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Rustico’s 10th Anniversary celebration concludes with our favorite day of the year. Join us on Saturday, November 5th, as Rustico hosts the host the Fifth Annual Novemberfest. The outdoor block party will be held from 12-5 PM and feature no fewer than 50 local, delicious beers--each brewed by the burgeoning bevy of​ Virginia craft b ...

From our event system: Our final beer dinner of the season hosts the one and only Firestone Walker in what we expect to be the beer dinner to end all beer dinners! Tickets are just $70, which gets you: - A complimentary welcome beer (Oaktoberfest) - 5 courses & paired beers (PIVO Pilsner, Luponic Distortion .003, Bretta Weisse, Wookey J ...

Curated by beer aficionado Michael Saccone, BotB will host over a dozen of the region’s top breweries, cideries, and meaderies for the third year in a row.  The daytime event will feature tastings, beer brats from Buffalo & Bergen Chef Liz Clifford, oysters from SS Shucking, and so much more.  We also welcome Elias Taddesse, ...

Ten years ago, Greg Engert and the Neighborhood Restaurant Group opened Rustico in Alexandria with over 300 craft beers and instantly became one of DC & NoVa’s most prestigious beer destinations. The scene has exploded in the last 10 years, but Rustico remains one of the progenitors of DC’s craft beer movement. In honor of this ...

On Thursday, October 20, 2016 from 6:30-8:30 pm, the Heurich House Museum welcomes The Public Option of Washington, DC to their monthly History & Hops event. The Public Option is a brewpub, located in the Langdon neighborhood of Washington, DC. All beers are brewed on site and they strive to keep eight beers on tap at all times. Founded in ...

These were some seriously happy brewery staffers after they brought home a fairly major award. Way back on Saturday night, I was peacefully sitting at the Rhein Haus in downtown Denver, enjoying some schnitzel and a mug of Prost Marzen, when I received an inquiry from NM Brewers Guild director John Gozigian. He had heard something was up with B ...

I usually endeavor to steer clear of politics and the culture wars in this blog, unless they directly impinge on the subject at hand, that being craft beer in Alaska. Frankly, I find both the Left and the Right fairly loathsome these days. So unless some ass is proposing to double the tax on alcohol (I'm looking at you, Walker) or the neo- ...

Vail Daily News Registration open for Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Homebrew Competition Vail Daily News Andy Mitchell, of Fort Collins, right, and Nathan Niclas, of Denver, left, check the clarity of a Scottish-style ale during the 2016 Big Beers Homebrew Competition. Entries for this year's competition, taking place at Beaver ...

Over the past couple years, I've welcomed a number of national and foreign beer dignitaries who've made the trek to far Portland. Rarely do they visit long enough to sample from the full range of good breweries we have in Portland (nevermind Oregon). So of course they want to see our best. But best is a funny thing. Two stops on just about ever ...

Telegraph.co.uk Homebrew, horses and hay: a restorative break in Europe's sleepiest corner Telegraph.co.uk Somewhere on a downhill stretch of road between the villages of Breb and Hoteni, I overtook a two-horsepower family convertible carrying a mother and father and their two teenagers. Nothing untoward in that, you may say, but I was ...