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.