D.C. United and DC Brau collaborate to create DC’s only team-specific beer:
D.C. United, in collaboration with DC Brau Brewing Company, LLC, today announced that DC Brau will brew a limited edition D.C. [...]

Booming sales prompts Port City Brewing’s expansion – The Alexandria Times
Good news for beer drinkers, particularly those that like the hoppy stuff, my hometown brewery Port City is going to expand for a second time:
Owner Bill Butcher, a native of the city, is waiting for a trio of 120 barrel tanks to finish making their [...]

PITTSBURGH — When I was about 7 years old, I determined that adding french fries to the top of a hamburger greatly enhanced that experience and I’ve been doing it ever since. Once, when I was a student at Penn State Hazleton, I had some McDonald’s with me at the beginning of class and I [...]

Praise for a gigantic can of Pepsi

Iron City Beer is pretty bad. As in it tastes skunked out of a can or on draft. One friend, with some experience in construction, suggests that it leaves a similar taste as after a day out by a site with lots of steel grinding going on. When I told two Pittsburghers natives that I had an “Arn” this past weekend they both exclaimed “WHY?!”.

While Opening Day is my favorite indicator of spring, the weather doesn’t always cooperate on that day (mostly did this year) or after it (defintely the case on last Wednesday day). The good news is spring is really here. So, in addition to more baseball, outdoor activities, ladies in sundresses and other good things, refreshing [...]

Distillers from Catoctin Creek Distilling Company | @catoctincreek of Loudoun County, Va., Blackwater Distilling | @sloopbetty (makers of Sloop Betty) of Stevensville, Md. and New Columbia Distillers | @dcdistillers(makers of Green Hat Gin) of D.C. were featured on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on February 20.
I have not sampled the products from any of these distilleries [...]

Young brewmaster set to open business – Loudoun Times
Breweries keep popping up across the greater BeltwayLand and its exurbs. The latest is Crooked Run Brewing Co. in Leesburg by 25 year-old Jake Endres.
Here is more from theCrooked Run About page:

A nano-brewery is a very small brewery, even smaller than a micro. The idea behind Crooked [...]

Thrusday, February 28 is National Chili Day which means Hard Times Cafe is giving away a free bowl of chili with purchase. They have locations throughout Virginia and Maryland. I prefer the Texas style chili.

Craft brewery with built-in dreams – The Post
An ambitious new brewery is coming to the renovated Boilermaker Shops in the Near Southeast neighborhood near Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. Bluejacket (@bluejacketdc), from Neighborhood Restaurant Group,the people behind Churchkey, Birch & Barley and Rustico is expected to open in May. They are going big from the [...]