Food & Wine has released its list of the "50 Best Bars In America." And, just like in national politics, D.C. representation is sorely lacking. Only one hotbed of booze in the entire District merits a mention on the vaunted list: The Passenger/Columbia Room near Mt. Vernon Square. Alexandria's PX, meanwhile, earns a nod on [...]

This week offers some sudsy alternatives to your significant other's work holiday party. Take your pick of this week's dinners and special keg tappings. Click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details, or read on for a few of my picks.

It's a very busy week of craft beer fun both in and around the District with a slew of dinners, tap takeovers, and special releases. I've selected a few highlights below, but scroll through the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for the full list and click on any event for more details.

The days leading up to Thanksgiving are usually a slow time for tippling. But this week has no shortage of beer events. For those whose thirst for craft beer simply can't wait until post-turkey revelry, my picks for the week are below. Get more details about these and more events by clicking on them in [...]

This week holds plenty of organized fun for craft beer fans. Click on any event for more details in my D.C. Beer Events Calendar above, or read on for my picks. LAGERHEADS PICK: On Friday, Smith Commons is hosting a launch party for a special collaborative brew created by DC Brau and Baltimore-based Stillwater Artisanal Ales. [...]

Kyle Bailey, the Rammy Award-winning chef at Birch & Barley/ChurchKey, is reputedly a bit of a heavy metal buff. That surely explains the logo of the thrash band Slayer so deftly carved into a hot dog in the above photo released via Twitter by the 14th Street eatery this afternoon. A rep for the restaurant [...]

Irrepressible ChurchKey beer director Greg Engert has a slew of ideas for beer and turkey pairings this Thanksgiving. Naturally. Washingtonian has his picks divided into white and dark meat pairings but all the suggestions are regional brews from Virginia, Maryland and D.C. To keep it simple, stick to District-made suds. That means DC Brau—The Citizen [...]

It's another busy week of beer to-do's. Read on for a few picks, but the full list and details are in my D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. The geek in me has to choose the one and only book-and-beer event this week, which is tonight at ChurchKey. Joshua M. Bernstein will be in the upstairs bar [...]

You'd think for as long as I've kept my public beer calendar, local bars would try to coordinate a little better by now. But a night like tonight, with a uniquely high number of beer events, is only a problem for people like me—those so bonkers for beer that they seriously consider bellying up to [...]

Wendell Jenkins, the guy building a $4.2 million bio-diesel plant in Northeast D.C., appeared before D.C. Council on Monday in the hopes of inking a deal to provide the local government with fuel made from recycled restaurant grease. WRC-TV via WAMU has the full details. Neighborhood Restaurant Group, owners of Birch & Barley/ChurchKey, among other [...]