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Breweries Breathing New Life into Old Buildings
(The recently opened Camp Trapezium maintains elements of an 1890 icehouse. Photo by Annie Tobey.) By Annie Tobey Beer plays the starring role at a brewery, and taprooms are designed to enhance the experience. In designing the space, brewery owners may consider...
The Guild Turns 10
By Jeff Maisey This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild’s formation. All of its original mission objectives have largely been accomplished, and certainly there is much to celebrate as we look back and peer into the future. I...
NEWS: 2021 Virginia Craft Beer Conference
On July 26-27, the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild will hold its Virginia Craft Beer Conference as a virtual event from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM The keynote speaker on Day 1 this year is Dr. J Nikol Jackson-Beckham (pictured) from the Brewers Association. She will present...
NEWS: Rebranding in the Cards for Legend
BY JEFF MAISEY Emerging from the hazy fog of a 21st century plague, a young RVA craft beer drinker seeks advice from a mystical seer. Beer Drinker: Tell me ol’ wise one of the past, present and future, what do you see in the cards ahead for Legend Brewing...
TRENDS: Hot & Hazy for Summer
(Starr Hill is amping up a big summer push with Sonic Haze) By Jeff Maisey Summer forecasts call for hot and hazy days ahead, and we’re not just talking about the weather. Hazy IPAs, also referred to as New England IPAs or Juicy IPAs, are expected to be in blazing...
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...
BREWERY SPOTLIGHTS
Pen Druid Brewing: Members of Psych-Rock Band Pontiak launch brewery in Sperryville
By Steve Deason The three Carney brothers have toured for over ten years as the psych-rock band Pontiak. Van says he and his brothers, Lain and Jennings, thought “wouldn’t it be cool once we have kids and aren’t hitting the road as much, to start a...
Wasserhund is a Brewpub for Dog, Beer and Pizza Lovers
By Diane Catanzaro & Chris Jones Wasserhund (German pronunciation "Vasser-hoond") is German for "waterdog". Wasserhund Brewing Company is a new Virginia Beach brewery, and much more than just a brewery. It is a bone-a-fide BREWPUB! Can I get an amen?...
Married with a Blue Mountain View: An interview with Taylor and Mandi Smack
By Jeff Maisey For most couples, being married with two children tends to dominate life when multi-tasking to get the kids off to school or soccer practice while managing to put-in a 9-5 day at the job and get supper on the table before homework and bedtime. So...
Tin Cannon on Target with Nano Brewery
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett It is a story that John Hilkert and Aaron Ludwig, brewers at and principal owners of Tin Cannon Brewing Co. in Gainesville, Virginia, have told before, but it is a good story and bears repeating. The story of how a book...
Back in the “Big Ugly” Brewing Boots at Big Ugly Brewery
By Allen Young Big Ugly Brewery is a great example of the dynamic job I have at BSG (Brewers Supply Group). Last year, I was contacted by the two founding partners, Shawn Childers and Jim Lantry, to discuss, in confidence, the business plan they had developed to bring...
Drink and Think Strange
By Robey Martin It all started at a SB 604 and HB 359 signing party. Not the idea of a brewery, Neil Burton had that already. But the partnership. Mike Hiller and Burton, his now partner/co-owner, have only known each other a short time, a little over two years. “I...
Beer & Cheer for Whole Family at Wild Wolf
By Jeff Maisey When Danny Wolf completed his course work at the Seibel Institute of Technology in 2008, the job market was tight in an economy described as the worst since the Great Depression. His mother, Mary Wolf, a retired vice president of product marketing at...
Making Headway at Beltway
By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett When you walk through the doors of Beltway Brewing Company in Sterling, Virginia you are immediately struck by a couple of things – that this is one big, clean, modern, shiny brewery, and that they have lots of space, with more...
Crafty Like a Mad Fox
An interview with award-winning Fairfax brewpub owner Bill Madden By Jeff Maisey Since opening in July 2010, having fun has been vital to Mad Fox Brewing Company CEO/brewer Bill Madden. After all, he has built a career doing what he loves – making beer. As his...
Jefferson Street Brewery
Jefferson Street Brewery 1309 Jefferson St Lynchburg, VA 24504 Phone: (434) 455-1514 Website: www.jeffersonstreetbrewery.com Eat, Drink, Stay By Jeff Maisey Living in Norfolk, I often formulate an evacuation plan each summer as hurricane season begins. We residents on...
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