Bill Butcher Talks About Port City Brewing Company’s Colossal 4th Anniversary

If you follow our Twitter account or calendar at all, you’ve no doubt seen a ton of Port City Brewing Company events for the next week. This little brewery-specific beer week is all in honor of the Alexandria brewery’s fourth anniversary. Be sure to check out their beer brunch at Sixth Engine this Sunday.

We had the chance to chat with founder Bill Butcher via email this week about all manner of topics surrounding the brewery and the local craft beer scene. Before we get to that, a few fun facts about PCBC:

• At their launch, PCBC had only Optimal Wit and Essential Pale Ale on draft. They later added Porter and Monumental IPA as flagships. Downright Pils, the fifth flagship, didn’t come along until summer 2012 (as a summer seasonal), and then became a mainstay.
• In 2014, PCBC produced 12,000 BBLs.
• The 2014 release of the Derecho Common, at the end of June, marked the first time they date stamped each bottle, because of a desire to ensure freshness for the consumer.
• They are the only 30 BB