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Champion Adds New Director of Development
(JR Hadley & Hunter Smith at Champion Brewing Co) Champion Brewing Company announced that J.R. Hadley has joined Champion as its first Director of Development. Hadley made a name for himself in Charlottesville as the founder of Boylan Heights Burger Bar, a popular...
Starr Hill to Open in Lynchburg in early 2020
Starr Hill Brewery will open a new location in downtown Lynchburg in early 2020. To celebrate the official announcement, Starr Hill will host a free concert featuring Lord Nelson on October 24 at The Glass House. Starr Hill on Main will be located at 1300 Main...
The Garage Brewery, Tradition & Big Ugly Win Gold
(Beach Ambassadors and the medalists in the People's Choice category. Photograph by Sean Chagnon/Eye of the Storm Photography) STAFF REPORT Beach Ambassadors presented its 7th Annual 757 Battle of the Beers competition in a festival setting on the grounds of Camp...
O’Connor to Host Stanley’s Pit BBQ from East Texas
Calling all foodies and barbeque lovers. Stanley’s Pit BBQ from East Texas will be bringing the heat to O’Connor Brewing Co. on Saturday, October 19, 2019. Pit-master and Stanley’s owner Nick Pencis has repeatedly ranked among Texas’ top pit-masters. A longtime friend...
Virginia Breweries Win 13 Medals at 2019 Great American Beer Festival
Breweries from the Commonwealth of Virginia won 13 medals in the 2019 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. Crozet-based Starr Hill Brewery was the state's top performer with a gold medal for its Jomo Lager and a bronze for Festie, a German-style Marzen....
757 Battle of the Beers Returns
(Brewers and Beach Ambassadors group photo by Sean Chagnon/Eye of the Storm Photography) By Jeremy Bender Heard of a food fight? How about a beer fight instead? Well, sorta. On Saturday, October 12 — yes, mark your calendar and plan to attend — the Beach...
Non-Traditional Financing Helps Brewers
By Marty Jones With all due respects to the Reinheitsgebot, craft beer requires one more important thing beyond water, malt, hops and yeast: money. To launch his Purcelville, Virginia brewery, Stephen Mackey skipped the banks and best friends routes and turned...
Slaves and Indentured Servants Were Vital to Virginia’s Colonial Beer-Making
(The City of Hampton and Fort Monroe will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in America August 23-25.) By Lee Graves In late August 1619, the British privateer White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, near present-day Hampton. Its cargo included...
AMMO Brewing to Close in Petersburg
From the ownersWe at Ammo Brewing would like to take a moment to announce that Ammo Brewing will be closing toward the end of August. Ammo Brewing has from the first been a family operation and now family responsibilities have become too compelling to manage at the...
Rockn’ Lockn’ with VA Beers & Bands
Audacity Brass Band (Photo courtesy of the band) By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones The Rockn’ to Lockn’ is a battle-of-the bands-type contest sponsored by the organizers of the four-day Lockn’ Music Festival to highlight some of the finest local bands spawned in...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHTS
3 Babies, 3 Years, 1 Brewery
(Winchester Brew Works' Bonnie Landy and Holly Redding) By Jeff Maisey It’s hard enough running an upstart craft brewery in a town known for its apple sauce products and country music legend Patsy Cline, but when Bonnie Landy and Holly Redding gave birth to...
Beer Flows from Willow Springs Inside the Light Well
(Dave Ganoe stands proud of his small-town craft brewery) By Jennifer Waldera In the center of the town of Orange, on its quintessential small-town Main Street, is the county’s first brewery, Willow Springs. Named for the property which has a natural spring on it...
Make Your Way To Maker’s Craft Brewery
(Bartender Trevor Cheatham) By Chris Jones and Diane Catanzaro Photo by Chris Jones Rick Mariani likes to make things. He built his own sports car, and kept his buddies’ sports cars on the road by repairing them. He had such a knack at making repairs to keep his...
The Secret Is Out, Eavesdrop Has Something For Everyone
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett And it all began with pigeons. Now THAT is a sentence that no beer writer ever expects to write, but the fact it sorta applies in the case of Eavesdrop Brewery is just one of the things that makes Eavesdrop unique and fun....
BINGO BEER CO: Where fun, food and drinks mingle
By Annie Tobey What happens when you mix food from experienced restaurateurs, beer from an experienced brewer, cocktails from creative mixologists and classic arcade games? Good times! Bingo Beer Co., a new brewpub in Richmond’s popular Scott’s Addition...
Brewing Tree Takes Root in Nelson County
By Jeff Maisey After announcing his return in an exclusive interview with Virginia Craft Beer Magazine on New Year’s Day, pioneering Virginia craft brewer Mark Thompson now has his Brewing Tree Beer Company is up and running. The charismatic Thompson is brewing again...
Rocket Frog Leaps into Orbit
By Jeff Maisey Rocket Frog Brewing Company — Loudoun County’s newest brewery — leap into orbit on May 19, debuting with five beers on tap: Angry Alice IPA, Minotaur American Golden Ale, Wallops Island American Brown Ale, Double IPA and Dry Saison. The brewery is...
2 Silos Elevates Brewery Experience
By Jefferson Evans and Jeff Maisey If you’ve ever been to a traditional family farm you might have noticed a number of buildings and spaces, each designated with a specific purpose. There’d be the main farm house serving as the family living quarters, an exterior...
Solace Zone
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett There is a feeling you get when you walk into a place and in relatively short order you realize the place is nice, well-designed and cared for. You notice the people working there are enthusiastic, genuinely like each other...
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 –...
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