Outside Yuengling beer caves; Credit: Richmond Beeristoric
UPDATE 10/21/15 12:10PM: Tickets on sale now. Go and get them!
If you’ve heard about this tour in the past and wished you had the chance to attend, make sure to get yourself over to Strangeways Wednesday October 21st before tickets are gone. Being the final and one of the most anticipated events of RVA Beer Week, this tour will sell out quickly. Trust me on this!
Between this Sunday and next, you will have two chances to celebrate Oktoberfest at Metzger Bar & Butchery down in Church Hill.
Head over tomorrow Sunday October 18th from 1 to 8PM as Metzger hosts an Oktoberfest block party complete with Fest-biers, Marzens, sausages and stein holding competitions. The event is free but if you buy tickets early on Eventbrite you will get a free Metzger Oktoberfest T-shirt. Beer and food tickets will be sold at the door for $5 each.
Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.
Next Sunday October 25th, Metzger will host an Oktoberfest beer dinner featuring Devils Backbone. Take a look at the menu.
MENU
Nuremburger stuffed Napa Cabbage, goulash
Altbier
Potato and Apple Soup, Quark, Speck
Berliner Metro Weiss
“Fish and Chips”
Olive oil poached Halibut, Potato Latke, Beer Batter Crunch, Malted Tartar Sauce
Dortmunder Lager
Short Rib Sauerbraten, Spaetzle, Zweigelt, Gingersnap
Oktoberfest
Vanilla Bean and Smoked Apple Cake, Sorrel Sorbet, Anglaise
Smoked Dunkel Weiss
Seatings for the dinner will start at 5pm and will be available throughout the night. Seats are $60/person and reservations can be made by calling Metzger at 804.325.3147.
Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.
We are coming to the end of the release season for pumpkin beers. If you missed earlier releases, Strangeways and Lickinghole Creek have you covered today Saturday October 17th starting at noon.
Head over to Strangeways as they release their final Gourd of Thunder variant, Oak Aged Gingerbread. The original GOT and its variants will be available in a 4-pack at a special price for this weekend only.
Strangeways Brewing
2277 Dabney Rd
Richmond, VA 23230
Meanwhile LCCB sees the release of “Pumpkin Ain’t Easy” using pumpkins grown at the farm brewery and roasted at Short Pump’s Tazza Kitchen. In addition to their spiceless version, LCCB will offer two spiced variants — “Pumpkin Is Easy” (pumpkin spice) and “Spiced Pumpkin Latte” (pumpkin spice & coffee). Only 500 bottles of each variant were made and are limited to 2 bottles per person.
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery
4100 Knolls Point Dr.
Goochland, VA 23063
Credit: Joey Johnson, Beer Buyer, Brew Gastropub
Head over to Brew Gastropub’s Chesterfield location Saturday October 17th at 6pm for a Ballast Point tap takeover so big I’ve dubbed it “brewmongous.”
Here are the thirty one beers that will be tapped:
Brew Gastropub – Chesterfield
6525 Centralia Road
Chesterfield, VA 23835
Check this out tonight.
How do you up the ante of the already winning combination of burgers and beer? For Burger Bach, the answer was simple — Oktoberfest burger!
Old Bust Head, out of Warrenton, VA, is a relatively new offering in the Richmond area. So while you’re enjoying that burger make sure to try a few of the beers on tap for the evening:
Gold Cup Russian Imperial Stout
Oktoberfest Marzen Style Lager
Old Jail Pumpkin Peach Brown Ale
Graffiti House West Coast IPA
The beers will be tapped starting at 5pm and there will also be glassware to steal. Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.
Burger Bach – Short Pump
2225 Old Brick Rd
Glen Allen, VA 23233
Four new beer releases, silver medal GABF winning beer on draft, an anniversary tankard, and all the sugar pumpkins you can pick. You will find all this and more as Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery celebrates their second anniversary this Saturday October 10th starting at noon.
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LCCB will tap the silver medal winning Heir Apparent at 4pm Saturday.
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Here are the other beers you can expect to be tapped throughout the day:
The Source – Blueberry IPA – Three Notch’d & LCCB Collab – Available All Day
Chocolate Decadence – Available All Day
Coffee Decadence – Available as long as it lasts
Raspberry & Coffee Decadence – Available as long as it lasts
Darjeeling Tripel – Available All Day
Three Chopt Tripel – Available All Day
Magic Beaver – Available All Day
‘Til Sunset Session IPA – Available All Day
Vanilla Virginia Black Bear (Tapped at 12:00)
Nuclear Nugget Imperial Honey IPA (Tapped at 12:00)
Coconut Delight (Tapped at 2:00)
Mango Habanero Brown Ale (Tapped at 2:00)
Heir Apparent (Tapped at 4:00) Silver Medal Winner at 2015 GABF
Enlightened Despot (Tapped at 4:00)
Batchelors Delight (Tapped at 6:00)
Bourbon Barrel Tripel (Tapped at 6:00)
Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery
4100 Knolls Point Dr
Goochland, VA 23063
Know Good Beer & Music Festival will arrive in Richmond for the first time on Brown’s Island tomorrow Saturday September 19th from 2 to 9pm. Tickets are $40 in advance ($50 at the door) and include unlimited 4, 8,or 12oz pours as well as a KGB mug. Check out the beer list and get your tickets here.
Here’s the music lineup for the day. You might just find me up front for Kopecky!
The Richmond beer community will join together to honor the memory of Hardin Brotherton (brother of Lisa Brotherton Pumphrey of Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery) by participating in the Richmond chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s “Out of the Darkness” walk at Deep Run Park Saturday September 19th starting at 8am.
If you’d like to participate in the walk, you can join RVA Craft Beer’s team here. Please also consider helping us support AFSP’s mission by contributing here.
Lisa shared this about her brother Hardin:
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is the leader in the fight against suicide. They fund research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy, and support survivors of suicide loss. Led by CEO Robert Gebbia and headquartered in New York, AFSP has 75 local chapters with programs and events nationwide.
Suicide claims more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined.
25 million Americans suffer from depression each year.
The best way to prevent suicide is through early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of depression and other mood disorders.
Hello Richmond.
Sorry for the empty pages over the last month. It has been a busy one here as we completed our second and final move of the year. Sadly, I ended up missing most of Virginia Craft Beer Month but I’m sure you had a great time. I’ve seen the pictures. Now that I am a full fledged city resident, I am excited to reconnect with our breweries to see what they will be up to these coming fall months.
Let’s see what is in store this weekend.
Ardent Craft Ales
Sweet Potato & Sage Saison is back.
Hanover Oktoberfest & Das Bier Run at Center of the Universe
COTU makes one of my favorite Oktoberfest beers. You are missing out if you haven’t tried simmering bratwurst in it before grilling.
Also, I hope there are some of these smoked beers left because I missed out.
Maiden’s Adventure Release & Pumpkin Picking Party at Lickinghole Creek
Show LCCB some love this weekend as they go from summer into fall in one weekend.
Farmhouse Pumpkin & RVA IPA Release at Hardywood
Brewed in the style of the farmhouse ales of Belgium’s southern countryside, Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin utilizes a blend of rye, wheat and barley in the grain bill, earthy flavoring hops and a classic saison yeast. Ripe, flame roasted Virginia sugar pumpkins and brown sugar provide a hearty backbone to this 8.5% ABV beer. Freshly ground Ceylon cinnamon, whole Grenada nutmeg, whole Madagascar clove and whole allspice harmonize with pounds of freshly sliced organic ginger root.Farmhouse Pumpkin Ale incorporates local ingredients from Grandma’s Pumpkin’s of North Chesterfield, Ellwood Thompson’s, Sauer’s Spices and Penzeys Spice Company.
Our “community hopped IPA” is brewed exclusively with freshly harvested local hops, from the first bittering hop addition to the flavoring/aroma additions to a final wet hop addition, more than 300 pounds of local Cascade, Columbus, Chinook, Glacier, Magnum, Nugget and Centennial hops were used in this 60-barrel batch of beer. Brewed just once a year when hops are at their peak freshness, RVA IPA is sure to go quickly!
Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin and RVA IPA will be available in 750mL bottles, 4 packs and for growler fills at 2pm. Roundabound Pretzels,BoDillaz and Slideways Mobile Bistro on site through the day!
Join us for a special performance of the seminal Paul Simon album, Graceland, presented as RVA production company Spin, Spit & Swear‘s Cover To Cover at 7pm:
Gourd of Thunder Release at Strangeways
Your favorite pumpkin brew is back- with one twist- it’s now available on draft and in 750 ml bottles.
Gourd of Thunder is a dark and gnarly Imperial Pumpkin Porter brewed with freshly picked local pumpkins that were ripened on the vine while continuously listening to heavy metal. The malty pumpkin backbone fuses robustly with a milky sugar creaminess. Bourbon vanilla beans lay down a rock-steady foundation that drives the cinnamon, ginger and clove spices through your skull. This brew does not merely mimic the flavor of a mortal pumpkin pie. Gourd of Thunder will cataclysmically blow your mind with its face-melting, high-voltage attitude. Headbangers Unite!
9.2% ABV | 18 IBU
Richmond Beermeister 