Our Mission: DCBeer seeks to promote and grow the DC area’s craft beer culture through its locally focused beer website and its tasting and educational events.

We do our best to bring our readers information on the latest events, happy hours, beer bar and restaurant openings, and profiles of the many great people making the beer scene possible. We also seek to educate people on the various aspects of beer culture like food and beer pairings, the beer brewing process, clubs, tastings, and all the other exciting things going on in this nascent national movement.

In addition to our website which serves as both a way to document the goings-on and growth of the DC beer scene and as a way to promote it to the city and surrounding areas, DC Beer is also an events business that helps local bars and groups host beer-centric events such as tastings and educational classes.

We hope to keep the website going by providing event planning and promotions services to beer focused bars and restaurants that also want to grow the craft beer scene in DC and its surrounding areas. Beyond that, we offer an extremely focused destination for businesses who want to get their message out to the DC area craft beer drinkers. Check out our offerings here…

The Team:

Mike

Mike Dolan

Blurb: Drinking it, brewing it and wandering the streets of Washington, DC looking for more of it—these are just a few ways local beer writer Mike Dolan expresses his passion for DC’s craft beer scene. Although DCBeer.com has been his randomly updated blog for a number of years, he’s recently tried to take it up a notch and make it the place to get info on the Washington DC Area beer scene. He realized beer could be good while living in Boston and drinking at Sunset Bar and Grill in Allston. He thought it was cool to order a big beer with a demon on it called Arrogant Bastard. Slowly he began to appreciate the hoppiness of the beer and began ordering it cause he liked it, not just because it appealed to his broseph mentality at the time. The two other clicking points he can remember were the day his brother showed him a thriftshop copy of Charlie Papazian’s Complete Joy of Homebrewing and the night they drank Delerium Noctorum and realized that there were Belgian beers beyond Stella Artois. He founded DC Homebrewers in 2008 and still serves an advisory role in the club. His non-dcbeer background is in online media and web content as well as journalism, photography and web design. He also dabbled in organic farming. He aspires to be friends with all the cool kids one day.
Favorite Beers: Amnesia Copacetic IPA is probably the best IPA he’s tasted and may never get to taste again… He also enjoys 21 Amendment Brew Free or Die IPA and has been enjoying it since before they got it in cans. 60 Minute is his default more than he’d like to admit. Also a fan of Ommegang Wit, Victory Prima Pils, and Cantillon. Local faves include Heavy Seas Peg Leg, Flying Dog Raging Bitch and anytime Capitol City brews a Belgian beer.

Andrew

Andrew Nations

Blurb: Sometime around my early college years I realized there was more out there than Bud Light. Growing up in Louisiana, I wasn’t exposed to the craft beer scene as early as some but was still familiar with the likes of Abita and nearby Shiner. I credit a good bit of my taste and desire to learn more to my father who once explained to me what craft, then called micro, was all about. Since then, I have moved to Washington, DC allowing for this lifestyle, disguised as a hobby, to develop further than I ever imagined. Zum Wohl!
Favorite beers: New Belgium Fat Tire ( Don’t Judge Me ), Three Floyds Gumball Head, Abita AndyGator, Alltech’s Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale

P.J. Coleman

PJ Coleman

You might be surprised to learn that PJ Coleman waited until his 22nd birthday to try his first beer.  Some claim it was due to his discerning taste — he would attribute it to laziness.  Never one to follow the crowd, PJ subsisted in his college years on Coca-Cola and the thrill of driving other people’s cars asthe perennial designated driver.  When he finally got around to trying beer, he stuck to the typical post-grad regimen of light beers and the occasional Yeungling.

After getting his Masters in Museum Studies at GWU, PJ moved from DC to Philadelphia and graduated from Miller Lite to the world of craft brews that Philly offers.  His roommate Sam (Beer Sherpa) and The Standard Tap (a bar in Northern Liberties which serves only beers brewed within a 100-mile radius) turned him on to fresh beer in a variety of styles.

PJ is hopeful that beer and food pairings in DC will soon be the norm on menus instead of the occasional specialty event at bars and restaurants.

His favorite beers are IPAs (Dogfish Head 60 Minute and Bell’s Two-Hearted) and Saisons (Brewery Ommegang’s Hennepin).

Deverie Robinson

Deverie

Blurb: A west coast native, Deverie was raised on the hops and barley of Washington State, where she also attended Washington State University.  Her pilgrimage in to beer culture began on a two-week tasting and educational tour of Northern California and Oregon breweries and brewpubs, and she’s been a faithful convert ever since.  In DC, she enjoys learning about the east coast approach to brewing, while still keeping tabs on the trends back home.  In her “real” life, she works as an Attorney Recruiting Administrator for a large law firm, is a five-time marathon finisher, and scribbles from time to time about craft beer and brewing culture via her personal blog, hurrabier.com.
Favorite Beers: How do you pick a favorite? Part of the list includes Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Elder and Blind Pig IPA, Nøgne Ø Pale Ale, Bells Two Hearted Ale, and for dessert: a shared bottle of Thomas Hardy’s Ale.

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