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June is Pride Month, and the first weekend provides us with events and activities. Let’s get right to it. On Thursday, June 2nd, DC Brau and Dacha Navy Yard are throwing a Pride Pils Dance Party. Brau will debut the 2022 Pride Pils cans at this event. Per a press release, “A timely and important message, [Chord] Bezerra’s des ...

June is Pride Month, and the first weekend provides us with events and activities. Let’s get right to it. On Thursday, June 2nd, DC Brau and Dacha Navy Yard are throwing a Pride Pils Dance Party. Brau will debut the 2022 Pride Pils cans at this event. Per a press release, “A timely and important message, [Chord] Bezerra’s des ...

The World Beer Cup was historically a biennial event, but this year it rebranded itself as an annual competition. For comparative sake the 2021 Great American Beer Festival saw 9,680 entries. The 2022 World Beer Cup had 10,542 entries. There were 57 countries represented in this year’s competition with 2,493 breweries entering. The US ent ...

Okay, let’s try this again. SAVOR’s move to The Anthem in 2020 was canceled by the pandemic, and as was the case with many beer events, they sat out 2021 as well. Some of what we wrote about the 2020 version of this event still applies, including the basics of around a hundred or so breweries, selected via a lottery system and thr ...

The DC Funk Parade is The MusicianShip’s annual celebration of Washington DC’s iconic U Street Corridor, also known as, “Black Broadway.“ Music like Funk and go-go are key elements of DC culture, and the DC Funk Parade has highlighted them since its inception in 2013. If you conceive of Washington as that place your legi ...

For the first time in twenty-five months, ChurchKey is open, and there are a few changes afoot. The five casks have been cut to three to allow for more turnover, and the space saved enabled Neighborhood Restaurant Group Managing Partner and Beer Director Greg Engert and his team to add four Czech-style Lukr faucets, so bartenders can pour pillo ...

Um, wow. This is really happening. No doubt you have questions. So do we. Fear not, there will still be Old Ox beers and there will still be Silver Branch beers. But here’s something you didn’t know: Silver Branch has made three beers already at Old Ox. If you’ve been to Silver Branch, there’s a good chance you’ve ...

Immediately following the repeal of Prohibition, drinkers in DC could buy Old Time Lager, from the Hopfheiser Brewing Company. That beer was brewed out of Baltimore’s Globe Brewing Company on South Hanover Street, which closed in 1963. Now Hopfheiser and Old Time are back, this time brewed in the District at DC Brau. DC Brau bought the ri ...

On Saturday, March 19th, 2022, Hellbender Brewing Company announced via Instagram that they would be closed that weekend due to “a critical mass of routine and essential repairs and maintenance in the brewery.”  As first reported by Barred in DC , this was not the case. In fact, Hellbender’s license to produce alcohol ...

On Friday, March 25th, eight Northern Virginia breweries teamed up to brew Putin Huylo, a recipe from Ukraine’s Pravda Brewery. will go to both Pravda Brewery’s refugee relief efforts and Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen operating in Ukraine to feed refugees displaced by the Russian invasion. Caboose Brewing Company, Fair W ...