BEER
NEWS
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...
Take 6 with Hawksbill Brewing
(Get some to-go for your next bottle/can share event with friends. Photo courtesy of the brewery.) By Jeff Maisey On Saturday, May 13, Hawksbill Brewing Company will celebrate its 6th anniversary since opening in Luray. The town of Luray, as most know, is located...
Keeping It Simple at Beale’s
By Jeff Maisey Since its inception, Bedford-based Beale’s Beer has kept its beer names simple and straight-to-the-point with brands such as Gold, Silver, and Peach Tea Blonde Ale. With Session and Hazy, two new brews being distributed as flagships, the brewery is...
Benchtop’s Hopped Green Tea
(Benchtop’s new brew is a hopped green tea.) By Jeff Maisey How do you take your tea? Why, hopped, of course. Virginia craft breweries have been innovative in their approach in listening to customers, looking at trends in the marketplace, and making...
Belgian-style Beers Are Here to Stay
(Lickinghole Creek’s Three Chopt Tripel remains a go-to choice for Belgian-style beers made in VA. Photo courtesy of the brewery.) By Chris Cook The origins of beer have long been sought out and debated. Some beerstorians pinpoint ancient Mesopotamia as the original...
Talking Beer with Governor Youngkin
Dirt Farm Brewing Company owner and Virginia Craft Brewers Guild Chairwoman Jannell Zurschmeide is joined by Virginia Secretary of Agriculture Matthew Lohr (left) and Governor Glenn Youngkin (right). By Jeff Maisey Governor Glenn Youngkin continued the...
Gingerbread Season Arrives
By Jeremy Bender Christmas season comes early for beer enthusiasts when Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, with locations in Richmond and Goochland, unveils its in-demand, high-octane Gingerbread Stout series. An exclusive boxset for 2022 has been released and...
Drinking German with Chuck Triplett
(Chuck Tripplet enjoys a traditional German feast and beer.) By Jeff Maisey Longtime Northern Virginia beer enthusiast and frequent Virginia Craft Beer Magazine contributor Chuck Triplett has a first love — beers from Germany. Triplett has made numerous beer...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHTS
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...
Flying Ace Takes Off
(Stunning areal view of Flying Ace Farm) Words by Michael T. Jarvis Photos by KM Digital Flying Ace Farm in Lovettsville definitely has the best of everything that begins with a B: a brewery, bourbon, barbecue, beer and bands. Add a large airplane that hangs from the...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHT: Coastal Fermentory
(L-R) Coastal Fermentory’s Mike Reppert and Brandon Samuels. Photo by Diane Catanzaro By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones “I’m goin’ to Newport News, mama, gonna catch a battleship across the doggone sea.” The Memphis Jug Band immortalized the ‘News in their 1927...
BREWERY
GUIDE
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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