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.
It's another fantastic week for enjoying beer in the District, with two rare cask nights and more beer dinners than you can shake a tallboy at. Read on for some tantalizing details, or click on an event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. On Monday the Big Hunt in Dupont Circle will have a cask [...]
January is turning out to be a great month for beer. Don't believe me? Look ahead in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar. Here's what's on tap this week. In addition to a lot of new gym memberships and diet plans starting up, the beginning of each year means it's time for Bell's Hopslam. This honeyed Double IPA has [...]
My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to be an omnivorous drinker: to appreciate beer in both quality and quantity. I had long been beguiled by promises of sexier beer—aged in bourbon, wine, brandy, and raw oak barrels; inoculated with yeast strains from far-off lands; infused with enough hops to endanger the species—but for every [...]
This weekend the Huffington Post put together a photo slide show of "ridiculous" beer names. My faves? Ridgeway Brewing's Santa's Butt Winter Porter from the U.K. conjures some jolly but jiggly, possibly hairy, images. What I'd much rather have in my head when ordering a beer is the sight suggested by I'll Have What the Gentleman On [...]
Salvage divers in the Baltic Sea had already recovered some expensive bottles of champagne from a wreck when they made a surprise discovery: what may be the world's oldest case of beer. For 200 years the beer had lain undisturbed in 164 feet of water, out of the sunlight and at a near constant temperature [...]
Y&H, to paraphrase R. Crumb's old '70s slogan, keeps on food truckin'. Y'all can't seem to get enough of these little mobile eateries. Three of the top five items last week concerned the District's ever-improving food truck scene (and what it means for those of us who embrace it). Take a look: Is the Newfound [...]
Today is the release date for Dogfish Head Bitches Brew, the beer brewed to celebrate the 40th birthday and reissue of the groundbreaking Miles Davis classic. It was first sampled by attendees at SAVOR — that is, anyone who wanted to shoulder their way through the throng of TV cameras and clamoring beer nerds for [...]
D.C. Beer Week is well underway. So whether you've taken advantage of the numerous events that have already happened or are preparing to venture out to your first one tonight, we're here to help direct you to where you want to go. Below are The Lagerheads' picks for tonight. MOST EDUCATIONAL We predict that you'll [...]
The night before SAVOR has traditionally (three years' worth anyway) had two big events in D.C. The Lupulin Reunulin at RFD, which is hosted at the Brickskeller this year and called ReunuLess in honor of the absence of several key Lupulin competitors, is as formal as a beer panel and tasting/roast can be with brewers like [...]
