As if choosing your beer destination for the night was not already tough, The Camel will have their own event tonight Wednesday June 19th as they feature Blue Mountain for a tap takeover.
Here’s what they will have on tap:
Full Nelson
Lager
Summer Haze
Dark Hollow
Coffee Chocolate Dark Hollow
Enjoy bluegrass music from Charlottesville’s Love Canon starting at 8pm.
Strangeways Brewing gets a little bit more peculiar with their new Compendium of Curiosities series starting tonight Wednesday June 19th at 4pm
Here are the details straight from the monkey’s mouth:
Step Right Up Ladies and Gents, Strangeways Brewing’s Tasting Room Introduces:
A COMPENDIUM OF CURIOSITIESEACH WEDNESDAY (starting tomorrow June the 19th) we plan on tapping special selections of NEW draft beers. These drafts are in small quantities, and will be available at the brewery tasting room only (while supplies last). Tappings will occur at 4:00 pm. We apologize, but no growler fills on CURIOSITIES Beers.
… This Week, CURIOSITIES Come in Threes:
I. BERRY MERITAGE WALLONIAN DAWN HONEY SAISON: Note the black and red currants for fruitiness and tang, the hibiscus for tartness, rose hip chips for smoothness and raisins for a natural sweetness
II. MALLORCA MELON ALBINO MONKEY WHITE ALE: A delicious blend of Spanish cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, hibiscus, and Seville orange for a sweet and tangy infusion
III. CARAMEL DREAM WOODBOOGER BELGIAN BROWN ALE: Caramel and Madagascar vanilla to give a sweet note to this earthy blend
Check out the Facebook event for more information and updates here.
The Bruery, out of Orange County, CA, is by far one of my most favorite breweries around. My favorite brew from them has to be Autumn Maple; I mean yams and maple syrup in a beer, come on! Side note: check out all of these recipes using their beers!
Naturally, I’m ecstatic to try the selection Mekong has chosen for a mini tap takeover tonight Wednesday June 19th featuring six of their beers plus a special Andall. Many of these beers are competely new to me so that is an absolute bonus.
Here are the beers they will be tapping at 5pm starting off with The Bruery’s fifth anniversary beer, Bois:
Bois – 5th Anniversary beer – 15.5% Olde Ale
White Oak – Wheatwine aged in Bourbon Barrel
Hottenroth – 3.1% Berliner Weisse
Rugbrod – Danish Rye
Trade Winds – Tripel with Thai Basil
Humulus Lager – Hoppy Lager or IPA with Lager yeast
Hottenroth Andall with fresh peaches
This is going on from noon to 7pm today. If your dad loves oysters and beer, he’ll have a great time at this. Happy Father’s Day!
Sounds good to me!
Today, Friday June 14th, Strangeways Brewing is releasing Secret Batch #3 on the Richmond beer scene.
Wallonian Dawn Honey Saison
There’s just one catch. This beer will not be available at the brewery tasting room until Saturday. So go out any of these awesome locations for your first taste:
Mekong
Ellwood Thompson
Saison
Secco Wine Bar
Rappahannock
Gallery 5
Joe’s Inn (Shield’s Ave)
Pho Saigon
Savory Grain
The Camel
Naturally, Boulevard Brewing’s first beer dinner in Richmond would be on Boulevard. It’s happening at Fat Dragon next Tuesday June 18th at 6:30pm. Cost for the dinner is $50/person excluding tax and tip. Take a look at the menu below and call (804) 354-9888 to reserve your spot.
MENU
Reception and Snack
Unfiltered Wheat | 4.4 ABV |
Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat Beer is a lively, refreshing ale with a natural citrusy flavor and distinctive cloudy appearance.
Steamed Edamame – Tossed with zesty black bean sauce and fresh herbs and sea salt
1st Course
80 Acre Hoppy Wheat | 5.5 ABV |
With roots in two of today’s most popular brewing styles, 80-Acre is a match made in heaven; delightfully distinctive ale with the aroma of an IPA and the refreshing taste of a wheat beer.
Cilantro Lime Chicken – Tossed with fresh veggies, garlic and a secret blend of spices in a tangy citrus sauce
2nd Course
Tank 7 Saison | 8.5 ABV |
Beginning with a big surge of fruity aromatics and grapefruit-hoppy notes, the flavor of this complex, straw-colored ale tapers off to a peppery, dry finish.
Fusion Roasted Pork Bao – delicately roasted pork, mozzarella and basil bao hand made by Chef Zhao
3rd Course
Double-Wide DIPA | 8.5 ABV |
Liberally hopped with toffee and caramel notes balancing out the lingering bitterness. Appreciate the complex blending of hop aromas, ranging from minty to citrusy, with subtle hints of pine.
Duck Fried Rice – House Tea Smoked Duck served with egg crepe
4th Course
The 6th Glass Belgian Dark Strong Ale | 10.5 ABV |
This quadrupel ale is a deep and mysterious libation, dark auburn and full-bodied, its sweetness deceptive.
Chocolate Pate with Pistachio Brittle – Hand crafted by Chef Kevin LaCivita of The Blue Goat Gastropub
Fat Dragon
1200 N Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23230
(804) 354-9888
Just a short ways past Kings Dominion, Rusty Beaver Brewery, Virginia’s newest nano brewery, will open their doors to the public Friday June 14th at 6pm.
According to their website, it appears they have four main brews to start:
Buck Tooth “Big Bite” IPA – ABV 6.5%
Roy’s Big Bad Brown Ale “Triple B” – ABV 5.7%
The Quake Stout – ABV 8.9%
SMASHed Bastard – ABV 5.2% – Single malt & single hop beer
Zen – ABV 7.5% — Stout and Bastard mixed black and tan style
It’s unclear right now if all of these will be available at the opening but it does sound like a promising lineup.
Give them a follow on Facebook and Twitter to catch their updates.
Richmond, if you do only one thing this weekend, make it Richmond Bacon Festival! Unless you’ve been living under rock you have heard plenty about the event. If so, the premise is quite simple, all bacon, all the time with more than twenty Devils Backbone beers. Think Broad Appetit but infinitely more awesome simply because of bacon.
Richmond.com has the full details on restaurants serving food at the festival but here are a few dishes I am intrigued by:
The Roosevelt — Chef Lee Gregory — Pork belly slider with cabbage slaw
Berkeley Hotel — Chef Carly Herring — bacon sea salt dark chocolate truffles
On the Rox — Chef Mike Pendergrast — something about bacon salt and oysters? Yes, please!
On the Rox will also be the site of the after-party.
Here is the full beer list from Taste the Local along with a few of my favorite or “new to me” DB beers in bold:
Devils Backbone
Ale of Fergus – Scottish Ale (limited)
Azrael – Belgian Strong Ale (limited)
Beggars & Thieves – Rye Pilsner (limited)
Belgian Wit – Belgian White Ale (limited)
Danzig – Baltic Porter (limited)
Dark Abby – Belgian Abbey Dubbel
Eight Point IPA – American IPA
Gold Leaf Lager – Dortmunder Lager (limited)
Kilt Flasher – Wee Heavy
Maibock – German Maibock
Ramsey’s Stout – Dry Irish Stout (limited)
Reilly’s Red – Irish Red Ale
Schwartz Bier – German Schwarzbier
Skull Crushing Ape – Weizen Doppelbock (limited)
Smokehaus Lager – Smoked Lager (limited)
Striped Bass – American Pale Ale (limited)
Tectonic Barleywine – English Barley Wine (limited)
The Congo – Belgian IPA (limited)
Wintergreen Weiss – German Hefeweizen (limited)
Wood Aged Kilt Flasher – Barrel Aged Wee Heavy (limited)
Bold Rock Hard Cider
Virginia Apple
Virginia Draft
#RVA what kind of craft beer drinker are you? I’m some kind of mix of 1, 4, and 9.
With an ever-increasing selection of high-quality beers available, well, pretty much everywhere, craft beer enthusiast are experiencing an age of taste enlightenment, a malt and hops renaissance clad in glass, bearing colorful, cleverly labeled heraldry. With so many options, it was inevitable that drinkers and drinking habits would naturally stratify, form groups based on behaviors and preferences and concentrations of alpha acids. I give you, distilled from the hot mash of beer culture, the ten archetypal craft beer drinkers. For the record, I’m some kind of mix between #4 and #9.
(Side note: I used the pronouns “he” and “his” for simplicity only, and am by no means suggesting this is a male-only thing. We’ll just assume that “guy” in this context is as gender malleable as “dude.” Everyone is a dude, male or female or equine or mythological.)
1. The Local
This guy drinks beer brewed in his home state…
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