The week in beer is here, and it's not a bad one. Check out  my notes below or find more details on any event by clicking on it in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. PICK OF THE WEEK The very creative party planners at Flying Dog Brewing Company and local blogs J Street Beer Review [...]

If the other bubbly beverage, beer, is what you prefer to toast this New Year's, you are in luck. Below is a run down of the week in beer with a list of places for beer geeks to ring in the new year with craft beer. For more details about any event, click on it [...]

This time last year the D.C. beer community was abuzz with the long awaited opening of Birch & Barley / ChurchKey. Since then the Logan Circle hot spot has become a local and national trailblazer in what can be done with beer and food. How are they celebrating their first birthday? How else – by brewing [...]

Another good week to be a beer lover in D.C. Click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above for more details or peruse the descriptions below. All week you can wander over to Pizzeria Paradiso (Georgetown and Dupont Circle) to sample a huge array of IPAs for JulyPA days. Both locations have [...]

Washingtonians, particularly those recent arrivals from seemingly cooler places, love to tell themselves how far behind the curve things are here in the District. Neapolitan pizza is so 2002! Oh, we had micro-coffee-roasting shops six years ago in Seattle! New York is already in a post-mixologist period! You know, endless shit like that. Let me [...]

Oops, they did it again. The team at Birch & Barley knocked our socks off last month with their first beer dinner, which featured Garrett Oliver and a host of his special reserve Brooklyn Brewery beers. Oliver is a tough act to follow, but this month's event will feature yet another huge name from the world of [...]

At the beginning of the event at Birch & Barley Monday night, Beer Director Greg Engert explained why inviting Garrett Oliver to host the beer-centric restaurant's first large-format beer dinner was a natural choice. Oliver, the Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, literally wrote the book on pairing beer with food. Engert told guests he used Oliver's book, The [...]

The tuna nicoise crudo, the first course of Birch & Barley's beer dinner Monday with Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver, had a surprise hero ingredient: soy sauce. Not surprising that chef Kyle Bailey used a drop of soy to season the raw tuna, but surprising in how the blend of soy sauce, kalamata olive brine, aged [...]

Garrett Oliver, brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery and the best-dressed man in the world of beer, will bring his fancy duds and knowledge of suds to Birch & Barley's first-ever beer dinner on Monday, April 19th. Tickets are a rather steep $100 each, but include tax and tip and a menu that is far from ordinary. In [...]

The SAVOR salons were posted just in time for advance tickets to go on sale yesterday, and we are delighted to see that in addition to many of our beer heroes (we'll call them beeroes) from some of the best breweries in the country, several local beer and food gurus will be featured at the event. The [...]