D.C. Beer Week has arrived in full force. Over 30 different venues across the District have scheduled an impressive list of nearly 50 events celebrating craft beer in a variety of unique ways. The Y&H beer bloggers will be posting our picks each day, but below is a complete list of known events. Some items may [...]
Temperatures are (slowly) dropping. The days are growing shorter. D.C. kids go back to school on Monday. And in case you haven't noticed, a flood of autumnal colors has begun filling the shelves of your favorite beer shop. Fall beers are here, so it's time to prepare your palate for brews that have a little extra [...]
Halleluja! If only catapulting brewing ingredients into the sky could really make it rain beer. Or if throwing in a brand emblem of our choice (a flying dog seems appropriate for this scenario) would result in a beer shower from a specific brewery like it did for these lucky Aussies. (Although we hear you'd not [...]
Early this month we posted a sneak peek at D.C. Beer Week, a celebration that will feature craft beer focused events and specials at bars and restaurants starting this Friday, August 20, and running through Saturday, August 28. There are already over 40 special events planned for the second annual city-wide craft beer festival. Your [...]
Weekend over too soon once again? Chase that case of the Mondays away with a look ahead at the week in beer. It's a good one. Brief descriptions below, but click on any event in the calendar above for more details. Monday you can learn about beer and cheese pairings by local guru Greg Engert [...]
As part of our effort to answer readers' beer questions this week, today's post is a response to "Coffebreath," who asked about neighborhood bodegas with surprisingly good beer selections. We certainly haven't spent time in a representative sample of the hundreds of convenience stores across the city, so the question is best turned over to you [...]
It's Dear "Abbey" week on Y&H. Foodie Tim Carman is on vacation, leaving us beer bloggers (plus special guest Greg Engert of ChurchKey) to write exclusively about beer. In this "ask-the-beer-bloggers" post, we turn to a question about beer distribution from reader Dave H., who asks: I’d be curious to see a write up regarding distribution [...]
Today's topic is a spin-off of our first question from readers during this All Beer Week here at Young & Hungry. The question, which Beerspotter Orr Shtuhl responded to yesterday, was about the absence of craft Pilsners in the American beer market. In what we see as a related topic, we turn the discussion from Pilsners [...]
It's Monday, which means it's time for our weekly post of opportunities for organized beer fun. Below is a quick list, but click on an event in the calendar above for details. (Those of you who scroll ahead and get a peak at what's in store for D.C. Beer Week later this month.) This week [...]
You may have already heard that Tim Carman is going on vacation next week, which leaves The Lagerheads, The Beerspotter, and guest blogger Greg Engert of ChurchKey running the show on Y&H. That means we'll be doing ALL BEER posts ALL WEEK. Oh, yeah! We'd like to take this opportunity to run a Dear Abby-like [...]
