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Ardent’s Swine & Brine Returns For Year Two This Friday

Ardent Swine & Brine

Ardent Craft Ales’ hit outdoor festival Swine & Brine returns for its second year this Friday April 22nd starting at 4pm. Returning to the festival this year are restaurant favorites  The Roosevelt, Metzger Bar and Butchery, Saison and ZZQ. Newcomers to the festival, Sabai and Amuse join in on the  cooking, smoking, and grilling a bevy of pork dishes and homemade sides. Rappahannock River Oysters will also join the festivities with crab cakes and their delicious oysters raw, steamed, and roasted. Take a look at the menu and beer list.

Menu
Amuse — Carnitas Tacos with Onion, Cilantro, & Lime
Metzger — Pork Meatball Sliders with Spicy Tomato Sauce, Fontina & Arugula Pistou
Rappahannock Oyster — Raw Oysters and Crab Cakes
The Roosevelt — Smoked Pork Sausage with Field Pea Salad
Sabai — Pork Skewers + Pork Riblettes
Saison — Pastrami Ribs + Pickled Red Cabbage
ZZQ — Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Bone-in Pork Belly

Beer List
Saison
Virginia Common
New England IPA
IPA Batch #9
IPA Batch #18
IPA Batch #19
IPA Batch #20
IPL
Robust Porter
Batch 100
Lawnmower Golden Ale
Earl Grey Brown Ale
Altbier
Szechuan Peppercorn Saison
Oyster Porter Cask

Tickets are $20/person and include two tickets redeemable for food or beer as well as a limited edition Ardent Craft Ales bandanna.

All beers and food items will cost one ticket ($5) with the exception of a few larger portions. Guests will be given two tickets as part of their admission, and can purchase additional tickets via cash or credit card at check-in or once inside the event. Free water will be provided at stations around the festival.

Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates. Go ahead get your tickets here.

Ardent Craft Ales
3200 W Leigh St
Richmond, VA 23230

The Veil Brewing’s Grand Opening This Saturday Is So Fancy…But You Already Knew

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Richmond, we’re in the fast lane to The Veil Brewing‘s grand opening this Saturday April 16th from 11am to 11pm. From moment the Veil landed on Facebook, we have seen little peaks inside the mind of Matt Tarpey. (Fun fact: if you’ve interacted with them on Facebook, you were speaking directly to Matt. He has been running their social media from day one.) Saturday though, the gates swing wide open. Let’s go through a few of their updates to see what to expect.

First off, there will be four beers on tap:

  • Sleeping Forever — Imperial Stout (next year’s release will have bourbon barrel version blended in)
  • Dull Fangs — IPA with Galaxy & Nelson hops and organic grapefruit
  • Master Shredder (guitar not evil TMNT villain) — wheat IPA; year round flagship
  • Crucial Taunt — double IPA

Let’s get the rest of your questions out of the way.

Can I get these beers to go? Yes. Yes, you can. No growlers though.

What about glassware? How do you feel about gold and platinum?

Will there be shirts? Limited realness.

Posters? Why wouldn’t there be posters?

Ok, smart guy. What about food and entertainment? ZZQ, Stroops, Boka, and two DJs. Yeah, it’s that kind of party.

Head over to their Facebook event for more details and updates.

The Veil Brewing Co
1301 Roseneath Rd
Richmond, VA 23230

Peppercorns Are In Season At Southbound Tonight

Southbound peppercorn beers 041416-1Head over to Southbound tonight Thursday April 14th as they tap four peppercorn saisons from four different breweries — Ardent Craft Ales, Ommegang Brewery, Starr Hill, and Terrapin.

Each of the beers will be available by the glass as well in a  flight. Upgrade your experience with specially paired snacks.

Here are the beers that will start pouring at 5pm:

  • Ardent Craft Ales Szechuan Peppercorn Saison
  • Ommegang Glimmerglass — saison with pink peppercorn & orange peel
  • Starr Hill Daily Grind — Peppercorn Farmhouse Ale
  • Terrapin Poivre Potion (Side Project #26) — saison with pink peppercorns & dry hopped with Amarillo hops

Reps from each brewery will be on hand to answer your questions so go out and give these beers a try.

Southbound
3036 Stony Point Rd
Richmond, VA 23235

Whole Foods Short Pump’s New Pub Opens Today

 

Whole Foods Short Pump Pub

Credit: Shannon Ely (Old Bust Head Brewery)

This is no April Fools joke. Whole Foods Short Pump will open their new pub today April 1st at noon. Short Pump Pub will feature:

  • 48 taps
  • Wine by the glass
  • Choose a flight: beer, wine, or Barefoot Bucha.
  • Pub chef station for lunch & dinner
  • Happy Hour 4 – 6PM, Monday – Friday
  • Wine classes
  • $1 oyster nights
  • Tap takeovers & meet the brewer events

Check out the following events for their Grand Opening weekend.

Friday 4/1 Noon
Grand Opening Toast & Growler giveaway to first 50 guests

Saturday 4/2 5PM
Steal the Pint Night (First 100 guests)

Sunday 4/3 10AM – 1PM
Brunch, Bucha, & Bluegrass

Oh and there’s also this.

Go Into The Wild With Ardent Craft Ales & Blue Bee Cider At Saison Market Tonight

Check out this special tapping at Saison Market tonight Monday, March 28th starting at 5pm.

Two one of a kind offerings from Ardent & Blue Bee and a few more great Ardent Beers.

Ardent is bringing over a barrel fermented Wild Ale whose barrel formerly aged Catoctin Creek Rye and then Blue Bee Cider. The gents at Ardent let wort ferment as it would in that barrel, and the result is a lightly tart, peachy, wine-like 9% Wild ale.

Blue Bee is bringing a super small batch Grimes Golden Cider fermented in apple Brandy barrels that was then blended with the indomitable Hewe’s Crab apple juice and allowed to ferment wildly. It was then allowed to age on lees for months.

We are very excited that our friends would share their more eccentric stuff with us, and you all do not want to miss it!

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

Saison Market
323 N Adams St
Richmond, VA 23220

Like Irish Coffee But Better With Terrapin At The Answer Brewpub

Terrapin Single Origin Coffee Stouts2Happy St Patrick’s Day! If it’s true that all good things come in fours, then you should head over to the Answer Brewpub as they offer up flights of Terrapin’s Single Origin Coffee Stouts today Thursday March 17th starting at noon.

Here are the details from their Facebook event:

The Answer Brewpub‘s ditching the green beer tradition and tapping Terrapin Beer Co.‘s Single Origin Coffee Stouts.
Join us for a unique opportunity to taste four distinct single origin coffees from around the world each brewed with the same base stout. We’ll also be offering a brownie pairing to go along with your flight!
4 different flavors will be prepared by Sweet Intentions LLC..

We’ll be offering the following as a flight:
Hawaiian Kona
Guatemalan Huehuetenango
Ethiopa Hambela
Sumatra Wahana Natural

PAIRED WITH:
*Dark Chocolate W/ Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache
*Chocolate Brownie W/Tart Dried Cherries and White Chocolate Ganache
*Saigon Cinnamon Spiced Brownie with Whipped Chocolate Ganache
*Browned Butter Chocolate Brownie

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Who’s Got Spirit? Hardywood That’s Who!

Hardywood Spirit BraidSpirit Braid that is.

Celebrating the next installment of our Brewer & Artist Series, we present the work of Nick Walthall and Sara Gossett:

Hardywood Spirit Braid is a well attenuated, highly effervescent saison brewed with organic raw wheat from Grapewood Farm in Montross, Virginia. Seville and Cara Cara oranges bring brightness and a touch of acidity. Fermented in stainless with a blend of Nick’s favorite brewers yeast and Brettanomyces claussenii, this beer is unfiltered, 100% bottle conditioned, and is designed to be a crusher. 5.2% alcohol by volume.

Sara Gossett is an artist from Texas who has been living in Richmond, VA for nearly ten years. Working primarily with watercolor, she loves vintage style and design and is heavily inspired by everything from the eras of Art Nouveau and Art Deco to poster art and illustration from the 1960’s & ‘70’s, hand lettering, and decorative pattern from all over the world. She also loves music, from playing the flute to playing records at the occasional DJ gig.
See more at saragossett.com & on Instagram @saragossett

Spirit Braid will be available on draft, bottles and 4-packs beginning at 2pm, with NY Style food truck through the evening.

Spirit Braid glass

Credit: Nick Walthall

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

Who Put A Donut In My Beer?

Strangeways Samoa PorterStrangeways and Sugar Shack, that’s who. Get a taste of their Samoa Porter this Saturday March 12th starting at 11am.

Sugar Shack founder Ian Kelley and Strangeways founder Neil Burton exhibit several parallels when it comes to their respective businesses. Travel around the United States and Europe first fueled their interest in establishing unique, local ventures guided by quality and passion. Producing fresh, hand-crafted products with local ingredients whenever possible is paramount to them, as is their understanding that the community is the heart and soul that connects people with what they love most about their town. We hope you enjoy this luscious, donut-inspired samoa porter, with decadent flavors of caramel, toasted coconut and dark chocolate. Ian and Neil would also like to personally thank all of the hard-working folks at Sugar Shack and Strangeways for everything they do on a daily basis to make fresh, local products like this one possible. Cheers to collaboration and community!

Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.

Twenty Beers For Twenty Years Of Heavy Seas At The Answer Brewpub

20 Heavy Seas Beers at AnswerCheck this out tonight.

Climb aboard at The Answer Brewpub to celebrate 20 years of brewing excellence in Baltimore with a beer for every year leading up to Heavy Seas Beer’s 20th Anniversary!

We’re conscripting the whole Baltimore crew for this big event! Come out and meet owner and founder Hugh Sisson, the legendary Joe Gold, sales manager, Brewmaster Chris Leonard and Head Brewer Chris Schultz, and many others, including the entire Heavy Seas sales team!

We’ve pulled some great vintage beers from down below decks and will be tapping some seldom seen favorites from the current portfolio as well!

Here’s what’s going on tap:

Cross Bones – Session IPA – 4.5%
Cutlass – Amber Lager – 5.4%
Double Cannon – Double IPA – 9.5%
Gold Ale – American Golden Ale – 4.25%
Loose Cannon – IPA – 7.25%
Peg Leg – Imperial Stout – 8%
Powder Monkey – English-style Pale Ale – 4.75%
Desert Island #4: New World Saison – 6.5%
Plank IV – Belgian-style Quadrupel aged on retified poplar, retified cherry, Jamaican allspice and Cuban cedar woods – 11.25%
Deep Six – Robust English-style Porter – 6.8%
20 Year Storm – Imperial ESB aged in Bourbon Barrels – 10%
PartnerShips Collaboration Series #1: Maine Red IPA – 7.25%
Yule Tide – Gingerbread Weizen Doppelbock aged in Rum Barrels – 9%
Siren Noire – Bourbon Barrel Imperial Chocolate Stout (2015) – 9.5%
Desert Island #5 – Dopplesticke – 9.5%
Winter Storm – Imperial ESB – 7.5%
Greater Pumpkin – Imperial Pumpkin Ale aged in Bourbon Barrels – 10%
Phantom Ship – Belgian-style Tripel aged in Bourbon Barrels (2015) – 9.5%
Holy Sheet – Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel aged in Brandy Barrels (2013) – 9%
Siren Noire – Bourbon Barrel Imperial Chocolate Stout (2014) – 9.5%

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

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

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