With DC Beer Week in the books, we can bring our focus back to all beer here in the city, not just local — and this week, the nation’s third-largest craft brewer, New Belgium Brewing, expanded into the D.C. market.

The following post is from our advertiser, New Belgium Brewing. The employee-owners of New Belgium Brewing would like to thank the following for making our folly possible: the inventor of the bike, our farmers and maltsters, the energy-stingy Merlin brew kettle, our seven proprietary yeast strains, our local water source the Cache la Poudre river, the Wyoming wind, anyone who lives like there is a tomorrow, and everyone in Washington DC who enjoys our beer….

New Belgium’s Fat Tire, Ranger IPA and fall seasonal Hoptober Ale will be distributed in the tri-state area starting August 22, with the tripel and Lips of Faith series available in select areas at a later date.

Beers from Colorado brewer New Belgium have achieved some level of cult status. Part of the reason for this is that despite being the third-largest craft brewer in America, the brewery did not distribute east of the Mississippi until 2009. However, that is all about to change as we find out from DC Beer that New Belgium is seeking to expand their distribution to D.C., Maryland and Virginia some time this fall. The timeline will reportedly depend on the distributors in the localities, but demand may be high enough to force the distributors to respond quickly.

Welcome to this week’s Feed, coming to you from Albuquerque, N.M.! This Feed will be a little more free flowing than usual. Why? I’m sitting on the patio, drinking a Fat Tire, enjoying the dry climate, and looking out on Sandia Peak. I just wanted to rub it in. 2007 RAMMYs To Feature Snakes That’s what “Black Tie and Boas”—the theme of this year’s RAMMY awards dinner—means, right? Tuxedos and Anacondas? Seems like a bad…

DCist had nearly forgotten about the start of Segway tours of the capital’s major attractions, until this weekend when we came across this scene at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and C Street NW. City Segway Tours, which operates similar operations in Nice, Paris, New Orleans and Chicago, started operations in the nation’s capital this summer. The company hosts both day and night tours of the White House area, memorials, Smithsonian campus and U.S….