Port Royal Export
You don’t have to travel to Honduras to have Port Royal Export! This pale lager is refreshing, especially after a bike ride by the water.
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Summer hit DC at least a month early, and now the city is in High Festival season – punctuated by Fourth of July celebrations.
Whether you are seized by a spirit of jingoism, you want to express your appreciation for all the good things (or ignore all the bad things) to be found in the US of A, or you just need a good excuse to go eat something grilled and wash it down with copious amounts of domestic, micro-brewed beer, there are places to enjoy Independence Day throughout the DC area.
So Bier Magazine took a little vacation last month, but we have a sizzling Bier Garden Girl for July. Check out what she’s drinking.
Blue Point – Summer Ale
The brewers at Samuel Adams and artisanal meat purveyor Jake Dickson unveil the innovative Samuel Adams Boston Lager Cut. The partnership between the brewers and Dickson, owner of Dickson’s Farmstand Meats in New York City, marks the first time a brewer and specialty meat purveyor have teamed up to design an original cut of beef.
The Board of Directors of the Beer Institute, a national trade association representing companies which produce and import more than ninety percent of the beer sold in the United States, announced that 29-year Navy veteran Capt. Joseph S. “Joe” McClain has been appointed as the next president of the Institute.
One of the things that makes this BBQ chicken recipe the arrogant title is the fact I encourage you to use your favorite bbq sauce as well as your favorite beer. The only necessity is that you use chicken leg quarters featuring the fatty dark meat of the bird.
The spicy tangy sauce is best enjoyed with an incredible Golden IPA. My choice being that I enjoy great locally raised chickens would have to be the local Richmond VA brewery Legend Brewery IPA.
“Ordinary” can sometimes mean “Good.” Such is the atmosphere at Marshall’s Bar & Grill on L Street in Foggy Bottom. Despite the proximity of the GW campus, Marshall’s lets other bars handle the Three C’s (Collegiate, Cool, Crowded) and sets about being a simple, straight-forward place to grab a bite and a beer.
Elephant & Castle is described on its corporate website as a “British Pub and Restaurant concept.” Many bar-goers and beer-drinkers may think twice about procuring their poisons of choice at a “concept,” but the success of the idea cannot be denied. The twenty-plus establishments nationally seem to generally be thriving.
I just found out that Mac’s Tavern, the real-life bar from the TV Show It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, opened this month in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood. Mac’s Tavern has 17 beers on tap, gastropub fare, a jukebox and occasional acoustic musical talent.