Pic(k) of the Week: Will Work for Beer?

Falls Church, Virginia, will soon be home to a brand spanking new brewpub & restaurant. The Mad Fox Brewing Company is scheduled to open in July 2010. It will be the only brewpub in Falls Church proper * and indeed the only brewery ever in the city.

Pictured, left to right:

• Executive Chef Russell Cunningham (past of Agraria and Dupont Grill, among others, in Washington, D.C.)
• General Manager Bruce Higgs
• investor Randy Barnette
• Brewmaster Bill Madden

YFGF has posted often about Mr. Madden, a doyen of Washington D.C. area brewers. As a principal of Mad Fox, he now will be able to do it his way.

More:

• 10 April 2010: Proud Papa
• 30 October 2009: Mad Fox constuction details
• 5 September 2009: Mad Fox gets 1st employee; 1st beer will have to wait
• 21 August 2009: It takes a good amount of cash to make a good beer
• 23 June 2009: So you want to to open a brewpub?
• 26 February 2009: A Mad Fox in Falls Church, Virginia
• 29 April 2008: Madfox Brewing Company, on tap for 2009
• 9 November 2006: Vintage 50 Brewpub opens in Leesburg
• More photos: here.

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• * Sweetwater Tavern of Merrifield, Virginia, has a Falls Church address but actually lies outside of the city in Fairfax County.
• A brewpub is a restaurant that includes a brewery on its premises. Since a brewpub combines the functions of manufacturer, distributor, and retailer —three functions that most US states keep separate by laws collectively known as the 'three-tier system'— brewpubs exist as special legal exemptions.
• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of personal photos, usually posted on Saturdays, and often of a 'good fermentable' as subject.