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WTOP Wolfe has been leading the beer and yoga classes at Capitol City for five months and hosts similar events at DC Brau, Mad Fox Brewing Company and Oby Lee, an Arlington wine bar. “I just noticed that there's a synergy between yoga people and craft beer ...

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Pictured, packed for moving: a nearly thirty-year-collected library of books-on-beer. I couldn't bring myself to write, "curated."

Northern Virginia. 16 November 2015.

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As if you couldn't deduce the one box's label, see the unexpurgated version: here.

In defense of that one solitary box of music, there are many boxes, already in storage, containing over 6,000 LPs and 3,000 CDs. And, digitally, many: FLAC and mp3. Bird lives.

Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, usually posted on Saturdays, and often, but not always, with a good fermentable as a subject.

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Roundstone Rye was highlighted as a whisky for the "whiskey snob" on your list. For sure pick some up for your favorite snob, and grab a bottle for yourself too!

Catoctin Creek has become an institution in the small town of Purcellville, Va., where the distillery holds a place of honor on the town's main street. But the company's flagship Roundstone Rye is taking off way beyond its small-town roots.

Read the full story, and see the other spirits on their list, here.

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Hello, Everyone! We hope everyone’s enjoying time with your families, significant others, friends, colleagues and anyone else special to you and yours. We sure are. We’d like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation for and to all of our supporters over the years. This past year, particularly, has been an exciting time for us. […]

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Daily Press The city of Hampton owns the building at 504 North King Street, which formerly belonged to the Virginia National Guard. (Jonathon ... 17, the city issued a request for proposals from developers who could preserve the historic integrity of the 79-year ...

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Honored to be included in The Virginia Table, a project of Early Mountain Vineyards and Our Local Commons. Here's a sneak peak, but you should get your own copy in our tasting room! It's really beautiful.

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Hello, Everyone.  Welcome to our second update of our rebranding and redesigning initiative (please feel free to check out our first update, as well).  We’re excited to report we’ve made significant progress over the last few weeks and hope to reveal our new website in the next week or so.  The new website is just […]

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Today: a photo only a cask-ale partisan could love.

These two firkins (10.8 gallon casks) definitely have seen some use over the years: beat up on the outside but pristinely clean on the inside. The proof of the latter was the beer inside the firkins, brewed and conditioned by the Oliver Brewing Company (in Baltimore, Maryland). Delightful, full-flavored, bright, gently, naturally carbonated, and traditional: devoid of extraneous, 'non-beer' ingredients.

As seen before a cask ale festival began, at ... Mad Fox Brewing Company Falls Church, Virginia. 7 November 2015.

Contents tasted later.

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After years of creating cask ales (and fizzier beers) in a tiny subterranean brewery in the Pratt Street Alehouse brewpub in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, Oliver Brewing Company moved its brewing operations into a more spacious, new production facility during the summer of 2015. The Pratt Street Alehouse, where it all began in 1993 (then known as the Wharf Rat), remains open (just no longer brewing). By virtue of attrition and success, Oliver Brewing is the oldest, continuously operating brewery in Maryland.

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