About The DC Beer Guide

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Welcome to the latest release of the Washington, DC Metro Area Beer Guide. We are in the process of converting it to a WiKi to allow it to be more easily kept up-to-date. There is still much work to be done so if you want to help, please send an email to the admins at this site!

Our purpose is to provide residents and visitors of the Washington, DC metro area with an overview of local places to buy and drink beer. The goal is not to provide extensive reviews - there are many other sites that offer such, but give enough facts to allow readers to find places they think they might like to visit. This site is the collected knowlege of many people. If you'd like to be one of them, if you see something out of place here, just volunteer to help out!

The DC Beer and Brewing community is, despite the ever increasing population of this ever expanding metro area, still a fairly close group. People tend to know the other people in the community. We are aiming to provide a service to this community, as DC-Beer the mailing list has over the years. We are not doing this for any financial gain. This guide is a volunteer effort.

Acknowledgements

This document was originally created in the early 1990s in ASCII form due to numerous requests for information about beer establishments in the Washington, DC area on the newsgroup alt.beer. After it was finished, the DC-Beer administrator, Dan Brown, asked about placing it on his Web site. Before doing so, many additions and edits were made by various members of that group. The file grew to the point that it became difficult to maintain as an ASCII file and yet there were many useful pieces of information that were missing.

Around 1995, Thomas Aylesworth started the process of converting it to HTML, and, along the way, updated it to include more information about each establishment listed. He was helped immensely by many others, including the entire DC-Beer group. Some individuals deserve to be thanked by name, including:

Everyone who contributed to the original ASCII version, including Tim Artz, Dan Brown, Jim Busch, Keith Chamberlin, John DeCarlo, Samer Farha, Charlie Gow, Margaret Hyland, Bob Kosman, Lynne Ragazzini, Mark A. Stevens, and others.

Everyone who responded to requests for information regarding the updating of this list, including Bob Ambrose, Tim Artz, Jim Busch, Wayne Casey, Keith Chamberlin, Samer Farha, Charlie Gow, Margaret Hyland, Joe Keenan, Rich Kleinfeldt, Doug Kruth, Ron Lear, Randy Paul, Lynne Ragazzini, Dr. Peter Simpson, Alison Skeel, Mark Stevens, Volker Stewart, Bill Vincent, Wesman, Gregg Wiggins, David S. French, and Greg Thompson.

Mark A. Stevens, who maintains The Baltimore Beer Guide, for suggestions, tips, and for faxing a copy of [brewpubs.html#wr The Wharf Rat]'s beer menu.

Dan Brown, Lynne Ragazzini and Lynn Ashley for providing information and for maintaining DC-Beer, a wonderful forum without which we would never have been able to collect this information.

Philip DiFalco for the [pix/capcity.gif Capitol City Brewing Company] graphic.

Samer Farha for GIFs, services, ideas, and moral support.

Bill Walsh for correcting the information on the hours that the city of Washington allows beer sales.

If you contributed to this, and your name has been inadvertently left out, please accept our apologies!

Copyright

This document is copyright 1995-2005 by Thomas H. Aylesworth, Samer Farha, and others. All Rights Reserved. It may be distributed in its entirety without charge so long as this copyright notice is not removed. It may not be sold for profit nor incorporated into commercial products without the author's express written permission.