Some things come, and some things go: Tuppers’ 25K

For over thirty years, Bob and Ellie Tupper have observed, hosted, interviewed, and introduced the Washington, D.C.-area beer scene. During that time, they have tasted over 24,000 beers from here and nearly everywhere else, and recorded their observations in handwritten notebooks. Wednesday, 2 July, the husband-and-wife duo will taste, and document, their 25,000th beer.

With Lost Rhino Brewing, of Ashburn, Virginia, the Tuppers have collaborated in brewing a “big-hopped” Rye Pale Ale of 7.9% alcohol-by-volume (abv). Called, appropriately, Tuppers’ 25K, the beer will be released that evening at the brewery’s tap room, draught-only. The Tuppers will meet and greet at 6pm; they’ll ‘formally’ taste the beer, their 25,000th brew, at 7:30. There’s no admission charge; one pays as one drinks. But … sales of souvenir glasses and a percentage of the beer sales will benefit The Reading Connection, an organization that provides books and tutoring for kids in shelters.

In today’s parlance, Bo

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