Keeping up with the explosive growth of craft brewing in the greater Washington D.C. region is getting hard. Here is my attempt to summarize what’s going on:
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The Craft Beer Craze Continues: 8 Breweries Opening in NoVA within a Year – Northern Virginia Magazine
Explosion of beer breweries and brew pubs continues in Northern Virginia – State [...]
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 [...]
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?!”.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Washington Nationals will not appear on Sunday Night Baseball in the first half of the season. That’s a-okay with me. Baseball is meant to be played in the daytime on Sunday.
If you are disappointed in the lack of Sunday Night Baseball, you will be able to drown your sorrows at two new brew pubs [...]
DC Brau brews up plan for a destination bar scene – WTOP
DC Brau is readily available on tap in bars and restrauants, but through retail, it can be a little harder to find. That is going to change.
The brewery is increasing from 5,000 barrels annually to more than 12,000, a move intended to cement DC [...]
Local beermaker brews derecho-inspired beverage – WTOP
My “hometown brewery,” Alexandria’s Port City Brewing Co. was without power following the June 29 derecho. They were apparently able to get by with minimal losses, but one batch was interrupted.
He says one batch of lager beer – roughly 120 kegs worth – fermented differently than the brewers originally [...]
New D.C. brewery taps into growing craft-beer scene – WTOP
Another new D.C. brewery several years in the making, 3 Stars Brewing Company (@3starsbrewing), will debut next month. There will be three styles of beer initially:
the District – an American IPA, which they describe as having a smooth hoppy bitterness with a smooth, slightly [...]
Good hands.
This looks easy, it isn’t like it’s a throw to first or anything
Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp who played baddie General Zod in the 1978 and 1980 Superman movies on line to see the new blockbuster Man of Steel.
What he said.
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