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The Answer Brewpub Revealed With Awesome Takeover Friday

The Answer Brewery RevealThe Answer Brewpub will reveal their brewery to the public for the first time Friday January 23rd.  They are celebrating by tapping some special beers with undoubtedly some surprises thrown in.

Here are the beers they will tap starting at 4pm:

Allagash Currant Affair
Goose Island BCBS
Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Evil Twin Femme Fatale Brett
Firestone Walker Sucaba
Schneider Weisse Aventinus Cuvee Barrique
Gueuze Tilquin
Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
Hardywood Trickery
Hardywood 2012 GBS
Hardywood 2013 GBS
Hardywood 2014 GBS
Hardywood Bourbon GBS
Hardywood Rum Barrel Saison – Wild Sour Pumpkin Ale
Hardywood Vanilla Raspberry Stout
Hardywood Pineapple Great Return
Cigar City Jai Alai IPA
Cigar City Peach Habanero IPA
Cigar City Hotter than Helles
Cigar City Cubano Espresso
Birrificio Del Ducato Beersel Mattina – blend with 18 months lambic

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

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Growlers To Go Getting A Little Strange Tonight

Head over to Growlers To Go as they host a Strangeways tap takeover and beer tasting tonight Tuesday January 20th. There will be twelve strange brews on draft available for growler fills as well as a unique selection of bottles.

Here are the beers that will be available starting at 4pm:

Draft
Freeze Ray
Virginia Stingo
That’s My Jam!
Room 237
Delightful Immoral
Vatos Muertos
Uberlin
Southern Heirloom
Still Life With Peaches
Albino Monkey
Woodbooger
Placebo Pils

Bottles
Southern Heirloom
Placebo Pils
Portia
Olivia
Beatrice
Wake Me Up Before You Gose (Possibly the last case available in RVA)

The first twenty people to buy a growler and fill it with Strangeways will receive a free 13oz glass. Fill your growler before 7pm and Growlers To Go will give you 25% off. Yeah, you better get strange!

Growlers To Go
1017 N Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23230

Hardywood Wild Game Dinner At Mosaic This Friday

Mosaic Restaurant is once again teaming up with Hardywood to present a five course wild game dinner this Friday January 16th starting at 7pm.  Each course will be paired with a hand selected Hardywood brew.  Check out the menu.

PAIRING MENU

Amuse

Wild Game Charcuterie & Cheese
 rabbit galantine, duck ham, glazed cherries, Marcona almonds,
Billy Bread crostini, farmhouse cheddar, Maytag bleu
— Paired with Hardywood Pils —

SECOND

Venison Stroganoff
Wild mushrooms, papperdalle
— Paired with Hardywood Barleywine —

THIRD

Blood Orange Granita
— Paired with Hardywood Hull Melon Saison —

FOURTH

Olive Oil Poached Wild Boar Rack
Chestnut foie gras pate, smoke polenta cake, baby arugula,
Reservoir Bourbon & orange macerated cherries
— Paired with Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Double IPA —

FINAL

PB&J
Raspberry pate de fruit, peanut butter truffles,
vanilla nitro cake, chantilly foam
— Paired with Hardywood Raspberry Stout —

The cost for the dinner is $49/person excluding tax and tip.  Reserve your seat by calling the restaurant at (804) 288-7482. Dinner seating starts at 6:30.

MOSAIC Restaurant
River Road Shopping Center
6229-A River Road
Richmond, VA 23229
(804) 288-7482

Lickinghole Creek’s Vanilla Virginia Black Bear Is A Panda. A Snow Panda.

Lickinghole Creek debuts the latest in their series of imperial stouts today Saturday January 10th at noon.

Vanilla Virginia Black Bear is the yang to Virginia Black Bear’s yin. Ten Specialty Grains comprise the backbone of the bear and high alpha American hops give the bear his teeth. Notes of dark chocolate and coffee abound and fresh vanilla rounds out the flavor. Used as the base beer for Illuminatos, the Vanilla Virginia Black Bear has casually drifted to meander where he wants. Watch out, he hugs.

I’m hearing Illuminatos will be aged in rum barrels. Head over to the Facebook event for more details.

Next up in LCCB’s stout series will be Heir Apparent, a Mexican spiced stout. Hmmm…sounds like LCCB is working up to a stout fest or maybe these will be unveiled on Despot Day.

Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery
4100 Knolls Point Dr
Goochland, VA 23063

GigANtical Perennial Tap Takeover At The Answer Today

Perennial Artisan Ales co-founder and brewmaster, Phil Wymore will be in the house at The Answer Brewpub as they host a gigantic tap takeover tonight Wednesday December 17th. Perennial is a small batch brewery in St Louis, MO focusing on farmhouse ales, seasonal beers using local ingredients, and barrel aged varieties.  Perennial has the adventurous craft beer drinker in mind with each batch brewed.

Here are the beers to be tapped today at the Answer:

Abraxas – Imperial Stout with ancho chili peppers, cacao nibs, vanilla beans, and cinnamon sticks
Coffee Abraxas – Sump coffee beans (Brewery Only)
Savant Blanc – 100% Brettanomyces fermented Belgian Blonde Ale aged for 5 months in Chardonnay barrels with Chardonel grapes. (a white wine hybrid grape.)
Southside Blonde (brewery Only)
Stefon – collab with Solemn Oath – Dark Rye Wild Saison
Tart Hopfentea – collab with Hopleaf – Berliner Weisse with Hibiscus tea
Peach Berliner Weisse – Berliner Weisse with fresh Missouri peaches
Dual Artisanship – collab with Prairie – Dry-Hopped Red Saison with Brett
Saison de Lis – Saison with Chamomile
Aria – Wild Belgian Style Ale
Hommel Bier – Dry Hopped Belgian Pale
Fete de Noel – Strong Winter Ale

All beers will be tapped at 4pm except for Coffee Abraxas which will be tapped at 6pm..  Today, Perennial is the answer.

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

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Gingerbread Stout Plus Black Hand Coffee Equals Hardywood Christmas Morning Saturday

Hardywood Christmas MorningThis year Hardywood is giving you not one, not two, but three versions of Gingerbread Stout. Well, that’s three versions as of Saturday December 13th as Hardywood releases Christmas Morning.

A blend of Brazilian and Sumatran coffee beans from Richmond’s Black Hand Coffee Co take this variation of our Gingerbread Stout to a whole new level of decadence. Christmas Morning offers layers of gingerbread flavor complimented by the smooth nuances of freshly brewed coffee. We hope you make this part of your holiday tradition in the years to come.

Christmas Morning will be available starting at 2pm in 750ml bottles (limit 4 bottles/person) and on draft in the tasting room. There will be no growler fills due to limited availability.

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Enjoy live music from Cary Street Ramblers, Loversville, and Andy Vaughan and The Driveline starting at 4, 6:30, and 8pm respectively along with the return of the River City Barn Dance at 4pm.

Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.

Brew Hosts Terrapin Wake ‘N Bake Off As Pre-Opening Event At Midlothian Location Saturday

Brew Terrapin Wake N Bake Off2Brew Midlo is not open yet. Let me repeat, Brew Midlo is not open yet but they are hosting their first annual Terrapin Wake N Bake Off this Saturday December 13th from noon to 5pm celebrating the  10th anniversary of Terrapin’s Wake N’ Bake, an imperial stout made with coffee and oatmeal.

This is a ticketed event only with all proceeds from ticket sales go to the Richmond SPCA. Tickets are $25/person and can be purchased online here. Tickets include a special 10th Anniversary WNB Mug, your first pour of original Wake n’ Bake, samples of the dishes (while supplies last), a raffle ticket, and a ballot so that you can vote for your favorite dish.

Brew has invited several restaurants from around town to join them at their version of the annual event held at the Terrapin Brewery in Athens, Georgia. Restaurants will provide samples of dishes made with a Terrapin beer.

Brew
Sugar Shack Donuts
Saison
Sub Rosa
Jean Jacques Bakery
Olio
Union Market
American Taproom
Savory Grain
The Camel
Monument City Coffee & Records
821 Cafe
Lady N’Awlins
Uptown Market
Deep Run Roadhouse

Brew will also have these other Terrapin beers on tap:

Wake N’ Bake
Substance Abuse (barrel aged Wake N’ Bake)
French Toast’d Wake N’ Bake
Moo-HooChiato
Imperial Pumpkin Pie Porter
Moo-Hoo

Brew Midlothian
11400 W. Huguenot Road
Chesterfield, VA 23113

Center of the Universe Turns Two This Weekend

COTU 2yr party 111414Center of the Universe will celebrate their two year anniversary all weekend long starting today Friday November 14th at 4pm. They will have something special in store each day of their weekend long party.

Maybe Mike will wear the yellow suit?

Friday, November 14th  4 – 9PM

Day one marks the return of “The Richard” aka the happy accident of a double IPA during COTU’s first brew.

This aggressive Imperial IPA keeps getting bigger as our brewers keep pumping more and more grain and hops into this monster.  This year, the brew will be clocking in at a whopping 9.0%  As is always the case with this delicious libation, we will be filling growlers!  So, grab a friend, a relative, or your dancing shoes and come out to see what all the fuss is about.  LONG LIVE THE RICHARD!

Saturday, November 15th  1 – 9PM

They are still revealing beers but day two will feature guest taps from their Homefront IPA partner breweries.

Sunday, November 16th  1 – 9PM

Day three sounds like so much fun I’ll just let COTU tell you about their Stout Fest and beer, chocolate, and cheese pairings.

It’s always Sunday Funday at COTU, but today, you know because we are 2, we are going to be doing something amazing. We will be doing our first event STOUT FEST and BEER CHOCOLATE, and CHEESE PAIRINGS!  Enjoy these two events along with our amazing beer lineup, live music from Something Shiny, and food trucks!

STOUT FEST

For the first time ever, we will be pouring 5 different stouts here at the brewery. These are extremely limited edition stouts and include the elusive, provocative, dream making, Shut Up.  To go along with Shut Up, we will be featuring El Duderino, The Dude, Unseasonable Stout, and a Coffee Imperial Stout. Don’t miss this chance to try the full line up of the darkness!

BEER, CHOCOLATE, and CHEESE PAIRING

Picture this: 6 4 oz. pours of COTU brews, 3 different artisan cheeses, and 3 different hand made chocolate truffles all mixing in your mouth and creating some of the most unique, smooth, and delectable flavors you have ever experienced. Oh yeah, its only $20 per person and includes an expert in each field to lead you on this culinary journey. This portion of the party is ticketed and advanced tickets can be purchased at the brewery for the following time slots: 3pm & 5pm. 20-25 person max per session.  Tickets can be purchased the day of, if slots are still available.

Chocolates: Chocolates by Kelly: Chocolate is not a luxury, it’s a way of life, at least for Kelly Walker and her ardent followers it is. Her family tree is chocolate dipped and she continues and grows the tradition by crafting each of her lovelies by hand. Salted caramels, cranberry vodka cordials and many many more confections are awaiting you. Check her out here.

Cheeses: The Caboose Wine and Cheese: The Caboose Wine & Cheese has been providing the Hanover and greater Richmond area the finest selection of wine, beer and specialty foods since 1997. Located on the railroad tracks of historic Ashland, Virginia, we offer the friendly service you’d expect from a small town, and a selection that is sure to surprise and delight. Check them out here.

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