Port City Brewing Toasts First Year in Business
Bill Butcher, president of Port City Brewing Company, showcases his latest beer “ONE” in Old Town, Alexandria during a pub crawl of local area restaurant and pubs
Many businesses never get off the ground, let alone survive 12 months. But Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria is not only surviving, but thriving. Founder Bill Butcher recently celebrated his first anniversary with a new beer and a pub crawl through Old Town and into DC. “I don’t know that we could have done anything any differently to have had a more fabulous first year,” he said. Butcher and his wife Karen invited a dozen well wishers and friends to join in celebrating a successful first year beginning at the brewery’s tasting room. It was a scene reminiscent of the grand opening two days before Super Bowl 2011, when 200 revelers filled the space. A rented van then carried the group to Jackson 20 in Alexandria’s Hotel Monaco, …
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Keith Allen
8:58 am on Sunday, February 12, 2012
Small correction. This is not Old Town's first brewery since 1916. Virginia Beverage Company had a brewpub on King Street, in the former Henry Africa restaurant, in the late nineties-early 2000s. more ›