Drink
Fate Brewing Company floats a summer special
Summer is officially upon us, marking three months of kicking back, maxing and relaxing all cool with a nice cold beer in hand...
Trading a desk job for one in the vineyards
Finding Shane Finley was easy.
Via email, we planned to meet for lunch at Bourbon Steak in Washington, D.C., a restaurant that’s housed at the...
Betting on millennials
When I was in college, we drank beer. When my sons were in college, they drank draft beer. But when my granddaughter was in...
Tour de brew: Fate Brewing Company
I don’t know when the word “accessible” became a dirty word, but read any movie/music/book review and it always seems like a slight. The snoots...
Pumpkin beer is here
Pumpkin ales are as highly anticipated as any seasonal beer, neck-and-neck with Christmas ales...
Tempting FATE
In the nearly two years since FATE Brewing has been open and brewing they have garnered numerous accolades, including being named one of 10 New Breweries to Watch by Bon Appétit in 2014, and winning a gold medal for their Laimas Kölsch Style Ale at this year’s Great ...
Farewell, Planet Porter
This week’s column will say goodbye to BW beer writer Steve Weishampel, who has moved on to Chicago, presumably to take his beer writing career to the next level by joining the SNL Superfans, or if that doesn’t work out, stalking Oprah...
With wine, endless treasures await
On January 12, 2007, one of the world’s greatest violin players set up shop in the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station in Washington, D.C. Wearing...
Tour de brew: Shine Brewing Co.
Science is a beautiful thing. It has taken us to the moon and back, found cures for all sorts of diseases and connected every...
















