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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 ...

Ever wonder what came before the beer from DC's first brewery? DC's neighbor to the south has a long history of brewing, one which the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation takes seriously. So seriously that you are invited to investigate via reenactment of how beer and ale were made in the 18th Century Virginia colony. "The Arts and ...

DCBeer readers, Last August 13, the DC beer scene made history at ChurchKey. As part of DC Beer Week 2015, Logan Circle’s venerable temple to beer, which has hosted so many tap takeovers, brewery launches, and special releases, held an event unlike any it had ever hosted before. This event featured 55 beers brewed in the District of Colum ...

Heroic Aleworks is a production brewery set to open as early as next month in Woodbridge, VA. The comic-book themed brewery is the brainchild of co-founders Jon Groner and Tim Hoke, both U.S. Army veterans. The pair formed the Prince William Brewers Guild and decided to take their passion for beer (gained through the famed Siebel Institute&rsqu ...

Each week, Tony Budny pens SCREAMING INTO THE VOID and looks at the best in writing and social media conversation around the biggest issues in beer. If you feel something should be included, have a tip, or just want to sound off, feel free to look him up on Twitter @DrinksTheThings or email DCBeer. Our patronus is beer, but you already knew tha ...

Since 2012, area brewers have collaborated on a beer for DC Beer Week. This year is no different. This year’s Solidarity Beer is a grisette – a style reminiscent of a saison, but with a slightly lower ABV. Unlike a saison, though, a grisette was typically made for miners instead of farmers. It was brewed at 3 Stars Brewing Company, ...

First come, first served seating; beer and food ordered a la carte. Panel to begin promptly at 7pm. Featuring expert panelists discussing pressing beer policies at the local, state, and federal levels: DC Councilmember David Grosso (At-Large) Mick Nardelli, “The Craft Beer Lobbyist” Liz Murphy, Creator of Naptown Pint Julie Ve ...