Bloomingdale resident and DC Brau co-founder Brandon Skall interviewed in WBJ Top Shelf article: "Untapped: Greater Washington’s craft brewing industry has plenty of room to grow (Video)"

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Untapped: Greater Washington’s craft brewing industry has plenty of room to grow (Video)

Rebecca Cooper

Staff Reporter- Washington Business Journal

The founders of D.C. Brau — the city’s first production brewery to open in decades — scraped together about $620,000 to get their Northeast D.C. operations off the ground in 2011.

Just two years later in 2013, the forthcoming Fair Winds Brewing Company collected $1.4 million from investors for a new Northern Virginia brewery.

What a difference a few years make.

“It was impossible to get people to give us money in the middle of the recession,” said D.C. Brau co-founderBrandon Skall as he sat behind his desk in the brewery’s tasting room in late February. “I can’t imagine what we would have done with $1.5 million.”

D.C. Brau made 1,600 barrels of beer in its first year. The company expects to brew 16,000 barrels in 2014 — almost around the clock.

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