DC Brau... Right Now!!!

Here are a few words about one of the local breweries operating in my neck of the woods… DC Brau Brewing.

DC Brau Brewing was founded in 2011 in Washington, D.C. It is the first brewery to operate inside the District of Columbia since 1956, when the Heurich Brewery closed. The brewery is the brainchild of Brandon Skall, the brewery's business manager, and Jeff Hancock, its brew master.

Hancock has brewed at Grizzly Peak Brewing and Arbor Brewing, both in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland.

DC Brau's inaugural beer is "The Public," an American pale ale style beer. The brewery has plans to release an India Pale Ale style called "The Corruption," and a Belgian-style pale ale called "The Citizen." All of its beers are packaged in aluminum cans, which as I’ve explained in prior blog posts, is one of the emerging trends in brewing.

The Regulars

Like any local environmentally-conscience company would do, all of the brewery's waste is delivered to a family-owned farm in Haymarket, Virginia, where it is converted into animal feed and composting material. The brewery also plans to have the farm plant a crop of hops that will be used to make a single batch limited annual release beer. How about those local brewers?

Cool lookin cans

So if you live in the DC area, go get some DC Brau and support your local brewers. If you don’t live in the DC area, support YOUR local brewers... whoever they may be.

Here’s to craft-brewed happiness… Cheers!