This is a great time of the year for beer lovers. Winter, more than any other season, is when craft brewers get a chance to flex their creativity and brew some unusual beers that satisfy the palate and warm the heart. Although many have traditionally been called Christmas beers, most brewers these days are going with some variation on the “winter” theme, in a large part because of the stigma of seeing a “Christmas” beer…

John Harvard’s Brew House Has Dropped Out It looks like the District can’t even keep sub-par brewpubs. Already a eighth-year senior, John Harvard’s Brew House on Pennsylvania and 13th Streets NW has closed its doors. With the phone dead and its banishment from the mothersite, it looks like the Ad Board has asked it to take a loooooong leave of absence. DCist had mixed feelings about the place. I’d return for bit of post-college nostalgia,…