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Did you know the number of breweries in the US has doubled since 2013? Just four years ago! There are breweries in Columbia, MD and Sterling, VA we’ve never heard of! Here’s a look back at local and national trends and news 2017 from the DCBeer staff. The Haze Tony Budny: New England IPA is growing up and it's not going away. I have ...

With hundreds, if not thousands, of breweries in planning around the country, it can be difficult to find a niche or angle that is untapped (no pun intended). Two homebrewers, Amado Carsky and Kofi Meroe, have just such an angle with Sankofa Beer Company, a brewery in planning that will aim to produce west African-inspired beers. The brewery, w ...

At the beginning of the 115th Congress, the Brewers Association (BA) was able to successfully lobby for the introduction of the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA). Among other changes, the CBMTRA would lower the federal excise tax on the first 60,000 barrels (BBLs) produced by a craft brewery from $7/BBL to $3.50/BBL, simp ...

In 2018, 3 Stars Brewing Company’s Illuminati Reserve Society will return for its fifth year while the Funkerdome Society, which debuted last year, will return for its second. The reserve societies offer beer fans access to limited release beers as well as other benefits. Both are $118 (including taxes and fees) and enrollment is open now ...

Occasionally punctual, sometimes factual, 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 Twitter @DrinksTheThi ...

Do you like Bluejacket? Have you been thinking that you would like more Bluejacket but not like at Bluejacket but to take home to drink in a non-Bluejacket venue? Have you ever wanted to be an "officer" of some kind but you don't have the discipline or drive or clean criminal background to make it happen? Today is gonna be your d ...

Even casual observers of the DC metro area’s beer scene have surely noticed that there’s a lot of brewery action going on in Loudoun County. Loudoun County, which has made a conscious effort to attract and promote craft breweries, even going so far as to start a LoCo Ale Trail is currently home to stalwarts like Adroit Theory, &nbsp ...

Occasionally punctual, sometimes factual, 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 Twitter @DrinksTheThin ...

DCBeer had a chance to interview National Geographic’s Atlas of Beer authors Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark W. Patterson. The self-described beer doctors are PhDs, so please don’t come to them with your dumpster-smelling, rubbery-tasting pale ale. Do come see them tomorrow, at their event, a tasting and promotion of their book at Nati ...

Occasionally gobble, sometimes gobble, almost never as gobble 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 Twitter @DrinksTheThings ...