DC Brau, fresh off its release of a very good Thyme After Thyme seasonal ale, took over taps this week at Churchkey and debuted its newest creation, the Penn Quarter Porter, made in collaboration with the MadCap Coffee Company, a Grand Rapids MI company that will open a location in DC in the near future.
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We also visited Port City for the first time two weekends ago during the Saturday afternoon tasting session and spoke with Bill Butcher, the owner and Jon Peters, one of the brewers. Bill comes from the wine business, while Jon is a former U.S. State Department employee. PC just celebrated its one year anniversary and has grown very quickly in that time.
The brewery will be entering a float into the Alexandria St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
DC Beer Doc in the Washington Post; 3 breweries enter SAVOR
Well, this was unexpected, but certainly appreciated. Earlier this week, our second beer trailer was featured in a story in the Washington Post about the recent partnership between DC Brau and Pizza Paradiso, converting spent grain into bread for the social nonprofit Bread for the City.
We knew there was something up when the views for our trailer tripled in the span of 48 hours.
In other news, DC Brau and Port City, along with Capital City Brewing Company, will all be entering their beers into SAVOR, the annual craft beer and food festival in June. SAVOR will probably represent the culmination of this film project, by the way.
Every work week Brandon Skall and Jeff Hancock of DC Brau shovel about 1,500 pounds of soggy grain out of their mash tun. Left to itself, this used-up barley (it resembles “dehydrated oatmeal,” according to Skall) would begin to fester, turning sour and smelly in a day or less.
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Skall is hatching plans not only for new beers (an imperial IPA called On the Wings of Armageddon will debut in February) but also to ramp up his philanthropic activities.
Specifically, he’d like to partner with other D.C. breweries and about 8 to 10 local restaurants to produce 500 loaves of beer bread each month, to be donated to charity. “We want to be a catalyst for something that wouldn’t happen otherwise,” Skall says.
We knew there was something up when the views for our trailer tripled in the span of 48 hours.
In other news, DC Brau and Port City, along with Capital City Brewing Company, will all be entering their beers into SAVOR, the annual craft beer and food festival in June. SAVOR will probably represent the culmination of this film project, by the way.
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