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Start Your Weekend Early With Hardywood

If you need to get your Hardywood fix in, this weekend has no shortage of opportunities for you to get some.

Thursday October 4th

As it does every Thursday, Richmond’s Food Truck Court gathers at the brewery from 6 – 9pm

Meanwhile, Mekong celebrates their favorite beer bar win with a special Hardywood lineup:

2012 Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout Pin
2012 Bourbon Barrel Gingerbread Stout Pin
2012 Farmhouse Pumpkin
Mekong Fresh Hop brewed with grapefruit peel and local honey
Bourbon DIPA
RVA IPA

Friday October 5th

It is a double Firkin Friday at the brewery with two different milk stout creations:

  • Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout with mole and Heritage’s house blend of Rostov’s coffee from Matthias Hagglund
  • Edward the Great: milk stout with vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, Maker’s Mark soaked ancho chiles, and orange zest from Dave Witte of Municipal Waste.

Saturday October 6th

Saturday sees the official release of this year’s Farmhouse Pumpkin at. the brewery starting at 2pm  As they approach their one year anniversary, this will be the first new vintage of one of their Reserve Series beers to be bottled.  Head over to the Facebook event  for more info; RSVP while you’re at it so they can prepare for the crowds.

Sunday October 7th

End your weekend with a beer dinner at Cous Cous.  Take a look at the menu.

MENU

Welcome Beer
Singel

Arugula salad with cherries, dates, quince and goat cheese; in a roasted shallot vinaigrette
RVA IPA

Duck confit with pumpkin risotto and maple pear sauce
Farmhouse Pumpkin

Braised lamb in mole sauce
Hoplar

Coffee torte with nutella cream
Mocha Belgique

The dinner starts at 5pm and costs $45/person (tax included).  The event will be capped at 50 people, so get your reservations asap by calling the restaurant at (804) 358-0868 or emailing alrcopeland@gmail.com (subject “hardywood dinner”).

900 W Franklin St
Richmond, VA 23220

Smuttynose Turns Up At Sedona Taphouse

Sedona Taphouse will be featuring Smuttynose Brewing for a tap takeover of 6 beers tonight, Tuesday  September 25th. 

The Smuttynose rep will be on hand to answer your questions about their beers.  They will also be giving away glassware for you to take home.

Here are the beers they will be tapping:

Wheat Wine Ale
Pumpkin Ale
Old Brown Dog
IPA — Either Finestkind IPA or Big A IPA
Homunculus
Really Old Brown Dog

 

Oktoberfests In and Out of Richmond This Weekend

Summer has ended and the weather has started to cool off. You know what the means? It’s time for Oktoberfest.  But which fest should you go to? I have three that have peaked my interest for this weekend.

St Benedict’s Oktoberfest

Entering it’s eighth year, this festival came to my attention las year but I was unable to attend.  That will change tonight.  The festival runs all weekend.  I look forward to trying some of the following featured beers:

Friday

Legend Oktoberfest Firkin
Mad Fox Imperial Red IPA
O’Connor Punkelweisse
Starr Hill All Access Belgian Strong
Heavy Seas Plank 2
Victory Alt

Saturday

Starr Hill Love Firkin with fresh orange peel
Legend Weizenbock
Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin
Hardywood Belgian  DIPA

See the complete beer list for the weekend here.

Top of the Hops Beer Fest

Starr Hill and Beer Run present the 3rd Annual Top of the Hops Beer Festival in Charlottesville, VA Saturday September 22nd.  $40 ($45 at the gate) gets you unlimited sampling of over 150 craft beers from breweries such as Devils Backbone, Hardywood, Ommegang, Goose Island to name a few.  Tak a look at the breweries and their beers here.  Go here to buy tickets.

Mad Fox Hoppy Oktoberfest

Mad Fox Brewing in Falls Church has taken a different spin on Oktoberfest by celebrating hops Sunday September 23rd starting at 11am in their Biergarten.  If you need one beer to make the trek up, Mad Fox’s Orange Whip IPA is that beer.  They will also have their own Oktoberfest beer on tap and cask; I had the pleasure of having the cask version last night at Station 2.  You can see all of the beers they will have here.

Terrapin Tap Takeover At The Roosevelt

What could be more exciting than Lee Gregory’s food at The Roosevelt?  How about a beer event at The Roosevelt?  Don’t get me wrong, I  don’t think they need to have events with the amazing food that flows out of that kitchen. It is just cool that they sometimes do.

Tonight, September 20th, ride over to The Roosevelt for a tap takeover with Terrapin Beer Company. Terrapin rep  Ranger will be hanging out for the evening with glassware to give away.  Here are the beers they will be tapping:

All American Imperial Pilsner
Hop Karma (Brown IPA)
Hopsecutioner  IPA (American IPA)
Easy Rider (Hoppy Session Ale)
Rye Pale Ale
Pumpkin Fest

Meet up with Ranger for a little Georgia beer and grab a bite from Lee.

Talk Like A Pirate At Gallery 5

Today, September 19th, is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  I know what you’re thinking but it’s really a thing.

Head over to Gallery 5 for The Pirate Plunder and check out their brand new bar.  In keeping with the pirate theme, Gallery 5 will have Heavy Seas beers on tap and samples of the Belgian beers Piraat and Buccaneer.

Music will be provided by Peoples Blues of Richmond and DJ Reinhold.

Entry is free with all profits going to Gallery 5.

This video with Heavy Seas Founder Hugh Sission will help get you ready to plunder.

Rock The Mekong Vote With Allagash

Maybe you’ve heard a little about Mekong competing in Craftbeer.com’s Great American Beer Bars Finals.  If not, get out there and vote here.

NOW!

Mekong demonstrates why they are a Great American Beer Bar with an Allagash Brewing tap takeover today September 18th starting at 5pm.  Here are the beers they will be tapping:

White
Confluence
Yakuza
Curieux
Black Andall with Oak chip, Bourbon oak chip, and raisin
Smoke n Beards  Smoked Triple collaboration with De Molen
Four

The Andall sounds delicious.  Plus Allagash drafts are all $5/glass.  Go out and get some.

Devils Backbone Striped Bass Pale Ale at Conch Republic Tonight

The only three kegs of Striped Bass Pale Ale from Devils Backbone will be tapped at a party tonight September 12th at Conch Republic. 

Devils Backbone founder Steve Crandall will be in attendance to present the Chesapeake Bay Foundation with a check for $30,000 to support their efforts to restore and protect clean water in Virginia’s streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay.

The party starts at 6pm

Conch Republic Rocketts
11 Orleans St.
Richmond, VA 23231
(804) 226-6242

Wild Wolf Brewing Tap Takeover at Sedona Taphouse

Pirates not your thing, maybe you prefer the wolf?  Well then, head over to Sedona Taphouse as they host a Wild Wolf Brewing tap takeover today September 11th starting at 5pm. They will have six beers on tap including Wild Wolf’s new Pumpkin Ale:

Alpha Ale
Blonde Hunny Ale
Wee Heavy
Pumpkin Ale
White Wolf White IPA
Double IPA

Brewers Danny and Josh will be in the house to answer questions and talk beer.

Richmond Saturday Beer Roundup

It is already the second week of September and the summer of 2012 may be coming to a close but beer events in Richmond are only ramping up.  This weekend is a prime example. Richmond, here’s your roundup for Saturday, September 8th.

Libbie Market Ridgefield — 12PM

Newly opened Libbie Market Ridgefield  will be the focus of a Local Patronage MOB and a pumpkin beer tasting.

PumK’n Smash Tasting line-up:

Southern Tier PumKing
New Holland Ichabad
Dogfish Head Punkin
Terrapin Pumkinfest
Longtrail Pumpkin
Buffalo Bill’s
Longtrail Imperial Pumpkin
Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin
Shipyard Pumpkin
Tommyknocker Pumpkin
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Brooklyn Post Road
Starr Hill Boxcar Pumpkin Porter

Growler Feature: Introducing Virginia’s Wild Wolf Pumpkin

If you’re looking for beer your Halloween party, I hear there will be case deals available for booking for Halloween Parties on Saturday.

Libbie Market
10470 Ridgefield Parkway
Henrico, VA 23233
(804) 741-0063

Hardywood RVA IPA Release— 2 – 9PM

Did you pick or donate hops at Hardywood’s hop harvest festival at the beginning of August?  Come taste the fruits of your labor with the release of Hardywood’s RVA IPA — The Community Hopped IPA this weekend.  RVA IPA used more than 300 pounds of local Cascade, Columbus, Chinook, Glacier, Magnum, Nugget and Centennial hops to produce a 40-barrel batch of beer.

TJ’s Charity Oyster Festival — 4PM

TJ’s at Jefferson will reopen their freshly remodeled bar with a Flying Dog tap takeover and oyster charity festival.  You will  have to go to the Facebook event to see the awesome food menu but here are the beers:

Sour Cherry
Gose (with Old Bay)
Citra Imperial IPA
Imperial Red
Disobedience Abbey Dubbel
Barrel Aged Gonzo
Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout Nitro
Underdog Atlantic Lager
Doggie Style Pale Ale
Old Scratch Amber Lager
Wildeman Farmhouse IPA
Inheat Wheat

Plus a Firkin of Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout

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