The Birch & Barley is now open at 1337 14th St., NW Washington D.C. The upstairs is called ChurchKey. They have hundreds of bottled beers and … what? FIVE cask beers on all the time. I could go on but with that many hand pumps do you really need any other reason to go there?
Well, okay, here’s one more: they have a beer organ.
The "Beer Organ" dispenses some 50 draft beers.
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Last Saturday I helped organize the first, and what will now be annual, Takoma Foundation Organic Beer Tasting fundraiser.
We had organic beers on tap from Gordon Biersch and Capitol City Brewing, and more in bottles from Wolaver’s. Everything was gone by the end of the event. Organizers say about 150 people attended, which means after you add in the sponsorships, the event raised over $6,000 for local community projects.
Next year I’m looking forward to inviting a couple other local brewers to make organic beers for the event. I’d like to get Rock Bottom and Flying Dog involved. And we might have one or two new local brewpubs in operation by then so I’d like to get them to brew organic for this too. Of course, my secret hope is that they will brew organic once and then be convinced to make organic beers all the time!
Here’s more coverage from the Gazette.
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Busboys and Poets – $10 for tastings of 5 organic beers!
Join me Friday night at the Busboys and Poets in Shirlington, VA for an organic beer tasting and book signing.
The event will feature tastings of five organic beers for a measly $10! Here’s the lineup:
The event starts at 6pm, this Friday, at Busboys and Poets in Shirlington. All the details are right here.
Make a night of it and stop right down the street afterwards and have an organic Trippel at Capitol City Brewering. Which leads me to the second event…
Organic Beer Mini-Festival/Fundraiser
Drink great one-of-a-kind organic beers and raise money for the Takoma Foundation. This Saturday, 4-7pm at the Cady Lee historic mansion right next to the Takoma Metro Station; tickets are $35 (and tax-deductible) and include unlimited samples of four organic beers, hors d’ouvre from the Olive Lounge and lots of homemade snacks!
The beer lineup includes:
Mike McCarthy, head of brewing operations at Cap City, will be on hand to discuss his new line of seasonal organic beers. And, as usual, I’ll be talking about beer and sustainability and hawking copies of Fermenting Revolution. Plus live bluegrass, Irish and jazz provided by the Kinsmen. All proceeds support the Takoma Foundation’s community development grants.
All the details are right here. This is going to be awesome.
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I’m a little late in sharing this news, but you still have five days left to enjoy Baltimore Beer Week.
The event list is far too long to recap here — there are literally hundreds of events. So click here to get all the beery details.
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Getting ready for day two of our Bamberg brewery tour this morning, I snapped the below photos. Two of the dozen or so townhomes in our bed and breakfast complex have “green roofs” on top of their garden sheds. American University (AU), where I now work, also has a fairly large green roof on the Media Production Center (click on ‘celebrate nature’). And I know New Belgium has a green roof on their wastewater treatment plant.
Anyone know of any other university or brewery green roofs? I’m hoping to have a feasibility study conducted at AU to see whether any of our other buildings can support a green roof.
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Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World
by Chris O'Brien
(New Society Publishers, 2006)
