Beer of the Week: Bierstadt Lagerhaus Italian Pils

By Brennan Haselton
July 17, 2026 | 8:49 AM

Take your taste buds on an Italian trip … to Colorado!

WTOP’s Brennan Haselton is joined by Neighborhood Restaurant Group Beer Director and Food and Wine Sommelier of the Year Greg Engert to talk about Bierstadt Lagerhaus Italian Pils for the latest edition of WTOP’s Beer of the Week.

Brewery: Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Denver, Colorado

Description: A dry-hopped Pilsner hopped with French Strisselspalt featuring a solid bitterness with a floral and citric finish.

ABV: 5.4%

Pairing suggestions: Dishes with fresh summer tomatoes, garlicky Italian cuisine such as linguine with clam sauce and shrimp scampi, antipasto salads and Italian hoagies

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School bus emergency? Fairfax County students have a plan to handle it

By Heather Gustafson
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This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. The wheels on the bus will soon be going round and round again in Fairfax County, Virginia, and some of its young riders are learning what to do if there’s an emergency on the way to school. The annual Safety Patrol Training Camp, hosted by Fairfax County Public Schools' Office of Transportation Services, combined hands-on exercises with classroom lessons to teach students how to keep calm during emergencies on buses. The training can feel remarkably realistic, with overturned school buses on their side or completely upside down in the middle of the county bus depot. Other buses, right side up, fill with smoke that is water-based but mimics the intensity of a bus overheating.

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