by Jeff Maisey | Dec 19, 2020 | Brew News, Central Virginia, News
(Trapezium brewmaster James Frazer is hardly singing the workingman’s blues.) By Jeff Maisey Legendary soul singer James Brown was famously referred to as the “hardest working man in show business.” I’d like to crown another James — James Frazer — as potentially the...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 8, 2016 | Brew News, Central Virginia, News
By Wade Reynolds You’ve heard this one before—sort of: Boy meets girl. Girl gives boy a home brewer’s kit. Boy makes beer and rises rapidly through the ranks of local home brewers. Boy and girl open a craft brewery and live happily ever after. Although there’s a...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 20, 2015 | Brewery Profiles, Central Virginia
Story and Photos by Steve Deason Brewer Brad Cooper is proud of his name but not for the reason you are probably guessing. A cooper is a person who makes wooden vessels bound together by hoops such as casks or barrels. Cooper named his new brewery Steam Bell...
by Jennifer McDonald | Jun 22, 2015 | Central Virginia, Food and Brew, Restaurants and Bars
After opening in September of 2014, World of Beer (WOB) has quickly become Charlottesville’s neighborhood tavern and that’s exactly what owner, Bob Dorfman wants it to be. I recently had the opportunity to speak with Bob along with General Manager Dan Bednar and...
by Jennifer McDonald | Aug 12, 2014 | Brewery Profiles, Central Virginia
By Robey Martin It all started at a SB 604 and HB 359 signing party. Not the idea of a brewery, Neil Burton had that already. But the partnership. Mike Hiller and Burton, his now partner/co-owner, have only known each other a short time, a little over two years. “I...
by Jennifer McDonald | Aug 12, 2014 | Brewery Profiles, Central Virginia
By Jeff Maisey When Danny Wolf completed his course work at the Seibel Institute of Technology in 2008, the job market was tight in an economy described as the worst since the Great Depression. His mother, Mary Wolf, a retired vice president of product marketing at...
