Comments on: A D.C. Brewery Is Born

By: So Good Blog/News Round-Up 3/21/11 | So Good

So Good Blog/News Round-Up 3/21/11 | So Good — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:38:37 +0000

[...] has its first brewery in 50 [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:13:14 +0000

Go DC Brau!

The tasting room, as everyone has already said, is a no-brainer. The likelihood of it producing a steady stream of idiot drunks is far lower than any of the countless bars that populate DuPont, Adams Morgan, U Street, or countless other neighborhoods. So long as there is a bar catering to college kids in this town there is no reason to not have tasting rooms.

And craft breweries are popular tourist attractions... Ask any of the breweries operating outside of the city. Tasting rooms go a long way to generating brewery tours and interest in a local product and business.

Dogfish Head has parlayed a small brewery with a tasting room into an ever-growing business with multiple restaurants, a distillery, and a TV show on the Discovery Channel. DC should bend over backwards to support a native craft brewery like DC Brau.

By: Ashley Joyner

Ashley Joyner — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:23:14 +0000

A tasting room is for tasting, not guzzling and it makes perfect sense. Quite a few local jobs are riding on the success of this company and in addition it brings PRIDE in a locally developed product. Here's hoping that DC Brau will be an instant hit.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:50:25 +0000

The brewery tasting room bill is a no-brainer. Must support. It's the best way to get fresh beer. Pure local.

By: EP Sato

EP Sato — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:10:34 +0000

YES! I love it. A DC brewery that is legitimately DC?

Count me in. I don't even like Pale Ales but I'll drink one brewed right here.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:27:09 +0000

I think passage of that Act will be a huge boon to all the incoming breweries in the District. It will allow them to market directly to the customers and they will be able to become destinations for both District residents and tourists from around the world. Tasting rooms and brewery tours don't attract the drunks and rable-rousers that a regular bar might so I can see no reason why this Act shouldn't pass a quickly as possible. Looking forward to trying all this new District brew!