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Jacob Berg [00:00:00]:
Welcome everyone to a very special live in person edition. The first DC Beer Show of 2025. Woo hoo. Woo hoo. We're starting a beer of the month, a collaboration between DC Beer and The Brew Shop at Arlington. Hi, Julie. What's the first beer of the month?
Julie Dews [00:00:19]:
Hi, Jake. Thanks. We're really excited to be involved in the beer of the month, program. And the first beer that's been chosen, I believe it was Mike Stein's pick, this month is from Sojourn Fermentory, their Midnight dark lager. And I think they categorized this not as a dark check, but it does lean check. It's a fantastic and very complex little beer that we are really excited to have and got to try it last month, and this is a a brau and a fresh batch. We're really excited to have it along along with another set from them. We're getting a few other beers from them in shop with that same drop. They're a young brewery and they're doing some great stuff on the lager side, and so we're really excited to have, some new stuff pulled from them. We although this month, as you know, is dry January for many people, and so we are looking at a pretty good selection of nonalcoholic beer and cider and wine and a couple of NA cocktails this year. So we are looking to help you get through your dry January and to help you break your dry January at the end of the month when our 9th birthday happens. So we've got a lot on the docket for the 9th birthday. I don't wanna tease too much, but we spent, a lot of time putting together, cool new brews and and cool drops from lots of your favorite breweries and lots of our favorite breweries. And we will also have our collab beer with Ocelot. It is a West Coast IPA, called Uninterrupted Prosperity that will be releasing at the shop here on the birthday, which is Friday, January 24th.
Jacob Berg [00:01:48]:
Very cool. Thanks, Julie. And also, I should add to the listeners, if you are a member of DC beer on Patreon, what do you get, Julie?
Julie Dews [00:01:58]:
You get 10% off your purchase of the DC Beer of the month. And and standing offer for all Patreon members is 10% off on our draft, which is growler and crowler fills to go.
Jacob Berg [00:02:09]:
Very cool. Thank you so much. And in advance, happy 9th. It's great that we're doing this together. This is cool. And Mike picked a good one. If you haven't been to Sojourn like me because it's in Southern Virginia, one of the owners of Sojourn also runs the Right Side out in Fairfax. Shout out to Jinsen Chen who has been on this show before and perhaps will be again.
Julie Dews [00:02:34]:
Thanks, Jake. We're excited.
Jacob Berg [00:02:36]:
Alright. Thanks. Hey, Richard. Hey. What's in your glass tonight?
Richard Fawal [00:02:40]:
Oh, I am drinking a delicious beer from Other Half, That'll be explained shortly. Super Fun.
Jacob Berg [00:02:49]:
Super fun.
Richard Fawal [00:02:49]:
Super fun. Super fun. Super fun, which is an absolutely delicious, very hoppy, and not too alcoholic beverage from Other Half, which, is good because I've been drinking for hours now. And you're gonna find that out in this episode.
Michael Stein [00:03:06]:
Brau, what are you drinking?
Brandy Holder [00:03:08]:
Well, I'm drinking Nada, and that doesn't mean nothing. It means a delicious stout from Other Half. And not just any stout, it's a near beer stout, which means it is a an almost NA beer. It's pretty much NA, but they can't really market it like that. It's less than 5%. And, you know, I'm a brown beer girl, and it is fooling the hell out of me. I this I'm on my second glass, which should tell you something. It is light crisp. It almost reminds me of, like, an oyster stout with other with a little bit of crispness. It's not overly rich tasting. Like, it's not sweet. It's just it it's very drinkable, almost like a sessionable stout. Mhmm. So very well done Other Half. Thank you for, treating your brown beer queen things. Mike, what are you drinking? I bet it's Other Half beer.
Michael Stein [00:04:02]:
It is anOther Half beer. And before I get going, I just wanna say, Brandy, you're our brown beer girl. Okay. Party's fine.
Brandy Holder [00:04:10]:
Not drinking brandy.
Michael Stein [00:04:11]:
I have here a Motueka Snaps, which is a delightful, Japanese style rice lager, but full of that saturated Motueka goodness. It's like a little crisp, a little laggery, very moreish with other hot profile. But then I have barrel aged cardigans only, a double pastry or imperial stout. And then I also have barrel aged snowbirds 8 2 year reserve, which is just dripping in barrel character. It's full of tannin. It tastes like a rye barrel, an Oloroso barrel, and a Scotch whiskey barrel had a love child, and now I am drinking the drippings of the love child. Jake Berg, what are you getting into?
Jacob Berg [00:04:57]:
Surprisingly, I also have an Other Half beer.
Brandy Holder [00:05:00]:
Right me more.
Jacob Berg [00:05:03]:
Surprisingly, it's an Other Half IPA. Did you know that they make IPAs here?
Richard Fawal [00:05:09]:
Is it is it their thing?
Jacob Berg [00:05:10]:
It is what they're known for. We have here not just regular broccoli, one of their standard double IPAs, but this is triple broccoli, which I guess means more. More alcohol, more malt, and way more hops. There's definitely strata, citra, simco, and something else going on. It doesn't have a big burn to it. And I was probably about 3 hours late and missed, the final keg of, high density hop charged broccoli, which was my one of my favorite beers of So good. Last year.
Richard Fawal [00:05:46]:
So good.
Michael Stein [00:05:47]:
You missed the HDHC, high density half charge, but you've got triple b, triple broccoli, which has Nelson Saven, Mosaic Strata, and Simcoe hops. So it's a a dual country. You know, you've got some hops from down under, and you've got some, Pacific Northwest hops.
Brandy Holder [00:06:06]:
Could I interject and give a big shout out to our sound guy right, the one and only Reese? We love Reese.
Richard Fawal [00:06:14]:
Reese. Yeah.
Brandy Holder [00:06:15]:
Thanks, Reese. And then a extra, extra special shout out for my boo. Say hi.
Jacob Berg [00:06:20]:
Hey, guys.
Brandy Holder [00:06:21]:
It's Matt from Other Half. He is letting us come and record in the brew house of Other Half. So shout out to all the brewers who are who have silenced their music for us for this little short recording. I know we don't wanna interrupt beer making. It smells amazing in here.
Richard Fawal [00:06:38]:
It does.
Brandy Holder [00:06:39]:
I if if I if it wasn't cold, I'd be in here all the time. Indeed. It's quite lovely.
Michael Stein [00:06:44]:
Massive shout out to the magnanimous Other Half manager, Matt Splain. Thank you, Matt, for getting, getting us here live and directing the Brewhouse. You know, we reached out to about half a dozen other breweries, and all of them had something. It was date night. It was brewery deep cleaning, whatever it was. And I'll say that in episode our last episode, 205, this is episode 206. I told you, Brandy, and I told you, Jake, I would bring you some Schoenrammer, some Schoenrammer or Heller beer or Dunkels, and I have decided to donate your Schoenrammer proceeds to mister Splain. So, Matt, enjoy those crisp delightful lagers, some of my favorite absolute favorite lagers, in DC. And while we're talking about Shon Ram, you can get it at Hop Cask and Barrel, where our good friend Jared Prager is our not our newest Patreon member, but one of our newest patrons.
Brandy Holder [00:07:37]:
Hey, Jared.
Richard Fawal [00:07:37]:
Hey, Jared.
Michael Stein [00:07:38]:
Thank you. If you wanna join these wonderful people, our new Patreon members, go to patreon.com/dcbeer.
Richard Fawal [00:07:47]:
I also wanna shout out our other new Patreon member, Adam.
Brandy Holder [00:07:52]:
Yeah. You can do it. Go for it.
Richard Fawal [00:07:53]:
I gotta shout out Adam Frank because Adam Frank is
Brandy Holder [00:07:57]:
hours. About fucking time, Adam. Jesus.
Richard Fawal [00:08:02]:
Adam is our newest Patreon member. And and just as a reminder to everybody, this entire endeavor started with me and Adam making a podcast about beer that was stupid and silly, but it's turned into this wonderful podcast. And so thank you, Adam, for for signing up, and thanks for all you've done, to help sort of make DC beer what it is. Okay.
Jacob Berg [00:08:24]:
That's what
Richard Fawal [00:08:24]:
we're doing tomorrow.
Brandy Holder [00:08:25]:
Stein, it's a very heavy Other Half month because not only are we recording, our first 2025 episode at Other Half with some lovely friends, and we're so happy that Richard is visiting from Tennessee. Hi, Richard.
Richard Fawal [00:08:38]:
Good to be here.
Brandy Holder [00:08:38]:
But, our beer share this month is at Other Half again. We are so jazzed. We're back at Other Half at the end of the month. It's a members only, so shout out to Jared and all of our awesome new folks. So we'll see you, and it there's still time to be a member.
Michael Stein [00:08:53]:
Sign up on Patreon. Tomorrow, we have something happening tomorrow at Port City. Brandy, what's happening tomorrow on Saturday?
Brandy Holder [00:09:03]:
I feel like I'm talking so much. Jake is still here. I promise. Tomorrow is our Women's Brew Culture Club event for the month. It it was this this was, this was on me. My fault. But it was kind of a last minute schedule. As we all know, the holidays are the biggest blur of the year. So, I kinda scheduled this last minute. So we're hoping that we get a good crowd because we usually brau a fantastic crowd in, but we're gonna be over at Port City. We are doing Virginia tomorrow, and I'm very happy to be coordinating with Julia over at Port City. And, I really hope to meet some new Virginia, folks who are interested in joining the Women's Brew Culture Club or even coming to one event. So don't forget it's open to women and nonbinary folks who are just interested in beer nomad matter if you are, a beer aficionado or you're just like, I don't know. Let me try some stuff. You are welcome. So come on. Cheers. See you tomorrow. Port City, I think it's 12 to 2. 12 to 2.
Michael Stein [00:10:04]:
Yeah. Love it.
Jacob Berg [00:10:06]:
Mere hours from now, the day before, that's today, Friday, Lost Nomad is going to be releasing can of their red IPA that I believe is brewed with wild yeast captured in West Africa at DC Brau. So can release other, Lost Nomad did a couple batches at City State last summer. Other kinda went out into very limited distribution around town. They're starting to make a bigger push. Brow does more contract brewing. It's a bigger brau house than City State and so that'll be tonight at Brau in addition to the half price pint flagships that you know and love from Brau. Half right corruption, half price public, great. Also, check out this new brau. The folks are international. They're here and there. I like Brau IPA a lot and so an IPA with wild yeast sounds pretty pretty cool.
Brandy Holder [00:11:05]:
I actually heard that DC Brau has discontinued their barreling. I was told who who told me that? Did you tell me that? Or
Jacob Berg [00:11:13]:
I did. It is, fact check true. They did not release a wake up in the future. Their imperial stout this year, nor did they participate in the battle of the barrel aged beers last fall at Boundary Stone. So they're winding down that barrel age aging program, for this batch of lost nomad beer, they cultured the strain that, the lost nomad crew, Pete Zimmerman et al, picked up in West Africa. They are international, aid workers and diplomats and such, hence other wandering nomad part of the equation. They culture themselves up, some of that yeast, and in it went. So no
Brandy Holder [00:11:58]:
I'm excited to have
Jacob Berg [00:11:59]:
those guys all. No barrels.
Michael Stein [00:12:02]:
As you know, every new beginning comes from another beginning's end. So we may say goodbye to wake up in the future, but we'll say hello to brand new projects like, Lost Nomad and this this new beer we're gonna see from Brau. Super exciting.
Jacob Berg [00:12:19]:
Yeah. We're also gonna say hi, I think, in due time to a new brewery brau on H Street called Henceforth.
Brandy Holder [00:12:27]:
Brick and mortar, where the old school H Street Country Club used to be. What a what a great space.
Michael Stein [00:12:32]:
Yeah. Coming forth in the old H Street Country Club spot. It's really interesting to think about, how far we've come. I'm gonna circle back to Adam and Richard launching a pod, which would eventually become the pod you're listening today, at Hellbender. If memory serves you, the goal was to launch it at 3 stars, but the sounds of production or canning or whatever were too damn loud, and so you went into Hellbender to record.
Richard Fawal [00:13:02]:
Yes.
Michael Stein [00:13:03]:
So again, this cyclical returning, to the DC brau scene. Now, unfortunately, 3 stars and hellbender are out of business, but we've got some a new contract brewer coming out of brau. We know we've got batches of Soul Mega that are also coming out of brow. It's very exciting to see the new things coming.
Richard Fawal [00:13:21]:
And we've got some new like you mentioned, is it Henceforth that's the new h Right? And there's other new brick and mortars opening up.
Brandy Holder [00:13:29]:
I will say Henceforth, the first time I tried their stuff was at an event last year with Jake at Uni Market Dock 5 and henceforth brought a cream ale. And I was like, yes, sir. Bring me the cream ale. It was really good. And it how rare is it that, a, a brewery makes a cream ale, and then, b, makes it well done. Like, they actually do it in the traditional style. And, c, to have this be your first beer off the bat that you're offering to pour at an event. Like, it's It's a strong showing. It is. They they just came out saying, hey, here's here's our cream ale. Everyone's like, what with whiplash, you know.
Jacob Berg [00:14:12]:
No. I just cream ale is a really good brewers beer. I think Kolsch kinda falls into that, as well where like if you're opening with that, you've kind of thrown down and like you've made a declaration of intent. We're like, this is what we're gonna do. At that event, Brandy, they brought 2 sixtles of IPA and 1 sixtal of cream ale, and, they got an introduction to what DC wants, when they kick the sixtal of cream ale before either of those sixtals of the IPA.
Michael Stein [00:14:41]:
Well, maybe cream ale is the magic, hen that will lay the golden egg for henceforth. I certainly hope so. But I know having talked to Ben Evans, owner and, brau at Hellbender along with LT Good luck that their Kolsch and Red, footprint fit twice within their Right IPA footprint. So they were really hoping Kolsch, which, yes, like cream ale is a brewer's beer, would outgrow as as a flagship, but in fact, IPA won even, you know, 11 years into that brewery's life, the IPA sold better than the Kolsch and the Red to the to the score of 2 to 1, if you will. So good to keep in mind, and and, of course, we're very excited to see what Henceforth is doing. What other new projects are we looking forward to in 2025?
Brandy Holder [00:15:27]:
My neighborhood, I think we mentioned it, every episode 9.
Richard Fawal [00:15:32]:
Once or 9 times.
Brandy Holder [00:15:34]:
I I'm especially now that Hellbender is is gone. You know, Urban Gardens should be opening soon. Oh, yes. And, hopefully soon. You know, it's it all depends on build out and permits, and it's always a disaster. You can ask any of our, local beer owners the troubles, the trials and tribulations that they went through. And, actually, my friend over at Sangfrois, hey, Jeff. They just got their official permit and go go forth with, their space.
Michael Stein [00:16:09]:
Wait. Reference Sangfrois
Brandy Holder [00:16:11]:
Sangfrois is a
Michael Stein [00:16:12]:
uneducated ass.
Jacob Berg [00:16:13]:
Sorry. Sangfrois
Brandy Holder [00:16:14]:
Yes. And
Michael Stein [00:16:15]:
and those like me who don't speak French. Sangfrois is a distillery in Hyattsville, Maryland?
Brandy Holder [00:16:19]:
Yes. It's this tiny little pocket. It's right down the street from Streetcar, and nicest guys, cutest little distillery. They make apple brandy, whiskey, super small batch, like, that's smaller than my living room, really. But they have, procured the old bank in Takoma Park. So Takoma Park is gonna have their first distillery, and it's gonna be a huge beautiful space. So congratulations on getting your your go forth. I missed
Julie Dews [00:16:49]:
a bank there.
Brandy Holder [00:16:50]:
I well, so I'm very excited to see where that takes, Saint Phoix and how the people of Takoma Park receive it.
Michael Stein [00:17:00]:
Yeah. Quick, Jake. More recession proper, a bank or a distillery?
Jacob Berg [00:17:04]:
Have you ever seen a run on a distillery?
Michael Stein [00:17:08]:
No. But Richard's only been in town for 1 right, so I don't know.
Jacob Berg [00:17:12]:
No. Kudos to the good people of Takoma Park who don't have nuclear weapons still. Still. Not allowed.
Michael Stein [00:17:18]:
Thanks to the good work, Richard. Thanks for all you've done.
Jacob Berg [00:17:22]:
But they will be having a lovely distillery with some great cocktails.
Brandy Holder [00:17:26]:
I want a brewery to come there. I mean, I want a brewery everywhere, but, you know.
Michael Stein [00:17:31]:
That's really exciting, Brandy, and not too far on the strip there, with Streetcar 82. And then, of course, we have to give a shout out to Pitria Paradiso, fine purveyors of draft beer. I was at the, the original or almost original, DuPont Circle location. Haven't been to Hyattsville in a while. Need to get there because if you read the headlines, draft beer is not doing so hot. Mhmm. And damn it, I won't have my name reflected in this, shrinking of draft beer sales.
Brandy Holder [00:18:03]:
And it's just a hop, skip, and a jump away from Denizen. So go see our our our OG Patreon member. Julie was the number one. She's still my number one. Hey, Julie.
Jacob Berg [00:18:14]:
In fact, if you wanna make a day of it you could go to dcbeer.com and take a look at our beer trails which includes a Hyattsville beer trail. We'll have to move sangfois up to a different one. But we'll also be adding one to Nomad and Ekington when Right Proper opens their 3rd brick and mortar, kind of across the street from Boling Place and Union Kitchen down on the cobblestones Quincy Lane.
Michael Stein [00:18:44]:
Right Proper, Echington. How excited for are we for a brand new Right Proper?
Brandy Holder [00:18:49]:
Like, 3 locations. I'm impressed. Mhmm. With with with so many breweries closing, Right proper is doing something right and that everybody loves because, I mean, 3 locations. That's that's really not anything to, you know No.
Richard Fawal [00:19:03]:
That's fantastic. But I have a question about this location. Is it, like, brewery taproom only or is there a kitchen? Do you know?
Jacob Berg [00:19:11]:
There is going to be a kitchen, and so it's going to be very similar to what is served that right proper shawl. So you'll have, yes. Hopefully, you will see the lamb French dip, the brussels sprouts, some really dope cheese from, Kess.
Brandy Holder [00:19:24]:
Chicken sandwich?
Jacob Berg [00:19:26]:
Yeah. And yes. The the Chick Fil A, one of the better chicken sandwiches in DC. Mhmm. People are really excited about Echington. I'm excited about what's going to happen with Shaw once Echington comes online.
Richard Fawal [00:19:40]:
Sure. Sure.
Jacob Berg [00:19:41]:
Shaw is gonna give itself entirely over to wild, sour, mixed fermentation, weird yeast beer.
Brandy Holder [00:19:49]:
That's kind of smart because if any any of you have been lucky enough to step inside the closet, sized space that is the brewery over there in Shaw, you know that there's not a lot of wiggle room to really do much there. And Josh Chapman has really pumped out some incredible beers. He really is a wizard. And, I know it's not an easy space to brew, but having such a small, operation really is great for sours and so there's no cross contamination. I think that's a brilliant idea.
Michael Stein [00:20:28]:
In the words of some of our favorite people, make it funky one time. And that's exactly what's gonna happen at Shaw. What's gonna happen at Ekington, of course, remains to be seen, but we do know there will be a kitchen there, and they're kind of focusing on Belgo Franco Euro style. From what I can tell, Thor and Leah Cheston had some very memorable meals in Belgium and France, so expect clean lagers, clean, pale ales. When I talked to Josh Chapman about the Brewhouse install, he actually opted for a decoction package. So you can expect some some, you know, really robust lagers. Honestly, we're more excited for the beer, which in today's day and age, we should probably be more excited for the food. However, you won't have to sacrifice either at the new right proper Eppington.
Richard Fawal [00:21:17]:
So what else are you guys looking forward to in DC in 2025?
Jacob Berg [00:21:21]:
Well, we have some late breaking news from the Brau of, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the TTB wing. They say it is now allowable to put high gravity wines and ciders into stovepipe and other large formats. That's a terrible one. So, are you ready to walk into a beer cave at Sheetz or Wawa in Central Pennsylvania and see 19.2 ounces of, like, 11% ABV apples apple cider? Yes. It's it's gonna get real 4 Loko in here before too too long.
Michael Stein [00:21:59]:
If the finger legs weren't lit, they certainly will be now.
Brandy Holder [00:22:03]:
Other the whole, right proper, thing where they they're choosing to brew certain beers in certain locations now that they have that that opportunity to do that, reminds me of kind of how Other Half is doing things. There's so many Other Half locations. Luckily, we have one in DC. It's the only one, further down from, Pennsylvania and New York. But you know, there are certain locations that focus primarily on specific types of beer. Yeah. And I'm I'm a little sad that I think I'm pretty sure that, DC was the lager house, and I think we were we've lost that.
Michael Stein [00:22:42]:
Yes. Don't shed any tears, Brandy, because DC still remains Other Half's largest production facility. So not only are they DC, the district proper's biggest brewer, it's the largest production facility within the Other Half empire, if you will. And, of course, it's nary an empire comparatively to Anheuser Busch InBev owning 26% of the 1,000,000,000 barrel, $1,000,000,000 valuation global beer trade. But to your point, it's interesting to see Other Half, method or style sort of replicated by a local smaller homegrown option, which is right proper. And it's actually a great idea. You know, it's something in in being a student of beer history. It's something that we've seen time and time again. You know, Guinness I was talking to a local, distributor. Guinness is up 20% in the city this year. Right? They have a London brewery. They focused on, different beers in London versus Dublin. With the Maryland brewery, they decided they weren't gonna brau out there. Maybe they vastly overestimated the market for blonde ale. It's fine. We all we all it happens to all of us. Point being, different facilities to produce different types of beer. But we love seeing the organic growth. I can't wait to have not 1, not 2, but 3 right proper locations. We're super excited for henceforth. Can't wait for urban garden to open up. Is there anybody else we're interested in seeing flourish in 2025?
Jacob Berg [00:24:13]:
I would add in Joyhound, Baltimore does not qualify as the DMV to me that to me other DMV kind of stops like at like
Richard Fawal [00:24:22]:
Correct.
Jacob Berg [00:24:22]:
Sappwood, Howard County. Okay.
Michael Stein [00:24:25]:
Closer than Richmond though.
Jacob Berg [00:24:26]:
Yes. Yes. Close closer closer than Richmond, but Alfred from Joyhound has been popping up a bit at, other Penthe in Baltimore's Hamden area and is probably gonna open up his own spot, so a Joyhound spot, and we might see that as soon as late 2025. You know, a lot of brewery brands launch with 1 or 2 beers, and Alfred did not do that. Alfred came out with, like, a fruited hazy IPA, a double IPA, a pale ale, 2 sours, and, like, all of these were contract
Michael Stein [00:25:05]:
I'm here for it.
Jacob Berg [00:25:06]:
Yeah. Oliver, Ailes, other old, like, Pratt Street Ale House over on 895. Oliver Ailes themselves is, I think, going to be moving at some point this year too and so there'll be certainly some contract breweries and brands who might be heading elsewhere. We might see a little bit of a disruption. But yeah, I'd be like I really like how Alfred came out and just said we're gonna you know, we're not just gonna do, like, these two things. Like, I'm gonna treat this contract brewing brau as if it really is a brewery, and here are, like, 6 beers. I hope you like
Michael Stein [00:25:43]:
them. Yeah. You saw the spice cabinet with a lot of contract brewers, salt, pepper, maybe a splash of garlic. Albert said, here's the paprika, here's the cumin, here's the lemongrass. Saffron. Here's the saffron. We're just gonna we're gonna use them all. Well, since
Richard Fawal [00:25:56]:
since we're stepping a little bit outside of DC, I'm gonna sort of wrap up my comments by,
Julie Dews [00:26:03]:
I think I think
Richard Fawal [00:26:04]:
some of you have heard me use the phrase junket in the
Brandy Holder [00:26:07]:
past. Hashtag junket.
Richard Fawal [00:26:10]:
That's the truth.
Brandy Holder [00:26:11]:
Reference an old, episode.
Richard Fawal [00:26:14]:
I'm inviting everyone listening to this podcast and all of my colleagues here at DC Right to come down to East Tennessee for a visit.
Brandy Holder [00:26:24]:
You buying?
Richard Fawal [00:26:25]:
I'm buying. We've got, some fantastic breweries in, I think, sort of an East Tennessee, West, North Carolina, everything from Knoxville to Asheville. Of course, there's great breweries in Asheville. Johnson City to Chattanooga, there are some fantastic breweries to discover. And now that that's my neck of the woods, I'm starting to find more and more of those. So if you wanna come down and check out some of the breweries in, the Appalachian, Other Appalachian part of the country, let me know. Reach out to us at DC Beer on the socials, and, if you're headed that way, going to the Smoky Mountains, hitting up Dollywood, we'll we'll visit some breweries together.
Michael Stein [00:27:08]:
I can't wait to do Dollywood, and I can't wait to hit your local up where we have beers that are under 4%. But then we have 2 22 ounce beers and we actually have over 40 ounces of beer. But it's fine because it's 2.5 ABV.
Richard Fawal [00:27:22]:
I'm just gonna shout shout out Peacefulside Brewery right now. Used to be Blackberry Farm Brewery, turned into Peacefulside. These guys are this is my neighborhood, literally my neighborhood brewery, and I am absolutely blown away by the quality of the beer that they're making other at Peacefulside. There's actually some really exciting stuff coming up that, I might mention on future episodes of the DC Beer Show. But for now, let's let's let's get back to the focus of the great DMV.
Jacob Berg [00:27:49]:
I was gonna say as an added bonus, if you visit Richard, you can get all of the Zuul peanut butter and jelly mix tape. All that
Richard Fawal [00:27:55]:
you want.
Jacob Berg [00:27:56]:
Ever want. Oh, you could ever owe 4.
Michael Stein [00:27:59]:
What's happening in March,
Brandy Holder [00:28:00]:
Brandy? Half already scheduled, other, 2 panels that I'm doing, women in beer panels.
Michael Stein [00:28:06]:
Not 1, but 2?
Brandy Holder [00:28:07]:
Not 1, but 2 this year. We're doing our traditional Other Half women in craft beverage panel here at Other Half again like we do. That's gonna be on Thursday 20th March, and then I'm doing one over at Lost Generation with Anne on other 4th March. So we have one at the beginning of the month and one at the end. So you have no excuses.
Michael Stein [00:28:31]:
That's so exciting. I'm so mad at myself, for not being able to see Latrice Harris, aka the beauty godmother. I lost Jen. And now I have to, you know, make up for that and come see you and the palace, more importantly. Yeah. More equal of equal import
Brandy Holder [00:28:48]:
Thank you.
Michael Stein [00:28:49]:
Shall we say.
Brandy Holder [00:28:49]:
Thank you, Stein.
Jacob Berg [00:28:51]:
I have 2 more say the dates before that, and they are back to back in February.
Brandy Holder [00:28:56]:
Oh, love thy beer
Jacob Berg [00:28:57]:
Yes.
Brandy Holder [00:28:58]:
Is back.
Jacob Berg [00:28:58]:
Love thy beer. Slam. Yeah. At the Civic Center in Silver Spring, metro accessible, ice skating right outside, love thy beer.
Brandy Holder [00:29:07]:
I love that event.
Jacob Berg [00:29:08]:
Yeah. Yeah. Good music.
Richard Fawal [00:29:09]:
Love thy beer.
Jacob Berg [00:29:10]:
Splain food, love thy food, love thy events, love thy beer. That is Friday 7th. Day after that, Saturday, 2 to 5 at Metro Brau. Black breweries of the DMV at Metro Brau. DCV will be Dmv will be there as well. You might see Alfred from Joyhound. You might see Emani from Urban Garden. It should be a really good time.
Brandy Holder [00:29:38]:
You'll definitely see our
Michael Stein [00:29:39]:
people's liquid intrusion. And Brandy Holder, though.
Jacob Berg [00:29:42]:
You absolutely will, and you might see Jacob Berg and Brandy Holder pouring the other not sorry. The right proper Latrice Harris Oh. Women's brew culture club and DC beer collab, Corner Chip.
Michael Stein [00:29:57]:
Now that's a beer. And all of our listenership needs to try.
Richard Fawal [00:30:00]:
I might be back for that.
Brandy Holder [00:30:01]:
You should.
Richard Fawal [00:30:02]:
Yeah. I might be back for that. It's gonna
Brandy Holder [00:30:03]:
be a it's good weekend apparently. I'll be there. I want to wrap up by saying thank you again to everybody who listens to us. I know it may not be easy sometimes, but, hopefully, it's enjoyable most of the time. And happy 2025. I'm looking forward to seeing, more styles of beer come to the forefront, more like creme ills, like we were just talking about. And I want more sessionable IPAs. I'd love to see more West Coast, for me personally and, you know, like some fun za'atar beer. Like, give me some give me I love some za'atar tops. Yeah. So, I'm I I that's my projected, goals and wishes for 2025 as far as beer goes. And to see no more breweries closed this year because fuck that.
Michael Stein [00:30:59]:
I'll drink to that. No more brewery closures this year, but also drink to being or bringing forth the change you wanna see, you know, our corner check, right proper, beer you got another collab was hopped with Czech Zotz. So here's to no more brewery closures and lots more Czech Zotz hopped. Jake, Richard, final comments. What are we looking at?
Richard Fawal [00:31:21]:
Just wanted to say one more big shout out to Other Half for allowing us to come in here. Thank you, Matt Splain, for hosting us for this, first episode of 2025 and letting us do this in person. It's great to be here with you guys.
Jacob Berg [00:31:36]:
We also wanna shout out our good friend and colleague, Jordan Harvey. We're recording this Wednesday at Other Half, which means Jordan is across the way. Beers joyhound the way is across the way hosting Wednesday trivia. He'll be doing a special DC beer beer version of trivia on Wednesday 22nd, but he's here every Wednesday. Jordan, we saw you couldn't be here in the Brewhouse, but we're glad to see you there doing trivia. You've got a good crowd. Alright. DC beer is a community, 1st and foremost. We're gonna need a lot of that over the next year, maybe the next 4 years. Oh. Blink. Blink. Dcbeer.com.patreon.com/dcbeer. Please stay warm and tip big. Thank you.
Brandy Holder [00:32:23]:
Cheers.
Richard Fawal [00:32:23]:
Cheers.
Michael Stein [00:32:24]:
See you in 2025.