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We don’t normally cover Rochester and Western New York, but something interesting happened there last week. Strangebird Brewery, with roots in the DC-area, won the Brewery of the Year award at the New York State Craft Beer Competition, hosted by the New York State Brewers Association. Pretty impressive for a brewery that’s a year ol ...

The Brewers Association of Maryland is throwing not one, but two beer festivals this spring. Let’s take these in order. First, and closer to most of our readership, Love Thy Beer will be held at on Friday evening, April 8, 2022 at the Silver Spring Civic Building. This event was supposed to be held in February, showcasing winter beers, b ...

International Women’s Day was March 8th and breweries either brewed or packaged their Pink Boots beers. We’ve got an area rundown, but first, what is a Pink Boots beer? It’s a beer brewed with local chapters of the Pink Boots Society, an international organization that empowers women in the beer industry. These beers often use ...

For a few years the Neighborhood Restaurant Group has put on a Virginia-only affair at Rustico on Slater’s Lane in Alexandria. Well, what if they moved that to Del Ray, and then invited some friends from around the country to pour, too? You’re at the Novemberfest! You’re at the Snally Jr.! You’re at the combination Novem ...

Let’s jump right into the good news: while it wasn’t a great hop growing and harvesting season over the last 6 weeks or so, the District itself has produced a wet hopped beer for the first time since 2018. Step right up, Right Proper, with Sunbeam WHIP, Wet Hopped Italian Pilsner! An Italian-style Pilsner is made much like a German ...

Ed: If you spend any time in the nebulous world of “Beer Twitter,” you may have come across the comic “T-Rex Hates Craft Beer.” It’s the product of local area man Beerbecue, and if we’re nice to him, maybe we’ll see more of these on our site. T-Rex is displeased with Mikkeller and breweries attending th ...

The pandemic killed off DC’s best beer festival last year, but like a phoenix, rising from the ashes, Snally is back! It’s still on Pennsylvania Avenue, with ample room to socially distance when not queuing up for the hypest whalezbro, and the best plain ole beer flavored beer, the District has ever seen. There are 450 beers to be r ...

We asked the DC Beer team to tell us what they’re excited about at this year’s Snallygaster. Reminder: Tickets are still available and proceeds go to a good cause. Here goes. Richard Fawal, Publisher: For me it’s all about the chance to travel to some new places and places I love. I’m definitely going to check out t ...

Will small beer overtake pale ale in popularity? Probably not, but I have noticed an uptick in beers that are 4% alcohol by volume and under. These beers are brewed with people like me in mind: those who absolutely adore smaller beers. So here are 10 beers at 4% ABV or under, some local, some not. The localest example is the recently ...

When Woven in Time is released–the collaborative beer Allagash Brewing Co. and Sankofa Beer Co. brewed– it will be the first time a DC brewery has made beer at Maine’s largest brewery. According to Allagash, the forthcoming beer, Woven in Time, is “an expressive and balanced dark ale brewed with millet and smoked maple ...