Ommegang Beer Dinner at Fishnet: A Pairing Recap
On Wednesday, January 21st, I had the pleasure of attending Fishnet’s first beer dinner of 2015. Playing host to Ommegang’s Brad Lawrason, Fishnet chef/owner Ferhat...
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Closing the Knowledge Gap: Pretentiousness and the #DCBrews Scene
In 2009, the Coen Brothers released A Serious Man, a fairly low budget drama-comedy about the painful, downwardly spiraling life of a Jewish mathematics professor...
SAVOR 2014 Brewery Profile: Left Hand Brewing Company (@LeftHandBrewing)
Name: Left Hand Brewing Company Location: Longmont, CO Website: www.lefthandbrewing.com Type: Production Brewery Available in DC Market: Yes (Since March 2014!) What you need to know: Founded by friends (and homebrewers)...
SAVOR 2014 Brewery Profile: KelSo Beer Company (@KelSoBeer)
Name: KelSo Beer Company Location: Brooklyn, NY Website: www.kelsobeer.com Type: Production Brewery Available in DC Market: No What you need to know: KelSo brewmaster Kelly Taylor cut his teeth brewing up...
SAVOR 2014 Brewery Profile: Oakshire Brewing (@Oakshire)
Name: Oakshire Brewing Location: Eugene, OR Website: http://www.oakbrew.com Type: Production Brewery Available in DC Market: No What you need to know: Founded in 2006 by brothers Jeff and Chris Althouse,...
Farmers Fishers Bakers and the Confluence of Cocktails and Beer
I’ll be the first to say this – Jon Arroyo, Chief Mixologist and Beverage Director at Founding Farmers and Farmers Fishers Bakers, can mix one...
Rare Beers, Babies, and Pretty Things – The Grain Bag, Volume I
Welcome to the first ever installment of DCBeer.com’s The Grain Bag, where our crop of phenomenal (and dare I say handsome? I dare. I dare.)...
ChurchKey Legalizes Pannepot with a Heady De Struise Draft Event
Urbain Coutteau is just plain cool. Chris (now on Twitter!) and I spent a bit of time with him and Terry Hawbaker at The Farmer’s...
ChurchKey Continues DCBW with the Swiss New Wave and Rhineland Rarities
It’s a great time to be in ‘Murica, you guys. The Olympics? Getting all the medals. BBQ? Smoking all the meats (and even the tofu). ...
3 Stars Brewing Company Official Launch at ChurchKey
Something delicious has been brewing up in Takoma Park. It hasn’t been brewing for long, but you’ve known for a long time that it was...