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You may have noticed that it’s cold outside, which means you can find 3 Stars Southern Belle, Atlas’ former flagship Rowdy, Hardywood’s Gingerbread Stout, and Port City’s Tidings around. Happy winter beer season to you! Bluejacket has a triple can release (and an anniversary party on Sunday with bottles of Double Mexi ...

DC Brau Enters the Market with Full Transparency A handful of local breweries have dabbled in the hard seltzer market, experimenting with the brewing process. There’s one on tap at Denizens right now. But no area brewery has gone all-in on this growing sector of the alcoholic beverage market — until now. Remember, there ain& ...

Founders Brewing Co. settled a racial discrimination lawsuit with a former employee last week, but not before one Founders manager, named in the lawsuit, claimed in a leaked deposition transcript that they “didn’t really see color.” The Founders’ Director of Diversity and Inclusion then resigned via a harshly worded lett ...

The Brewers Association, the national trade group for craft breweries, helped pass the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) in 2017, after ten years of effort, as part of the larger Republican tax bill. The legislation lowered the federal excise tax on the first 60,000 barrels (bbl) for breweries producing under 2,000,000 bb ...

Novemberfest! Why should October have all the fun? Virginia has been lapping the field compared to the District and Maryland for some time now, both in terms of Great American Beer Festival medals (Port City, Lost Rhino, and Ardent, among others) and buzz (Aslin, The Answer, and The Veil). Well, what if you could sample all these beers in on ...

Beer is food. Beer is art. Beer is commerce. Beer is luxury. Beer is daily bread. Beer is a farm product. Beer is what goes into the slushy machine before the fruit. Beer is history. Whatever you believe beer is or should be, its history now has a home at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “Brewing a Revolutio ...

As you may have heard, the Washington Nationals are in the 2019 World Series, the first time a DC baseball team has been since 1933. Bars and breweries are celebrating accordingly, with watch parties and plenty of craft or crafty options priced at $5 or below during games. 2019 World Series beer deals (in alphabetical order): 3 Stars ...

As is customary in these parts, the cities that play each other in sports championships like the World Series have made some very low-stakes bets with each other. DC breweries are getting in on the “fun,” with bets against their Houston brethren. Here’s how it’s going down. World Series Bet 1: DC Brau versus Saint Arn ...

Let’s start with a good beer made by good people for a good cause. From a press release: “After two years of successful draft-only collaborative releases with local breweries, we’re excited to announce this year’s Rescue Ale will be available in both draft and 16oz cans. A portion of proceeds from every pin ...

Dive bars are beautiful places. Sure, they’re dirty, loud, and cluttered. But in that chaos beauty exists. Authenticity exists. That authenticity is not something that can’t be manufactured, though many bars and especially craft brewery taprooms try (no, that giant Jenga set isn’t making your space any more real). This is whe ...