DC Beer Week 2019 Solidarity Beer: a Killer Keller

Get ready folks because it’s that time of the year again: DC Beer Week! 

The 11th Annual DC Beer Week, from September 8 to 15, celebrates all things craft beer in the District and is the DC Brewers’ Guild’s most important fundraiser of the year. 

As has been the tradition for many years, the District’s breweries have joined forces to make a Solidarity Beer in honor of the week. This year’s creation is a lager style known as kellerbier — a crisp, traditionally noble-hopped, malty, and slightly sweet “young” lager — that will premiere at the DC Beer Week Kickoff Party at Bluejacket on September 8. 

Brewing the Solidarity Beer

This year’s Solidarity Beer was brewed at Bluejacket on Monday, August 12, and I took the opportunity to hang out with the members of the Guild during the brew session to learn more about the planning process for this year’s beer. 

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