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Brew Chester Celebrates Two Year Anniversary With Three Notch’d Tap Takeover Tonight

Three Notch'd logo2Brew is the midst of celebrating the two year anniversary of their Chesterfield location. Tonight Thursday July 30th they will celebrate with tap takeover featuring Three Notch’d Brewing out of Charlottesville, VA.  The tap takeover will consist of twenty four beers including Biggie S’mores and the debut of Brew’s collaboration with Three Notch’d, Game Theory, a vanilla bean Russian Imperial Stout.

Here are the beers that will be tapped starting at 6pm:

“40 Mile” IPA
“40 Mile to the Border” Agave IPA — collab with O’Connor Brewing
“Biggie S’mores” Bourbon Barrel-Aged Graham Cracker Stout
“Blackwell’s” ESB
“Brew Betties” Maibock
“Drake’s 10K” Smoked Barleywine
Dry Irish Stout
“Game Theory” Vanilla Bean Russian Imperial Stout
“Ghost of the 43rd” American Pale Ale
“Gradyator” Doppelbock
“Hallowed Be Thy Ale” English Old Ale
“Hydraulion” Irish Red
“Jack’s Java” Espresso Stout
“Jazzfest” Sugarcane and Pecan Ale
“Method to Your Madness” Dark Mild
“Notch’d Your Everyday” Hefeweizen
“No Veto” English Brown
“Oats McGoats” Oatmeal Stout
“Of, By, For” Pilsner
Passionfruit Pale Ale
“Peach 40 Mile” IPA
“Session 42” Best Bitter
“The Tart Side” Grapefruit IPA
“Tollan” Rye IPA

Brew – Chester
6525 Centralia Road
Chesterfield, VA 23835

Join Master Cicerone Neil Witte For A Duvel USA Invasion At The Answer Brewpub Tonight

Boulevard tapsHead over to The Answer Brewpub tonight Tuesday, June 2nd as they host a tap invasion of beers from Duvel USA, which includes Boulevard Brewing, Ommegang, and Duvel among their brands. As a bonus, Master Cicerone, Neil Witte (one of 9 in the world!) of Boulevard Brewing will be hanging out from about 6pm on.

UPDATE: Check out the great Q & A Robey Martin did with Neil Witte over at Richmond Magazine.

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

Boulevard Brewing 
Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale
The Calling
Ginger Lemon Radler
Hibiscus Gose (RVA/VA debut)
Saison Brett 2014
Saison Brett 2015
Harvest Dance Wheat Wine 2014
Imperial Stout 2014
Chocolate Ale

Brewery Ommegang
Hennepin
Three Philosophers
Calypso Hennepin

Duvel Belgium
Duvel Single
Houblon Chouffe
Maredsous Blonde
Liefmans Goudenband

Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

American Craft Beer Week RVA 2015: Tap Takeovers

ACBW2015 Celebrate BannerThere will be a lot of tap takeovers as Richmond celebrates American Craft Beer Week (May 11 – 17). Here are just a few selections to get you through the week but you should definitely check out Annie Tobey’s take on the week’s celebrations on Richmond.com.

Monday May 11th

Tuesday May 12th

Hardywood TapTakeover & Steal The Glass at Blue Goat — 5PM

Blue Goat will feature four beers from one of their favorite Richmond breweries, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery. Here are the beers they will have pouring starting at 5pm:

Bourbon Cru
The Great Return
Sorachi Ace Dry Hopped Pils
2014 Gingerbread Stout.

Don’t miss this great opportunity to come hang out and drink some great beers with the folks from Hardywood!

The Blue Goat
5710 Grove Ave
Richmond, VA 23226

Wednesday May 13th

Strangeways Takeover At Rappahannock — 4PM
Celebrate the week with Strangeways and Rappahannock. They’ll have some glassware to steal and will be pouring these beers:

Woodbooger. 6%, A Belgian style brown ale brewed with coconut sugar and dark Belgian candi sugar, fermented with Belgian ale yeast and aged with bourbon vanilla beans

Überlin, 4.5%, Berliner Weiss style wheat ale. The taste is refreshing and tart with a lemony-citric fruit sharpness and almost no hop bitterness…

Still life of Peaches, 4.3%, Saison that blends a classic Saison DuPont yeast with yellow peaches added during fermentation. The elixir is then aged in oak barrels to enhance its complexity.

Down a few dozen oysters while you’re at it.

Rappahannock Restaurant
320 E Grace St
Richmond, VA 23219

Thursday May 14th

Ballast Point Takeover at Bucket Trade — 4PM

Make your way down to Chester and enjoy these beers from Ballast Point:

Victory at Sea – Porter w/ Coffee & Vanilla
Even Keel – Session IPA
Habanero Sculpin – Spicy IPA
Grapefruit Sculpin – Grapefruity IPA
Dorado – Double IPA
Grunion – Pale Ale

The Bucket Trade
13131 Rivers Bend Blvd
Chester, VA 23836

Lickinghole Creek Takeover at Pig & Pearl — 4PM

UPDATE: This was originally scheduled for Monday night.

Continue your celebration of Kickoff American Craft Beer Week right with a fine selection of beers from Lickinghole Creek over at The Pig & Pearl.

Here is what they will have on starting at 4pm:

Magic Beaver Belgian Pale Ale
‘Til Sunset Session IPA
Goochland Quad
Illuminatos Rum Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Fearnought Bourbon Barrel Imperial Brown Ale
Supreme Leader Bourbon Barrel Spiced Imperial Stout

The Pig and Pearl
2053 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23220

Heavy Seas Takeover at Commercial Taphouse — 4PM

Join the crew at Commercial Taphouse & Grill for an evening of extrAAARGHdinary brews from Heavy Seas Beer! There will be plenty to choose from with some year-round favorites, seasonals, and rarities from the Desert Island series. This will also mark the first tapping of Blackbeard’s Breakfast Bourbon Coffee Porter in Virginia.

Here is what they will be pouring starting at 4pm:

Blackbeard’s Breakfast Bourbon Coffee Porter (VA Debut)
Desert Island Scottish Ale
Desert Island Schwarzbier
Smooth Sail Summer Ale
Double Cannon DIPA
Loose Cannon IPA
Cross Bones Session IPA
Deep Six Robust English Porter

Commercial Taphouse & Grill
111 N Robinson St
Richmond, VA 23220

Saturday May 16th

Strangeways Invades Lickinghole Creek’s Farm Brewery — Noon

Not satisfied with tap takeovers at restaurants, Strangeways will be taking over the taps at Lickinghole Creek with most unique farm-inspired beers:

Still Life With Peaches Saison 4.3% ABV | 15 IBU
Southern Heirloom Candy Roaster Squash Bock 5.5% ABV | 29 IBU
Eternal Youth Bière D’abricot 5.2% ABV | 15 IBU
Gourd Of Thunder Imperial Pumpkin Porter 9.2% ABV | 18 IBU

Read the storied descriptions for these beers here.

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

Tap Takeovers Return To Mekong With Firestone Walker Tonight

Maybe you’ve noticed or maybe you haven’t but it has been awhile since there was a beer event at Mekong. This was to be expected with the opening of The Answer Brewpub. Now that The Answer will be debuting their beers for first time next week, it is the perfect time for a return to where everything started. For this return, Mekong will host a tap takeover of Firestone Walker beers tonight Friday April 24th starting at 4pm.

Here is what will be on tap starting at 4pm:

Pivo Pils – Hoppy Pilsner
Pale 31 – Dry Hopped Pale Ale
Double Barrel Ale – British Pale Ale
Easy Jack – Session IPA
Union Jack IPA
Double Jack Double IPA
Wookey Jack – Black Rye IPA
Opal – Dry Hopped Saison
Stickee Monkee – Barrel Aged Quad
Parabola
Sucaba – Barrel Aged Barleywine
Helldorado (2014) – Barrel Aged Blonde Barleywine
Bretta Weisse – Wild/Funky Berliner Weisse

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

Mekong Restaurant
6004 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Allagash Tap Attack At The Answer Brewpub Tonight

Allagash corkAllagash Brewing is one of my favorite craft breweries around.  Even if it it just something as simple as Allagash White, I can’t really say there is a beer from them that I haven’t enjoyed. So you know I will be heading to The Answer Brewpub tonight Thursday April 16th as they tap a few year round favorite Allagash beers as well as some new rarities.

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

White – Witbier
Curieux – Bourbon Barrel-Aged Tripel
James Bean – Curieux with Cold Pressed Coffee Added
Currant Affair – Sour Dark Ale brewed with Currants
Golden Brett – American Wild Ale
Monmouth Red – Sour Red in Apple Brandy Barrels
Odyssey – Oak Aged Dark Wheat
Century Ale – Aged Brett Saison

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

The Answer Brewpub
6008 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Ardent Craft Ales: Tonight, Tomorrow, And Next Friday

Ardent Craft Ales is on a roll these days and its sure to increase with the weather getting nicer and their beautiful patio. Here are a few things you should try and check out.

Friday April 3rd

Head down to Station 2 tonight at 5pm as they tap a special cask conditioned pin of Sour Porter. This pin was created in the effort of duplicating a 150 year old recipe when porters were thought to be sour.

These other beers will be on tap as well:

Saison
Session IPL
IPA Batch #10
Touchstone Pale Wheat Ale (Triple Crossings collab)

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Saturday April 4th

Go out and try their collaboration with Triple Crossing on the patio starting at noon.

Friday April 10th

Just go ahead and get your tickets for Swine & Brine already! Ardent’s first outdoor festival will feature  The Roosevelt, Metzger Bar and Butchery, Saison and ZZQ cooking and grilling whole hogs, a slew of other pork cuts, and sides. Rappahannock River Oysters will also join the festivities with their delicious oysters (I’m hoping for some fried!) and crab cakes.  King Of Pops – Richmond will be there with plenty of desserts to help cool down your Friday afternoon.

Tickets are $18/person and include two tickets redeemable for food or beer as well as a Swine & Brine t-shirt.

All beers and food items will cost one ticket ($5) with the exception of crab cakes from Rappahannock (2 tickets) and King of Pops who will accept cash or credit cards. Guests will be given two tickets as part of their admission, and can purchase additional tickets via cash or credit card at check-in or once inside the event. Free water will be provided at stations around the festival.

If all of this hasn’t gotten you excited, then maybe this list of fifteen beers will.

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Go ahead get your tickets here.

Two Thursday Takeover Destinations: Lickinghole Creek At Joe’s Inn And Three Brothers At Buz & Ned’s

Sometimes you wish tap takeovers locations were right next door to each other. Such is the case  with Lickinghole Creek and Three Brothers takeovers happening tonight Thursday April 2nd. Both have beers I enjoy having at least once a year if possible: Enlightened Despot from LCCB and Rum Dubbel from Three Brothers. Then there are the new beers I’m intrigued by Good Adweiss (read: Advice) (3 Bros) and Illuminatos (LCCB), a rum barrel stout with vanilla.

Here are the Lickinghole Creek beers Joe’s Inn will be tapping at 5pm:

Enlightened Despot Stout
Illuminatos Vanilla Rum Barrel Stout
La Calavera Tequilla Aged Tripel
Vanilla Black Bear Stout
Heir Apparent Mexican Spice Stout
Mango Habanero Brown Ale
Magic Beaver Pale Ale
Til Sunset Session IPA
Three Chopt Tripel
Short Pump Saison
Bourbon Barrel Tripel
Red Neck Soap Opera Rum Barrel Quad
Gentleman Farmer Estate IPA
Rosemary Saison
Nonesuch DIPA
Virginia Black Bear Stout

Joe’s Inn
205 N Shields Ave
Richmond, VA 23220

Meanwhile, Buz and Ned’s will also tap these Three Brothers beers at 5pm:

Smooth Sailor — vanilla porter
Good Adweiss — hefeweizen
Homebody — tart brown ale with cherries
Daylight Cravings — maple coffee stout
Great Outdoors — pale ale
Admiral
Rum Dubbel

Buz & Ned’s
8205 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Great beers to be had which ever decision you make. I’m still trying to make mine.

Steal All The Heavy Seas Glasses At AW Shucks Country Store Tonight

Head over to AW Shucks Country Store today Thursday March 19th and hang out with Brian and Phil to enjoy some Heavy Seas Beer. They will have Treasure Map Shaker Pints, Uncharted Waters Tulips, and growlers for you to fill and steal with your choice of six beers.

Here is what they will have on tap starting at 5pm:

Loose Cannon
CrossBones
Deep Six Porter
Phantom Ship
Siren Noire
Peg Leg

Glasses may go fast so get there early if you want to make sure to grab one.

AW Shucks Country Store
6100 Pouncey Tract Rd
Glen Allen, VA 23060

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