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NEWS: Community Brewing Ventures to Guide Bold Mariner
(Mike Stacks has The Bold Mariner Brewing Company expanding its horizons.) By Jeff Maisey Community Brewing Ventures (CBV), whose mission is to help small and medium breweries overcome growth challenges, announced a partnership with Norfolk-based The Bold Mariner...
NEWS: Grinding Out a Historic Lager
(Ground six-row barley) By Jeff Maisey Talk about made from scratch: When Winchester-based Broken Window head brewer Jacob Arnaud and Clarke County Historical Association director Nathan Stalvey discussed collaborating on a pre-Prohibition style lager it was...
New Logo for Champion Brewing
STAFF REPORT Charlottesville’s Champion Brewing Company has axed its logo featuring the centered harp-like image to a bold font as its logo. Of the rebrand, Champion owner Hunter Smith said, “We’re about to roll into our second decade at Champion, and It made sense...
Brewery Owners on the Run
(Virginia Beer Company’s Chris Smith (left) competes in the One City Marathon. Photo courtesy of Chris Smith) By Annie Tobey “If you used a Venn diagram of the running crowd and the beer crowd, those two circles would have a pretty solid overlap,” Chris Smith,...
2021 Brewery Running Series
By Jacqueline Feldscher One not-so-scientifically proven way to make beer taste better is to gulp it down at the finish line of a 5k race with friends. The Brewery Running Series is a national group of fun runs that began in 2012 in Minnesota and now hosts...
TRENDS: Go Low for Health
By Jeff Maisey “Tastes great, less filling.” Sound familiar? That was the hugely successful branding slogan for “Lite” beer by Miller when it debuted nationally in 1975. It’s as retro as a PBR tallboy. Sales of the “diet” beers, as they were called back in...
Reaver Beach Opens Norfolk Location
By Jeff Maisey Get ready for some award-winning hoppy and sour beers on North Colley Avenue in Norfolk. Reaver Beach Brewing Company opened its second location on February 19. Operating as Reaver Beach NFK, the brewery is housed in the former Milan Post Office...
Craft Brewers Conference & Awards Moved to September
By Staff The Brewers Association announced the 38th edition of its Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America will be rescheduled and moved from March 29 in San Diego to September 9-12 in Denver. “Shifting to September in Denver provides us with an...
Elation Brewing Adds Bakehouse
By Jeff Maisey Anyone driving on North Colley Avenue at night can’t help but notice Elation Brewing Company with its blue and deep purple glow of theatrical lighting illuminating and reflecting off the large, stainless steel fermenting tanks behind the curved...
So You Wanna Be a Brewer?
By Bridgette Turner Pretty much everyone thinks that being a professional brewer is the coolest job ever. It’s a dream job. Everyone I meet is excited when I tell them that I make beer for a living. It’s soOoOoo awesome. Strangers automatically think I’m super...
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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