Washington, D.C. is a pretty good beer town. There’s a bunch of brewpubs in town, a slew more brewpubs and craft breweries in the surrounding ‘burbs, and awesome beer bars like The Brickskeller, ChurchKey, The Black Squirrel and others.

Apparently, though, there hasn’t been a brewery kegging or bottling in the District since the 50s.

That’s about to change, though. According to the “All We Can Eat” blog of the Washington Post, a bunch of honest-to-goodness breweries are looking to open within the next couple of years in the District and surrounding suburbs.

DC’s Impending Beer Boom

The Black Squirrel Brewing Co., an offshoot of the similarly named Adams Morgan bar, is “probably a two-year project,” admits Hollie Stephenson, the Black Squirrel’s bar manager and brewer-to-be. Stephenson spent last October studying at the Brewlab beer school in Sunderland, England. She’ll practice on a half-barrel Sabco Brew-Magic system in a warehouse in DC’s Brookland neighborhood, brewing Americanized versions of such classic English styles as pale, IPA, porter and stout.

I guess we haven’t yet reached a saturation point for breweries. I’m quite happy with all of the choices I have available to me that are within a 100-mile radius, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be happy with a few more.

(via Knut)