Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
 Step it up, DC. History is shaming you on your beer drinking. The volume of beer brewed in DC in 1914 dwarfs 2014 output, and while there are still a few months left in 2015, it looks like we’ll yet again be trumped by brewers a hundred years ago. It’s not even a contest: we are brewing a lot less beer in DC today than we did a century ago. 210,284 barrels less to be exact. The Year Book of the United State Brewers’ Association states that brewers in the District of Columbia produced 230,944 barrels in 1914. Nearly a quarter million barrels – that’s more than the whole state of Virginia brewed last year. Well done, historic DC! In 2014, production of beer in DC totaled 20,660 barrels. That’s not bad – we rank 29th in the nation for barrels brewed per capita – but that’s only one tenth of our output from a century ago. We’ve got a ways to go before we catch up with our past, but we’re heading in the right direction. Today’s Brewers Association, not to be confused with 1915’s Brewers’ A … |
Source: DC Beer
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