Monthly Archives: June 2012

Meet Hardywood On The Rox

It seems like the brewers at Hardywood are on a post-Savor victory lap around the Greater Richmond area.   First stop was Benny’s Tavern in Colonial Heights.

Join them at their next stop on Tuesday June 19th from 6 – 8pm at On the Rox in Historic Shockoe Bottom. Beers on hand for the night will be Singel, Hoplar, Bourbon Cru and a special cask conditioned pin of Hoplar. Prizes will be raffled off to benefit a local charities, Massey Cancer Center and Area 10 Global. Happy Hour specials run from 3 – 7pm including 1/2 off draft beer.  So head on out and maybe you can ask them what type of beer will get these 2500 lbs of strawberries.

On the Rox
119 N. 18th St
Richmond, VA

Save on Growler Fills at Whole Foods This Weekend

Go to Whole Foods Short Pump and save $3 off all 64 oz growler fills now through Sunday.  Take a look at the selection of kegs they have in stock:

Sculpin
Fullers Porter
Avery Nineteen
Bells Amber
Avery White Rascal
St. Bernardus Wit
New Holland Oaked Mad Hatter
Sneaky Pete IPA
2009 Redhook Eisbock
Stone Russian Imperial Stout
Flying Dog Barrel Aged Gonzo
Troegenator
Brasserie de Rocs Blonde
Tart Lychee
Heavy Seas Great Pumpkin
Epic Hop Syndrome Lager
Epic Brainless Corruption
Sierra Bigfoot
21st Amendment Bitter American
Brooklyn Gold Standard
Sierra Hoptimum
Unibroue Blonde De Chambly

Looks like the growler king has done it again!  Go forth, save, and share some with dad while you’re at it.

Wolf Hills Brewing Asks For Your Help

Buying their beer is a great way to help Virginia breweries but it’s not the only way.  Sometimes all you have to do is click a few buttons on the web.  In this case, you would be helping Wolf Hills Brewing win  $250,000 grant from Chase and LivingSocial to fund their expansion. Wolf Hills explains more on their Facebook page:

Wolf Hills Brewing
Wolf Hills needs to expand!! We are currently in the planning stages to help increase our production, employment opportunities, etc. Please help by voting for us on the Mission:Small Business website for a grant competition. Just go to the webpage below and type in our name. Thanks for your support!!!!!
https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/

I voted. Will you?

Building a Business Card

So this has been awhile coming but here’s the front of my new business cards.  I hope you’ll agree that it’s pretty awesome. I couldn’t do this alone so here are a few people I have to thank.

RVA Creates — Their RVA logo generator was integral in making my logo. 

James Ronald Lee —  I loved his Portsmouth Brewery beer flight photo so much I couldn’t imagine not use it in the logo generator.  Check out his photoblog for even more great pictures.

Nicholas Bennett — Finally but not least. My brother Nichloas helped me with design work for the card background, even going back and forth with me on text color.  Check out his graphic design company, Canvus Design Studio.

 

Hardywood Goes Colonial at Benny’s Tavern

Hardywood is expanding their reach by heading south today June 13th for a Meet & Greet in Colonial Heights.  Head out to Benny’s Tavern  from 5 – 8pm to meet the brewers where they will be pouring a cask conditioned pin of “Nick Palmer” — a blend of Singel and Hoplar with spices.

Benny’s Tavern
3631 Boulevard
Colonial Heights, VA 23834
(804) 526-2536

Gingko’s Kimchi Tasting Dinner This Sunday

I will be in Washington, DC the rest of the week enjoying as many of the events I can manage leading up to Savor.  My first stop when I return to Richmond on Sunday June 10th will be Ginkgo’s Kimchi Tasting Dinner at Kitchen Thyme.  Cassie Keene has lined up  some of Richmond’s favorite local chefs to prepare a menu using 5 different types of kimchi.

Menu

Chef Tim Bereika
Secco Wine Bar
Smoked duck, cumin yogurt, shaved radish with cucumber kimchi gazpacho

Chef John Maher
spoon.
Charred calamari, roasted potato, black olive puree with napa cabbage kimchi

Chef Aaron Hoskins
2113
Braised beef brisket, fried green onions, smoked fish sauce emulsion with shaved daikon radish kimchi

Chef Ryan Evans
Mint
Glazed pork belly with watermelon rind kimchi

Chef Randall Doetzer
Juleps
Grilled sardines, smoked pickled ramp with ramp kimchi

Dessert

Chef Collin Wagner
Kimchi macaron

Chef Tim Bereika
Donut with kimchi-chocolate pasty cream

In addition to this intriguing menu, there will be a sampling of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery beers among others. I also hear that Chef Johnny is working on a mango hefeweizen sorbet.

Tickets can be purchased for $50 cash at Kitchen Thyme or The Empress.  For more information, head over to the Facebook event page here.

The Empress
2043 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 592-4000

Kitchen Thyme
7801-25 W Broad St
In the Steinmart Shopping Center
Richmond, VA 23294
(804) 396-2665

Capital Ale House Anniversary Beer: Devils Temptation

Update: This just in from Taste the Local: Like Capital Ale House’s post on the Dinner with Devils Backbone event and you could win dinner for 4 with Brewmaster Jason Oliver at the Midlothian location.

I was hoping there would not be anything to tempt me to delay my trip up to Washington, DC today for Savor.  Enter another edition of Capital Ale House’s tenth anniversary beer series this Wednesday June 6th to dash that hope.  This time the beer is from World Beer Cup Gold Medalist Devils Backbone.

Ten Low (Lemongrass Oatmeal Wit). It is made with malted & un-malted wheat, pilsner malt, acidulated malt, flaked oats, German select hops, Belgian ale yeast, coriander, and lemongrass.

Head out to the nearest Cap Ale location for the tapping at 6pm.   Brewmaster Jason Oliver will be at the Midlothian location to tap the first keg.  As much as I’d like for you to save me some for when I get back into town, I doubt what will surely be an amazing beer will last that long. So enjoy!

Virginia Beers at Broad Appetit

Are you planning on attending Broad Appetit tomorrow, Sunday, June 3rd?  No?! Why not?!

Seriously, it is the best deal on food from the several of the best restaurants in town.  I don’t know how you can beat $3 a plate.  Oh yeah, I do! $5 for two dishes in most cases.

This will be my third year in attendance at the five year old festival but this year has me even more excited because Virginia’s craft breweries are joining in on the fun.

Now take another look at the photo above.  Ladies and gentlemen, here are just a few of the people responsible for bringing you local craft beer.

Look for the truck provided by Brown Distributing for the following beers:

  • Legend Hefeweizen
  • Legend Lager
  • Starr Hill Northern Lights
  • Starr Hill Starr Pils
  • Hardywood Park Singel
  • Devils Backbone Vienna Lager
  • O’Connor Red Nun
  • Roanoke Railhouse Track 1
  • Roanoke Railhouse Caboose
  • Bold Rock Virginia Apple Cider (first kegs anywhere!)

Step into Popkin Tavern for the ‘Taste the Local Tasting Room’ featuring:

  • Firkin of Starr Hill Brewer’s Choice Zested Saison
  • Starr Pils
  • Legend Saison
  • Hardywood Park Bourbon Cru
  • Devils Backbone Gold Leaf Lager
  • O’Connor Great Dismal Black IPA
  • Roanoke Railhouse IPA
  • Wolf Hills Imperial Stout
  • Bull and Bones Maroon Effect
  • Bold Rock Virginia Apple Cider

Taste the Local will host three Meet the Brewer sessions featuring:

  • Starr Hill            12 – 1pm
  • Legend                1 – 2pm
  • Hardywood         2 – 3pm

The Starr Hill firkin will be tapped at noon at the start of Starr Hill’s Meet the Brewer session.

So head out for some great local food and beer as Broad Street shuts down for a party unlike any other.

Broad Appetit runs from 12 – 6pm  between Adams and Henry.  You will have fun even if you try not to.

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