Vanilla Bean Stout
My first trip to the Great American Beer Festival was back in 2002 as a representative of Martha's Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Company of Nashua, New Hampshire. My friend and former co-worker...
View ArticleBitter Markie & Rauchroggen Bock -Restrospective
The Hippity Hoppity SeriesVolume 7Bitter MarkieHave you ever met a beer that you tried to drinkBut sip after sip it made you thinkI wonder who else has been drinking this beerThat you get so jealous...
View ArticleThe Brewery Blog Challenge
Let's face it, I've had trouble keeping up with this blog for the last few months and frankly its unacceptable. So I have come up with a way to help me avoid procrastination and stay on top of things,...
View Article10th Anniversary Ale
Wow, ten years! Even though I've only been here the last two years of Franklin's first decade in the brewing industry, I'm extremely happy to be a part of this celebration. Ten years is a great feat...
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Anacostia Ale
The river that spawned a beer, not the first time in history a waterway has influenced brewing. Historically breweries (as many industries) located themselves along rivers to have easy accessibility to...
View ArticleRubber Chicken's Revenge
This past Monday we fired up the brewing system to make a bit of Franklin's history,to brew the first Franklin's beer with a direct ancestory from another Franklin's beer. Rubber Chicken Red is one of...
View ArticleBrewery Update 4-12-12
In the brewery this week, we're tapping Tripel Bliss today (Thursday April 12), expect this 9% ABV beer to be on tap for the next 4-5 weeks (let's hope).We're transferring Petite Fleur today from the...
View ArticleName a Franklin's beer
Want to name an upcoming Franklin's beer? We'll be releasing a Bourbon-Coffee Stout and you get to name it. Submit your beer name here by commenting on this thread (or on our Facebook page), we'll take...
View ArticleBrewery Update 4-19-12
Monday's Anacostia Watershed Society fundraiser was anice turnout and folks supported it by drinking 50% of our weekly Anacostia Ale sales in one night. Thanks to everyone who came out.It was another...
View ArticleApril Showers...
As the saying goes April showers bring May flowers,you can expect something of the sort next week at Franklin's. We'll be tapping our Petite Fleur, Belgian-style ale brewed with a blend of botanical...
View ArticleHooray new beers!
If the release of our new restaurant menu this week isn't exciting enough we're also tapping three new beers- Petite Fleur & Rubber Chicken's Revenge (currently on tap) and this weekend Mic Czech....
View ArticleWhy Rye, why?
This week presented itself with a number of obstacles and challenges. Beyond a few mechanical issues that we overcame the biggest issue came on Tuesday trying to brew a new double I.P.A. with 33% Rye...
View ArticleThis week in the brewery
As we're gearing up for graduation weekend we have some exciting things going on in the brewery. On Tuesday we brewed a new stout recipe, Antilles, a tropical stout ( high gravity sweet stout). We...
View ArticleMemorial Day Weekend Update
Now that graduation is behind us its time to start looking towards the upcoming season of summer beers. Specifically wheat beers as we'll be tapping our Belgian-style wit beer Witty Twitty today,...
View ArticleWhat a weekend.
Franklin's was at Beer Advocate's 2012 American Craft Beer Fest this past weekend pouring beer and pimping out rubber chickens. For those of you who didn't make the trek it was a stellar lineup of...
View Article599 batches of beer in the tanks
While every batch of beer brewed here at Franklin's is a milestone in it own way,this summer's batch of Hefeweizen had the honor of being batch 599. That's right, we're one away from 600, a slightly...
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Batch 600, brewed and put to bed
Well its done, another landmark, batch 600 is brewed and in the fermenter, now we wait. The grist hopper smelled great as it was topped with smoked cherry wood smoked malt, very reminiscent of slow...
View ArticleBrewery Update 6-23-12
Just a quick update on what's going on in the brewery as I'm filtering Blonde today- we've tapped our new double I.P.A., DJ IPA Kool, a 8.0% Rye Double I.P.A.. It's got a big malt body along with spicy...
View ArticlePower Outage
Just a heads up to everyone out there last night's storm has caused the restaurant to lose power. We'll be closed in the meantime until we can get electricity back on. Follow us on facebook/twitter as...
View ArticleAll is well
There's been a lot of worry and gossip about our situation at the brewery due to the power outage caused by the storm. As of this time there's no need for concern as we got through the 40+ hour outage...
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Batch 600
In case you missed our tappening last week, Batch 600 is now filling tulips at Franklin's. This copper colored ale is decked out with toasty malt, fruit and caramelized sugars. At 8.5% ABV it has some...
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Coming this Summer!
You've been asking, well its going to happen. Kegs for your gatherings are coming. We're working out the details so stay tuned as there will be more info to come.
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The Brewery celebrates XMAS in June!
A new six piece wooden drum set?If only I had rhythm. More likely though they'll be added to Franklin's Funk Cellar, if you're curious there's 3-Carribean Rum barrels (53gal) and 3-California Red Wine...
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Funk is in da house!
Its been a long time coming, but our first full scale "Funk" release with many more to come is here. Biological Speculation is on the General Store shelves and shortly in the pub. This beer is over two...
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Stainless steel growlers are in!
Can't bring glass to the pool or beach? Well here's what you need, a half gallon stainless steel growlers. It goes where glass doesn't and won't break when you drop it on the sidewalk. Available now in...
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