The nation’s capital is again at the center of the craft beer universe this weekend, as SAVOR 2015 takes over the National Building Museum.
Hundreds packed the venue Friday night — and hundreds more will do the same Saturday — to sample offerings from breweries as far away as Hawaii.
As for the health of local craft brewing, Bill Butcher, owner of Port City Brewing in Alexandria, tells us: “The state of craft beer is very, very good in the D.C. area. Things seem to just get better and better. We got more breweries opening, we got more people interested in craft beer and it just seems to keep building a head of steam and it just keeps growing.”
One of the newer breweries in the area, also represented at SAVOR this weekend, is Right Proper Brewing Company in D.C.
“We’ve had a lot of success so far,” says Nathan Zeender, Right Proper’s head brewer. “So, we’re building out a production brewery in my home neighborhood of Brookland in Northeast. We’ll be distributing our beer, we’ll make about seven or eight times as much as we make now. That should be open by the end of the year, hopefully.”
SAVOR, which is put on by the Brewers Association, also features food pairings (an IPA is suggested to wash down Fluke Crudo with Jalapeno and Curry Oil, for example).
And, like last night, the event is sold out tonight.
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