FAIRFAX: Black Squirrel Dunn Loring Takes DC Beer Week to Virginia - Beer/Ice Cream! Sour Beer/Cheese! Comic Books! Cosplay! - You Only Get That at Black Squirrel - Starts August 21st

The Black Squirrel has participated in D.C. Beer week since it began in 2008. This year, we're bringing a little D.C. Beer Week swagger to Virginia by sponsoring our annual Women in Beer event on Monday, August 21st, as part of DCBW educational series at our Virginia location in Dunn Loring. The Dunn Loring Black Squirrel also will host a sour beer and cheese pairing event on Thursday, August 24th, and a comic book swap/cosplay/gaming event with Heroic Aleworks on Friday, August 25th.

The Black Squirrel, Dunn Loring

DC Beer Week #DCBW2017 in Virginia

MONDAY, AUGUST 21st, Starting at 6 p.m.
Virginia Women in Beer at The Black Squirrel, Dunn Loring #DCBW2017 in Virginia

Attention, Hop Queens: Women can’t live on beer alone. We scream for ice cream! Peach ice cream, salted caramel and Applewood-smoked bacon ice cream, smoked chocolate ice cream...

Combine beer and ice cream in proper fashion – with the help of the experts – and ascend to palate heaven. Allow the women of craft beer to be your sensory guides on Monday, Aug. 21st, starting at 6p.m. at the Black Squirrel In Dunn Loring Virginia, where we will delve into the scrumptious world of ice cream and beer.

Your sensory guides for the evening will be:

• Dr. Allison Lange, Head Brewer at Old Ox Brewing
• Bridgette Turner, Lead Brewer at Solace Brewing
• Lashelle Davis, Quattro Goomba's Brewery
• Caitlin Rossi, General Manager of Adroit Theory Brewing
• Chrystalle Ball, DMV Girls Pint Out chapter head
• Amy Bowman, owner of the Black Squirrel

Doors open at 6 p.m. with a one-hour happy hour and promotional prices on featured beer. Food pairings begin at 7 p.m. Beers will be sold a la carte; ice cream is complimentary.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24th, starting at 5 p.m.
Sour and Devour: A Sour Beer and Cheese Pairing at The Black Squirrel, Dunn Loring #DCBW2017 in Virginia

Let’s embrace the wild side of sour and cheese pairings at The Black Squirrel in Dunn Loring on Thursday, August 24th, starting at 5 p.m.

A rich, dry, fruity and even funky beer and a cheese plate are a natural match. When it comes to pairing cheese with sour and wild beer, the principal axiom is: The smellier the better. Add local creameries, like Stuarts Draft, Greenhill Farms, and Firefly Farms, and you've got a hit/

Sour beer is produced in a number of ways: by kettle-souring a beer with lactic acid bacteria to create a kettle-soured beer, gose, or Berliner Weiss. A traditional sour is created by mixed fermentation of wild yeast and aged in wood barrels. This event will explore these types of sour beer.

The beer includes:

• Trinity Brewing Red Swingline Wild IPA (DRAFT Magazine's Top 25 Beers in the World for 2013. Brewed with three heavily fruity hops, coriander, and tangerine zest. Aged in French Oak Chardonnay barrels with souring Lactobacillus, funky Brettanomyces yeast, and dry-hopped in each individual barrel.)
• Trinity Brewing TPS Report Wild Brettanomyces Wit with Roses Petals (GABF GOLD MEDAL 2009, Bronze 2012. Fermented with a very rare variety of Brettanomyces this beer is exceedingly aromatic. Aged on French Oak Chardonnay Barrels and roses petals.)
• Bear Republic Brewing 2015 Barrel-Aged Tartar (One of the world’s classic sour beer styles. Bronze medal at the 2011 Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer.)
• Old Ox Brewing Mango Funky Face (Kettle soured and dry hopped. Post fermentation additions of Galaxy Hops and mango.)
• Kindred Spirit Brewing Boyzen da Hood Boysenberry Gose

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25th, starting a 5 p.m.
Comic Book Villains and Heroic Aleworks at The Black Squirrel, Dunn Loring #DCBW2017 in Virginia

The nerd nexus of beer and comic books comes to The Black Squirrel in Dunn Loring on Friday, August 25th, starting at 5 p.m. when Woodbridge-based Heroic Aleworks shows up for a comic book swap, cosplay, and beer. This event is part of The Black Squirrel Dunn Loring’s D.C. Beer Week in Virginia.

Heroic’s head nerd, Tim Hoke, will be on hand to pour:

• Death Blossom Red Rye Ale (first keg in NOVA)
• Doctor Enigma American IPA· Max Nix English Porter 

Plus

• COMIC BOOK SWAP: Bring your favorite comic books to trade with fellow enthusiasts. The Black Squirrel owner will start the swap with comics from her collection. 
• COSPLAY: Heroes who show up dressed to save the world will receive 10 percent off their bill.
• GAMES: A gaming station will be set up at the bar.

The Black Squirrel Dunn Loring

2670 Avenir Place

Vienna, VA 22180