The D.C. area is beefing up its credentials as a craft beer vacation spot, with breweries pouring ales and lagers at taprooms all through the District correct and within the surrounding suburbs. Pioneers like DC Brau and Port Metropolis Brewing have been at it for a decade or extra and at the moment are family names within the District. Beer lovers throughout the area can expertise excursions and tastings at full-scale manufacturing warehouses, sip a flight or a pint at a neighborhood pub, or seize a wonderful taco or burger from a pop-up meals truck parked on-site.
D.C.’s booming beer market solely continues to develop, with Brookland-born stalwart Proper Correct Brewing Co. gearing as much as open a 3rd location. Final 12 months, Atlas Brew Works expanded throughout the Potomac to Alexandria, and Aslin Beer Co. arrange store down in Virginia Seashore. And this summer time, Commonwealth Brewing Co. opens a second taproom and facility in Previous City Fairfax.
D.C. misplaced two favorites since we final up to date this map final fall: Hellbender Brewing Firm shut down in late 2024, and Metropolis-State, Edgewood’s bold beer startup since 2021, ceased manufacturing this 12 months. And Previous Ox Brewery closed out in Loudoun County this spring.
Listed here are 18 important breweries for native beer followers. —Extra reporting by Travis Mitchell.
Tierney Plumb is an Editor of Eater’s Northeast area, protecting restaurant information in D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. She was beforehand the editor of Eater DC since 2022.
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