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DC's Beer Country: Loudoun County!
Visit the premier beer-tasting and sampling festival in Northern Virginia!
The Northern Virginia Fall BrewFest "A World Beer Experience" will be held at Bull Run Regional Park in
Centreville, VA, from 11am-7pm Saturday,
and 11am-7pm Sunday, Oct. 24-25th 2009. The BrewFest will feature over 40 of America's and the World's best breweries - including Loudoun's own Vintage 50 Restaurant and Brew Lounge, a variety of food to complement the craft beers and great
local and regional bands to enterain you.
Admission tickets for the BrewFest purchased on the day of the event will be $25 for a
sampling ticket. Admission tickets are available prior to the opening of the event for $20 through our online provider and are available
now!
While there's not a very good selection of craft-beer, microbrews and other delicious choices for beer aficionados in the heart of the Dulles South region (i.e. South Riding, Stone Ridge, Chantilly, Arcola and Brambleton), there's a few options to be found, along with some very good regional Loudoun County beer destinations.
Looking for
Virginia Wine and Loudoun Vineyard information?
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DC's Wine Country - Visit Loudoun
Why this page?
Simple - we like beer, a lot, and pretty much everyone we know does as well. Though there seems to be 3 primary camps of Loudoun beer consumers:
- Real Beer Drinkers (RBD's - you know who you are, and who isn't)
- Beer Appreciators (BA's - can readily drink a Bud as easily as a DogFish, but actually likes the Bud)
- Beer Drinking Posers (BDP - don't know or care what Real Beer is (though some think Corona is) - every gas station caters to them)
Here, therefore, are sources of beer for Dulles South residents to buy and/or drink, for RBD's, and the occasional BA. (Note we'll be adding more info and links in between some more beers.)
Breweries
- Old Dominion, Ashburn - Really decent beers, especially Tupper's Hop Pocket, but they're going to soon stop brewing that
- Sweetwater Tavern(s), Sterling - Good seasonal beers, good food, nice people (also over in Centreville)
- Vintage 50, Leesburg - haven't been, yet - though sounds fantastic
- Gordon Biersch, Tysons Corner, Mclean - Excellent seasonal selection, though it's in a Mall
Good Beer in Restaurants (just a starter list, send us more!)
- Fireworks Pizza, Leesburg
- Tuscarora Mill, Leesburg
- Magnolias at the Mill, Purcellville
- Dogfish Head Alehouse, Falls Church (Seven Corners)
- Hard Times Chili Restaurant, in Herndon
- Firkin & Hound, South Riding
- Total Beverage, Greenbriar (Rt. 50 near Fairfax County Parkway) - a Beer Mecca, worthly of a monthly stock run
- All Giants - reasonable selection of more popular microbrews, in emergencies
- All Blooms - actually a little better than Giant, in selection, some unique titles here and there
- Wegman's - has a few very unique, expensive titles - but actually the selection isn't much better than Bloom's
- Harris Teeter - good enough for a typical weekend, once your Total Beverage cache has run out
- Costco's - sometimes, a decent label by the case, but mostly you'll have to settle for Sam's
- Dulles South Beer, of course
- Loudoun Restaurant and Beer Reviews
- Mid-Atlantic Brewing News
- Real Beer
- Topix Beer News
(Thanks to Leesburg Tomorrow)