Daily Archives: November 2, 2012

RVA Beer Week 2012: Festivals

Saturday November 3rd

Midnight Brewing Harvest Celebration — 1 – 7PM

Midnight unveils two new beers with music from the world-famous Hurricane Johnson Band starting at 3pm.

2410 Granite Ridge Road
Rockville, VA 23146

Sunday November 4th

Autumn Bottom Brews — 12 – 5PM

Probably the most attend event of last year’s beer week.  This event at the 17th Street Farmer’s Market will feature the following Virginia beers:

Big Daddy Hopdog IPA
Big Daddy Sunshine Wit
Bold Rock Virginia Apple
Brass Cannon Muzzle Flash
Brass Cannon Smooth Pour Stout
Bull & Bones Lunch Pale Ale
Bull & Bones Maroon Effect Brown Ale
Devils Backbone 8 Point IPA
Devils Backbone Kilt Flasher
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager (Truck Only)
Hardywood Hoplar aged in 10 year old Bowman’s Bourbon Barrel
Hardywood Saison Rustica
James River Brewing Baltic Porter
James River Brewing Green Eyed Lady Pistachio Saison
Legend Brown Ale (Truck Only)
Legend Chocolate Porter
Legend Winter White
Midnight Kolsch
Midnight Rockville Red Ale
O’Connor/Portsmouth Collaboration Mild Child
O’Connor Great Dismal Black IPA
O’Connor Red Nun (Truck Only)
Roanoke Railhouse Switch Monkey Belgian Pale
Roanoke Railhouse Track 1
Starr Hill All Access Belgian-Style Strong
Starr Hill Cryptical Imperial Stout
Starr Hill Double Platinum Dry Hopped Firkin (Gravity poured festival keg)
Starr Hill Gift Winter Bock (Truck Only)
Wolf Hills Troopers Alley IPA
Wolf Hills White Blaze Honey Cream Ale

Saturday November 10th

Taste the Local West Broad Village — 12 – 7PM

Music
Love Canon
4 Play
The Big Payback
People’s Blues of Richmond

Local Beer
Legend Brewing
Hardywood Park
Center of the Universe
Starr Hill
Devils Backbone
O’Connor Brewing
Midnight Brewery
Bold Rock Cidery
Roanoke Railhouse
Bull and Bones Brewhaus

Food
Halligan Bar and Grill
Ledo’s Pizza

Crafts and artisinal products
DeRochonnet Delights
Fruit 66
Citiwood
Denton’s Bottle Openers

RVA Beer Week 2012: Tap Takeovers, Pub Crawls & Samplings

Friday November 2nd

Once Upon A Vine South – Seasonal Beer Sampling — 5 – 8PM
Starr Hill The Gift
Goose Island Christmas Ale
Heavy Seas Winter Storm
Legend Winter White
Legend Barleywine
Legend Wee Heavy

Saturday November 3th

South of the James Farmers Market 9AM – Noon
Bold Rock Cider Sampling

Crossroads Forest Hill Oskar Blues Tap Takeover and Bike Invasion Event — 1PM
Oskar Blues Dales Pale
Deviant Dales IPA
Gubna
Ten Fidy
Old Chub

Sunday November 4th

Station 2 Autumn Bottom After Party — 6PM
Starr Hill The Love
Hardywood Park Farmhouse Pumpkin
O’Connor Mild Child
Devils Backbone Old Virginia Dark
Midnight Head First Pale
Roanoke Railhouse IPA
Big Daddy Trailhead Nut Brown
Wolf Hills Chocolate Milk Stout
Mad Fox Keller Kolsch
James River Burning Bruges
Bold Rock
Legend Pilsner

Monday November 5th

Pins & Pint Parade
A bar crawl focusing on some of the Fans’ favorite beer bars with a freshly tapped cask beer at each location:

5:30 PM –Commercial Taphouse- Mad Fox “Mason’s Mild”
6:30 PM –Secco- Devils Backbone “Ichabod Crandall”
7:30 PM — Weezie’s- Hardywood Park “Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout”

Tuesday November 6th

Joes Inn (The Fan) Hardywood Park Tap INNvasion — 6PM
Singel
Mocha Belgique
Hoplar
Blackberry
Farmhouse Pumpkin
Bourbon Cru
Bourbon DIPA
Belgian DIPA
Pin of Milk Stout with Vanilla and a hint of Orange Peel
Hoplar (Aged in 10yr old Bowman’s Bourbon Barrel)
Saison Rustica
Habanero IPA

Wednesday November 7th

Station 2 Victory Steal the Glass Night 5PM

Headwaters Pale
Kolsch
Yakima Glory

Thursday November 8th

Sedona Taphouse Pins and Pints — 5PM

O’Connor Punk con Cocoa pin- Punkelweisse infused with Chocolate (3 different, Cocoa Nibs, Cocoa Powder, Chocolate Bars)
Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Aged Virginia Blackberry pin

Friday November 9th

Attack of The Rare and Wonderful-5pm
You’d have to try really hard not to have a great time at a Mekong event.  Here’s just a taste of what’s in store:

Mad Fox Bourbon Barrel Stout
Goose Island Bourbon County
Hardywood Hazelnut Milk Stout Pin

“Broad Street Gets Goose’d” Goose Island Night — 6pm.

The Camel & Popkin Tavern-  Join Greg Barrett from Goose for different beers at each location.

Kick off for VA Cider Week — 5 – 8 PM

Once Upon A Vine South — VA Cider Sampling

Bold Rock: Virginia Apple, Virginia Draft, Crimson Ridge Vat #1