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The Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Halethorpe, Maryland (just outside Baltimore), recently launched its latest beer, Over The Moon Milk Stout. Guinness’ US brewing team displays creativity This latest beer to join the Guinness family is a full-bodied stout with a creamy mouthfeel, full of flavor with hints of roasted malt, milk choco ...

What’s that? You want more Snallygaster 2019 content? You want more rankings and lists and things to argue over? Fine fine, twist our collective arm. But first, you should buy tickets.  Again, note that this year Snallygaster is mixing it up a bit; beers no longer cost Snallybucks, and with price removed from the calculations we t ...

For the fourth year, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to sort out the massive list of beers at Snallygaster and power rank them! Snallygaster, the eighth annual beer festival brought to you by the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, is one of the best beer festivals in the United States and one of the crown jewels of our beer scene. Your D ...

Capital Weather Gang tells us, “Saturday highs should reach the upper 60s to low 70s under partly cloudy skies, with Saturday night lows falling back to the upper 40s to mid-50s.” Sounds like a pretty good day to have a beer festival. Fortunately, Snallygaster, the Neighborhood Restaurant Group’s monstrous beer festival, is ba ...

You asked. We asked. And finally, it’s back. This issue of New Releases kicks off with the District’s original whale, On the Wings of Armageddon, which returns on Thursday, October 10th. DC Brau has made a lot of it. “Of all the beers we’ve brewed at DC Brau over the last eight years, On the Wings of Armageddon is hands- ...

The calendar has finally flipped to October, which means that drinking Oktoberfests is now legally permissible. Surely none of the upstanding readers of this website have been indulging in this style of beer that has been widely available since August.  (Something something seasonal creep.) Beer fans in the DC metro area have a lot t ...

The Commonwealth of Virginia did well at the 2019 Great American Beer Festival, taking home thirteen medals, with especially strong showings in some of the lager categories, where eight state breweries won awards. These victories were capped by Alexandria’s Port City bringing home a gold medal in the “Kellerbier or Zwicklebier&rdquo ...

New Releases for October! It’s finally starting to feel like fall, which means…more hazy IPAs and fruited sours, same as it ever was! Enjoy. Let’s start with a collaboration between two Rockville breweries. View this post on Instagram Knowing production was going to slow down when going out on pa ...

Smaller harvests mean fewer wet hop beers It’s harvest season, and beer is an agricultural product that includes harvesting hops. Breweries usually purchase hops from a supplier, sometimes even visiting hop fields or processing plants as part of the decision-making process. We dry hop our Ignite IPA with Oregon grown citra hops. Th ...

The fifth iteration of Denizens Make It Funky Wild Beer Festival takes place at their Silver Spring brewery from noon to 5 PM on Saturday, September 28th. The theme this year is local, with sixteen DC and Maryland breweries bringing their best sour, wild, barrel-aged, and mixtly fermented beers, along with California’s Bruery Terreaux, wh ...