2014’s Year in Beer

Happy holidays and happy new year! We hope you have gotten over all of your family-related hangovers, made some good memories, and opened up some great beers over the past few weeks. We sure have. Welcome to 2015! This is likely to be another big year for the DC metro area in terms of craft beer, but before we get too far into the new year, we want to look back on the year that was. (Be sure to also check out John Fleury’s excellent beer prognostications about 2015 over at DCist.) Here’s the year in review through the lens of our coverage of the scene.

First, let’s go back a year to see what we thought about 2013. Here’s 2013 in review and also our favorite beers of that year. Don’t worry, top beers of 2014 are forthcoming from us!

In 2014, we were big fans visiting local breweries and events, as well as photo slideshows. We got to check out both Mad Fox, Port City, and Beltway Brewing as well as breweries in West Loudoun County via Brew Bus. We paid Millstone Cellars a visit and had t