Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The 2020 Wet-Hopped Round Up
Let’s get the bad news out of the way: a summer that was alternately abnormally hot and abnormally wet lead to abnormally smaller hops yields...
Breweries
2020 Great American Beer Festival: Virginia’s Vienna’s Victorious, Silver Branch’s Superlative Saison
by Jacob Berg
The Commonwealth of Virginia nearly completed a sweep of the Vienna-Style Lager category, with Ashburn’s Lost Rhino RhinO’fest taking gold, and Alexandria’s Port City Oktoberfest...
Other Half DC Opens Saturday – Order Today!
by Jacob Berg
At 10am on Saturday, October 17, 2020, Other Half Brewing will open their DC facility at 1401 Okie St NE for contactless curbside pickup. Here’s...
A Tale of Two Cities: Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, and Canned German Imports
Are German imports better than American takes on German beer? It all depends on your point of view and I’ve heard it argued both ways....
Dr. Jones, I Presume: Steve Jones Leaves Oliver Brewing Company
Baltimore brewing legend Steve Jones began his career in the basement of the Pratt Street Alehouse in 1999, under the tutelage of Barret Lauer, now...
The Great American Beer Festival Goes Virtual, With Real Local Deals
by Jacob Berg
Thanks to COVID-19, this year’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is an online affair, taking place on October 16-17. But starting on October 1, there...
Pucker Up: DC Brau Goes Sour
by Jacob Berg
… Or should we say “gose?” If you attended the 2020 version of Boundary Stone’s Battle of the Barrel Aged Beers, you were one of...
3 Stars Blows Up DC Beer Week
by Junto Media
As DC Beer Week enters the home stretch, local brewery 3 Stars is pulling out all the stops. The celebration officially ends on Saturday, September...
How the Other Half Lives In DC: Lagers, Collabs, and an October Opening
by Jacob Berg
A courtyard divides 1401 Okie St NE in Ivy City, just south of New York Avenue. Brooklyn-based Other Half Brewing Company is building out both...
DC Beer Week 2020 Adapts to These Uncertain Times
by Greg Parnas
It’s that time of the year again folks, DC Beer Week! Entering its 12th year, DC Beer Week is the annual celebration of all things...