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Three Weekend Events To Get You Ready For The National Beer Expo

There will be a variety of events centered around the National Beer Expo next week July 15th to 20th.  Sorry, a break is just not in the cards if you were expecting to take things easy this weekend.  You get delicious Virginia beer in return so you come out on top in the end.

Here are a few things to look forward to this weekend.

Strangeways Three Day Anniversary Celebration — July 11th – 13th

Strangeways will celebrate their one year anniversary with three brand new beers plus eighteen new curiosities all in three days starting Friday July 11th.  There will be special bottle and draft releases for each day.

Learn more at the Facebook event.

Lickinghole Creek Batchelor’s Delight Release — Saturday July 12th 1PM

I really don’t think I need to say much more about this but Lickinghole Creek is releasing their rum barrel quad, Batchelor’s Delight, Saturday July 12th starting at 1pm.  If you loved their Goochland Quad, then you will really want to get your hands on it after aging three months in Flora De Cana rum barrels Oh and there will be pirates.

 

Learn more at the Facebook event.

Hardywood Virginia Blackberry Release — Saturday July 12th 2PM

Summer must be here because Hardywood Virginia Blackberry is back Saturday July 12th starting at 2pm.

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Learn more at the Facebook event.

World Cup Beers: Cheer On Team USA With These Virginian German Style Beers

Credit: An “Mekong” Bui

In the past, German brewers were stuck following the  Reinheitsgebot (beer purity law) stating beer could only be made from four ingredients: water, malted barley, hops and yeast. For awhile, it was only three ingredients as yeast was not included.  American brewers have benefited greatly by never having such constraints.

You can celebrate this freedom tomorrow Thursday June 26th as USA faces off against Germany in the 2014 World Cup.  Drink these Virginia-made German style beers. Follow the Trinkin links to find where you can have the beers on tap.

Altbier
(German for ‘old beer’) Moderately bitter brown, copper lager brewed with top fermenting ale yeast at lower temperatures
Center of the Universe Main St Ale

Berliner Weisse
Cloudy, sour German wheat lager. Typically, 3% ABV.
Strangeways Uberlin Berliner Weisse

Bock
Dark, strong German lager that is lightly hopped
Strangeways B-Sides Honey Bock

Eisbock
Very high ABV (9 – 13%), full and malty dark lager
Strangeways Freeze Ray

Hefeweizen
German wheat beer with flavors of cloves and banana
Legend Hefeweizen
Lost Rhino Final Glide
Young Veterans Pineapple Grenade

Kölsch
Straw colored, clean, and crisp beer with a delicate balance. Beer is fermented at warmer temperatures (55 – 70F) then cold conditioned.  
Blue Mountain Kolsch 151
Center of the Universe Slingshot Kolsch
Champion Killer Kolsch
Midnight New Beginnings Kolsch
Rock Bottom Kolsch

Maibock
Pale German lager with more apparent hops than other bocks
Blue Mountain Maggie’s Maibock
Legend Maibock

Pilsner
Refreshing, clean, and crisp beer with moderate to strong nobel German hop bitterness.
Devils Backbone Gold Leaf Lager

Schwarzbier
Dark German lager balancing roasted and smooth malt characters with moderate hop bitterness
Devils Backbone Schwartz Bier

Vienna Lager
Malty amber lager with a dry finish
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager

Looking for a place to watch the game? Check out the events from Strangeways and Triple Crossing.

Happy Father’s Day Beer Choices: Hardywood & Rappahannock Oysters Or Strangeways & Soft Shell Crabs

I do not envy anyone having to make the tough choice between two cool beer events to take their dads to starting at noon today Sunday June 15th.

Hardywood has Rappahannock Oysters every which way for their 2nd annual Father’s Day Keg ‘N Oyster Fest.  Pizza Tonight tonight will be creating a oysters rockerfeller pizza.

Meanwhile Strangeways will debut a new beer, Wild Wallonian Dawn Saison, and host a Father’s Day Cook Out.  Yellow Umbrella will be frying up some soft shell crab sandwiches.

Make It A Richmond Beer Memorial Day Weekend With Strangeways, Lickinghole Creek, Center of the Universe, & Hardywood

Happy Memorial Day Weekend Richmond! If you are looking for beer, and I know you are, there is a bounty to choose from all over town today Saturday May 24th.

Steal the Vessel at Strangeways — ALL WEEKEND

Here is a note to help with your weekend festivities:

Hellloooo, 3 day weekend! Because we know you have grill outs that require tasty beverages, we’re doing Steal the Vessel and Strangeways Growler refill specials now through Monday! Our special holiday hours are Sunday 12-10 and Monday 12-9 so there’s plenty of time to get your Strange. 

 

Bourbon Barrel Three Chopt Tripel Release at Lickinghole Creek — 1PM

 

Spend some time down on the farm sipping LCCB’s Bourbon Barrel Tripel.  Only 2000 bottles available for sale at the farm.

 

Homefront IPA Day at Center of the Universe — 3PM

While Center of the Universe celebrates Homefront IPA Day at the brewery, the beer will make appearances at Brew’s beer school, The Bucket Trade, and a tap takeover at Station 2.

 

 

COTU_Operation Homefront

Want to take one of the bats used in Homefront IPA home? COTU will be raffling them off.

Hardywood Gingerbread Stout Bottle Sale — 3PM

Yes, Hardywood is releasing Saison Rustica today at 2pm but they are also selling 200 bottles of Gingerbread Stout to celebrate being named top Richmond brewery in Style Weekly.

 

Birthday Weekend Roundup 2014: Rappahannock, Crossroads, RVA Earth Day, Hardywood, & Strangeways

Where did the time go? It is time to celebrate three years of great beers, food, and everything in between.  Here are just a few things that caught my eye this weekend.

Thursday April 24th

Devils Backbone Auster Brau Release at Rappahannock — 4PM

What is Auster Brau?

In addition to their collaboration beer, they will have:

Azrael
Dark Abbey
Gold Leaf Lager
Schwartz Bier
Striped Bass Pale Ale

A beer specifically made to pair with oysters? Sign me up!

Heavy Seas Tap Takeover at Crossroads — 5PM

If you live in Southside and have not check out Crossroads Forest Hill, then you are really missing out.  One visit had me addicted to pistachios with my beer.  Today, six of their sixteen taps are being takeover by Heavy Seas beers.

There will be glassware to steal with these beers on tap:

Black Cannon IPA
Riptide
Peg Leg
Small Craft Warning
Big DIPA
Loose Cannon IPA

Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

Strangeways Tap Invasion at AW Shucks Country Store — 6PM

AW Shucks Country Store
6100 Pouncey Tract Rd
Glen Allen, VA 23059

Saturday April 26th

RVA Earth Day Festival, Manchester — 11AM

Style Weekly is proud to bring you the city’s favorite celebration of earth day again this year. Musical entertainment from critically acclaimed local bands, tasty local food, eye-popping local art, thirst-quenching Virginia craft beers and more. In all, you can expect a beautiful day. And it’s FREE to attend.

If you’ve been to the festival in any of the past four years, we’ll be at the SAME GREAT LOCATION — in Manchester, from riverside through Plant Zero. The fun starts on the south of the 14th Street Bridge and continues from East 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th streets, from Hull to Decatur, including riverside and flood wall activities. Look for new activities on Mayo Island.

Benefitting FeedRVA, RVA Earth Day Festival will feature all nine local Richmond breweries with the following beers on tap.

Center of the Universe — Ashland Hardywood — Richmond
Ray Ray’s Pale Ale Singel
Main Street Hoplar
Isley Brewing — Richmond Legend — Richmond
The Bribe – Oatmeal Porter Brown
Lickinghole Creek –Goochland Maibock
Magic Beaver Pale Ale Hopfest
Midnight — Goochland Lager
Rockville Red Strangeways — Richmond
Triple Crossing — Richmond Albino Monkey
Falcon Smash IPA Phantasmic IPA
Devils Backbone — Roseland Bold Rock — Nellysford
Vienna Lager Virginia Apple
Starr Hill — Crozet
RooStarr Coffee Cream Stout

Make sure to head over to the Legend Lounge to continue their 20th Anniversary Celebration and for a special treat.  Legend Brewing will be the site of the official after-party from 7:30 – 11:30pm.

Hardywood x RVA Beard League Barleywine Release — Noon

To celebrate the 3rd Annual Mid-Atlantic Beard & ‘Stache Championships, Hardywood and RVA Beard League created a small batch of bourbon barrel aged barleywine that they are releasing in capped and waxed limited edition 16oz growlers.  

Sunday April 27th

Strangeways B-Sides Honey Bock Release — 11AM

The trend of a beer being released on my actual birthday continues this year.

Hardywood, Strangeways, & Lickinghole Creek Heading to SAVOR This May

SAVOR 2014At the same time the VA Craft Brewers Guild elected new leadership, Brewers Association announced breweries participating in this year’s SAVOR: American Craft Beer & Food Experience on May 9th & 10th in Washington, DC.  Of the seventy six participants, five breweries are from Virginia including three from the Richmond area:

Devils Backbone Brewing Co — Roseland, VA
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery — Richmond, VA
Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery — Goochland, VA
Port City Brewing Co — Alexandria, VA
Strangeways Brewing — Richmond, VA

Richmond will be very well represented at this year’s event. Hardywood even became a Supporting Partner for this year.  See who else made it on the list this year here. The American Homebrewers Association and Brewers Association members-only presale is March 25 with public ticket sales starting March 26.

The Savory Grain Is Making Me Hungry With Their Virginia Craft Beer Month Photos

Apparently, we are all missing out on what Savory Grain has been cooking for Virginia Craft Beer Month.  Yesterday, they posted this Instagram of their menu board as they welcomed Blue Mountain Brewery for the night.

Both items sounded delicious but unfortunately I could not make it. Maybe I should have moved heaven & earth so I could have enjoyed this Blue Mountain Summer Haze Marinated Grilled Boar.

Scanning through the rest of the Instagram feed, I found they had two tasty dishes feature Legend Brewing on a day I almost made it to.

Legend Locomotive Lager Marinated Pork Chop

Legend Brown Battered Red Fish topped with a Cajun Creme Fraiche

Tonight, Wednesday August 14th, Savory Grain is hosting Strangeways Brewing for a tap takeover starting at 5pm.  I’m anxious to see what they will come up for the menu tonight.  Who’s with me?

Pre-Game Virginia Craft Beer Month At Strangeways Compendium of Curiosities

Strangeways Taproom SignVirginia Craft Beer Month officially starts tomorrow Thursday August 1st but you can get your party on with Strangeways’ Compendium of Curiosities tonight.

The compendium is all new tonight and includes:

I.  MONKEY PICKED WALLONIAN DAWN HONEY SAISON:  We have to start by saying that this is not a joke.  Growing on some of the steepest mountains in the world are the highly sought after Golden Oolong tea leaves (used in this Imperial Reserve blend), which are infused delicately into this one of a kind creation.  It is so dangerous to procure these leaves that man requires the aid of only the most talented and agile of climbers…monkeys that have been carefully trained by Buddhist monks.  We do not recommend A.F.M. to make this scintillating climb unless he has only been drinking our Super Session-able Saison.  A perfect match!

II.  CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY WOODBOOGER BELGIAN BROWN ALE:  Emperor’s Chocolate Elixir provides subtle hints of dark chocolate which are then accentuated with luscious red raspberries and interwoven in the deep textures of our complex Belgian Brown Ale.  Liquid dessert!

III.  SAMURAI CHAI MIXOLYDIAN RAG RYE BOCK:  A unique Japanese tea is formed by blending roasted and popped rice with an amazing green sencha.  Then a healthy addition of fresh ground chai spices is made.  The result is a nutty infusion with a bit of spice to add to the slightly smoky Rye Bock base.  Prost meets Kanpai!

The beers will be tapped at 4pm.  Head over to the Facebook event for more details.

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