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Welcome back to another exciting episode of DC Beer! On today's show, we're diving into the world of the Whelans and their brand-new bottle shop and pub in Potomac Village, Maryland. Join your hosts, Brandy Holder and Jacob Berg, as they chat with Emma and Greg Whelan about their journey in the beer industry and the amazing things happening at their establishment. 

From upcoming events to supporting black-owned breweries, there's plenty to discuss. So grab a cold one, sit back, and let's dive into Whelan's!
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Brandy Holder
This southern girl got a late start in the beer world, but with such a bold and intoxicating personality behind the name, booze was destined to be a part of her endeavors.
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Jacob Berg
Jake’s beer education began when his dad brought home a 6-pack of Brooklyn Lager in the mid-90s. It was love at first sip.
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Jacob Berg [00:00:06]:

Welcome everyone to the DC beer show. We are at DC beer across social media. Brandy, what are you drinking this lovely fall evening?

Brandy Holder [00:00:13]:

Oh, I just threw my can away, but it was Other Half's ESB, which was actually a collaboration with Monkish. And let me tell you, it was very delicious. I love an ESB, especially when I'm putting a sealant of polyurethane on cedar to hang on my house. I have like, the can in one hand and then the sponge in the other hand, just like crushing both of the things. So shout out to Other Half and Monkish for this ESB. Jake, what are you drinking?

Jacob Berg [00:00:45]:

I am drinking right now. Wheatland Springs, the great return estate. Pilsner. A lovely beer for a fall evening. I couldn't get out there for Oktoberfest, and so the next best thing is to crack a can. Brandy, do British hops like Fuggles and East Kent Goldings go well with the scent of polyurethane? Does it contribute to a piney forest floor sort of aroma?

Brandy Holder [00:01:10]:

I wish that I could say that it did, but couldn't really smell much over the poly. On the show tonight, we have our dear, dear lovely friends, Emma and Greg Whelans. And you're probably like, oh, who's that? Everyone knows Emma from Astrolab, formerly of Astrolab. And Greg owns McGinty's. So they both now own a lovely beer and wine shop in Potomac called Whelans.

Jacob Berg [00:01:38]:

Greg, what are you drinking on this lovely evening?

Greg Whelan [00:01:41]:

So I am having a sip of Sunshine. I got a nice fresh can from a customer. So, yeah, it's not as uber local as you guys, but when you get a can of sip of sunshine, you got to go for it.

Brandy Holder [00:01:58]:

Emma, what you drinking?

Emma Whelan [00:01:59]:

I'm sharing his beer like a nice husband and wife.

Brandy Holder [00:02:04]:

Just sharing everything. That's lovely.

Emma Whelan [00:02:06]:

That's correct. Because then we get to try everything.

Brandy Holder [00:02:09]:

That's true. It's like the beer shares.

Emma Whelan [00:02:11]:

Exactly.

Brandy Holder [00:02:12]:

I want to jump in and start talking about Whelans. I know that Whelans hasn't been open too long now. Do you want to tell the folks who may not have heard of Whelans what's going on? What's the dealio?

Greg Whelan [00:02:27]:

Yeah, so it's a new store in Potomac Village. It's got the same license here in Montgomery County as downtown Crown and Gillies. So we have on off privilege. So you can obviously pick up packaged beer or wine to go, but you can also sample on premise. We've got a twelve tap system for our beer, strong local representation, along with Belgium and some German and some good stouts thrown in there as well. We opened in early August. We are getting our feet under us. We've got maybe 50 seats in the place and we are very excited to be doing this venture and looking to really grow into like a publish kind of packaged sore feel. It's a little bit of a hybrid of both in the community and to just be another great place to go get some good local beers on tap or cans or bottles.

Brandy Holder [00:03:31]:

I have personally been there and it is gorgeous. I know that you just said you want it to be like a pub feel kind of place, but it's so beautiful and bright and airy and inviting and when I think of a pub, I think of like a dark, smoky, dingy place. So I get what you're saying because they do have a really great list of beer and wine available for you to just drink at the bar. But it's like a mix between being nice, like classy and just feeling welcome. It's like elevated. Cheers. That's a compliment, I think.

Emma Whelan [00:04:17]:

Yeah, it is. And I think that's kind of know Greg was going for you want to look good in that location. But at the same time the team that we've got and the people behind the bar are really creating some community there and regulars that are like, wow, we only came off for a glass of wine and we've been here all night and we're coming back next week. This place is awesome. So I think know, just trying to recreate the neighborhood spot know, we will both be used to where we're know.

Brandy Holder [00:04:51]:

Yeah, I know Matt. You guys know Matt. Matt Splain. He used to manage Gillies and everyone still comes up to him or messages him and know we miss you at Gillies because Gillies is a bottle store just like you guys and he had regulars like constant daily regulars and I know that's what you both are going to you probably already have some.

Emma Whelan [00:05:15]:

We do.

Brandy Holder [00:05:16]:

It open less than a month. But I'm sure that's the know just the backbone of the neighborhood because you're always going to get good options for beer.

Emma Whelan [00:05:27]:

And I I mean I still think of Matt when I go to Gillies and how many years ago was it that he left? I met Matt through going and trying to sell him beer, not buy beer from him, but Gillies is like it's just the perfect neighborhood spa for that part of Montgomery County and I think what Greg's creating at Whelans will be the perfect neighborhood spa for this part of Montgomery County as well. And he was kind of born and bred in this type of industry. So I think he's working his way to his dream retirement spot with six seats at the bar and he gets to just chat away to people until he falls asleep.

Greg Whelan [00:06:12]:

Until they fall asleep. Listen to me.

Brandy Holder [00:06:15]:

I love that. It is really beautiful and you guys should be very proud of it. But I would sit there all day and just chat with you both.

Emma Whelan [00:06:25]:

Well, thank you.

Jacob Berg [00:06:27]:

A happy anniversary to Gillies who celebrated their 10th, I believe, and they celebrated with surprise, surprise and another half collaboration stout that I believe is available there.

Brandy Holder [00:06:39]:

Speaking of Collabs, I know that Emma at Astro you did some collaboration beers that went to charities and things like that. Is that something that you both can somehow do now that you own Whelans? Is that something that you'd be interested in doing or, like, having events, know, raise money for charity?

Emma Whelan [00:07:04]:

Yeah, I think actually, Greg is already working with a gentleman that has a beer that a portion of the proceeds go towards veteran health and well being. And I think that'll definitely be part of what we actually, one of the first days I worked there, I bumped into the father of the little girl that we highlighted as one of the first promotions for Sebastian Strong, and they live in that area. And I saw him come in, he had the T shirt on, and I was just about to go out and do something, and I was like, oh, I have to stay and talk to him. So definitely I think that there's going to be room for doing those type of things over there. And just coincidentally, that I've already bumped into some of the people that we already had relationships with at, you know, might want to continue working with me.

Greg Whelan [00:08:04]:

And then now Greg yeah, we're working with the Lila Bean Foundation as well. It's a foundation for researching brain cancer in very young kids. So that's something that I've come to know about through my broker for the space. His child, unfortunately, is going through it, and it just made me uber aware of it and what a great cause it was as well. So we're working with them currently at the moment, but not on a collaboration. But if there's any brewers out there that would like to do a collaboration, we'd be more than happy to.

Brandy Holder [00:08:44]:

Oh, I bet. Yeah.

Emma Whelan [00:08:47]:

I was going to say, I think I might be able to find us a few. That's what I've actually enjoyed, just being able to it's been great at opening Whelans and being able to contact the people that I've become friends with over the last few years and gotten to know and say, hey, I need to get your beer into this place and just keep those relationships going. It's such a strong community and so supportive, and we had all the support when Astrolab was coming to an end and then just continuing know, so that's.

Jacob Berg [00:09:23]:

Something that I want to touch on Emma, is that you have experience on the other side of distribution, the dark side in brewing and selling beer. What's it been like to switch to buying the beer?

Emma Whelan [00:09:36]:

It's been a little bit of an eye opener, to be honest with, you know, now I'm uber aware of how much retail space and shelf space you've got to carry things and how you need to have the things in that people come in and buy. And I think both Greg and I greg's been in the industry for years, but has never bought packaged goods at this level before, and we're just blown away by how many different sizes and shapes of domestic beers you can purchase or buy or is available. And the one that the guy that comes in once is always the one that you haven't got like twelve pack bottles, six pack bottles, six pack cans, four pack cans, one big tall boy. It's like, oh, my God. I guess I never bought domestic beer so I wasn't aware that it came in so many formats. So I think it's just like all of those things are new and interesting to me, but also having the awareness of when those sales reps come in and just giving them the time and the airspace. And I'm really looking forward to when we can start doing some real good, serious tastings and events that we can bring those folks in and try push them. And I think it also makes me a little bit more I've been doing a good bit of greg's social media, and it makes me a little bit know. I always put a little bit of extra care in the locals that were just getting in to tell a little bit of their story and make people want to come in and try and buy and you have a really good movement in the local section like we are going through. We sell across the board, but local beers are really one of the strong categories and I think as Greg said, we hand sell a lot of it where people like, oh, I want this type of beer and we always guide them to the closest local one that we've got before we take them to the domestic brand.

Greg Whelan [00:11:48]:

Yeah. Out of our draft beers as well. Twelve beers on tap. We've got Guinness, which is going to be a standard, and then Yingling is just kind of another standard beer offering from Pennsylvania. Everything else is from the DMV, so we rotate through our ten taps. Very focused on DMV beers. Maybe a couple of Virginia Richmond beers thrown in there as well. But relatively local.

Brandy Holder [00:12:24]:

Yeah, because you guys are friends with the Ocelot folks and Whelans Springs, right?

Emma Whelan [00:12:29]:

Yeah. We actually haven't got either of them in yet. I need to reach out to them to try and get some in. But yeah, we've got know we just added landmade last week. Black Flag's been doing great for us. The DC breweries have been doing really well. Elder pine, crooked crabs, furious George. Heff of ice and seems to be super popular. So it's just great seeing all of those beers moving on the shelf. And also other half we've got a full section of other half so we're really kind of trying to make us the place to come for good beer in Potomac Village and it's all cold, which is like new to the community. So it's great.

Brandy Holder [00:13:20]:

Yeah. All your beer is in coolers. Yeah. So for those of you who haven't been yet, I mean you should go because it's really pretty when you walk in you see wine. There's wine walls. It looks like a wine shop, solely a wine shop. And then to the right are all these coolers, these fridges for beer.

Greg Whelan [00:13:42]:

Yeah. Basically as you approach, we've got a lot of glass in the front. You come in through the front door and the space just opens up. You have a wall of wine on the right sorry, the left hand side. And on the right hand side we have six tree door coolers. So we've basically 18 doors of beer. And through the center of between both those walls, the wall of beer and the wall of wine, we have just tables laid out on the floor. We have four tables laid out, high top tables.

Emma Whelan [00:14:20]:

Six people.

Greg Whelan [00:14:21]:

Yeah. So most packaged stores have for me not a tremendous amount of clutter, but we've deliberately kept ours just super clean and super sharp just to kind of keep the visual right and also give people space to peruse their beer. My personal pet peeve in a beer store is when I'm getting down an aisle, is getting rammed into it and feeling that if someone else comes along it's like, oh jeez, I got to move or I always feel rushed. So I kind of wanted to avoid that.

Brandy Holder [00:14:59]:

That's a great point. Yeah. And it is very airy. You're right.

Greg Whelan [00:15:03]:

Yeah. So basically you've got the tables down through the center, which lead your eye down to basically our centerpiece. We have about a twelve seater bar at the bottom with again, another wall of wine behind it and our twelve tap system. To the right of that we have a little bar area that has a center table in it and then a drink rail going around, some TVs. We've just finished it out nice. With some real nice finishes on the woodwork and the decorations and the lighting. So yeah, it's quite open and bright. And we kept the high ceilings. And my personal favorite is when people come in, they stand at the door and say, oh wow, this looks great. And I enjoy walking them through the space till they get to the bottom and they turn to the right and see the little bar area and you go you get a second wow. It's like, oh wow, this is awesome down here. So I get a kick out of doing that and I enjoy hearing the double wow because people are already impressed as they walk in. We put in a library ladder as well, a twelve foot library ladder that scoots up and down the wine wall. It'll probably very seldom be used and Emma's tried to do the Elsa on it as well know, sliding down the aisle.

Jacob Berg [00:16:37]:

My question, Greg, I was going to.

Greg Whelan [00:16:39]:

Ask if I sorry, Jake, you still can. Richard can edit that out.

Emma Whelan [00:16:45]:

Yeah, I think we worked with some friends on the space and one of them was our good friend Jenny Kerwin. Who is basically the owner and operating owner of Manassa Architecture. And she's kind of like an architect and the interior designer rolled into one for me. And she's just got such a good eye for really looking at a space. It's quite a narrow space, but she's really opened it up and everything just leads your eye ultimately to the bar at the back with the just like, amazing reflective black tiles and all of the woodwork, and the lighting is just perfect. So she really has worked hard to create that wow factor that Greg is talking about without it really jumping out at you. Like, there's been a ton of effort put into making that wow factor. It's just a natural, open, clean and just really, as you said, Brandy, it's very elegant, but you can feel comfortable in there as well at the same time.

Brandy Holder [00:17:56]:

That's exactly it. And when Greg was just talking about the wow factor, my favorite part is the actual right when you guys were pouring, because the light fixtures and everyone, you have to see this for yourself. I was obsessed, and I'm not exaggerating obsessed with these lights and how they reflected on the bar. I took 1000 pictures because your wine, your beer just looks so pretty under these lights on this bar. And Emma did say that it's a narrow space, but it doesn't feel narrow and it doesn't feel like there's a lot it's not too busy. It's not a busy feeling space, but it's very inviting and it's where I would want to go drink. It seems that you have more wine than beer, is that correct? Just like, visually, I don't know if.

Greg Whelan [00:18:53]:

That'S actually true, but probably visually, I don't think so.

Emma Whelan [00:18:57]:

No. And sales are probably almost equal. We probably sell more volume of beer and less dollars. But definitely the consumer isn't focused on wine over beer. We definitely have a good split.

Greg Whelan [00:19:21]:

And also just from as Emma alluded to I was born and raised in a pub in Ireland, and I've been into pub trade and restaurant trade all my life. And being Irish as well, everyone just presumes that you know a ton about beer. But working with or getting to know mass cronin from Astrolab and working with Emma with Astrolab, I actually learned a ton more and really kind of delved into a better understanding of beer and packaging beer and what goes into it. So I've kind of carried that through into Whelans. And any local beer we get is from the minute we get it, it's refrigerated and kept refrigerated, knowing that there's not centrifuges involved and that packaging isn't at probably Budweiser's level or whatever. So my Bud will sit out on the floor getting warm, where I'll make sure that all my local beer is respected and kept cold until it gets out onto the floor, into the other coolers. Yeah. So we're in the process of getting in charcuterie and cheese and nibbles. We opened without any food and we got strong feedback from the community within the first week, like, oh, this place is perfect, but you guys need cheese and charcuterie. It was like, okay, let's do that. We did open True to build out, we got to know all our neighbors. We have five guys. Potomac, Pizza, Moby Dicks and firewalk. Firewalk, yeah. Beside us. And they've all been great neighbors and they all serve great food. They agreed to walk down the food, so we're QR coding it from our space and they're walking in the food, which has been very well received, and it's a great option, but we are bringing in some food ourselves that will give people the option of having some snacks or charcuterie.

Emma Whelan [00:21:30]:

Yeah, I think some of the feedback we were getting all that's great. We like ordering our five guys burger to come to our table, but I don't know whether I want a five guys burger with my fancy bottle of wine or this beer. I think this will just be a good balance of having food that people want to eat and then also supporting our neighbors if they want a bigger meal and want to actually have dinner while in with us.

Brandy Holder [00:22:01]:

And folks can bring in whatever they want.

Greg Whelan [00:22:03]:

Oh, exactly. We have people on Saturdays and Sundays that go for a hike at Great Falls or just get out into some of the great trails that are around us and then come by for a pint or two. And some people bring a sandwich or they grab something along the way, or they will order the food, as we just mentioned, and just stop by. We've had some people bring a little picnic. They're prearranged and met other people. It's been fun.

Jacob Berg [00:22:34]:

It's still pretty early in the Whalen's history, but have you noticed any trends in terms of what people are drinking on premise and also what people are buying to take home? Obviously, Guinness and Yingling are going to move units because they're Guinness and they're Yingling.

Greg Whelan [00:22:57]:

You'd be surprised. Jake. Yeah. People coming from the restaurant world, you get asked for the odd recommendation when you're behind the bar and people will listen to you. But in a package store, I think people's expectations or trust in you is exponentially greater. The community that I'm in is very open to trying different things. And if people come in and say, well, what's good? And say, well, what's your flavor profile? What do you enjoy? Oh, I normally drink this or I normally drink that. And we are actually moving through quite a decent amount of local beer. As I said, ten of our twelve taps are for local, but the elder pine EP pills is absolutely flying for us. Everyone's loving it. We started on the IPA front, we started with Kushwa and napente and other half, and all three are crushing it. They're bouncing between the three of them and people are deciding and just like a little vote. This is my favorite. Oh, I prefer this one. As far as people's preferences and tastes, it's surprising to me that people are open and are very open to local and trying something new that they haven't tried before, which is great. I really love that. My culture and Irish culture, people are very set on this is what I drink and this is and we're seeing that with some folks are very set in their ways, but the majority of people that are coming in are very open to trying lots of different things. So on the front of trends, we're seeing drink wise, that would be kind of it. And then, yeah, we're just getting a lot of a good study of regulars.

Emma Whelan [00:25:10]:

As well, I think. It seems that whenever I've been there, people are really interested in the interest in beers. So I'm noticing on the package side of things, greg brought in some Belgian beers a couple of weeks ago and there's real big interest in those beers. But equally, just to go back to what he was saying, I smile. I came in a few weeks ago looking for Pilsner urkel and he pronounced it so unusually like Greta. We were both like, what is he asking for? And we ended up getting to the he must have know he was Eastern European and we didn't have it at the time, but Greg recommended different pilsner for him and he came back two weeks later looking for the different pills and he's like, I really liked it.

Greg Whelan [00:26:01]:

I think he went for victory.

Emma Whelan [00:26:02]:

I think he went for victory pills and then we didn't have that one. So I turned him on to I forget which one. I gave him one of the local ones. I think I put him towards the elder pine, actually. I think I gave him the elder pine pills. But it's just great being able to turn someone who's probably been that pills and a drinker for their entirety of their adult life into like, oh, now we're going to be supporting elder pine, which is up the road.

Brandy Holder [00:26:34]:

You're doing the good work.

Emma Whelan [00:26:35]:

I know. I love that. Who knew we were so mission driven?

Brandy Holder [00:26:39]:

I will say that one of my other favorite aspects of when I visited was your daughter because she is determined to work there and she's the nine year old I know. Yeah. Too bad she's not legally able to pour and serve because she's so enthusiastic. And I bet she's going to grow up knowing so much about the beer and the wine and the industry and it's like a family business.

Emma Whelan [00:27:11]:

I think we've actually discovered since opening Whelans that she actually is a bit of a butterfly. She loves nothing more than if she recognizes someone sitting there chatting to them for half an hour. So we're just going to avoid her drip getting into the world of beer.

Greg Whelan [00:27:29]:

And wine for longer not a few years anyway. But Emma used to always joke, like Tess, our daughter that you're talking about, Brandy's talking about is Tess and she's got a big personality. Everything she does, she dives straight into. Like everything is just full on with her. So Emma used to always joke that if they ever made a Belgian triple, they would call it the it's just it would know her. Big strong know.

Brandy Holder [00:28:00]:

Well, here's a shout out to Tess and of course, Emma and Greg. What are your hours? When can people visit you?

Greg Whelan [00:28:08]:

Yeah, so we open at 10:00 A.m. Every day and at the moment, hell, yeah.

Jacob Berg [00:28:14]:

Why not? 08:00. A.m. Brandy.

Greg Whelan [00:28:16]:

Yeah. That's only if Liverpool are playing early on a Saturday.

Jacob Berg [00:28:22]:

You'll never drink alone.

Greg Whelan [00:28:24]:

Exactly. But, yeah, we've reopened at 10:00 A.m.. We've got EPL playing, beers flowing. We close. 09:00 is the earliest we close. Potomac is a little sleepy at 09:00 on a Sunday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, we're ten and then Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we're eleven for now, but I'm hoping that grows into like, 1130 heading for twelve.

Brandy Holder [00:28:52]:

That pub vibe is what you're going for. I love that. Well, thank you so much, Emma and Greg, for being on the show. I know a lot of folks aren't aware that you have opened and I really need all of you to go visit go visit Greg and Emma and Tess. Hey, Tess at Whelans.

Emma Whelan [00:29:15]:

She's going to be so happy that she got a.

Brandy Holder [00:29:20]:

Her. Thank you for doing such a great service to the beer and wine drinking community, especially in Potomac, and bringing your beautiful personalities and lovely family to the area. It is much needed and I'm sure everyone by the know a couple months come around, whelans is going to be well known in the area. So cheers and congratulations and thank you so much for coming, guys.

Greg Whelan [00:29:48]:

Thank you. Thank you, Brandy.

Emma Whelan [00:29:49]:

Thanks, Brandy.

Greg Whelan [00:29:49]:

Thanks, Jake. Thanks, Richard.

Jacob Berg [00:29:51]:

Thanks, Emma. Thanks, Greg. Much appreciate it. Everybody get to Potomac and check them out. All right, Brandy, do you know the theme of the Battle of the Barrel aged beers happening Tuesday 26th at Boundary Stone? Do you know the theme this year?

Brandy Holder [00:30:04]:

Oh, my gosh. Julie told me. Oh, because Julie got to pick because Dennis has won last year, it has to be under a certain amount. What's the ABV.

Jacob Berg [00:30:15]:

So the ABV is still a little up in the air, but it can't be a stout or a right.

Brandy Holder [00:30:23]:

That's right, yes. When she told me that, I was like, yes. I love you, Julie.

Jacob Berg [00:30:29]:

Right, this makes things very interesting.

Brandy Holder [00:30:33]:

DC Brown going to do right.

Jacob Berg [00:30:35]:

Like, you're not going to get a barrel aged stout, you're not going to get a barrel aged Imperial porter. And so obviously atlas brow hellbender. Port City wright. Proper. We know what right proper is going to bring. It's going to be low ABV, it's going to be a little botanical, it's going to be delicious and refreshing baron Corvo. S. Yeah, no one would be upset if Denizens came right back with the same beer, a barrel of aged Kentucky common. That was marvelous.

Brandy Holder [00:31:07]:

It was so good. So good that it honestly, Battle, the barrel age is probably my favorite event. It's between that and Snelly, I think. But Battle is just so I don't know, so nice. It's way more intimate and get to hang out with the brewers. But I do love that it's not going to have any stouts or porters this year. I mean, I love stouts and porters, but they're always like there's only so many you can have that are like 14%.

Jacob Berg [00:31:50]:

I was going to say since you already mentioned Snallagaster. Guests, attendees, listeners, please stop by the DC Beer podcast stage at Snallagaster where you can hear us as well as other nationally renowned beer podcasters interviewing some of your favorites from Snallagaster live hot mic. A lot of beer. There will be barrel aged stouts. It could get interesting.

Brandy Holder [00:32:24]:

Oh yeah. I feel like if you are on social media, you probably would want to record some of the things that might be said from some of the drunk. Oh, or maybe not. Who knows? I'm so excited. This is huge. And I've been going to Sally for geez, forever since it was in the Union Market parking lot back in the day. And it's know the biggest beer festival and having a stage and having a live show and doing interviews is going to be I don't know if any other Snelly is ever going to be tops now because this year's Snelly is going to be the best for me personally. So I'm so excited. Everyone please come out. Support obviously your local breweries and the visiting brewers and DC Beer. So yeah, so excited. I just got giddy. I can't talk now.

Jacob Berg [00:33:30]:

Does that mean you can't mention the other cool events that are coming up?

Brandy Holder [00:33:33]:

I will, I guess so. I don't personally love pumpkin beer. It's not my favorite, but I have had some that I like. Like gourd riddance from Red Bear. It is the time of year Red Bear always goes all out for their Halloween stuff with the drag queens and gord riddens. Even if you don't like pumpkin beer, I feel like you might like this beer. So go say hi to Red Bear because I love you all. I wonder if Emma has any pumpkin beers at Whelan's maybe today, which is Friday the 22nd. Lost Generation is having their lager fest, which I'm so jazzed about it. I love lost gen. And to sweeten the deal, my dearest, dearest friend Chris, owner of Ravenhook Bakery, is making a ton of pretzels for the event, so he's going to be selling those. They're so good. I'll be there. Come check it. Also, there's a lot of stuff going on tomorrow on Saturday. I truly hope that I see some amazing folks at DC Brow. For the monthly Women's Brew Culture Club event. Paulette will guide us through beer, the brewery history and know be the cool human that they are. Two to four. And since Hyatt's Ville is actually not too far away from DC Brow, I think it would be wise to head over to the Hyatt'sville Arts and Ales Festival. There's going to be a couple of local breweries. That can be a huge event. The Streetcar 82 will be there. Denizens I think brewers art actually is pouring kind of randomly, but exciting. I love brewer's art.

Jacob Berg [00:35:12]:

Shout out to Volcker who lives just.

Brandy Holder [00:35:14]:

Hey, Volcker, love you. And also tomorrow, Saturday, NRG's Hi Fi. They are having from twelve to 06:00 P.m.. They're having a Bavarian beer garden with ten traditional German beers, bavarian inspired food and music. So this was kind of fun.

Jacob Berg [00:35:35]:

I'm told there might be Bavarian style tacos and I'm not entirely sure what that is, but I kind of want to find out.

Brandy Holder [00:35:42]:

Kind of fun, but put Sauerkraut on everything for me. I'm cool. I love it. Jake I know there's some other stuff. What else is going on?

Jacob Berg [00:35:52]:

All right, so other stuff. If you were, say, to hit Brow and then Hyattvville, if you had yourself a designated driver or you want to splurge on Uber Lyft ride share, you could head up to Howard County, Columbia, because it's sapwood's anniversary. That'd be a good one to hit on the 23rd as well. I want to jump ahead, however, to the weekend after that because we've got a couple of pretty cool events. Atlas Ivy City is hosting their 10th anniversary party. You mentioned pumpkin beer, which I just gord ridden's sometimes divisive because of the spices Atlas has brewed by my friend and softball teammate javi shouts to you, Javieros II gold Chada. It is a Horchata inspired golden ale. He named it. He's brewed a wee heavy before. That should certainly be a good time. I think it's $20. It gets you admission money, goes to a good cause. It gets you beer. Once you're in there, then even more beer is like $5. It's going to be a ton of stuff. It'll be a good time.

Brandy Holder [00:37:05]:

Brandon I hope that the Brown Ale is still on tap next weekend. I just saw Atlas drop on the social media. A brown ale. And for DC Beard listeners, you know that that's my faves, so I cannot wait to have got it. We got to go.

Jacob Berg [00:37:24]:

Brown ale. The second is a collaboration between Right Proper and the Black Brew movement. And that is also happening on the 30th. That is Right Proper's very popular block party over at Wright. Proper shaw Black Moon Movement will be there. Tons of art, tons of music, tons of beers, as well as that Collab Brown Ale. It's delicious. All right, this was a lot of information throughout you. You should come check us out@dcbeer.com. DCBeer.com slash events. We are at DC beer on the Socials. There's a new booster shot out there and you should get it. Brandy, take us out.

Brandy Holder [00:38:04]:

I will go get the booster shot and the pneumonia shot and all the shots because I have autoimmune issues. Definitely check out the Block party. It supports all of our black owned breweries. And if you want to further support black owned breweries, please go visit Urban Garden Brewing's Crowdfunding page. They are trying to get their brick and mortar. Even if you give $5 the price of a pint of beer less than the price of a pint of beer, everything helps. Let's help Imani and Lindsay continue to make history in DC. Check out their social media for more information and support women and people of color in the beer industry every day. DC Beer FAM I can't wait to see you all around. Enjoy this beautiful weather and make sure you cheers your friends, your loved ones and your beer makers.