This week's beer fun comes primarily in the form of Earth Day and 4/20 references. Read on for my picks but for more details on any event, click on it in the D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. LAGERHEADS PICK: On Wednesday, Meridian Pint celebrates Earth Day with a "Dazed and Enthused" tap takeover with brewer Terrence Sullivan [...]

Eating my way through your advice, an ambitious list of vegetarian sandwiches from 24 different restaurants. More Comments Come True. Remember when Jack Shephard told Kate Austen not to "let the fear in?" Oh, not a Lost freak? Let me explain. In the first season of the popular ABC series, the protoganist Jack (Matthew Fox), [...]

This week's Y&H column about how local beer retailers take advantage of D.C.'s lax alcohol import regulations made me curious. Often "bootleggers" like Amy Bowman at The Black Squirrel or Thor Cheston at Brasserie Beck work directly with breweries to get their beer into the District. But what about the breweries whose beer is being brought [...]

It's a big week in beer with plenty to do, from pairing dinners and meet-the-brewer events to beer seminars and regular old draft nights. You can even volunteer for Earth Day in the name of beer this week. Check out my notes below for more info or click on any event in the D.C. Beer Events [...]

For the fourth year, SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience will bring talented brewers and their beers to D.C. from all over the United States. The popular tasting event, which will be at the National Building Museum on June 3 and 4, sold out in less than 20 minutes again this year, despite doubling in [...]

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 [...]

The beer program at Toledo Lounge in Adams Morgan is getting an overhaul, thanks to new owners. Yesterday sisters Mary and Stephanie Abbajay, who opened Toledo Lounge in 1994, finalized the sale to three partners with neighboring 18th Street establishments. Black Squirrel owner Amy Bowman and former co-owner Tom Knott, who now owns soon to open Black [...]

Black Squirrel learned this week that nothing ever really disappears. Especially polarizing rhetoric about illegal immigration. Back in October, a  blog post appeared on the Adams Morgan beer bar's website just as the Chandra Levy murder trial was in the news. The post's subject: Illegal immigrants, a population that includes the man who murdered the [...]

Another good week in beer for District drinkers. I've put a few tantalizing details below, but for more info on any event click on it in our D.C. Beer Events Calendar above. Hanukkah  may be over but the celebration continues with yet another He'brew Jewbelation event from Schmaltz Brewing Company. Tonight head He'Brew himself Jeremy Cowen will be [...]

Just what you need to pull you out of that post-Thanksgiving tryptophan stupor: beer. Read on for when and where to find some good ones this week, including a chance to be the first to taste beers from D.C.'s new local breweries. For more details on any event, click on it in our D.C. Beer Events [...]