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At the start of 2020, the outlook for local breweries was generally very bright. The Maryland and Virginia brewers’ guilds had significant legislative victories in 2019. The DC Brewers’ Guild had success in pushing back against Initiative 77, achieved progress on reforms to gain regulatory parity for brew pubs, and for DC breweries ...

This weekend Hellbender Brewing Company will release a second collaboration with Tim Bryson. We covered the first, Amplify Black Voices, when it was released in August. Michael Stein sat down with Hellbender’s co-founder and owner Ben Evans to discuss the latest release.  MS: How did the beer, Support Black Businesses, come to be?&n ...

No, not Love Cats, although yes, also love cats. In an effort to keep it positive in the new year, DC Beer is proud to bring you… The Brewery Cats of DC! Breweries have large quantities of grain; we shouldn’t have to explain why. Mice like to eat grain. Cats like to kill mice. And so here we are. Thus, cat pics! All together now: A ...

Two pieces of news from DC Brau for you this week. We’ll start with a new addition to the Brau flagship family. The Imperial is a double IPA that tries to strike a balance between New England hazies and more traditional, ahem, shelf-stable offerings. It’s 8% alcohol by volume, and is “brewed with copious amounts of malted ...

The morning of Wednesday, January 6, our DCBeer group text read ”Also, DC Statehood beer?” in response to news that the Democratic Party would control the House of Representatives, Senate, and Presidency later this month. And it wasn’t long before Brandy responded with “Red Bear” and Jake responded with “Also ...

City-State Brewing Company, the only physical brewery opening in DC in 2021, announced today that they’ve been granted building permitting for their new brewery, located at 705 Edgewood St., NE. They are hiring and plan to have beer for sale no later than April . From their hiring announcement for a Head Brewer, they intend to use t ...

We masked up. We stayed home. When we drank at breweries, we did so outside, or in taprooms operating at 50% capacity or less. We shopped local, and bought local, via BierMi, or other platforms. And yet, here we are. This year-long group project where only some of us do the work, carrying the rest, is hopefully maybe almost over; there&rsqu ...

Tis this giving season, and what better way to give than with the gift of beer. Sure, a 4- or 6-pack works, but let’s set our sights on something a bit bigger, with an overview of various memberships, societies, and even academies. Oooh, fancy! Giving breweries cash up front for beer later allows them to plan for the upcoming year–a ...

In the mid-to-late-aughts, before Churchkey, we know, we know, beer-centric bars and restaurants were few and far between. One of them was Georgetown’s Pizzeria Paradiso, and oftentimes you’d see Ben Tolkan behind the bar, cracking jokes and slinging beers. Tolkan went on to be Brooklyn Brewery’s District representative, and t ...

Over on the podcast we discussed why Saison Dupont is the ur-Thanksgiving beerpairing, though hey, dark lagers, other saisons, and even sours work well. Cider, too. Acid cuts fat! That being said, we’re not here to yuck anyone’s yums, and if you want a Coors Light, or a hard seltzer, or a regular seltzer, go nuts! Left unexplored ov ...