Twenty three breweries from up and down the coast will join Triple Crossing at the first annual East Coast Covenant Beer Festival on Saturday November 11th. I have a feeling you’re going to want to mark your calendar for this.
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Head over to Final Gravity for this Friday night and check out the Scientifical Madness DIPA they’re releasing the same day.
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Did you miss out on tickets to the Veil’s Forever Summer festival? Or do you just want to kick off your celebration early?
If you answered yes to either question, you should head over to the Cask Cafe today Friday August 11th.. They will be tapping beers from some of the breweries featured at Saturday’s festival.
Here are the beers that will be pouring starting at 4pm:
Save for the Veil beers, none of these are scheduled to be tapped at the festival. Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.
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How is your Virginia Craft Beer Month going so far? If you’re behind, Triple Crossing has plenty of chances for you to catch up this Friday August 11th. You will just have to go to both locations if you’re trying to get everything. Starting at noon, their Fulton location will see the release of four new beers. At the same time downtown, they will be releasing their first gose, Salinity, in crowlers along with some draft only variants.
Here is the rundown on each of the beers being offered:
Head over to the Facebook events for both release locations, here and here, for more information and updates.
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Head over to Scott’s Addition as Väsen Brewing Company opens their doors to the public for the first time today Saturday July 29th at noon.
Väsen Brewing Company
3331 Moore St.
Richmond, VA 23230
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For four years, those mad scientists at Strangeways Brewing have been stoking your curiosity with their wildly imaginative concoctions. Celebrate with them this weekend with their Wake Me Up Before You Gose and its variants (Hibiscus, Red Wine Barrel Aged & Ghost Pepper, Rum Barrel Aged).
Year Four of the Curious Pour!
Come celebrate our Four Year Anniversary Celebration July 29th, as we toast to four years of being Richmond’s purveyor of curiously delicious drafts. There will be CAKE and of course a plethora of BEER.BEER RELEASE – BOTTLE + DRAFT
Wake Me Up Before You Gose and two variants!
Plus 36+ Brews to Choose from.Northern Neck Oysters
Cheezilla’s Grilled Cheese
Trunkles Cheese Pop UpGelati Celesti Ice Cream Truck – Try a Double Decadence Beer Float
Ravenchase Adventures
Face painting
Caricatures
Merchandise Summer Sales
Corn Hole
Over-sized outside gamesIt’s fun for all, FREE to attend, kid friendly and well-behaved, leashed dogs are always welcome on our patio.
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HeART & Soul Brew Fest returns for its second year at Hardywood this Saturday July 29th starting at 1pm. If you missed it last year, you missed some of the best soul food Richmond has to offer served with that delicious Hardywood beer. Personally, it was one of my favorite events from last year. I’ve said it before but it was very uplifting to see more African Americans like myself at a beer event even when I honestly didn’t know it was something missing from my life.
I for one look forward to getting down on some Mama J’s catfish but here is the full food lineup for this year.
Mama J’s
Croaker’s Spot Restaurants
Minibar RVA
Jus Cukn, LLC
Inner City Blues home of Carolina Bar B Que
Mo’s Sweet Minis
Ruby Scoops Ice Cream & Sweets
Soul-Ice
RVA Street Foodies
Kelli S. Lemon has the reasons you should check out each of these spots.
This year the festival will also be paired with the release of Cuvée Gold, a remix of Hardywood’s Vinalia Urbana.
Hardywood Cuvée Gold artfully blends the elegance of French wine country with the gentle and balanced characteristics of a traditional Belgian-style Golden Ale. Combining both young and mature vintages aged in freshly emptied Sauvignon Blanc barrels, Cuvée Gold offers light earthy aromatics, a subtle sweetness and a hint of toasted oak that are delightfully dry and delicate on the palate, with lasting white grape and stone fruit undertones.
Head over to the Facebook events for the festival and beer release, here and here, for updates and more.
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Forever Summer, the Veil Brewing’s festival celebrating hoppy beers, returns for the second year Saturday August 12th. Once again the proceeds from the festival will benefit ChildSavers. There will be no after party this year so the day will be split into three sessions:
Tickets will go on sale both online and in the Veil’s taproom this Sunday July 9th promptly at noon.
Tickets are $90(+ fees)/person and include:
When looking to buy your tickets, pay very close attention to these rules:
2x tickets max per person. 1x ticket for you, and 1x ticket for a guest. You will not be allowed to redeem two tickets for one person. If you do not know who your guest will be, we highly suggest putting both tickets under your name. There will be no physical tickets. This event will be 100% will call list. Tickets are NON-TRANSFERABLE, NON-REFUNDABLE, **NO EXCEPTIONS**. Must have ID/CC, purchaser must be present with guest.
Breweries
With this list of breweries you can expect this festival to sell out quickly. Online tickets will probably be gone in minutes and there will be a line at the taproom. So before you go buying:
Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.
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Following on the heels of 2016’s Virginia Pride collaboration beers, Georgie and Porgie, Ardent Craft Ales and Center of the Universe have been joined by Hardywood to create this year’s beer. “Tropic Like It’s Hot” is a German-style wheat beer brewed with passion fruit, pineapple, and lime.
In conjunction with Virginia Pride, Hardywood, Ardent Craft Ales, and Center of the Universe will feature “Tropic Like It’s Hot” at events hosted at each brewery leading up to September’s Pride Festival and invite you to “Live Free. Live Proud.”
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Learn more about Hardywood, COTU, and Ardent’s respective events: here, here, and here.
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Here is another anniversary to put on your schedule for the weekend. Take a trip down to Petersburg and celebrate with Trapezium Brewing Co. as they host a clam bake for their first anniversary.
More from their Facebook event:
Year one is almost in the books, and we want to celebrate with you! Join us for an all-day bash at Trapezium. We’ve got two special brews lined up for the occasion, loads of local food, live music, activities for the kids, and of course, birthday cake from Buttermilk Bake Shop.
Here are the deets:
FOOD:
– We’re having an old-fashioned clam bake houseboat party! Tickets will be available on site, $12 gets you 20 clams.
– Our friends from the El Mundo Delicioso food truck will be slinging authentic Mexican tacos right outside
– We’ll have the full taproom menu, obvi!BEER:
– Orange Crush DIPA: Orange zest. Vanilla bean. Hops. Bring it on.
– Tropical Punch Imperial Cream Ale. Sweet, tart, refreshing. YES.MUSIC:
We’ve teamed up with The Broadberry to bring you a great show! More details coming soon.WHAT ELSE?
– Get here early for a free cupcake from Buttermilk Bake Shop!
– Coming later in the day? We’ve got you covered with King of Pops available for purchase
– We’ve got some amazing merch coming for this day. Houseboat tank, anyone? 🙋🙋♂️
– Love us so much you want to volunteer at the event? (Free swag alert!) Sign up here: http://signup.com/go/eFSJOQuStay tuned for more details, see you on the 17th!
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