See the tap handle all the way to the right? The one with the green label and white bands? That bottle of I Hardcore You IPA, a blend of super rare Mikkeller I Beat You and Brew Dog's award winning Hardcore IPA, shows how serious The Black Squirrel is about the draft beer list in their new downstairs tap [...]
It's a quiet week for beer events, as we let the dust of New Year's revelry settle before taking on the New Year in beer. A few events will likely pop up as the week progresses, so check back (or just subscribe already) to see updates on the D.C. Beer Events Calendar. Tonight, take the Beerspotter's [...]
In the past week Stillwater Artisanal Ales, a gypsy brewing project headed by Baltimore brewer Brian Strumke and Brooklyn importer Brian Ewing, has hit D.C. in a big way with their flagship beer and first collaboration. Strumke, a former techno DJ from Baltimore and Ewing, owner of 12 Percent Imports in Brooklyn decided to enter the world [...]
As a final warm up for his National Geographic Society beer seminar tonight, "New Beers of Scandinavia," we are posting one last excerpt from our interview with Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver. Read on for a preview of topics to be covered at tonight's event, including how brewers in Scandinavia are infusing old styles and ingredients with modern [...]
It's that time of year again: American Craft Beer Week. The annual celebration, organized by the Brewers Association, is all about advocating for and appreciating small, independent breweries. So it's a good week to grab a macrobrew-loving friend and seek out some flavorful, artisanal beer. Last year's ACBW post has a few of our top spots for doing [...]
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 [...]
We have fallen behind on the Super List, our series of each month's favorite beers. But we have big plans to make up for it! Out of the 65 beers we tasted in March (mostly small pours), today's post lists ten that particularly impressed. We'll soon be doing an additional post on some rare BrewDog beers we [...]
This week is a busy one when it comes to beer. Tonight ChurchKey will have all 10 Mikkeller Single Hop IPAs on draft. If you are interested in learning more about what different types of hops smell and taste like, this is a good opportunity to get geeky. Also tonight is Birreria Paradiso's monthly beer dinner, [...]
You'd be hard pressed to go into a DC bar and not find at least one Belgian beer, or Belgian-influenced beer, available. In establishments with, shall we say, less than robust selections this usually means Stella, Blue Moon, or Leinie's Sunset Wheat, but DC Beer Week has had a lot of really great Belgian beer [...]
Brewery collaborations are much in vogue these days. Dogfish Head recently teamed up with Three Floyds. Three Floyds with Mikkeller. Avery has mixed things up with Russian River. And most recently, Bell's got together with De Proef. There are probably numerous other examples of brewers cross-pollinating. (If you know of more, please let us know [...]
