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RVA Beer Week 2012: Tap Takeovers, Pub Crawls & Samplings

Friday November 2nd

Once Upon A Vine South – Seasonal Beer Sampling — 5 – 8PM
Starr Hill The Gift
Goose Island Christmas Ale
Heavy Seas Winter Storm
Legend Winter White
Legend Barleywine
Legend Wee Heavy

Saturday November 3th

South of the James Farmers Market 9AM – Noon
Bold Rock Cider Sampling

Crossroads Forest Hill Oskar Blues Tap Takeover and Bike Invasion Event — 1PM
Oskar Blues Dales Pale
Deviant Dales IPA
Gubna
Ten Fidy
Old Chub

Sunday November 4th

Station 2 Autumn Bottom After Party — 6PM
Starr Hill The Love
Hardywood Park Farmhouse Pumpkin
O’Connor Mild Child
Devils Backbone Old Virginia Dark
Midnight Head First Pale
Roanoke Railhouse IPA
Big Daddy Trailhead Nut Brown
Wolf Hills Chocolate Milk Stout
Mad Fox Keller Kolsch
James River Burning Bruges
Bold Rock
Legend Pilsner

Monday November 5th

Pins & Pint Parade
A bar crawl focusing on some of the Fans’ favorite beer bars with a freshly tapped cask beer at each location:

5:30 PM –Commercial Taphouse- Mad Fox “Mason’s Mild”
6:30 PM –Secco- Devils Backbone “Ichabod Crandall”
7:30 PM — Weezie’s- Hardywood Park “Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout”

Tuesday November 6th

Joes Inn (The Fan) Hardywood Park Tap INNvasion — 6PM
Singel
Mocha Belgique
Hoplar
Blackberry
Farmhouse Pumpkin
Bourbon Cru
Bourbon DIPA
Belgian DIPA
Pin of Milk Stout with Vanilla and a hint of Orange Peel
Hoplar (Aged in 10yr old Bowman’s Bourbon Barrel)
Saison Rustica
Habanero IPA

Wednesday November 7th

Station 2 Victory Steal the Glass Night 5PM

Headwaters Pale
Kolsch
Yakima Glory

Thursday November 8th

Sedona Taphouse Pins and Pints — 5PM

O’Connor Punk con Cocoa pin- Punkelweisse infused with Chocolate (3 different, Cocoa Nibs, Cocoa Powder, Chocolate Bars)
Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Aged Virginia Blackberry pin

Friday November 9th

Attack of The Rare and Wonderful-5pm
You’d have to try really hard not to have a great time at a Mekong event.  Here’s just a taste of what’s in store:

Mad Fox Bourbon Barrel Stout
Goose Island Bourbon County
Hardywood Hazelnut Milk Stout Pin

“Broad Street Gets Goose’d” Goose Island Night — 6pm.

The Camel & Popkin Tavern-  Join Greg Barrett from Goose for different beers at each location.

Kick off for VA Cider Week — 5 – 8 PM

Once Upon A Vine South — VA Cider Sampling

Bold Rock: Virginia Apple, Virginia Draft, Crimson Ridge Vat #1

Sunday Funday Pumpkin Tap Takeover At The Camel

While I’m still in New York until Monday,I’m kind of bummed I’ll miss the start of The Camel’s pumpkin tap takeover tonight, Sunday October 14th.  They are adding  celebration by sampling new menu items such fried oysters, fish tacos, and more.   

Here are the beers they will be tapping at 5pm:

Dogfish Punkin
Southern Tier Pumking
Schlafly Pumpkin
Smuttynose Pumpkin
Hardywood Farmhouse Pumpkin
Weyerbacher Pumpkin
Terrapin Pumpkinfest
Heavy Seas Great Pumpkin
Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin

Enjoy your Sunday Fundday!

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

 

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.

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.

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.

Great Pumpkin Rides To The Camel For Heavy Seas Tap Takeover

Head out to The Camel and hang with Heavy Seas owner/founder Hugh Sisson as he taps a fresh 2012 Great Pumpkin today September 11th.

Plus, Ben Petty is getting older.  Who is Ben Petty? Maybe you know him from his time bartending at Capital Ale House, Tarrant’s Cafe, or The Belvidere at Broad. Or maybe you know him as the Hardywood tree in this video.

Yep, that’s Ben in a nutshell.

It wouldn’t be a party  without some amazing beer so The Camel is staging a Heavy Seas tap takeover with these beers:

Plank II
Land Ho!
Peg Leg
Loose Cannon
Small Craft Warning
2012 Great Pumpkin

Come on out for all kinds of pirate swag, amazing beer, eyepatches, live music, people yelling “Aaarrgh!” and lots of great times. Party begins at 6pm.

Help Wish TJ’s A Bar Voyage

TJ’s at the Jefferson is giving their bar a facelift and needs your help to close down the old bar in style.  Head out todayt Saturday August 25th to help them clear out the shelves and empty out the fridges for one last night. Food and drink specials will be available  all day long as they prepare for the remodel of the bar and lounge. 
 
TJ’s will debut the upgraded bar on Saturday, September 8th with a Flying Dog tap takeover and Charity Oyster Festival.

Flying Dog Lands at Sedona For Tap Takeover

Sedona Taphouse is having a Flying Dog tap takeover today August 21st from 5 – 10pm.  As with all of their past tap takeovers, they will be giving away glasses as well.  The beer list includes multiple brew house rarities:

Sour Cherry
Gose
Single Hop Citra Imperial IPA
Horn Dog Barleywine
Kujo Imperial Coffee Stout
Imperial Red
Disobedience Abbey Dubbel
Barrel Aged Gonzo
Pearl Necklace on Nitro
Pin of Raging Bitch with mango and habanero
Underdog Atlantic Lager
Doggie Style Pale Ale

Dark Horse Rides Into Richmond

Dark Horse Brewing rides into town this week bringing their Beer Advocate 100 rated Crooked Tree IPA along with several of their other beers. They are known for experimenting with anything from baby formula to doughnuts.  Obviously, these guys are crazy; I mean, come on baby formula?!  Anyways I think their beers will fit in just fine in Richmond.  Thanks to Brown Distributing, Dark Horse will be exclusive to Richmond for the entire state of Virginia.

Here are a few place where you can try their beers on for size this week:

Tuesday August 21st

BlowToad will host the draft debut with a tap takeover of five Dark Horse beers:

Boffo Brown Ale
Kmita Kolsch
Reserve Special Black Ale
Sapient Trip Ale
Crooked Tree IPA

Wednesday August 22nd

Head to Whole Foods Short Pump at 4pm to sample some Dark Horse brews and fill your growlers.

Friday August 24th

Total Wine West Broad will have a tasting of Dark Horse beers from 4 -7PM.

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