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From a citrusy communication: Join us this Wednesday for a special event with some rare craft beers and speciality cocktails. We will also have some speciality entrees and desserts from Brandon Brown.   Featured beers on tap: Lagunitas - CitruSinensis Pale Ale Elysian - Superbuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale Anderson Valley - Blood Orange Gose N ...

Come celebrate Sly Fox Brewing Co. Pottstown, PA with @slyfoxdc Grisette Working Class Ale making its debut on tap. Coming off a Gold Medal win at the 2014 GABF followed by a 2013 Silver Medal this Working Class Ale sure has been quite the working Fox. Along side Grisette, we will also be pouring Royal Weisse, Pikeland Pilsner, Ichor Belgian Qu ...

Yesterday, Flying Dog opened beer by the glass sales in its tasting room after working with state and county legislators for nearly three years. “Prior to this effort, which we could not have done without the Brewers Association of Maryland, Flying Dog was solely viewed and licensed as a manufacturing facility by the state,” CM ...

Later this month, 3 Stars Brewing Company will debut its first two canned offerings in 16 ounce tallboy cans. Citra Lemon Saison and Ghost White IPA will enter their new format, four-packs of tallboys, on June 25. The cans were packaged at the brewery by River City Mobile Canning, an operation based locally and used by 22 other breweries. ...

Taking advantage of cultural offerings is one of many perks of living in the DC-metro area, and recently, those cultural offerings have included local beer, spirits, and food, an added bonus.  SMITHSONIAN at 8: A Toast to D.C., took place last month at the Carnegie Library, home to the Historical Society of Washington, DC. Atlas, DC B ...

DCBeer, Scion Restaurant, and Crios Modern Mexican want to thank all of those who came out last night to enjoy the blind tasting of 25 tasty sour beers. Some excellent prize packages were awarded, and a lot of antacids were consumed. In the end, the top entry guessed 11 out of 25 beers correctly, and it was an individual, not a team! Very impre ...

Let the torrent of SAVOR-related #content continue to flow! So, let's be honest, SAVOR is really about the beer, protests and marketing aside. With that said, there have been some truly transcendent pairings in the past. We put our heads together and came up with ten we think should absolutely be on your radar. These are arranged by those you s ...

Let's get it out of the way: we're prepared to take some flak for these picks, which are undeniably and indisputably correct.   Once again, area bars and restaurants have put together a tremendous selection of events for #SAVOR Week. Although these came a little bit later this year, it was certainly worth the wait. It's tough to pick 2-3 f ...

Wanting to bookend May the following article does just that, the same way we opened in the first week of May by writing on Mild Month in the US. So we're closing May out with another article about Mild. We've set our dials on the wayback machine to show how Mild was covered in the Washington press over 150 years ago. We'll also highlight M ...

Okay, so a beerendar isn't a real thing. But maybe it could be? Chris Van Orden and I are pretty pleased to be involved with DC Beer Week again this year, this time as co-chairs with our friend Mick Nardelli along with a committee of dedicated craft beer folks from the DC area. Please save the date for August 9-16, the 7th annual DC Beer Week i ...