JUNO picks up where Dialogue left off and then looks to go beyond

It is not exactly a theme, but for the second time this year, a brewery lost to the pandemic has come back to life, with new owners and a new name.

JUNO is the new brewery that has taken the place of Dialogue Brewing at 1501 First Street NW, following in the footsteps of Lizard Tail Industrial succeeding Cantero Brewing over in the original Brewery District.

In order to learn a little more about JUNO, which quietly opened last week, I caught up with one of the new owners, Jason Marks, on a rainy Monday afternoon.

“Dialogue basically couldn’t survive Covid,” Marks said. “My wife (Maxine) and I and our other main partners (Trevor and Priscilla Reed), we invested in Dialogue right before Covid. We were trying to do a turnaround on the financial side. It was just impossible with Covid. So when Dialogue couldn’t survive, we picked up the lease. We got new liquor licenses.”

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