In the past year and change two microbreweries have popped up in DC area, DC Brau and
Port City Brewery. A few (ok several) weeks ago we made it to Port City in Alexandria, VA. For $7 you get to sample all 5 beers on draft, a tour and keep your tasting glass. The tasting room is fairly spacious and includes a mini-museum of beer history artifacts. The day were there there we tried the Essential Pale Ale, Monumental IPA, Optimal Wit, Tartan and Porter. The Porter and Optimal Wit are my favorites.
While touring the process we heard about the Revival and Oyster Stout that I need to track down and try. We also did the equivalent of barrel tasting and tested some unfinished beer, not sure its quite as good as barrel tasting wine. Unlike wineries with in 4-6 beginning to brew a brewery can produce their first beer; in the case of Port City they opened in early January 2011 and had their first brew ready for the Super Bowl in early February 2011. In my humble opinion, microbreweries make the best beer and one should always drink locally so if you're out and find Port City on draft I suggest trying it out, you won't be disappointed.
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| Malt is key for brewing. |
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| You can't have beer without hops either. |
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| The finished product ready to be served a fine local establishments! |
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