The Beers That Got Me Through 2024
The year 2024 threw me for a loop but a selection of craft beers helped me along the journey. Read More …
A Pisco Night in DC
An invite to a ProChile Pisco tasting took us into Mercy Me DC downtown. Read More …
Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville
Flying Ace Farm in Lovettsville, Virginia, beckons with Thursday burger and beer specials and a great outdoor BBQ atmosphere. Read More …
Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia
Fortunately, our trip down last weekend coincided with the grand opening of a new brewery in Montross, Virginia, the Northern Neck Brewing Co. With a resident chef and a full range of beer styles, the new project certainly looked promising. Read More …
Random Row, Charlottesville, Virginia
The walk that became a quest took us from the center of Charlottesville past a strip mall and a renovated Art Deco-era building to the low-slung dark façade housing Random Row Brewing Co. Read More …
James River Brewing, Scottsville, Virginia
The James River Brewery was a local joint my cousin had spotted before, but hadn’t yet tried, so we spent a lovely Sunday afternoon in early March sampling a few of its award-winning beers. Read More …
Brewery Fire, Taneytown
It was still in the dregs of the pandemic, with just one year of survival behind us. We’d met up at a rest stop during January 2021 with friends for a quick open-air meet up on the border with PA, and snuck over to Brewery Fire strategically for lunch, since they promised a BBQ food truck and lots of nifty, well-named (and well-made) beers. Read More …
Top Beers of 2021
I have got to keep this simple, or it won’t get done…so here goes. There were 14 total beers that I rated 4.5 or higher in Untappd in 2021. And though that’s far from a perfect way to sort out Read More …
Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Virginia
Highway 15 winds along the first gasp of the Appalachians as it travels southbound from Maryland into Virginia. In years of living northwest of DC, I can’t tell you how many times I driven around its curves and dips between Read More …
Top 12 (OK, 13) Beers of the Year, 2020
The tale of 2020 can be told through the beers we drank along the way–and they give us a specific sense of where we were a year ago, and how much they helped us retain both a kind of normalcy Read More …