DC’s First Black-Owned Brewery Produces Beer at Allagash
When Woven in Time is released–the collaborative beer Allagash Brewing Co. and Sankofa Beer Co. brewed– it will be the first time a DC brewery...
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Hellbender and Tim Bryson Support Black Businesses
This weekend Hellbender Brewing Company will release a second collaboration with Tim Bryson. We covered the first, Amplify Black Voices, when it was released in...
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...
Black Lives Matter, Void Says
by Tony Budny
The funny business will return, but there’s something else that needs saying first. Your genteel Void writer has taken some time off in the midst...
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...
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...
Ursa Rising: Red Bear Brewing, Year One
by Greg Parnas
Red Bear Brewing Co. is celebrating its one-year anniversary and shared their greatest achievements — as well as some lessons they've learned — with DC...
Three Centuries of Black Brewers in DC
People like Peter Hemings are getting their due, but there are still countless black brewers whose work remains largely unwritten, unknown, and uncelebrated....