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Virginia Beer Returning To Virginia Wine Expo’s Burger Blast For Year Two

Virginia Wine Expo’s Burger Blast returns for its second year Friday February 21st starting at 5pm.  Bigger and better than last year, Burger Blast will feature artisan burgers created by fifteen talented Richmond chefs with unlimited samplings of Virginia beer and wine.  Held in the Ballroom of the Greater Richmond Convention Center, this fantastic evening of burgers and beers will sell out like last year so don’t wait get your tickets ($38/person) now here.

Take a look at the delicious burgers to be served and the participating Virginia breweries.

Restaurants & Burgers

  • American Tap Room: ATR Short Rib Sliders — Slow cooked braised Short Ribs served with all the fixins to build your own slider masterpiece with pickled shallots, mustards, red wine sauce, premium cheeses and grilled pineapple
  • Aramark: Beef & Italian Sausage Slider with Cilantro, Saga Blue Cheese, Red Beans, Applewood Bacon with Smoked Tomato Aioli and Sliced Havarti with Micro Greens served on a Challah Roll.
  • Brew: Pepperoni Pizza Burger: Freshly Ground Beef Laced with Pepperoni, Mushrooms, Mozzerella Topped with Sundried Tomato/Marinara Aioli, Served with Fresh Cut House Fries.
  • Burgerworks: The Bleus Burger Slider (last year’s people’s choice winner) — All natural, locally-sourced Angus beef patty topped with Danish Bleu Cheese, suateéd onions, bacon and a housemade Balsamic-port wine glaze.
  • Capital Ale House: Italian Slider — Veal and Lamb Patty with Roasted Garlic Marinara Sauce and Parmesan Cheese Crisp
  • Carytown Burgers & Fries: To be decided
  • Culinard: Duck/Turkey Burger on a Turmeric Brioche Bun with Hoisin Ketchup and Sakura Cress
  • India K’ Raja: Veggie Burger on Wheat with Tamarind Spread
  • J Sargeant Reynolds: Short Rib and Bison Slider — Short Ribs and Bison with Virginia Dark Lager and Bacon Glaze topped with Smoky Munster, Cherry Tomato ‘Jam’, Pickled Red Onion, Watercress Salad on a Housemade Brioche Bun with Grainy Mustard Aioli and House Half Sour Pickle
  • Mezzanine: Locally Ground Chicken and Avocado Slider with a Red Onion and Pineapple Relish 
  • Omni Resorts The Homestead: The Fairway Burger: Wagyu Beef, Cambozola Cheese, Pepper Bacon, Caramelized Onions on a Ciabatta Roll
  • Saison: Smoked Mushroom “Burger”, Saison Yellow Mustard Fancy Sauce and Pickled Mushrooms on a Potato Bun 
  • Savory Grain: Burger Blast Savory Slider: House made blend of Angus chuck, brisket, short rib, and rib-eye; topped with a local seasonal winter ale house cured glazed bacon, crumbled chevre, pickled red onions, and micro greens, finished with a VA pinot noir aioli, served on a fresh baked Lucille’s challah petite roll
  • Toast: Salmon Burger Slider: Salmon Burger with Poached Shallot and Dill Cream Cheese and Rappahanock Vineyards Cabernet Franc Reduction

Virginia Breweries
Apocalypse Ale Works – Forest
Bold Rock Cider – Nellysford
Center of The Universe (COTU) – Ashland
Devils Backbone – Lexington
Extra Billy’s – Richmond
Hardywood – Richmond
Isley – Richmond
Legend – Richmond
Lickinghole Creek – Goochland
Midnight – Goochland
O’Connor – Norfolk
Rusty Beaver – Ladysmith
Starr Hill – Crozet
Strangeways – Richmond
Sunken City – Smith Mountain Lake
Three Brothers – Harrisonburg

Check out the Facebook event for further updates.

Weekend Notes: 821 Cafe, Brew, and Popkin Tavern

Tonight February 7th, 821 Cafe ups their taps to seventeen and wants to give you a free growler (with fill).  Check out their tap list here.

Saturday February 8th, Brew is throwing another of their weekly beer schools featuring Founders.

To those with questions over Popkin Tavern’s closing, here are a few things you should know:

  • Yes! Popkin will still host their FREE beer school the next two Saturdays (2/8 & 2/15) at 4PM.
  • Popkin will start discounting beer Saturday February 8th in order to move it out before they close February 15th. 
  • As I hear it, there are some cool kegs they’ve been holding on to so be prepared for surprises.   

 

Popkin Tavern Says Party Isn’t Over With Goose Island Tap Takeover Tonight

Goose Island Big John Logo3Popkin Tavern might be closing February 15th but there is still some time to have fun.  Head over tonight Thursday February 6th as they pull out some Goose Island beers stashed in their cellar including a few Bourbon County beers.

Here is what they will be tapping as they wind down eight years starting at 7pm:

Bourbon County Stout 2012
Bourbon County Stout 2013
Bourbon County Barleywine 2013
Big John 2012
Nightstalker 2012
Juliet
Halia
Gillian
Lolita

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.  

123 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220

Experience The Evolution of Hardywood Sidamo Coffee Stout with a Pin Crawl Thursday

Taste your way through the evolution of Hardywood Sidamo Coffee Stout from base beer to bourbon barrel aged with a pin crawl tomorrow Thursday February 6th starting at 5:30PM.

Here are the stops on the crawl:

5:30PM – Commercial Taphouse & Grill — Russian Imperial Stout — base beer

6:45PM  – The Cask Cafe — Sidamo Coffee Stout — base beer plus coffee beans from Lamplighter Roasting Company

7:30PM – Portrait House — Bourbon Sidamo — coffee stout aged in Jim Beam barrels

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.

Three Reasons You Should Get Craft Beer From Whole Foods Short Pump This Weekend

Whole Foods Beer Sale

  1. There is a huge sale on 750ml and 22oz bomber bottles going on right now, Friday January 31st, like as a I type this now!  The word used to describe the discounts was “DEEP.”
  2. The discounts will expand to include growler fills tomorrow February 1st from 8AM – Noon.
  3. They will tap Foothills Sexual Chocolate Saturday at 1PM. No growlers of this Imperial Stout as it is very limited.

Double Your Barrels With Brandy Blue Bee Cider and Hardywood Bourbon Coffee This Saturday

There are some cool things coming out of barrels this Saturday February 1st.  You can try one or the other but there’s plenty of time to get them both in.

Blue Bee Rocky Ridge Release — Noon

From noon to 7PM, Blue Bee Cider debuts their sixth and final cider from their very first harvest in 2012.  Rocky Ridge Reserve was aged for five months in brandy barrels before packaging into hand numbered bottles.  There looks to be only 356 bottles available so get these while you can cider fans. 

So go out and get a taste then take a bottle or two home.  Olio’s food truck will offer an ala carte menu to pair with Blue Bee’s ciders. Music will be provided by the Cider Sippers throughout the afternoon with traditional Appalachian tunes.

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.

212 W. 6th St.
Richmond, VA 23224

Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo Release — 2PM

Hardywood’s Bourbon Sidamo returns for its second year starting at 2PM.  Aged for three months in Kentucky bourbon barrels, this coffee stout will have you prepared for whatever Punxsutawney Phil sees on Sunday. 

Enjoy Bourbon Sidamo on draft while chowing down on food from Station 2, Hungry Turtle Food Truck, Cielito Lindo, Super Fresh Carts or Goatocado.  Be sure to grab some bottles to go as well in case we are hit with another polar vortex.

Music will be provided by Fear of Music, The Shangri-Lords, and special guests Full Moon Fever starting at 4:30, 6:15, and 7pm respectively. 

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.

Score Thirty-six Points with Devils Backbone and Pizza Tonight at The Cask Cafe

Credit: Devils Backbone

Credit: Devils Backbone

UPDATE: Sadly, Pizza Tonight will not be out tonight due to the snow, but the show must go on.

 

Head over to The Cask Cafe today Wednesday January 29th as they serve up thirty six points of Devils Backbone beers including their latest limited release, 16 Point Imperial IPA plus a fresh cask conditioned beer.  Pizza Tonight will be there as well baking their delicious pies including this new offering:

Here is the complete lineup for the evening to be tapped at 5pm:

  • 4 Point Pale Ale
  • 8 Point IPA
  • 16 Point Imperial IPA
  • 8 Point IPA — cask conditioned pin with Virginia Cascade hops

Head over the Facebook event for more information and updates.

The Cask Cafe
206 S Robinson St
Richmond, VA 23220

Hardywood, Strangeways, & Lickinghole Creek Heading to SAVOR This May

SAVOR 2014At the same time the VA Craft Brewers Guild elected new leadership, Brewers Association announced breweries participating in this year’s SAVOR: American Craft Beer & Food Experience on May 9th & 10th in Washington, DC.  Of the seventy six participants, five breweries are from Virginia including three from the Richmond area:

Devils Backbone Brewing Co — Roseland, VA
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery — Richmond, VA
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery — Goochland, VA
Port City Brewing Co — Alexandria, VA
Strangeways Brewing — Richmond, VA

Richmond will be very well represented at this year’s event. Hardywood even became a Supporting Partner for this year.  See who else made it on the list this year here. The American Homebrewers Association and Brewers Association members-only presale is March 25 with public ticket sales starting March 26.

Virginia Craft Brewers Guild Elects New Leadership For 2014

The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild elected new leadership for 2014 at their VA Beer Caucus meeting held last night at Capital Ale House.

Leading the guild will be:

Chair — Mark Thompson, Starr Hill
Vice Chair — Mark Shrader, Bull & Bones Brewhaus & Grill
Legislative Chair — Hayes Humphreys, Devils Backbone
Marketing/Tourism Chair — Eric McKay, Hardywood

Congrats to the new officers.  Looking forward to see what the guild has planned for this year.

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