The Great American Beer Festival Goes Virtual, With Real Local Deals
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...
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Gimme Shelter: Neighborhood Restaurant Group Strikes Again
by Jacob Berg
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to many bar and restaurant closings, but some beer-centric spots are forging ahead with opening. One such beer bar,...
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...
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...
Your order for a Void-a-Rita is ready for pickup
by Tony Budny
Two for one available inside. Inquire within! It’s big. It’s green. And it tastes even more incredible than it looks! Introducing the NEW! DEW...
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...
Daniel Drinks the Styles: Glass Castle Pilsener
Continuing to leverage my time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program for beer...
Regretfully Yours, The Void
by Tony Budny
Welcome to the Void. Let’s not waste any time with pleasantries, we have business to attend to. Even this week, breweries outdid themselves in their...
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...
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...