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Will You Beer My Valentine?

Haven’t made plans for your Valentine celebration? Or just too busy like a lot of us.  No worries, I have a few ideas for you stretching into the next week.

Thursday February 14th

Dancing with Myself 80’s Dance Party

COTU invites you out to rock the casbah at their 80s dance party.  So break out that old prom-wear and get groovy.  Doors open at 4pm with dance starting at 5:30pm.  Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

The Savory Grain Opening

The Savory Grain will be open for the beer lovers on Valentine’s Day.  The menu over on Richmond.com features several dishes with beer used in the preparation.  I’m definitely going to have to check this place out soon.  Here is a little of what will be flowing from their 24 taps tonight:

Firestone Walker Union Jack
Allagash White
Allagash Dubbel
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Dogfish Indian Brown
Left Hand Milk Stout

Guesses from menu item
COTU Main St Ale
Legend Brown
Hefeweizen (maybe Legend)

Fat Dragon Couples Menu

There are a few spots left to get in on this menu at Fat Dragon.  Take a look and call (804) 345-9888 to make reservations.

Fat Dragon VDay 2013 Menu

Sunday February 17th

Legend 19th Anniversary Party

Richmond’s oldest operating craft brewery celebrates nineteen years of production with a party starting at 2pm with  brewery tours all day and live music from Xtreme Groove at 6:30pm. General admission will cost $20 and include three food and beverage tickets. Under 21 admission is $12 (includes one food ticket). Admission for under 12 and designated drivers will be $5. Free admission for children under 5.  Extra food or beverage tickets will be $5 each.

Local Suds ‘Legend’ary Brew Tour

Take your love on a Sunday cruise to all of the Richmond area breweries tasting all along the way.  The tour culminates at Legend’s 19th Anniversary Party. Tickets for the tour are $47.50/person and include tastings at each stop as well as admission to Legend’s party. Go here to buy tickets or for more information.

Want to win tickets to the tour? Check out Local Suds’ Facebook page where they are giving away two tickets at 5pm tomorrow.

Tuesday February 19th

Beer & Charcuterie Pairing — The Room at Secco Wine Bar

As Secco celebrates FeBREWary, they invite you into The Room as Alexis Goldstein (Specialty Beverage) & Julia teach the basics of pairing various beer styles with a variety of cured meats.

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Duvel (a beloved Belgian strong golden ale)
Prosciutto by Olli Salumeria

Ommegang BPA (a Belgian Pale Ale that balances delicious citrus & tropical fruit aromas with Cascade hops)
Secco’s house-made Country Pork Terrine w/ Bacon & Olives

Ommegang Rare Vos (an Amber Ale styled after the smooth, drinkable beers popular in Belgian cafes)
Wild Boar Salametto by Olli Salumeria

Ommegang Three Philosophers (a perfect quad with just a touch of Liefmans Kriek)
Secco’s house-made Chicken Liver Pate

Beer, meat and two sassy redheads… what’s not to love?  The Beer & Charcuterie Pairing class takes place from 6:30-8pm at The Room at Secco (2931 W. Cary St).  Tickets are $40/person and include food, drink, and loads of information. Email nicole@seccowinebar.com and reserve your spot today!

Saturday February 23rd

Mad Fox Brewing Barleywine Festival

This one is a ways out but I had so much fun last year that there was no way I couldn’t include it.  Not only do you get an amazing selection of at least 30 barleywines, but you get the top notch food. Here are the barleywines that caught my eye:

  • Mad Fox Headcracker English-style Barleywine 2012 Draught 8% ABV
  • Mad Fox Slobberknocker American-style Barleywine 2012 Draught 9% ABV
  • Mad Fox Oaked Slobberknocker American-style Barleywine 2011 Draught 9% ABV
  • 21st Amendment Lower DeBoom Barleywine 2012 Draught 10.5% ABV
  • Bell’s Third Coast Old Ale 2012 Draught 10.2% ABV
  • Great Divide Old Ruffian Barleywine 2012 Draught 10.2% ABV
  • Green Flash Barleywine 2011 Draught 10.9% ABV
  • Heavy Seas Below Decks English-style Barleywine 2010 Draught 10% ABV
  • Heavy Seas Below Decks English-style Barleywine Cabernet Barrel-aged 2012 Cask 10% ABV
  • JW Lees Harvest Ale Draught 11.5% ABV
  • Legend Barleywine 2011 15.5% ABV
  • Rogue Old Crusty Barleywine 2011 Draught 11.5% ABV
  • Rogue Old Crusty Barleywine 2012 Draught 11.5% ABV
  • Uinta Anniversary Barleywine 2011 Draught 10.4%
  • Weyerbacher Insanity Ale 2011 Draught 11.1% ABV
  • Williamsburg Alewerks Grand Illumination American Barleywine 2011 Draught 11% ABV

Check out the rest of the list here.

Libbie Market Celebrates Three Years With Local Tasting

Libbie Market is celebrating their three year anniversary by hosting a local beer tasting at their Ridgefield location today Saturday February 9th from 1 to 4pm.

Here is what they will be sampling:

Starr Hill: Love, Saison
Legend: Golden IPA, Maibock, Brown Ale
Devils Backbone: Dark Abbey, Schwartz Bier
Bold Rock: Virginia Apple, Virginia Draft
St. George: Porter (draft)
Beach Brewing: Hoptopus (draft)
Blue Mountain (draft)
Midnight: Not My Job Brown (draft)
Mud Hound Brewing: Oatmeal Stout (draft-only) RVA debut
Others: 3 Brothers Brewing & COTU

If that were not enough, drop your name or business card into a drawing for:

(1) Hardywood Original Gingerbread Stout ’12
(1) Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Gingerbread Stout ’12
(2) Hardywood Park Craft Brewery GBS Glasses

Taste something you like? Growler fills will be available on all draft items.

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

Hardywood Bringing The “Chocolate Heat” Saturday

Hardywood releases your new chocolatey hotness tomorrow Saturday February 9th at 2pm:

Luscious yet piquant, sultry yet fiery, Hardywood Chocolate Heat melds the dichotomy of semi-sweet chocolate and hot chile peppers into one insatiably seductive libation. Brewed with heaps of cacao nibs, some milk sugar and chocolate malts for a touch of chocolatey sweetness, and just the right amount of locally grown scotch bonnet and habanero peppers, Chocolate Heat will arouse your senses and tantalize your palate. The next in our Reserve Series, Chocolate Heat will be available in 750ml bottles, 4 packs, and draft all day.

Check out the Facebook event for more information.

Whole Foods Presents Allagash The Cookbook Tonight

Allagash Cookbook1Tonight, Wednesday  February 6th, is the night Allagash comes to Richmond in a big way as Whole Foods Short Pump prepares dishes from Allagash: The Cookbook  to be available on their hotbar.  Copies of the book will be for sale for $35/each with author James Simpkins on hand for signatures.

Special drafts and bottles available for tasting and sales include:

FV 13
Yakuza
Smoke & Beards
Confluence
Interlude
Mattina Rossa (samples only)

The special food menu will be available throughout the week in the following locations

Chef’s Case
citrus cream crab cakes
Chicken Plantain Roulades
Grilled Swordfish w/Peach Salsa
Spicy Bacon-Chili Meatloaf
Grilled Lamb Chops w/ Mint Pesto
White Bean SaladPlatter Bar
Grilled Chicken and Cheddar Salad

Hot Bar
Stuffed Peppers

Pizza
Sausage Pizza

Soups(revolving)
Buffalo Chili
Pozole con Puerco
Chicken and Dumplings
Beef Barley and Bacon Stew
Sweet Potato Bisque

Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

My Glass Wish For Goose Island Takeover At Sedona Taphouse

Goose Island Stem GlassI owe most of my glassware to Steal the Glass nights.  I find I have a hard time resisting them; even if there’s a chance I will end up with a duplicate of a glass already in my collection.

Goose Island has a few glasses that are pretty cool.  I already have their pilsner style glass with their 312 logo but there is another glass I have longed after seeing it a few times, the long stemmed chalice with silver goose logo.

Hopefully, I will receive this glass tonight Tuesday February 5th at Sedona Taphouse during their Goose Island tap takeover and glass giveaway.  If not, at least there will be great beer to drown my sorrows.  Here is their selection for the night:

Draft
312 Urban Wheat
Naughty Goose
Big John
Nightstalker
Christmas Ale

Bottles
Matilda
Pepe Nero

The takeover starts at 5pm; head over to the Facebook event for more information.

Are You Ready For Super Beer Sunday?

Richmond, today Sunday February 3rd is the day for football and commercial watching.  Haven’t decided which parties you are going to tonight?  Let me throw a few other choices into the mix.

Second Annual Super Barrel Party — Saison — 2pm

Nevermind the fact they have not been opened a year, Saison is tapping some really cool beers  for their second annual buper barrel party including a cask of Brian’s Barrel Blend #3 from Hardywood.  Here is a little more of what they have planned:

Epic Oak Smoked
BFM Square Root Saison in Bon Chien Barrels
Allagash Interlude
JW Lees in Lagavulin cask
Cidre DuPont in Calvados barrels
Allagash Bourbon Black
Petrus Aged Pale
Anderson Valley Barney Flats in Wild Turkey barrels
Tilquin Gueuze
Schlenkerla Oak Smoke Doppelbock

Saison
23 W Marshall St
Richmond, VA 23220

The Super Bowl of Beers — The Camel — 5pm

Watch the big game on The Camel’s 173″ screen and drink some of the best beers to make their way to RVA.  Here is what they will be tapping:

Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter ’12
Alewerks Cafe Royale
Allagash White
Bell’s Hopslam
Bell’s Smitten
Bell’s Two Hearted
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Full Nelson
Bold Rock Virginia Apple
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Hardywood Bourbon Cru ’12
Hardywood Bourbon GBS
Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
Hardywood Heavy Roller Oatmeal Pale
Hardywood Sidamo Coffee Stout
Hardywood Singel
Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’
Legend Brown
Legend Winter White
Natty Boh
New Belgium Fat Tire
Sam Adams New World Tripel
Sixpoint 3Beans
Starr Hill Psycho Kilter

They will also have bottles of Goose Island Bourbon County, Lagunitas Sucks, and Bell’s This One Goes To Eleven.

Fourth Annual SuperBOWL Eating Contest — Mekong — 5pm

Mekong will crown their  fourth Pho King champion tonight where ten men and women will down a lot of pho and beer.  Get there early if you think you have what it takes to sign up.  Of course, Mekong will be tapping some special beers.  The champion will be crowned before the kickoff of the big game so stick around and watch it on their big screen.

Join The Brotherhood At Gallery 5 Tonight For First Fridays

3 Bros Join Brotherhood1Richmond, isn’t it about time you joined the brotherhood?  This Friday February 1st is your chance as 3 Brothers Brewing gets it’s official kicksoff at Gallery 5 during  First Fridays Artwalk starting at 6pm.  Meet co-owner Adam Shifflett and a contingent from the RVA brewing scene with representatives from Hardywood, Legend, Midnight, and Center of the Universe.

Here is the lineup for the night:

Coffee Breath Brown 3.8%
Admiral Double IPA 8%
Hoptimization IPA 6%
Elementary Porter 7%

What would a night at Gallery 5 be without music?  Musical guests for the night include:

Dave Watkins
Houdan The Mystic
Cardinal Compass

Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

Green Flash Mini Takeover at Mekong Wednesday

Green Flash LogoHead over to Mekong  for a Green Flash tap takeover tonight Wednesday January 30th starting at 5pm.  Brewmaster Chuck Silva will be around to discuss the beers.

Here is the lineup for the night:

West Coast IPA
Imperial IPA
Green Bullets — 9th anniversary DIPA
Palate Wrecker
Belgian Red Rye
30th St Pale — normally limited to San Diego!
Double Stout

Local Suds Goes For All The Marbles With Capital City Brew Tour

Local Suds Brew ToursLocal Suds has been doing a great job exposing new and old craft beer lovers to Virginia breweries through their series of brew tours.  They have upped their game by going bigger and more creative with the tour offerings.  Capital City Brew Tour, this Saturday January 26th, is their  biggest tour to date encompassing the four breweries in the greater Richmond area: Hardywood, Legend, Center of the Universe and Midnight.

The tour will pick up from Captial Ale House downtown at 1:30pm and dropping off just in time for the start of the Great Hopocalypse where Capital will be tapping these special hoppy beers:

Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
Dogfish Head 120 Minute
Hardywood Bourbon Barrel DIPA
Bells This One Goes to 11 Ale
Bear Republic Racer X

The cost for the tour is $45 with a portion of the proceeds going to 2BNB.  Go to the Eventbrite page to purchase tickets.  Check out their Facebook page for more information on Local Suds and their future events, like their Lord of The Rings themed brew tour and burlesque.

Three Brothers Brewing HitsTown For First Firkin Crawl Of 2013

3 Bros Crawl 012413Now that we’ve gotten the first snow out of the way, it is time for the first pub crawl of the new year.  Virginia’s newest brewery out of Harrisonburg, Three Brothers Brewing  comes to town Thursday January 24th with three intriguing firkins. Sadly, I will miss out due to a prior commitment.  Hickory syrup?! Ok, maybe I can make try to make one stop.

Here are the stops on the crawl:

5:30PM — Commercial Taphouse — Coffee Breath Brown with w/ Hickory Syrup and organic dates.

6:30PM — Weezie’s Kitchen — Great Outdoors Pale with Blueberries

7:30PM — Burger Bach — Hoptimization IPA w/ pearwood chips, cinnamon, and vanilla bean

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