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Welcome to the Void. Let’s not waste any time with pleasantries, we have business to attend to. Even this week, breweries outdid themselves in their quest to win friends and influence people. Let’s start with Maryland’s own Burley Oak, who not only decide to post about a huge anniversary party for staff that clearly violated ...

If beer fairies were real, would they live in Bamberg or Gaithersburg? And would they hang around in caves sprinkling attenuation on barrels of underfermeted lager or would they drop off small care packs to frontline workers? In the case of Jen and Josh Bienstock, the latter. The Gaithersburg-based parents of two have dubbed themselves The Bee ...

Continuing to leverage my time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program for beer professionals. To remain honest in my studies, I am reviewing DMV beers brewed in the classic styles and comparing them to the official style guidelines. This week I’m drinking Denizens ...

If nothing else, DC Beer writers are known for their love of lagers, and in the content-deprived dog days of August, with Marzens, Festbiers, and other fall seasonal releases upon us, what better time to take a look around the Beltway at the local offerings? Below, Mike Stein tells us about some of them. It’s still summer, so let’s ...

Continuing to leverage my time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program for beer professionals. To keep myself honest in my studies, I am reviewing DMV beers brewed in the classic styles and comparing them to the official style guidelines. This week I’m drinking U ...

August 14 is National Navajo Code Talkers Day. Hellbender Brewing Company honors Navajo Code Talkers by brewing and releasing its third iteration of Code Talkers American Pale Ale, available for pre-order. LT Goodluck, Hellbender Brewer, who created the recipe (and who creates and collaborates on nearly every Hellbender recipe) worked with K ...

Week 2, Raised by Wolves! Continuing to leverage my time at home during COVID, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program for beer professionals. So to keep myself honest in researching different beer styles, I am reviewing DMV beers brewed in classic styles and comparing them to the official guidelines of the ...

“We’re making a beer called Amplify Black Voices…100% of the proceeds will go to Capital Partners for Education, a DC-based mentoring program,” Hellbender CEO and head brewer Ben Evans tells DCBeer. The beer will be released Sunday, August 9, at the Hellbender Taproom from 3 to 8 PM. You can order online for Sunday ...

Leveraging my time at home during COVID, I am studying for the second level of the Cicerone Certification Program, to hopefully become a Certified Cicerone. For those unaware, the Cicerone Program “certifies and educates beer professionals in order to elevate the beer experience for consumers.” Essentially a Sommelier but for a bett ...

On Tuesday, July 21, Black Narrows Brewing canned their first beer, How Bout It?, an heirloom corn lager. It was canned at Dynasty Brewing Company, in Dulles, Virginia, but this is no ordinary contract brewing situation. In a typical contract brew, the beer recipe from one brewery is brewed and packaged at another. Black Narrows, however, brewe ...