IThis was a lot of fun last year at Capital Ale House Downtown. I can’t make it this time but how often does Bill Cosby come to town.
Capital Ale House
623 East Main St.
Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 643-2537
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Three Hardywood Collaboration Pins At Capital Ale House Midlothian Friday
Credit: Capital Ale House
Head over to Capital Ale House Midlothian Friday April 12th starting at 7pm as they tap three specially made pins of Hardywood beers. Choosing anything their taste buds desired and having their choice of any Hardywood beer to use as the base, the gang at Cap Ale created the following three pins:
- Tripel — Fuggles and Kent Goldings hops smoked with wood chips from barrel once containing Hardywood’s Bourbon Cru — Matt Simmons
- Tripel — local raw honey, dried tart cherries and Oloroso Sherry barrel chips — Chris Holder
- Singel — blood orange peel, fresh ginger, and a touch of organic honey — Rachel and Amy DuFour,
Hardywood’s Patrick and Eric will also be on hand for the evening. So go try these one of a kind beers along with more Hardywood Park beers. Cap Ale will also have some giveaways that evening as well. Check out the Facebook event for more information.
13831 Village Place Dr.
Midlothian, VA 23113
One Week Until Hardywood Gingerbread Stout Pairing Contest
I hope everyone is enjoying RVA Beer Week so far. Here’s something for you to consider that is only a week out. If you follow me on Facebook, then you’ve already heard about this competition from Hardywood and Capital Ale House. Here’s more from Hardywood’s Facebook:
Have an inclination for confection creation? Hardywood and Capital Ale House Richmond want to taste your concept to pair with the Hardywood Gingerbread Stout for the first dessert tasting competition on Monday, November 12th. The winner takes home a case of Gingerbread Stout and the dessert is featured on the Capital Ale House menu!
For more information or to enter, head over to contest entry page here.
PS. I may just be competing right next to you. Happy baking Richmond and good luck.
RVA Beer Week 2012: Capital Ale House Anniversary Party
Capital Ale House is giving you three chances to celebrate their 10th anniversary starting tomorrow Friday November 2nd. They will be tapping two special beers from Legend Brewing, Anniversary Barleywine and California Common Ale (Steam Beer). To get the schwag, you’ll need to buy tickets here and select the date you want to attend. The anniversary beers will be tapped at 5pm Friday.
Great Pumpkin Rides To The Camel For Heavy Seas Tap Takeover
Head out to The Camel and hang with Heavy Seas owner/founder Hugh Sisson as he taps a fresh 2012 Great Pumpkin today September 11th.
Plus, Ben Petty is getting older. Who is Ben Petty? Maybe you know him from his time bartending at Capital Ale House, Tarrant’s Cafe, or The Belvidere at Broad. Or maybe you know him as the Hardywood tree in this video.
Yep, that’s Ben in a nutshell.
It wouldn’t be a party without some amazing beer so The Camel is staging a Heavy Seas tap takeover with these beers:
Plank II
Land Ho!
Peg Leg
Loose Cannon
Small Craft Warning
2012 Great Pumpkin
Come on out for all kinds of pirate swag, amazing beer, eyepatches, live music, people yelling “Aaarrgh!” and lots of great times. Party begins at 6pm.
Capital Ale House Anniversary Beer: September
Hard to believe it’s already September. I mean the year is almost over. At this point, Capital Ale House has tapped ten different anniversary beers. Today September 5th, they tap lucky number eleven, or should I say 73, from Troegs. Fitting for the time of year, Capital Ale House has acquired number 73 from Troegs’ Scratch Beer Series for this month.
To commemorate the annual German tradition of Oktoberfest, Tröegs unveils Scratch #73 – 2012, an OkTröegerFest, if you will. This rich, pumpkin-colored lager goes against the grain by boasting a fairly hefty hop presence for the style, giving the flavor a moderate bitter twist while still maintaining the classic malt character that you’ve come to expect from a traditional Fest Bier. ABV is 5.5% and IBU is 35
Get out and try this beer while you can.
Steal Some Tap Takeover Glasses
If you are looking to steal a glass tonight August 28th, there are some very unique tap takeovers going on around town where you can do just that.
Midlothian
Sedona Taphouse will feature Wolf Hills Brewing for their tap takeover. Claim a glass with one of these brews:
Trooper’s Alley IPA
Wolf’s Den Double IPA
English Dark Mild
White Blaze Honey Cream Ale
Downtown
Capital Ale House is having Blue Mountain Barrel House Extravaganza where you can get your hands on the very limited Barrel House stemmed glassware. Here are the featured beers:
Dark Hollow firkin with Espresso beans added
Local Species
Isabel
Mandolin
Full Nelson
Innsbrook
Meanwhile, Cap Ale Innsbrook is being taken over by Ommegang. They will be giving away a gold-rimmed BPA glass for one of eight Ommegang beers including the brand new Scythe & Sickle, which is brewed with a blend of four grains: barley, wheat, oats and rye. Here are the rest of the beers they will be tapping:
BPA
Abbey Ale
Three Philosophers
Gnommegang
Adoration
Witte
Hougoumont
Founding Father Tap Takeover
How are you celebrating the night before Independence Day? How about a tap takeover featuring beer named after one of our country’s founding fathers?
Capital Ale House Innsbrook is hosting a Samuel Adams tap takeover today July 3rd starting at 4pm.
Here is the list of beers on hand for the evening including a few RVA debuts:
Boston Lager
Tasman Red IPA
Third Voyage Double IPA, 8%
Norse Legend Sahti Ale, 7%
Double Bock, 9.5%
New World Tripel 10% RVA Debut
Blueberry Hill Kellerbier, 5% RVA Debut
Dark Depths Baltic IPA, 7.6%
East-West Kolsch, 5%
Old Kentucky Ale (Bourbon Oak-aged Ale), 5.7% RVA Debut
Griffin’s Bow Blonde Barleywine, 10%
Imperial White, 10.3%
So head out and raise a few pints to Boston! I’m also hearing their will be a Steal the Glass feature with this event though I’m not sure on the exact details.
Where To Steal The Glass Tonight?
So my plans for tonight were pretty simple. On The Rox for happy hour to celebrate SMCRVA’s 3rd birthday then Capital Ale House for their Unibroue Steal the Glass night. I was quite intrigued when I found this extensive list of recipes for all of Unibroue’s different beers.
At least that was the plan as of a few minutes ago when I learned that not only is Sedona Taphouse having a Dogfish Head tap takeover with 10 different beers, they will have a limited quantity of Positive Contact and Urkontinent. Then Sedona drops the hammer by turning by saying they will be giving away these hand blown Dogfish Head goblets.
I’m still on the fence on where I should go tonight but I’m sure wherever I go there will be great beer involved.
Capital Ale House Anniversary Beer: Devils Temptation
Update: This just in from Taste the Local: Like Capital Ale House’s post on the Dinner with Devils Backbone event and you could win dinner for 4 with Brewmaster Jason Oliver at the Midlothian location.
I was hoping there would not be anything to tempt me to delay my trip up to Washington, DC today for Savor. Enter another edition of Capital Ale House’s tenth anniversary beer series this Wednesday June 6th to dash that hope. This time the beer is from World Beer Cup Gold Medalist Devils Backbone.
Ten Low (Lemongrass Oatmeal Wit). It is made with malted & un-malted wheat, pilsner malt, acidulated malt, flaked oats, German select hops, Belgian ale yeast, coriander, and lemongrass.
Head out to the nearest Cap Ale location for the tapping at 6pm. Brewmaster Jason Oliver will be at the Midlothian location to tap the first keg. As much as I’d like for you to save me some for when I get back into town, I doubt what will surely be an amazing beer will last that long. So enjoy!
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