Sunday, January 29, 2012

D.C.’s brewing renaissance



Matt's friend, Nathan Zeender, got name-checked in a recent Post article about significant things to come in the DC brew scene. A must read.

From the Washington Post article:

Imagine it’s 2013, and you want to visit a brewery in the District. Will you try the nanobrewery whose single employee brews only a few beers, all of them German-style, or the monolithic brewery-restaurant hybrid across town, with 15 constantly rotating house beers on tap and 100 seats on the patio alone? What about the cozy new brewpub ensconced in a historic storefront, with its experimental farmhouse ales? Or maybe the latest large brewery to spring up in Northeast, which sets itself apart with an eclectic blend of European and American flavors?  
 If all goes according to plan, those four establishments will open in the District within the next year or so, complementing DC Brau, Chocolate City Beer and 3 Stars Brewing, the three that emerged last year. Welcome to the second wave of the capital’s brewing revival, an influx of breweries that will reshape the local beer scene largely because of their unprecedented diversity.




Thursday, January 26, 2012

Session #2

Session numero dos came and went, and I thought I'd share the brew with those of you who weren't able to make it to out in January. Well, I can't actually pour any for you because we drank it all, but you can read the Beer Advocate description here, and then decide if you'd like to go out and find it for yourself.

For those who did make it over to Dave and Kathleen's, I think we had a fine time, in a glass-half-full kind of way, considering how sorely we missed you no-shows but how happily we were fulfilled by Kathleen's soup, sausage, homemade bread and homemade sweet chili pepper sauce.

So, yeah, we had a fine time, missed those who couldn't be there, and drank a lot of Stillwater Ale's Autumnal.


Beer Advocate rating: 84
IBU Rating:
ABV: 7.2%

Stillwater's primarily brewed out of Baltimore by this guy:


Monday, January 2, 2012

Polling for KegLove Session #2

When you get the chance, go ahead and fill out the poll that's to the right. You can make any number of selections for the available dates just off to the right, and the results will update automatically after you hit the "vote" button. If anyone has any trouble with this option, let me know either by email or by leaving a comment to this post.

And just to keep you all in the loop, the January meeting is scheduled to be held at Dave's house on Calvert Street. More details forthcoming...