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Beer: Six microbreweries race to open – The Post
I’ve already mentioned that Port City Brewing will be opening in my city, Alexandria, soon. They are going to start with a Belgian-style witbier with pale ale, Indian Pale Ale (IPA) and porter coming later. Port City will joined by 5 other microbreweries in BeltwayLand:
Fort Washington’s [...]

A real local brewery is coming to Alexandria.

UNIVERSITY PARK — In a development that has sent shockwaves through the beer industry and the Penn State campus, a Penn State Ph.D. candidate in chemistry has determined that Yuengling and Rolling Rock beers are exactly the same.
“The findings are surprisingly conclusive and have a margin of error of less than 0.005%,” said Maximillian Schlorndorf. [...]

Yuengling poised to become largest American-owned brewer – Patriot-NewsWhen Dick Yuengling bought the Yuengling Brewery from his father, it was a small, dying business. He revitalized it and now only Boston Beer Co. (Samuel Adams) is a larger American-owned brewer. Previously owned American breweries, Miller and Busch, have since been purchased by foreign conglomerates.
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When I still lived in Vienna one of the places I would regularly take visiting family and friends was the Vienna Inn. They all loved the old tavern for the chili dogs, beer and unpretentious atmosphere. I did too, though they may have even loved it too much as it was frequently the only place [...]

I heard Spacehog’s “In the Meantime” on the radio the other day. I loved that song (and most of the debut album, especially track 14) when it came out and expected them to hang around for a longtime, but sadly, it was not to be. You can watch a few of their videos, including “In [...]

It has been a rough time for all things Heurich lately. The old Brewmaster’s Castle is in danger of being sold and turned into something other than Christian Heurich’s Victorian mansion. Now, The Post’s Marc Fisher is reporting on his Raw Fisher blog the demise of the District’s Olde Heurich Brewing Company, brewers [...]