BEER
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Audacious Bold Mariner Unveils NATO Fest Beer
By Jeff Maisey The COVID-19 global pandemic has sunk many plans this spring, but it was unable to divert The Bold Mariner from completing its charted mission for this year’s Norfolk NATO Festival beer collaboration celebrating Italy. The beer is called Audace,...
Brewers Cup Postponed/Betty Arnold Retires — Sort of
By Jeff Maisey The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild is postponing its annual Virginia Craft Beer Conference & Gala originally slated for June 8 at Bon Secours Washington Redskins Training Center in Richmond. “We are looking at late June or mid-July Cup judging...
REVIEW: FestivAle from Old Ox Brewery
FestivAle Old Ox Brewery Ashburn As a nice collaborative tie-in with the National Cherry Blossom Festival in nearby Washington, DC, Old Ox Brewery has produced FestivAle, a fruity saison with herbal aroma and fresh cherry sweetness ideal for springtime. The packaging...
Pale Fire Helps Restaurant Workers
Pale Fire Brewing Company Launches “Pale Fire Helps” Food Bank Resource to Support Restaurant Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic March 24, 2020 -- Harrisonburg, VA -- Pale Fire Brewing Company is teaming up with Sysco, Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance,...
Virginia ABC Stores Reduce Hours
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) will reduce operating hours at all of its stores statewide beginning Friday, March 27, due to the expanding nature of the COVID-19 outbreak. Like the reduced store hours already in place for 24 Virginia ABC...
Big Ugly Turns 5
(Emilia Landry serves a big, bold beer at Big Ugly Brewing Co in Chesapeake) By Jeff Maisey Big Ugly Brewing Company celebrated its 5th anniversary in early February. When the micro-brewery opened in a little shopping center in 2015 it was the first brewery ever to...
Life Is Short, Drink Dessert First
(Move over Whitman’s Sampler, Starr Hill’s Box of Chocolate Stout Pack is liquid dessert at its finest) By Greg Kitsock It’s a paradox. At a time when millions of Americans are joining the Sober Curious movement or atoning for their sins with a Dry January,...
Brett Vassey: 2020 Vision
By Jeff Maisey It has become an annual tradition where we sit down with Brett Vassey, President & CEO of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild and Virginia Manufacturers Association, to get his knowledgeable insights and analysis of the current year and the upcoming 12...
Smoke Gets in Your Mug: Rauch Brewing in Virginia
(Port City's Rauch Märzen. Photo courtesy of Port City.) By Greg Kitsock Rauchbier – it’s an acquired taste. But it’s one well worth acquiring. German for “smoked beer,” Rauchbier is a throwback to an age when malt was dried over an open flame, getting slightly singed...
Sly Clyde Hosts CoVA Cider Fest
(Cider will flow in many varieties during the Coastal VA CiderFest. Photo by Michael Williams) By Jeff Maisey How ‘bout them apples? In the last five year demand for what was once referred to as British pub cider, or hard cider, has dramatically increased across the...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHTS
Takeaways from VA Beer Co’s 4th Anniversary
(The Virginia Beer Company crew celebrate curbside. Photo courtesy of the brewery) By Jeff Maisey Virginia Beer Company co-founders Robbie Willey and Chris Smith could never have imagined celebrating the fourth anniversary of their successful Williamsburg brewery by...
Thinking Orange at Iron Pipe Alewerks
(Iron Pipe Alewerks is one of Virginia’s newest breweries and is located in Orange. Photo courtesy of the brewery.) By Jennifer Waldera Small towns in the south rarely have spots open on Sundays, but if you’re lucky enough to stumble through the quaint streets of...
Settle Down Easy to Inspirational Beer
(Co-owner Frank Kuhns behind the bar of the tasting room with tasting room staff Lexi and Angela. Photo by Jefferson Evans.) By Jefferson Evans & Chuck Triplett A truth of life is that the most impactful aspects of a person’s journey often involve a mix of joy...
Aslin Brewing Co: Of Baby Sharks and Bonkers Beer Sales
(Taproom Manager Graham James holding 4-packs of Aslin's Baby Shark beer. Photo by Jefferson Evans.) By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett Every moment is a miracle if you really think about the decisions, random chance and vagaries of fate that all have to go a...
Home-brew Exploration Launched Final Gravity
(Tony Ammendolia enjoys a beer following a run) By Annie Tobey Expectations were high when Tony Ammendolia announced that he would be adding a nano-brewery to Original Gravity, the home brewing and wine making store which he opened in 2011. “Tony was actively,...
Let’s Go to The Garage
(The Garage Brewing owner, Ulyana Gomez) Words by Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones Photos by Chris Jones Let’s say you are casually lounging around the homestead, trying to come up with something fun to do. Your “sigo” (significant other) suggests “Let’s go to the...
New Old Ox Makes Middleburg a Hoppy Place
(Old Ox Brewery is a welcomed addition to Middleburg. Photo courtesy of the brewery) By Michael T. Jarvis Earlier this summer about 60 fans of Old Ox Brewery in Ashburn paid $50 to be taken to the police station in Middleburg. They weren’t arrested at the former...
Welcome to Front Royal (Brewing)
(L-R) Front Royal Brewing co-owner/president Jerry Welcome, head brewer Tim Arndt and co-owner Kerry Barnhart. By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett His name is Welcome. No, really, Jerry Welcome, and the president and co-owner of Front Royal Brewing Company lives...
Vasen: NORTHERN EUROPEAN STYLE WITH AN OUTDOOR FLAIR
By Annie Tobey Breweries, like people and other businesses, adapt and change. You may drop in to a brewery from time to time – or see a friend around town – but unless you go deep, you may miss significant changes. I first interviewed Väsen Brewing co-owners...
Precarious Beer Hall – Ale, Arcade, and Americana
(Spacious Precarious Beer Hall is fun, fun, fun) Words & Photos by Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones What are the sounds you associate with Colonial Williamsburg? Pumpa-rum pumpa-rum twee twee tweeee…that’s a fife and drum corp as they march through the pedestrian...
BREWERY
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Appalachia
Busted Still Brewing Company 185 Homeplace Drive Gate City 24251 276.210.6038 Lonesome Pine Brewing Company 15 East Main Street Lebanon 276.274.3697 Painted Peak Brewing Company 386 Main Street Tazewell 276.980.7325 paintedpeakbrewing.com Sugar...
Blue Ridge Highlands
Central Virginia
Coastal Virginia
Northern Virginia
Shenandoah Valley
Southern Virginia
Virginia Mountains
Big Lick Brewing Company 135 Salem Ave. Roanoke, VA 24011 540-562-8383 biglickbrewingco.com Callaway Brewing Company 21 Woodwinds Road Callaway 540.267.6733 callawaybrewingco.com Chaos Mountain Brewing Company 3135 Dillons Mill Rd. Callaway 540.334.1600...
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