Navigator Bear North

City-State and Red Bear Brewing are working together to make and sell more beer along Metropolitan Branch--and Beer!--Trail.

Both companies were built to brew for a DC wholesale market that has never recovered from the pandemic. Together they can achieve the right scale for businesses supported almost entirely by customers coming in the door.

Many of those customers come on the Red Line and from the Metropolitan Branch Trail. And a healthy number of those are using the Metropolitan Beer Trail app, an initiative of NoMA BID. The MBeerT has helped bring Red Bear and City-State together.

Red Bear is brewing four City-State favorites--Air & Space Modern West Coast IPA, Lost Laws Pilsner, Navigator Red Ale, and Torn Mag Black Lager--all exclusively for City-State's taproom.

Navigator will be on tap by the end of October, with the others soon to follow. City-State will pour Red Bear beers on an ongoing basis.

The companies will celebrate on Nov. 1 with Navigator Bear Northeast, a launch party at City-State with live jazz from Christian Balmer of Continental Jazz Congress, free tastes, special merch deals, and Hawai'ian-Filipino food from Kam & 46.