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Virginia Breweries Score 8 Awards at 2023 Great American Beer Festival
The 2023 Great American Beer Festival awards results are in and independent craft breweries from Virginia took home 8 medals. Here are the medalists from VA. GOLD Bear Chase Brewing Co., Kodiak Kolsch, German-Style Koelsch Barley Naked Brewing Co., Rock Hill Irish...
Benchtop Wins Coveted Best in Show
(Benchtop Brewing Company wins 2023 Virginia Craft Beer Cup) By Jeff Maisey Independent craft breweries from the Hampton Roads region had an impressive showing at the 2023 Virginia Craft Beer Cup Awards ceremony by sweeping the Best in Show category reflecting the top...
Maui Strong in Northern Virginia
(Brew day at Ono Brewing. Photograph by Chuck Triplett) By Jefferson Evans In early August people across the United States and around the world watched in dismay as brush fires driven by hurricane force winds became uncontrolled wildfires that did damage across...
Richmond Breweries Get Booked
Annie Tobey has penned “100 Things To Do In Richmond Before You Die” and included Richmond’s craft beer scene in the list in the opening Food & Drink section. Among the breweries mentioned: The Answer, Ardent, Bingo, Final Gravity, Hardywood, Isley, Legend, Stone,...
New Leadership for Loudoun County Breweries
The Loudoun County Brewers Association (LCBA) has hired of Kevin Anderson as its first Executive Director. Anderson, a graduate of George Mason University, is no stranger to the alcohol industry. His career includes serving as an Under Age Buyer with the Virginia...
ODU Football Season Kicks Off with a Beer?
By Jeff Maisey The Old Dominion University Monarchs kicked off their 2023 football season with an addition to their rooster sure to please those pre-game tailgaters in the parking lots — ODU Golden Ale. In partnership with New Realm Brewing Company, the Monarch craft...
Craft Soda Cravings
By Jeff Maisey As growth in the craft beer industry appears to be slowing due to shifts in younger demographic tastes in favor of craft cocktails, corporate hard seltzers like Truly and White Claw, independent breweries are adapting by exploring new avenues to...
Elation Wins Green Virginia Brewery of the Year
(Elation Brewing owner Kenny Van Hook (pictured center with hat) accepts the Green Brewery of the Year award in Virginia Beach.) By Jeff Maisey In late March, the Virginia Green Travel Alliance announced Norfolk’s Elation Brewing at the Green Brewery of the Year...
Flower Power: Virginia breweries making room for blooms to craft unique brews
(Fine Creek head brewer Brian Mandeville with fresh chamomile) By Chris Cook If April showers bring May flowers, they also help Virginia brewers produce some unique brews across the Commonwealth. While the almighty hop is a flower itself and the undisputed king of the...
Murphy & Rude to Triple Malt Production
By Jeff Maisey “Good beer starts with good ingredients,” said Jeff Bloem, founder and maltster at Charlottesville-based Murphy & Rude Malting Co. Bloem’s point certainly rang true last summer when his next door business neighbors at Decipher Brewing took home...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHTS
Afterglow Brewing Shines in Norfolk’s Railyard District
(Josh Evans and Jeff Hartline. Photo by Brian Koski) By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones Here’s some exciting news for beer lovers! Norfolk’s newest brewery held their Grand Opening the weekend of July 8. Afterglow Brewing is now open for business at The Railyard at...
Unplug and Connect at Superfly
By Jennifer Waldera After years of working in breweries and over five years of working toward the dream of opening his own space, Ed Liversidge is on the verge of opening Superfly, one of Charlottesville’s newest breweries. Liversidge’s vision is to create a space...
Studly Brewing Opens with Home Run
(Blake Edmunds has Studly Brewing Company on an early season winning streak) By Jeff Maisey Drinker up. If you’re a baseball fan, chances are as good as the Astros winning another World Series you’re gonna love Chesapeake’s newest craft beer maker, Studly Brewing...
Escape to Everleigh for Beer and Cider Too
(A nice pour of Everleigh Vineyards & Brewing Company’s Precambrian Helles Lager. Photo courtesy of the brewery.) By Jennifer Waldera In 2015, Barbara and Joe Evers planted vines on their vast land in beautiful Mineral, Virginia with eyes set on realizing their...
1781 Puts Spotsylvania on the Beer Map
(Appalach Lager is 1781 Brewing’s flagship beer and was brewed in honor of the Germans who settled in the Appalachian mountains.) By Jennifer Waldera Spring is the time of year for blossoming — the season’s name itself sparks mental images of renewed life and...
Crossing the Thin Brew Line
(Beer-tender Cara and Thin Brew Line’s new brewer, Raf Corredor. Photo by Chris Jones.) By Diane Catanzaro & Chris Jones There you are in Virginia Beach, looking for a place to get a libation, a sip of suds, a beer. You’d like something fresh, delicious, and...
PROFILE: Hop On Over to Patch
(Gordonsville locals love Patch Brewing Company) By Jennifer Waldera After founding and running the successful Hop On Tours, a bus excursion company that has hosted thousands of guests on trips to Charlottesville and Nelson area breweries, wineries, and distilleries...
PROFILE: WAR Craft Scores a Direct Hit
(WAR Craft Brewery is a hit with couples with its rural setting, wine, and low ABV beers.) By Jennifer Waldera While the last few years may not have been the start to the contemporary roaring ‘20s that we all had hoped for, some brave souls have marched on, pursuing...
Cold Beer & Hot Chicken at Champion Ice House
(Hunter Smith and Craig Hartman share a light moment at Ice House. Photo by Do Me a Flavor and Robinson Imagery.) By Jennifer Waldera Over a decade ago Chef Craig Hartman opened the doors to BBQ Exchange in the small town of Gordonsville in Orange County. The rustic...
Brewery Fills the Harvest Gap
(Harvest Gap Brewery is located in a rural setting beautiful day or night. Photo courtesy Harvest Gap) By Michael T. Jarvis Mike and Katherine Virts are producing beer, wine and cider in Hillsboro, not too far from where his ancestors starting farming in the early...
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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