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Friday, June 5, 2009
June fundraiser on Capitol Hill!
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Friday, May 15, 2009
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1100 New York Ave NW
Washington DC, 20005
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Last year, the inaugural SAVOR was a huge success. This year, the festival is going to be even bigger and better. Capitol City Brewing Company wants to help kick off the weekend with a bang by inviting all SAVOR participants to join us at our Downtown location for an evening of delicious food and hand-crafted beers.
For the whopping price of absolutely nothing, Cap City will be offering a variety of tasty appetizers in addition to pouring 10 different brews including but not limited to our Capitol Kolsch, Amber Waves Ale, Pale Rider Ale, Organic Saison, and Nut Brown Ale.
Be sure not to miss this great opportunity to talk shop with industry colleagues and beer aficionados! For more information about the event, please email any questions to brewer@capcitybrew.com, or call us at (703) 578-3888. See you there!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Come Join us this Friday for the Ales and Tails Tapping Party!
"A Dog is the Only Thing in the World that Loves You more than he Loves Himself."
-Josh Billings
Hello Fellow Animal Lovers!
Come join us this Friday at our Shirlington location for an Ales and Tails Tapping Party! Brewers Travis and John will be on hand pouring $2.00 cask pints of our new Red Ale and Dry Stout. Both brewed in the Irish tradition, the red is a moderately hopped beer with slightly sweet toasted biscuit notes while the Stout coats the pallet with its full body and roasty flavor. We'll tap the casks at 5:00 pm on the dot and won't stop pouring 'til they run dry.
Instead of tips, the brewers will be encouraging and collecting donations for the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. At the end of the night, all donations will be matched dollar for dollar by Capitol City Brewing Company. So come on down for what should be a doggone (sorry, couldn't help myself) good time full of tasty beer all for a great cause!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
"Victory is an Illusion of Philosophers and Fools"
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Belgian Chocolate and Biere de Garde!
Howdy Cap City Fans!
We hope you're doing well and settling into the new year with a sense of ease and relaxation. If you live in the metro area and stayed in town for the month of January, you're probably suffering from at least one of two things; a terrible towel hangover, or post-inauguration depression. To be honest, the thought of Jay-Z and P. Diddy swapping high fives with our new Prez is pretty cool, but it's over now and we must come to terms with Beyoncé going back to L.A. and Pittsburghers talking incessantly about bleeding black and gold.
If this all sounds a bit too overwhelming and you're having trouble finding your happy new year, Cap City has brewed several winter delicacies worthy of any exhausted Washingtonian.
First up, our Belgian Chocolate Ale is a perfect Valentine's Day pint. Brewed with kilned coffee malt, cocoa beans, and cocoa shells, this medium bodied ale rolls in at 4.8% abv, making it a very quaffable dark ale.
Our French style Biere de Garde (beer for storage) is an unfiltered, copper colored ale brewed with black pepper and fresh ginger. Full bodied with a fruity aroma and a light spicy flavor, BDG is a fun yearly seasonal at Cap City. This French ale is 8% abv and served in 10oz goblets at our Shirlington and 11th & H street locations.
Later this spring we'll brew the voluptuous Double D, our ever popular ramped-up version of our Amber Waves, and in April we'll celebrate the annual Cherry Blossom Festival with an amber-colored, medium-bodied ale brewed with sweet cherries.
CASKS IN REVIEW
Like the sloth falling from its steady perch, our cask ales were slow to pour, but recently experienced a surge in popularity, due in large part to cask master James's flirtatious creations and an unheard of commitment to self-discipline and brewhouse spirituality. In the midst of combining the pieces and parts used to create a cask, James often refrains from talking or acknowledging those around him. "Casking," as James calls it, "is an exercise in relaxation and meditation. A true cask is always greater than the sum of its parts," he confides. "And to do this, I must got to my happy place..."
We call it, "The cask zone," says head brewer Mike McCarthy. "To be honest, it's a little weird, but we deal with a lot of unique personalities here, and it could be much worse."
Currently on cask, Ginger Beer! A light ale with 1/2lb of fresh ginger to impart that sentimental ginger ale freshness. After the ginger kicks, we'll have a Porter Molé, casked with cocoa powder, molasses, and chiles. Down the road, we'll try the currently conditioning Cherry Belgian Black.
News from Capitol Hill Capitol City
Head brewer Ryan Curley is recouping from the Inauguration craziness and is preparing the release of two specialty beers. The first is a longtime favorite, Hefeweizen. A German wheat ale that is fermented with a traditional Hefe yeast which produces a great combination of banana and clove flavors, this beer is served unfiltered and lemon wedges are traditionally not used to garnish the glass in Germany, so we choose not to either. The second is a mellow English Pale Ale, or ESB. This version uses Pale malt as the base along with Munich, Aromatic and a tiny percentage of dark malts to produce a nice light/medium body, orange in color ale. The addition of the English hop, Fuggle, adds a nice earthiness to this already smooth and delicate classic.
CASK NIGHT IS BACK!
On February 19th, starting at 4pm, Ryan will be pouring his ESB at the bar. So stop by and grab a pint or three and be ready to challenge him to a freestyle rap off/beer chug! See you there, and remember…most people check there closet for the boogeyman, the boogeyman checks his closet for Chuck Norris and Ryan Curley!!
Cheers,
Capitol City Brewers
Monday, January 12, 2009
InaugurAle!
Other notable tappings include our deliciously hoppy IPA. A year of conservative hop usage and the outcries of numerous hop-heads has led to one thing, an unfiltered, dry-hopped ale with a citrus aroma and flavor that will redefine your palate for this popular beer style. Dancing next to 7%abv and 68IBU's, our IPA is reckless and yet right on, and most importantly, on tap at our Shirlington and Downtown location.
If you find our seasonals as seductive as we do, make sure to try the Fuel (Imperial Coffee Stout) and our GABF gold medal winning Honey Lager before you leave town for the weekend. In other news, our psychic Head Brewer Mike McCarthy has looked into the future of the brewery and, in a moment of clairvoyance, predicted the arrival of an organic Saison, the return of the Bier de Garde, and the creation of a Belgian Black Ale.
The Belgian Black will be available just before Valentines Day and feature a daring combination of kilned coffee, cocoa mulch, cocoa nibs, and chocolate malt. Brewed with Rochefort yeast on loan from Geoff Lively at Rock Bottom, Bethesda, this beer should intrigue the amateur and the connoisseur alike. For long time Cap City customers, the Saison will be reminiscent of previous batches, only this round we'll be using all organic ingredients. A nicely aged, French farm-house style ale, this dry, effervescent brew will have a light fruit aroma and flavor which becomes more pronounces over time. Our Biere de Garde, or "Storage Beer," is brewed with peppercorns and crystallized ginger to impart an herbal spiciness to this roughly 7% ale.
Let us know of any beer related thoughts or musings at brewer@capcitybrew.com. Otherwise, we'll look forward to seeing you next week!
Cheers,
Capitol City Brewers
Monday, December 8, 2008
Holidays and Beers!
Next, the InaugurAle is pouring at all three locations and will be on tap through the inauguration. This light, dry-hopped pale ale is closely related to our Election Ale, with the addition of a bit of honey during the whirlpool to lend a hint of sweetness in the nose. We hope you'll join us to celebrate the inauguration of the 44th President with this festive and highly quaffable ale. Commemorative InaugurAle Pint glasses will be on sale at all locations-$5.00 empty or $8.00 filled with beer.
Cask Maestro James is hard at work fine tuning the dark art of natural carbonation and charming us with his winter cask creations. Most recently, a Mint-Chocolate Porter received intrigue and approval from many guests, while an upcoming GingerBread Cask Ale pushes the limits of excessive cuteness. A proprietary blend of molasses, ginger, cloves, and cinnamon were dissolved to prime the work in progress. A student and budding teacher of real ale techniques, James has endured severe criticism and public disapproval for what an anonymous source called, "A myopic view of brewhouse priorities." Much maligned and never satisfied, James continues to work hard.
Head Brewer Mike McCarthy has created an exciting schedule for upcoming beers for Capitol City. At the top of the list is a disturbingly smooth Belgian Trippel arriving at 8.5%ABV. Unfiltered and the color of a setting sun, this beer will warm the spirit and soothe the soul. Hop Heads rejoice! A double IPA is in the not too distant future for the Shirlington and 11th and H Street locations. Coming in at 7%, this beer will include a heavy hop schedule during the boil, as well as the use of dry hops and hop oils to impart a rich, floral aroma and flavor.
Resuscitating his deep passion for Belgian ales, the currently available Dubbel and upcoming Trippel are warmup laps for a marathon of unique ales; to include a Belgian Black brewed with real Cacao just in time for Valentine's day, a well-seasoned French farmhouse-style Saison for late spring, and a masterfully crafted low-alchohol Belgian table beer. If you too have found yourself similarly aroused by the rustic beverages of peasants from18th century continental Europe, check back for news of a Belgian themed beer dinner hosted by Head Brewer Mike and the Chef de Cuisine at the Postal Square location.
In other news fit to print, Shirlington has just procured ten NTN trivia terminals to enhance any dining and beer sampling experience. We'll most likely organize a dedicated trivia night, but until then, ask your friendly server about a keypad and enjoy.
Ryan, Head Brewer at the Postal Square location is organizing a cask night and showcasing some of his latest creations, so check the website to see what's pouring. Wednesdays will be dedicated to cask ale at Postal Square and Ryan will perform his classic sketch comedy routine while he pours.
Cheers
Capitol City Brewers