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Each year, SAVOR invites breweries to collaborate on a party favor that attendees take away from the event. Historically, these beers have often been, ahem, “too interesting,” like the Dogfish-Sam Adams abomination SAVOR Flowers, or not interesting enough, like Yards and Heavy Seas perfectly pleasant Philtamore Collaboration Ale. Th ...

Join us on Saturday, March 24th as we celebrate the 4th Annual Péché Mortel Day! ChurchKey is honored to be 1 of only 18 bars in the US, and only 50 bars worldwide, to participate in this festive occasion.  French for “mortal sin,” Péché Mortel is an unrivaled Imperial Coffee Stout from the venerable ...

Pizzeria Paradiso’s locations in Hyattsville, Dupont, Georgetown, and Old Town Alexandria will celebrate Orval Day on Saturday, March 24th, with bottles of Orval’s Trappist Ale. Orval was the first beer to come to the U.S. made using a yeast variety called “Brett,” (brettanomyces) which adds sharp acidity and dryness. Or ...

Please visit The Sovereign on Saturday, March 24th as we join better beer bars across the globe in celebrating Orval Day 2018. One of the most important beers to ever come out of Belgium, Orval Trappist Ale is an amber-hued Saison that is dry-hopped, then finished with Brettanomyces. Intensely aromatic and dry, this one-of-a-kind beer is as com ...

To celebrate the end to the winter we are going to tap a special selection of stouts and porters! On Tap will be: Epic Big Bad Baptista De Molen Sin & Remorse Magic Rock Grand Mariner Aged Bearded Lady Ninaksi Barrel Aged Ground Control Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast New Holland Sunday Mole Stout Sam Adams Imperial Stout 2011 ...

Occasionally punctual, sometimes HURRY HAAAAAAAARRRRDDD, almost never as funny as he thinks, Tony Budny pens SCREAMING INTO THE VOID and looks at the best in writing and social media conversation around the biggest issues in beer. If you feel something should be included, have a tip, or just want to sound off, feel free to look him up on Twitte ...

On June 12th, 2014, business partners Graham MacDonald (formerly of Right Proper Beer) and Matt Humbard (a homebrewer and beer blogger) registered MacDonald Humbard Limited Liability Corporation in the state of Maryland to represent their contract brewing outfit, Handsome Beer Company. On December 28th, 2017 the LLC was dissolved and Handsome i ...

January 25 marked the one-year anniversary of the highly esteemed Cushwa Brewing Company, located in Williamsport, MD. Over the past year, Cushwa has gotten a lot of hype for their run of aromatic, hazy, and fruity hop-focused New England IPAs. Not being much of a haze fan myself, I decided to visit the brewery and find out both how the hype ar ...

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As beer enthusiasts, many of us treat bottle shops like we treat bookstores. We typically go in, look at the shelves and/or the cold case, grab what we want (usually whatever catches our eye), pay for it, and then walk out. We naturally go with what we like and know, which for many consumers these days means IPAs or any of their hoppy variants. ...