The Beer Fairiez Thank Essential and Frontline Workers in Montgomery County
If beer fairies were real, would they live in Bamberg or Gaithersburg? And would they hang around in caves sprinkling attenuation on barrels of underfermeted...
Michael Stein
Steins With Stein: August Lager Roundup
If nothing else, DC Beer writers are known for their love of lagers, and in the content-deprived dog days of August, with Marzens, Festbiers, and...
Hellbender Honors the Navajo, Cans Code Talker American Pale Ale
August 14 is National Navajo Code Talkers Day. Hellbender Brewing Company honors Navajo Code Talkers by brewing and releasing its third iteration of Code Talkers...
Hellbender and Tim Bryson Amplify Black Voices
“We’re making a beer called Amplify Black Voices…100% of the proceeds will go to Capital Partners for Education, a DC-based mentoring program,” Hellbender CEO and...
Black is Beautiful: Local Breweries Answer the Call from Weathered Souls
Created by Weathered Souls’ Head brewer and co-owner Marcus Baskerville, Black is Beautiful is a beer that aims to “raise awareness for the injustices people...
Right Proper Says Their Names, Donates 100% of Proceeds to Black Lives Matter DC
On Wednesday, June 4, Right Proper announced #SayTheirNames, a Kellerbier, donating 100% of the proceeds to Black Lives Matter DC. The bottled beer sold out...
Breweries, Restaurants, and Retailers Pivot and Plan
For beer lovers in DC, the past decade has meant tremendous growth. On top of quality DC-made beer, steady streams of specialty beers have entered...
Listening to Soul Mega
On Monday, Jahi Wartts, President of Soul Mega, one of DC’s Black-owned breweries posted his thoughts on the murder of George Floyd on Instagram. We...
The State of DC’s Brewpubs during Covid-19
Brewpubs are being hit especially hard by the covid-19 pandemic. How are DC's brewpubs faring, and what does the future look like?...
COVID-19: The Pivot to Package
Breweries, bars, and restaurants pivot to packaging food and dring for delivery and to-go as a result of COVID-19....