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Score Thirty-six Points with Devils Backbone and Pizza Tonight at The Cask Cafe

Credit: Devils Backbone

Credit: Devils Backbone

UPDATE: Sadly, Pizza Tonight will not be out tonight due to the snow, but the show must go on.

 

Head over to The Cask Cafe today Wednesday January 29th as they serve up thirty six points of Devils Backbone beers including their latest limited release, 16 Point Imperial IPA plus a fresh cask conditioned beer.  Pizza Tonight will be there as well baking their delicious pies including this new offering:

Here is the complete lineup for the evening to be tapped at 5pm:

  • 4 Point Pale Ale
  • 8 Point IPA
  • 16 Point Imperial IPA
  • 8 Point IPA — cask conditioned pin with Virginia Cascade hops

Head over the Facebook event for more information and updates.

The Cask Cafe
206 S Robinson St
Richmond, VA 23220

Starr Hill Brew Ridge Trail Collaboration Tapping at Capital Ale House Today

Starr Hill logoFrom Taste the Local:

Thirsty Thursday in effect at all three Capital Ale House locations. They will be tapping the only kegs in RVA of this year’s Brew Ridge Trail collaboration beer. Mark Thompson will be at the Midlo location at 7pm. Booyah!

This year’s BRT, brewed at Starr Hill, is an 8.8% abv, 85 IBU DIPA packed with Apollo, Simcoe, Columbus, & Motueka hops in the kettle and then dry hopped with Centennial, Mosaic, Simcoe, & Falconer’s Flight. Holy Hops, Batman!

Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

First Annual Richmond Bacon Festival This Sunday

RVA Bacon FestRichmond, if you do only one thing this weekend, make it Richmond Bacon Festival!  Unless you’ve been living under rock you have heard plenty about the event.  If so, the premise is quite simple, all bacon, all the time with more than twenty Devils Backbone beers. Think Broad Appetit but infinitely more awesome simply because of bacon. 

Richmond.com has the full details on restaurants serving food at the festival but here are a few dishes I am intrigued by:

The Roosevelt — Chef Lee Gregory — Pork belly slider with cabbage slaw
Berkeley Hotel — Chef Carly Herring — bacon sea salt dark chocolate truffles
On the Rox — Chef Mike Pendergrast — something about bacon salt and oysters? Yes, please!

On the Rox will also be the site of the after-party.

Here is the full beer list from Taste the Local along with a few of my favorite or “new to me” DB beers in bold:

Devils Backbone
Ale of Fergus – Scottish Ale (limited)
Azrael – Belgian Strong Ale (limited)
Beggars & Thieves – Rye Pilsner (limited)
Belgian Wit – Belgian White Ale (limited)
Danzig – Baltic Porter (limited)
Dark Abby – Belgian Abbey Dubbel
Eight Point IPA – American IPA
Gold Leaf Lager – Dortmunder Lager (limited)
Kilt Flasher – Wee Heavy
Maibock – German Maibock
Ramsey’s Stout – Dry Irish Stout (limited)
Reilly’s Red – Irish Red Ale
Schwartz Bier – German Schwarzbier
Skull Crushing Ape – Weizen Doppelbock (limited)
Smokehaus Lager – Smoked Lager (limited)
Striped Bass – American Pale Ale (limited)
Tectonic Barleywine – English Barley Wine (limited)
The Congo – Belgian IPA (limited)
Wintergreen Weiss – German Hefeweizen (limited)
Wood Aged Kilt Flasher – Barrel Aged Wee Heavy (limited)

Bold Rock Hard Cider
Virginia Apple
Virginia Draft

American Craft Beer Week RVA 2013: Tap Takeovers, Firkin Nights, & Tappings

There will be a lot of tap takeovers as Richmond celebrates American Craft Beer Week May 13 – 19.  I’m still in the process of gathering details on a lot of items but here is what I have so far.  As always, I recommend you bookmark this page to check back for updates.

Monday May 13th

Pins for the Win — 5pm

In lieu of the normal pin crawl, it seems Taste the Local is going for a more choose your own adventure type of night with Virginia beer pin tappings at three special locations.  All pins will be tapped at 5pm:

Update: Joe’s will tap thier pin at 6:30pm; this should make it easier on folks trying to enjoy all three pins.

5PM — Commercial Taphouse — Hardywood Belgian DIPA with Amarillo hops
6:30PM — Joe’s Inn in the Fan — Legend Hopfest with Centennial hops, sweet orange peel, & Reservoir bourbon chips. Filled by Matt & Ben.
5PM — The Camel — Three Brothers Oatmeal Stout with coffee & maple syrup

$2.50 Pints at Popkin

Every night of American Craft Beer Week, you will be able to enjoy $2.50 pints at Popkin Tavern all night long.

Parkway Brewing RVA Launch at Capital Ale House Innsbrook

Salem, Virginia’s Parkway Brewing will make their Richmond debut at Cap Ale Innsbrook with tappings of their Bridge Builder Blonde and Get Bent Mountain IPA.

New Belgium at Buffalo Wild Wings VA Center

Buffalo Wild Wings VA Center Commons location will be featuring New Belgium all week where they will have Rampant Imperial IPA, Ranger IPA, and Fat Tire on tap. 

Tuesday May 14th

Anchor 80’s Night at Station 2

Head over to Station 2 for 80’s music and costumes as they tap beers from Anchor Brewing, America’s first craft brewery.. Beers on draft will include:

Anchor Steam Beer (California Common)
Anchor Liberty Ale (American IPA)
Anchor Brekle’s Brown (American Brown Ale)
Anchor Summer Beer (American Pale Wheat Ale)

Check out the Facebook event for more information.

Heavy Seas Night at Tarrant’s Cafe — 5PM

A night of Heavy Seas beers featuring Ellen Boucher’s firkin of Peg Leg Imperial Stout with cherry, vanilla, coconut, and coffee beans.

Tarrant’s will also be tapping the following Heavy Seas beers:

Black Canon IPA
Holy Sheet – Belgian Dubbel aged in Brandy barrels. Tarrant’s has two of the four kegs in Richmond.

Williamsburg Alewerks at Sedona Taphouse — 5PM

Head over to Midlothian as Sedona taps some Williamsburg Alewerks beers and take home a glass. 

Update: Alwerks’ head brewer Geoff Logan will be hanging out at Sedona tonight as they tap the following beers:

Coffeehouse Stout
Cafe Royale
Colonial Wheat
Drake Tail IPA
Chesepeake Pale Ale
Firkin of Coffeehouse Stout with cocoa

Flying Dog Tap Takeover at O’Banks — 5PM

O’Banks in Hanover  will host a tap takeover of Flying Dog beer featuring:

Green Tea Imperial Stout
Kujo Coffee Stout
Snake Dog IPA
Underdog Atlantic Lager
Woody Creek Belgian White

O’Banks Cafe
10392 Leadbetter Rd  
Ashland, VA 23005
(804) 550-3888

Wednesday May 15th

Local Suds Night at Sine Irish Pub — 5PM

Register for this event here.

Devils Backbone Tap Invasion at Can Can — 5PM

Brewpub only releases plus a special firkin

Update: Devils Backbone is the featured brewery of the night at Can Can Brasserie.  They will have a special unfiltered Vienna Lager pin with cocoa nibs, cinnamon sticks, vanilla bean, Oak chips, and Czech Saaz hops. Here is their draft and bottle selection for the night:

Draft
Congo Pale Ale
Vienna Lager
Wood-Aged Kilt Flasher

Bottles
Dark Abby
Azrael
Eight Point IPA
Schwartz Bier
Striped Bass Pale Ale Cans!

Starr Hill ‘Steal the Glass’ at Capital Ale House — 6:30PM

Capital Ale House will feature Starr Hill for a Steal the Glass night at all of their locations with Grateful Pale and Whiter Shade of Pale on tap.  Meet brewer and owner Mark Thompson at the downtown location at 6:30. 

Thursday May 16th

Cheers to the Firkin Weekend with Hardywood at Station 2 — 5pm

Goose Island Night at Fat Dragon — 5pm

Richmond debut of Sofie Paradisi  along with the rest of the vintage ales

Friday May 17th

COTU Oak Battle at Mekong — 5pm

Center of the Universe taps some of their oak offerings Friday nigght at Mekong.

Oaky Pokey — Oak Aged Pocahoptus
Oak Aged Crazy Bet
Crazy Oaky Pokey

American Craft Beer Week RVA 2013: Beer Dinners

Richmond will celebrate American Craft Beer Week May 13 – 19 with three beer dinners.  And these are just the ones I have counted thus far.  Check out the details below and bookmark this page for updates

Tuesday May 14th

Devils Backbone Progressive Beer Dinner — 5:30pm CANCELED: Hopefully to be rescheduled for VA Craft Beer Month in August

Join Devils Backbone for Richmond’s first Progressive Beer Dinner.  Launching from Popkin Tavern, we will be strolling though the Arts District and dining on delectable delights at five different locations. Your palate will be dazzled along the way with artfully selected beer and food pairings. We hope that you will join us for this one of a kind event.

MENU

Popkin Tavern
Shared Appetizers
Maibock – Spring Lager

Rappahannock Restaurant
Poached Golden Tilefish with Spring Onions, English Peas, & Kumquat Agra-dulce
Belgian Wit

Saison
Tamarind Pork Tamales with Maracuya/Mulatto Chile Sauce
Tasmanian Pale Ale

Pasture
Mixed Fry of Clams, Pickles, and Okra with Red Slaw and Tartar Sauce
Ale of Fergus

Gallery 5
Carytown Cupcakes Assorted Cupcake Buffet
Tectonic Barleywine

Tickets for the dinner are $60/person and can be purchased online here.  Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

Friday May 17th

Hardywood Beer Dinner at Olio in the Fan — 6:30PM

UPDATE: The cost for this dinner is $50/person which includes taxes but not gratuity. 

Charity Rye Beer Dinner at TJs at the Jefferson — 7PM

TJ’s teams up with Greg Self from Whole Foods for a Charity Rye Dinner benefitting the Whole Planet Foundation.  Take a look at the menu.

Charity Rye Beer Dinner Menu 051713001

The cost for the dinner is  $55/person plus tax and tip.  Call TJ’s at (804) 649-4672 or email jonathan.kibiloski@jeffersonhotel.com for more information or reservations. Head over to the Facebook event for more details.

TJ’s at the Jefferson
101 W. Franklin St.
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 649-4672

Devils Backbone Bringing Basecamp & Outpost Down To Sedona

Devils Backbone RVA logoDevils Backbone is bringing several beers from their Basecamp and Outpost locations for a tap takevoer at Sedona Taphouse tomorrow Tuesday April 30th starting at 5pm. Owner Steve Crandall and head brewer Jason Oliver as well as several DB reps will be in the house to talk about the beers. 

Here is what you can expect to find flowing from Sedona’s taps tomorrow:

Vienna Lager
Eight Point IPA
Schwartz Bier
Congo Belgian Pale Ale
Dark Abby
Reilly’s Red
Wood-aged Kilt Flasher
Ramsey’s Irish Nitro Stout
Beggars & Thieves (CBC collaboration) – German rye lager
Sir Thomas Moore ESB
Vintage Azrael
Striped Bass Pale Ale Pin
Maibock

Check out the Facebook event for more information.

 

Can You Solve The Devils Backbone Mystery Pins?

Devils Backbone Mystery Pins 040113

Credit: Warren Haskell

In celebration of April Fools’ Day, Taste the Local has designed a pin crawl with the intent to fool you.

Here’s the rub: The first three stops will feature a pin of Devils Backbone beer, each with a “mystery” ingredient. We’ll tell you the base beer but you have to guess what’s in it. All votes will be tallied at the fourth bar, where the winner will receive a DB Prize Pack.

Here are the stops on the crawl along with the base beers at the first three stops:

5:30PM — Commercial Taphouse — Eight Point IPA
6:30PM — New York Deli — Schwartz Bier
7:30PM — Weezie’s Kitchen — Beggars & Thieves (CBC collaboration, anti-imperial rye lager)
8:30PM — Burger Bach — Dead Bear Imperial Stout (on tap)

Find more information on the Facebook event page here.

Andy Hannas’ Farewell Devils Backbone Beer Dinner At Acacia

Next week will be  Andy Hannas’ last week as sous chef at Acacia Midtown before leaving Richmond at the end of the month. To commemorate this event,  Devils Backbone rep Warren Haskell and Andy have planned a beer dinner next Wednesday March 13th starting at 6:30pm. Andy has been responsible for planning the menus for many of Acacia’s past beer dinners and desert pairings.  If youhave enjoyed any of his past preparations, you are going to want to come and say good bye.   

MENU

Reception
Chapel Creek Oyster on the Half Shell with Pickled Ginger Mignonette
Pin of Garland (dry hopped blonde ale)

1st Course
Fluke Sashimi, Pickled Plums, Tempura Sea Beans, Yuzu Ponzu, Foie Gras Emulsion
Congo Belgian IPA

2nd Course
Miso Glazed Grouper Cheek, Napa Cabbage Salad, Toasted Rice Powder
Vienna Lager (classic german style amber lager)

3rd Course
Housemade Spiced Pork Sausage, Peanut and Scallion Waffle, Bok Choy, Hoisin Sauce
Schwartz Bier (german style black lager)

Cost for the dinner is $30/person excluding tax and gratuity.  Reservations are recommended. Call (804) 562-0138 to RSVP.

Acacia
2601 W Cary St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 562-0138

Devil Of A Beer Brunch At Secco This Sunday

Once again it is time for another beer brunch at Secco Wine Bar this Sunday FeBREWary 24th.  This is not like past beer brunches as it features a tap takeover from Devils Backbone, best small brewer in the US, as well as an almost completely new menu.  You should also know if you skip this beer brunch you will have to wait two months for the next one as the last Sunday in March is Easter.

feBREWary BEER BRUNCH MENU
available 11AM – 3PM

coffee cake w/ molasses butter

roasted beets, mixed greens, whipped chèvre, orange vinaigrette, walnuts & smoked honey

celery root soup w/ lemon & chives (option to add fried egg)

grilled porchetta, egg & cheese on house made bun w/ tomato mustarda & house fries

apple, fennel, gruyere & whole grain mustard panino on sub rosa polenta bread w/ house fries

huevos rancheros w/ cilantro crema (option to add braised pork)

French toast w/ vanilla butter, maple syrup, pear compote, house bacon & hash browns

shrimp & scallop quiche w/ mixed green salad

veal meatballs w/ creamy herbed polenta, tomato sauce & fried egg

Devils Backbone Tap Takeover

Schwartz Bier — toasty, german-style black lager

Belgian Congo Pale Ale — Belgian style IPA

Danzig Baltic Porter — special edition spiked with local coffee.

This is a non-ticketed event and all items are served a la carte. Seating will be done on a first come, first served basis. Email info@seccowinebar.com or call (804) 353-0670 to get reservations for parties of five to eight.  Keep in mind that Secco’s size means the smaller your party, the quicker they will be able accommodate you.

Secco Wine Bar
2933 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
(804) 353-0670

Devils Backbone Tap Invasion at Conch Republic Tonight

Devils Backbone RVA logoHead over to Rocketts Landing tonight  December 19th as Devils Backbone takes over the taps at Conch Republic starting at 5pm.  The six DB beers on tap for the night include:

Vienna Lager
8 Point IPA
Anniversary Ale
Advantageous Weizenbock
Old Germany Lager
Azrael Belgian Golden Ale

Conch Republic
11 Orleans St.
Richmond, VA 23231

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