Loudoun County Beer and Dulles South Beer

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.

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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

Beer Stores

• 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

Beer Sites

• Dulles South Beer, of course
• Loudoun Restaurant and Beer Reviews
• Mid-Atlantic Brewing News
• Real Beer
• Topix Beer News

That's it for now, time for a Leinenkugel. Send us more info, reviews and pictures; we'll post 'em all.

(Thanks to Leesburg Tomorrow)