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.

If DC Brau and D'Vines have whetted your appetite for fresh beer in the District, you'll be pleased to know that Chocolate City Beer is also pouring its brew to-go. The small Brookland brewery is now open for growler fills every Saturday from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. This week, Chocolate City is pouring its malty [...]

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.

"Everyone else goes dark, we went light," Bill Butcher, owner of Port City Brewing, explained of his new seasonal brew, Tidings Ale, during a tour of the brewery in Alexandria on Tuesday. Instead of concocting a Christmas ale buried in cloves and ginger and cinnamon, head brewer Jonathan Reeves sourced area ingredients for a Belgian style blond ale. [...]

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 [...]

Thor Cheston knows beer. "Sir Cheston," so dubbed after his induction into the Knighthood of the Brewers' Mashstaff, has spent years pouring pints and selecting distinctive suds to serve. Now, he's planning to make and sell the stuff at his own brewpub. After opening Birreria Paradiso, the acclaimed craft beer bar in the basement of [...]

The leaves are turning colors and those sweet, red orbs are calling for you to come pick them. Fall means apples and Pizzeria Paradiso is celebrating the autumnal fruit all week, at least at the Georgetown location. The festival kicks off tonight with a five-course apple-inspired pairing dinner with ciders, apple beers, and apple liqueurs. Featured [...]

Beer and wine emporiums D'Vines in Columbia Heights and De Vinos in Adams Morgan are no longer filling and selling growlers of beer to go. On Saturday, an official from the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) told manager George Aguilar that the filling of sealed containers was permitted only for businesses with a manufacturer’s Class [...]

Fall is here. If the weather hasn't given you a clue, all the pumpkin beers appearing on store shelves and Oktoberfest celebrations certainly should. This week is full of both. Read on for my picks, but the full list is in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. Click on any event for more details. My pick [...]

There is plenty of organized beer fun to fill up your day planner this week. Read on for a run-through, or click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details.