"D.C. was a wine town when we started 15-16 years ago, but the trajectory D.C. is on is an even bigger trajectory albeit smaller beer base than Baltimore and Philly. So it's really exciting to see D.C. going off."—Sam Calagione, founder of Delaware's Dogfish Head Brewery, speaking to DCist about the District's blossoming craft beer [...]

The big news this week is the official arrival of New Belgium Brewing Company beers to the D.C. area. Joints like The Black Squirrel have been known for "bootlegging" New Belgium crowd-pleasers into the District for some time, but now the Colorado brewery is legitimately distributed in D.C. For more details on where to find New [...]

This year's D.C. Beer Week is beginning to wind down, but hopefully you aren't. There are still two full days of craft beer madness and more than 35 interesting to-do's with tasty brews to choose from. Below are my picks for Friday and Saturday, but be sure to check out the full calendar after the jump. [...]

It's Belgian Restaurant Week in D.C., with most events occurring in the name of Belgian independence. Feestdag your eyes on my picks below, but click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details. Out of all Belgian fun to be had, my top pick is the "Tour of Belgium" dinner on Wednesday [...]

It's a relatively quiet week for beer, anchored by a momentous Belgian beer celebration on Monday and National Homebrew Day this Saturday. Read on for more details or click on it in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. LAGERHEADS PICK: This week's selected event is a his and hers (or anyone's and hers, rather) set of [...]

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 [...]

Craft beer industry charmer Sam Calagione has scored big time. The Dogfish Head Brewery founder will be starring in his own Discovery Channel show, titled BREWED, set to air this fall. According to a release from Beernews.org today, the show will include episodes covering a range of topics on the culture and history of beer. [...]

D.C.'s beer culture is growing stronger all the time, and over the last month we have seen significant proof of it in our neighborhood grocery store. Sure, D.C. has seen a steady increase in the number of beer-centric bars and restaurants opening, as well as wine and cocktail-focused places adding more craft and imported beer [...]

Not long after the U Street corridor spot opened a year ago, we popped into Policy for the first time and quickly filed it away as a place to go in the unlikely event we were in the mood for velvet ropes, fancy cocktails, and house music. We never thought beer would bring us back, but [...]

If you read our posts you know we have a soft spot in our livers for a handful of things, and Dogfish Head Brewery founder Sam Calagione and collaboration beers are two of them. Now that Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada are producing what will be each brewery's the latter's first collaborative effort, Life & Limb [...]