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100 years after the start of prohibition, the Heurich House Museum and ANXO have teamed up to recreate Christian Heurich’s Liberty Apple Champagne, an accidental invention that became incredibly popular in the three weeks it was allowed to be sold before prohibition hit D.C. In an attempt to ensure his brewery would be able to stay ope ...

Hopefully we’ll all be here a little while longer. Christie’s Restaurant sign, cowboy shrimp, Houston, Texas (1983) Photo: John Margolies Editor Jake Berg challenged anyone to use this pic from a recently released list of Americana photos at the Library of Congress. I happily obliged. The fine people on this website hav ...

Without a doubt, COVID-19 has affected the DC beer market, forcing local breweries and beer retailers to pivot their current sales models, furlough employees, or unfortunately, close their doors. Some retailers have been able to stay afloat by quickly pivoting their models to online and delivery services, which enables them to connect direct ...

Barrett Lauer, formerly of District Chophouse, will assume the title of Director of Brewing Operations at Right Proper Brewing Company. In doing so, he’ll take over at both the Shaw brewpub and Brookland production facility, supervising brewers at both locations. Welcome back to DC, Barrett!  On its face, the move is somewhat surp ...

Created by Weathered Souls’ Head brewer and co-owner Marcus Baskerville, Black is Beautiful is a beer that aims to “raise awareness for the injustices people of color face daily and raise funds for police brutality reform and legal defenses for those who have been wronged.” Marcus Baskerville, second from right, with some f ...

Adapting to new circumstances is essential to keeping the craft community afloat. Two area cideries, Capitol Cider House and ANXO, are doing just that. Starting this week, ANXO will begin offering contract canning services at their production facility located on Kennedy Street NW. Sam Fitz, co-founder of ANXO, explains that, “We’ ...

The Void is still here. Don’t drive on the railroad tracks. Void Quarantine Log 569:  The beer cans are all starting to run together. Where did I put that case of haze I bought in March? Did I drink it? Did I trade it? Running low on barleywine. The cellar that I felt I’d never drink down is 25% capacity. Reser ...

Greetings, Voidlings. Welcome to CoronaVoid Vol. 3. This week comes the news that Virginia will begin to reopen some restaurants and bars, with restrictions, in some areas. Maryland has plans for that soon as well. Is this a good idea? Maybe not. Will people show up? Maybe not. I can tell you your Void correspondent will remain planted firmly i ...

Puns! Late last year, New Belgium began a pilot program that would inadvertently become a business model thanks to the spread of COVID-19. The brewery announced they would begin shipping large format bottles considered “too niche” for distribution direct to consumers in Washington, DC, and a few other states. As none of us can dr ...

As the beer world begins its course of undoing the white-washing enumerated in beer history books and journals, we seek to recognize and correct faulty narratives, working towards new ones by uncovering and delivering facts seldom told. Those of us who regularly engage in beer history come across the tales that the Founding Fathers were all gre ...