This morning Today ran a segment on craft beer featuring Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Delaware and its charismatic founder Sam Calagione. If this brief video doesn't give you enough shots of Calagione's chiseled mug, you can look forward to Brew Masters, the Discovery Channel Show we warned you about this summer, which will be on [...]
Just in time for Halloween, a commotion has been brewing over the past week about Lost Abbey Witch's Wit, a beer with a label that has an image of a woman being burned at the stake. The Wiccan community, led by popular astrologer and healer Vicki Noble, has lashed out against the California brewery that makes the [...]
It's a frighteningly busy time for craft beer fun in D.C. Tuesday evening alone has more stuff to do than most entire weeks! Read on for some highlights and insider information on different events, but for details click on the event in our D.C. Beer Events Calendar above.
As a follow-up to the Washington City Paper Beer Issue story on craft breweries opening in D.C., The Lagerheads are posting a series of features on each brewery. First up is DC Brau. As a wine distributor and importer in the Mid-Atlantic for six years, Brandon Skall noticed something missing from the local scene: “The [...]
This time last year the D.C. beer community was abuzz with the long awaited opening of Birch & Barley / ChurchKey. Since then the Logan Circle hot spot has become a local and national trailblazer in what can be done with beer and food. How are they celebrating their first birthday? How else – by brewing [...]
According to a USA Today story and video, a Starbucks lab store in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood re-opened this Monday after a three-month redesign. In an effort to evolve the 40-year-old brand and boost evening business (since Starbucks does 70% of sales before 2:00pm), the new location is serving booze. That's right. You could soon be [...]
Just a few brewy things to do this week for those who need a reason to go out and drink craft beer. On Tuesday, Scion is hosting at paired tasting with beers from Brooklyn Brewery. You can sign up for an individual seating, 7:00pm or 8:30pm each with four pairings for $30, or do both [...]
If you picked up this week's WCP Beer Issue, you may know that a wave of local breweries will soon be making and selling beer inside the District. Tammy's article on D.C.'s brewery startups has details about four of them: 3 Stars, DC Brau, Chocolate City Beer, and The Black Squirrel. This upsurge will end a drought [...]
Even though last weekend brought the final few days of Oktoberfest in Munich, this week has a whole lot of Oktoberfest in D.C. Tonight ChurchKey features ten different rare and delicious German lagers from small breweries in upper Bavaria. Also tonight, Room 11 closes their month-long Oktoberest celebration with Avery Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest as their [...]
It's a big week in beer for D.C. The Lagerheads give you the skinny below. For details on an event click on it in our D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. The party starts Monday at ChurchKey where the founder and CEO of Stone Brewing Company Greg Koch will host a keg party of gigantic proportions [...]
