In the D.C. alcoholic beverage scene, the phrase, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way” has been proven time and time again. Legend has it that in the early days of the Brickskeller, Dave Alexander drove cross-country to purchase beer from breweries on the West Coast. More recently, Ledroit Brands (a D.C.-based distributor) started bringing in barrel-strength whiskey from Kentucky under the Willett brand. Even in the last few weeks, the Dolin brand of vermouth entered the D.C. market, a product that was unavailable in the States until D.C.’s own Derek Brown prodded an importer to look into it.

When there’s a beverage that’s unavailable in the D.C. area, someone always seems to go the extra mile to get their hands on some. Perhaps no recent example more represents this perseverance than the tale of Greg Jasgur and the Three Floyds Brewing Company.

Munster, Indiana is an unlikely place for a great brewery. Almost an hour’s drive from Chicago, it’s far enough out of the way that you really have to want to get there to pay them a visit. But for such a small facility (only last year did they start to aim for the 10,000 barrel mark) they put out some of the most widely sought-after beers in the country. The worldwide list of the top 50 highest rated beers on beeradvocate.com includes four(!) of their beers. In their 12 years of business, they have become most well-known for their high-alcohol, highly-hopped, so-called “Extreme” beers. Their “Dark Lord Day” event draws hundreds of beer nerds from around the country to sample the newest release of the brewery’s Imperial Stout.

But since the brewery remains small, they have stayed devoted to their fans in the immediate area and have not expanded distribution to more than a handful of other states. Enter Greg Jasgur, Beer Manager at the Georgetown location of Pizzeria Paradiso.