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From a press release: Prost! Capitol City Brewing Company will host its sixteenth annual Oktoberfestbeer festival celebration on Sunday October, 11 from noon to 7 p.m. at The Village at Shirlington. Ticket sales begin at 11:00 a.m. and beer taps close at 6:00 p.m. Entrance is free for children and no ...

Last year, in honor of the NFL season kicking off, we took a stab at picking our local beer fantasy teams. It was a fun exercise and thought experiment, and it only got more difficult this year. The local beer fantasy draft answers the question: "Given the chance to pick up beers from area breweries to pack into one ultimate fictional brewery, ...

Join ANXO Cidery & Pintxos Bar for their fourth pop-up evening. This time the team is taking over Crane and Turtle in Petworth on Monday, October 5. Feast on a five course dinner designed by Chefs Brad Walker and Alex Vallcorba with beverage pairings by Beverage Director Tim Prendergast. Kick the evening off with a welcome glass of Basque w ...

Since I’ve been in D.C. for a little while and met a lot of folks attending events and writing for DCBeer, I’ve learned more about the beer and brewing scene here. I grew up and went to college in Michigan, and then I spent a few years in Chicago before arriving here. While in Chicago, I volunteered for the Illinois Craft Brewers Gu ...

Not enough beer launch news for you this week? The launches of Handsome Brewing Company and Fair Winds entering the DC market didn't pique your interest? They say these things come in threes. Here's the first beer from Pulaski True American. From a press release: This Tuesday, September 22, Right Proper Brewing Company in Shaw wi ...

From a press release: Fair Winds Brewing Company is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with Reyes Beverage Group’s Premium Distributors of Washington, DC to distribute its beer throughout the District of Columbia. “We selected Premium Distributors of Washington, DC to expand our footprint in the District based on their s ...

Aristotle, or someone maybe, possibly related to him, once said that the clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. This was true for a while, but then the Industrial Revolution happened and looms came along and then it was more like people made the machines that made the clothes. We don't actually know anything about making clothes ...

In May, we brought you the news that Handsome Brewing Company would launch in DC this fall. Well, it turns out fall is here, and so is Handsome. Next week, Handsome will begin releasing its first three beers at a series of events in DC and Baltimore. Handsome, which is a joint venture between local homebrewer Matt Humbard and beer sc ...

Thanks to Chris Van Orden for his hefty contributions to this piece. In case you somehow haven't heard, Snallygaster returns tomorrow. The Neighborhood Restaurant Group's massive beer festival/event/spectacular will feature over 300 beers and way more than 300 attendees. You can find info on tickets, an extensive FAQ, and all that on their webs ...

We’re just two weeks out from the Great American Beer Festival, the biggest beer festival/competition/bacchanal in the U.S.  As we wrote a month ago, there’s a strong DMV contingent heading to Denver, so the devout souls making the pilgrimage have the chance to see a lot of familiar faces amongst the 60,000+ attendees.  Ma ...