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Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on-a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation's capital. Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC's speakeasies-every week. The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. This rollicking history brims...
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An effervescent history of beer brewing in the American capital city.
Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery-the city's first brewery-opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form...