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Lager & Pilsner: The Comeback Kings?
By Jeff Maisey When Green Flash Brewing Company brewmaster Erik Jensen was in Virginia Beach for the November grand opening of the San Diego craft brewery’s East Coast production facility, he made a statement that drew gasps and utterances of surprise. Jensen was...
Richmond’s Legend Brewing to Open in Olde Town Portsmouth
(Dave Gott (center) and the crew from award-winning Legend Brewing Company) By Jeff Maisey Legend Brewing Company will open a brewpub in Olde Towne Portsmouth along the waterfront in the historic, curved building that recently housed an art gallery and was the former...
Views and Brews High Above Bluemont at Dirt Farm Brewing
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett Travel out to the far western edge of Loudoun County and you will find yourself in a region that knows the name Zurschemeide well. That is what happens when you run three popular businesses – a farm, a winery, and now a brewery –...
Castleburg: A Modern Fairy Tale with Medieval Trappings
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...
Lost Rhino’s Jasper Akerboom – Northern Virginia’s Professor of the Microbial Arts
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett When you are a brewer in northern Virginia and the Greater D.C. Metro Area and you need help obtaining or taming those microscopic beasties that are the little engines that turn sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide while also...
Devil of a Deal
BY JEFF MAISEY News this spring spread like wildfire when it was announced Anheuser-Busch/Inbev would acquire Lexington, Virginia based Devils Back Bone Brewing Company. Many craft beer enthusiasts responded swiftly and harshly on social media. But many in the craft...
The Future is Now for Satellite Breweries
BY JEFF MAISEY When SB 604 passed in 2012, perhaps no one could have predicted the explosive growth of craft breweries springing up around the Commonwealth of Virginia. Nor could anyone have likely anticipated breweries spawning satellite locations. “It seems to be...
Anheuser-Busch/Inbev Acquires Devils Backbone
By Jeff Maisey Anheuser-Busch/Inbev announced it will acquire Lexington, Virginia based Devils Back Bone Brewing Company. “Through Anheuser-Busch's network of distributors, Devils Backbone will soon be available nationwide,” said Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe...
2016 State of the Commonwealth’s Craft Beer Industry
By JEFF MAISEY Virginia’s craft beer culture has rocketed into an exciting orbit since SB604 was passed. At last year’s Virginia Craft Brewers Guild winter meeting Brett Vassey, president of the Guild and its parent organization, the Virginia Manufactures...
O’Connor Wins Golden Tap Award in Norfolk
By Jeff Maisey Southern Bank presented VEER Magazine’s 2015 Golden Tap Awards in early December with Norfolk’s O’Connor Brewing Company scoring the most overall points to earn the Golden Tap for Brewery of the Year. The awards program is for the breweries...
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