“Have an Epic End of Summer with the DMV’s Newest Source for Cured and Smoked Meats”

From an email:

“Epic Curing is teaming up with distilleries, breweries, and cideries around the city for a delicious end-of-summer tour featuring cured meats and cold drinks.

Epic Curing is the DMV’s newest cured and smoked meat producer, featuring handcrafted products made with great ingredients that use recipes developed with innovation and tradition in mind. Epic End of Summer Meat Up is a free event series celebrating the company’s retail launch and an opportunity for folks to come out and taste some delicious meat. Because what better way is there to bid adieu to summer than by eating rich, smokey pastrami washed down with a cold drink? The tour is a collaboration with some of DC’s finest craft breweries, distilleries, and cideries. It kicks off Monday, August 20th and continues every Saturday through September 22nd.

Epic Curing is the creation of Jeb Gavin, Chris Powers, and Josh Saltzman. With their combined experience at Meatcrafters, Kangaroo Boxing Club, Ivy and Coney, and the PORC food truck, the team has spent countless hours perfecting recipes and sharing their wares with friends to try along the way. Starting with a core lineup of bacon, smoked turkey, pastrami, and ham, the smokehouse aims to expand to dozens of other products, some familiar and some unique, in the coming months. They’re all about “modern meats made the old school way”.

“We’ve been making pastrami and other cured products in our restaurants for years, but we decided last year to become full-time deli evangelists and make Epic Curing a reality”, said Chris Powers. “As we prepared to launch our online retail store, we thought, ‘what better way to showcase our locally-crafted meats than by partnering with other folks in DC who are making great beer and spirits?'”

Every stop of the tour will include free samples, delicious sandwiches and snacks, swag giveaways, and the chance to win a year’s supply of Epic Curing meats. Each location will focus on a different cured product, but the entire lineup will be available to sample and for purchase in retail packs. The extended launch party begins Monday, August 20th at Ivy and Coney with an Industry Night for the area’s chefs, bartenders, foodies, pastrami aficionados, and bacon lovers. All fans of cured meats are welcome! Every following Saturday will see the party move to a different craft producer, ending with a blow-out bash at Cotton & Reed on September 22nd.

8/20 @ Ivy and Coney 5-9 PM

8/25 @ Anxo Cider on Kennedy St NW 3-7 PM

9/1 @ Hellbender Brewery 3-7 PM

9/8 @ Republic Restoratives Distillery 12-4 PM

9/15 @ 3 Stars Brewery 3-7 PM

9/22 @ Cotton & Reed 3-7 PM

Event Information.