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RVA Beer Week 2013: Tap Takeovers, Pub Crawls & Samplings

Friday November 1st

First Friday 5th Anniversary Screens ‘n’ Suds Party — Gallery 5 — 6 – 10PM
Friday will be the prelude to the Screens ‘n’ Suds Big Event on Saturday. Get a taste of what will be on tap and get your first peek at the month-long Screens ‘n’ Suds retrospective exhibit featuring every beautiful, beer-inspired print produced in their five-year history.

Blue Mountain Invasion & Steal the Glass — 821 Cafe — 7:30PM

Bourbon Barrel DIPA
Blue Reserve
Lights Out
Rip Rap Pale

Max’s Tavern Screens ‘n’ Suds After Party — 11pm-2am
After enjoying great beers and art at Gallery 5, check out the newest addition to the Richmond Beer Scene. Belgian themed Max’s Tavern has 24 taps and a huge bottle list of all Belgian and Belgian-style beers. Kitchen closes at midnight and last call is at 2am.

Legend Brewing Sampling — Olio- 630pm-830pm
Legend sampling featuring seasonal beers

Popkin Tavern-RVA Beer Week Kick Off event- 6pm-Close
Special tappings of various craft beers and a special wooden gravity cask tapping.

El Duderino Kickoff — Center of the Universe Brewery – 4PM
El Duderino is COTU’s highly anticipated White Russian Stout.

Saturday November 2nd
RVA Mustache Dash — Strangeways Brewing — 10:30AM – 3PM
5k run/walk and post party that pays tribute to the borderlands between the upper lip and nose. Participants are encouraged to have a mustache, real or fake. This run is 100% silly.

Beer, live music, food trucks, mustache awards and more. Ready, Set, Grow. http://www.rvamustachdash.com

Train Day Sampling — Caboose Wine and Cheeses of Ashland
Beer sampling featuring Center of the Universe Brewing

Day of the Dead Party — Casa Del Barco — 5PM-Close
Featuring Hardywood 2nd Anniversary Tequila Barrel Aged Belgian Tripel. Food and liquor specials as well.

High Gravity Fest — Popkin Tavern — 4PM
Popkin’s High Gravity Fest kicks off at 4pm. You know what else starts at 4pm? Beer school! So get there early and get some free tastes.

Alewerks Bourbon Porter 2012 (9%)
Avery Reverend (10.2%)
Bell’s Expedition 2012 (10.5%)
Bell’s Expedition 2013 (10.5%)
Brooklyn The Companion (10%)
Clown Shoes Blaecorn Unidragon (12.5%)
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron 2012 (12%)
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron 2013 (12%)
Dark Horse Fore Smoked Stout 2012 (8%)
Founders Imperial Stout 2012 (10.5%)
Green Flash Double Stout (8.6%)
Harviestoun Ola Dubh 12yr (8%)
JW Lees Harvest Ale (11.5%)
Nogne-O Sunturnbrew (11%) POPKIN EXCLUSIVE!
Nogne-O Imperial Stout (9%) POPKIN EXCLUSIVE!
Stone Imperial Russian Stout (10.5%)
Terrapin Reunion 2012 (8%)
Thornbridge Bracia (10%)

Sunday November 3rd

Southern Railways Autumn Bottom After Party — 5 – 10PM
SRT has a huge selection of Draft and Bottles craft beers as well as a delicious menu.

Monday November 4th

Carytown-RVA Brewers Parade- 5:30-10pm
The Richmond Area’s breweries will be bar crawling in Cary Town. Starting at the Portrait house- 5:30pm. Brewers and staff from Rusty Beaver, Hardywood, Legend, Midnight, Extra Billys’s, Strangeways, Center of the Universe, Isley Brewing, and Lickinghole Creek will be hitting 7 Carytown restaurants. Join the group and support Richmond beer.

Popkin Tavern — Big Lebowski COTU Tap takeover — 6PM-Close
Featuring the full line up of Center of the Universe beers including their newest El Duderino White Russian Stout.

Firestone Walker Tap Takeover — Mekong – 5PM
Full line up of rare and delicious Firestone Walker beers from sunny California.

Some of these beers you might find on later in the week; others will be very rare and may not last the night.

Starter
Pale 31 – 4.9% California Pale Ale
Pivo Pilsner – 5.3% Hoppy Pils….Gold Metal GABF 2013
DBA(Double Pale Ale) – .5.0 % English Pale

IPA
Union Jack – 7.5% IPA
Double Jack – 9.5% Imperial IPA
Wookey Jack – 8.3 American Black Rye IPA

Dark
Walker Reserve Porter – 5.8% Robust Porter
Velvet Merlin – 5.5% Oatmeal Stout
Parabola – 13% Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout

Sour
Agrestic Ale -6.3% Sour Red Ale

Barleywine
Double DBA – 12% Barleywine
2013 Sucaba – 13% Barrel Aged Barleywine
Stickee Monkey – 13% English Barleywine

Anniversary
XVI – 13% Barrel-Aged Blend
XVII – 13.3% Barrel-Aged Blend
XIV (maybe)

Aged
2010 Black Xantus – 11% Barrel Aged Imperial Coffee Stout
*2012 Sucaba – 13% Barrel Aged Barleywine

Tuesday November 5th

Richmond Beer Lover Election Day Excursion- 5pm-8pm

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Capital Ale House (All RVA Locations)- Finch Brewing STGN-5pm
Featuring 3+ beers on from Finch Brewing in Chicago. Buying a beer will allow you to keep the Finch glass it was poured in. Glassware available while supplys last.

Mellow Mushroom- Vote Legend Night-6pm
Election themed Legend night

Steal The Grunt Night — Popkin Tavern —  5pm
Strangeways Grunts and just like growlers only smaller and cuter. Get a grunt of your vary own to take home. Featuring a full selection of RVA’s own Strangeway Brewing on tap all evening.

Wednesday November 6th

UPDATE: Due to various issues, tonight’s pin crawl has been canceled but you can still get some delicious cask conditioned beers.  Commercial Taphouse will have a pin of Devils Backbone Wood Aged Kilt Flasher.  Nearby, Joe’s Inn will have a pin of Hardywood Second Anniversary Ale (tequila barrel aged tripel). 

3rd Annual RVA Pin Crawl — Commercial Taphouse, Cask, Social 52 — 5:30PM

3 Beercentic Locations each with its own special small batch pin (traditional hand-tapped, gravity-fed, casks that have gone through their secondary fermentation process in the vessel.) We will be walking from Cask to Commercial Taphouse to Social 52.

Heavy Seas Tap Takeover — Hurley’s Tavern –  5pm
Heavy Sea rep Brian Gearing will be available to talk to you about his delicious beers. 6 beers on tap and glassware while supplies last.

Barrel Aged Night — Joe’s Inn — 6:30PM
Special barrel aged beer tapped

Legend Brewing Thunderdome — Popkin Tavern — 5PM
Four beers enter, only one can win.

Thursday November 7th

Boathouse at Rocketts Landing- COTU Tap invasion-5pm-9pm

Boathouse at Sunday Park- Legend Tap Takeover-5pm-9pm

Friday November 8th

Things with Wood — The Camel  – 6PM

Featuring Hardywood:

Wild Turkey Russian Imperial Stout
Rum Pumpkin
Bourbon DIPA
Bourbon Cru

Todd Herrington’s solo album release for ‘Things’ starts at 9:30pm

COTU Beer Sampling — Corks & Kegs – 5:30-7:30PM
Sampling of the Center of The Universe beers with live jazz band.

Legend Pin Tapping — Joe’s Inn — 5:30PM
Special filled pin from Legend Brewery.

Popkin Tavern- Kick the Keg Night-6pm

Brews & Burlesque — Strangeways Brewery — 9PM

Join Those Freaking Weirdos as they take to the stage in, of all places, the tasting room of Strangeways Breing. Tickets available at www.tfwburleque.com

Saturday November 9th

Tours, Pins, and Music — Hardywood — 2PM
Offering tours on the hour (2, 3, 4 and 5pm) and a special line up of pins in honor of RVA Beer Week – music following will include My Darling Fury and the Awesome Few.

Craft Sausage Gorging Competition — Strangways Brewing –– 3PM
Strangeways teams up with Sausage Craft to have you contend against your fellow man to see how many Sausage Craft sausages you can shovel down for prizes and bragging rights.

$20 fee includes 5 Sausage Craft sausages with all the fixins (quickest to down 5 wins), a beer during competition and discount specials all day.  1st place receives a $100 Strangeways gift certificate, 2nd place will receive a $50 gift certificate and 3rd place will receive a $25 gift certificate. 

Rules and sign up available at www.strangewaysbrewing.com.

Bottom to Tap. Hardywood Park 3 Miler — 17th Street Farmers Market — 11AM
Presented by Shake and Bake Sports and benefiting the Enrichmond Foundation, the Bottom To Tap is the 3 Miler that starts at the bottom and ends at the tap! This casual run starts in Shockoe Bottom, goes through historic Church Hill and returns to the 17th Street Farmer’s Market for a great party. If you enjoy running and a party with Hardywood on tap, live music and gourmet local food trucks, register here:

Center of The Universe Barrel Aged Event — Mekong — 5PM
5 barrel aged Center of The Universe beers all on tap at the #1 Beer Bar.

Station 2’s Hardywood Hoppyness Day — 5PM

Great Pumpkin Takeover at Bucket Trade Tonight

This is going down at Bucket Trade tonight October 31st at 5pm:

After the kids have their tricks and treats stop by for an evening of all treats! Join us for the return of the Great Pumpkin! Featuring:

– Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Farmhouse Pumpkin poured through a pumpkin

– Southern Tier Brewing Company Pumking
– 21st Amendment Brewery He Said Pumpkin Tripel
– AleWerks Brewing Company Pumpkin Ale
– STRANGEWAYS BREWING Gourd of Thunder

As a special treat we also have Ace Cider pumpkin cider on tap and bottles of Southern Tier’s Warlock.

Learn more over at the Facebook event.

13131 Rivers Bend Boulevard
Chester, VA 23836

Kick Off Screens ‘n’ Suds Week With Blue Mountain Brewery At The Camel Tonight

wpid-poster1_web.jpgTonight Monday October 28th starts a week of events leading up to Screens ‘n’ Suds Big Event Saturday November 2nd at Gallery 5.

Head over to The Camel at 6pm and kick things off with Blue Mountain Brewery.  Get a taste of the first of five Screens ‘n’ Suds’ Fifth Anniversary Small Batch Series, Blue Mountain Foxy Mama Red Tripel.

Other Blue Mountain beers on tap will include:

Barrel aged Mandolin
Rip Rap Pale
Dark Hollow Bourbon Barrel Stout
Full Nelson

Take home some Blue Mountain glassware and purchase some art to benefit National MS Society Central and Eastern Virginia Chapter.

Check out the Facebook event for more information

Firkin Your Friday At Brew With Lickinghole Creek’s Pumpkin Ain’t Easy Pin

Simply put, today Friday October 25th at 5pm will be your first chance to have an idea of what Lickinghole Creek’s Estate pumpkin beer, Pumpkin Ain’t Easy, will taste like except with spices.  Brew in Chesterfield is tapping a pin containing 90% Pumpkin Ain’t Easy, 10% Three Chopt Tripel, and cinnamon nibs. Yes, cinnamon nibs not cocoa. I had to look it up; they are a real thing. They will have other Lickinghole Creeek beers on tap as well.  Owner Sean-Thomas Pumphrey will be there as well to answer your questions as well. 

Maybe ask why not call the beer “Punkin Ain’t Easy.”  I guess that’d require new neck labels.

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Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

6525 Centralia Rd
Chesterfield, VA 23832
 
UPDATE: Apparently, double the Lickinghole Creek firkin goodness is on tap for today.  Bucket Trade in Chester is tapping a pin containing 90% Short Pump Saison, 10% Three Chopt Tripel, and reconditioned 2006 Pu-erh tea.
 
According to wikipedia:

Pu-erh or Pu’er tea is a variety of fermented dark tea produced in Yunnan province, China.[1][2][3]Fermentation is a tea production style in which the tea leaves undergo microbial fermentation and oxidation after they are dried and rolled.[4] This process is a Chinese specialty and produces tea known as Hei Cha (黑茶), commonly translated as dark, or black tea (this type of tea is completely different from what in West is known as “black tea”, which in China is called “red tea” 红茶). The most famous variety of this category of tea is Pu-erh from Yunnan Province, named after the trading post for dark tea during imperial China.[5]

Bucket Trade will tap their pin at 5pm. Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

The Bucket Trade- Craft Beer, Growlers and Provisions
13131 Rivers Bend Boulevard
Chester, VA 23836

Hey Chester! Check Out Bucket Trade Grand Opening This Weekend

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They’ve been going through their soft open for awhile but this weekend The Bucket Trade will have their official grand opening starting tonight Friday October 18th at 5pm.  Special guests Friday night  include Melanie from Stone and Ben from Hardywood.  As a special treat, they will be serving Hardywood Rum Pumpkin from a pumpkin!

Saturday, they will be doing it all over again, a little bit early at 4pm with Sean from Lickinghole Creek will  with a pin of Three Chopt Tripel.  Nat from Brown will also be there talking about other Virginia beers on tap.

So go trade some buckets this weekend.

13131 Rivers Bend Blvd
Chester, VA 23836

Brew Tap Takeover Will Take You To Foothills Of North Carolina

Foothills LogoYes, that is my clever way of telling you Brew in Chesterfield will be hosting Foothills Brewing for their first tap takeover today Wednesday October 9th starting at 5pm.  This will be the first time Foothills’  entire core lineup has ever been on tap in the Richmond area.  Brew even managed to snag a keg of the limited Barrel Aged People’s Porter. Foothills rep Ben will be on hand to talk about the beers with guests and give out glassware.

Here is what they will be tapping:

Torch Pilsner
Pilot Mountain Pale Ale
Octoberfest
Hurricane Hefeweizen
Hoppyum IPA
Seeing Double IPA
Salem Gold
Jade IPA
Barrel Aged People’s Porter

Read more about the beers here and check out the Facebook event for more information.

6525 Centralia Rd
Chesterfield, Virginia 23832

There Will Be No Free Beer At Commercial Taphouse’s 20th Anniversary Party

Commercial Taphouse 20th AnnivBut you should go anyway…

UPDATE: Commercial Taphouse has revealed their schedule of special tappings for the week to their Facebook event:

Thursday, Oct. 10th, 4:30pm- We kick off the week with a cask pin of Hardywood Bourbon Cru from the first release in April 2012. At 9pm the Big Guys take the stage and rock the house.

Friday, Oct. 11th, 4:30pm- Our good friend Andy Hannas got to brew his Earl Grey Brown Ale at Champion Brewing. There is only one keg coming to RVA and we got it! In addition, we will be tapping our keg of The Bruery Tart of Darkness. Come buy Andy a couple pints!

Saturday, Oct. 12th, 4:30pm-De Ranke Saison De Dottignies 5.5% First keg we have ever gotten from this tiny Belgian brewery in West Flanders that Sean fell in love with on his trip to Belgium. A brewery driven by passion, integrity, and well, damn good beer!

Sunday, Oct. 13th, 4:30pm- Bell’s Batch #9000 Kegged January 27, 2010. 12.5%abv. They brewed it once. This may be your last chance ever to try this beer on draft.

Monday, Oct. 14th, 4:30pm- Williamsburg Alewerks Cafe Royale 8%. One of brewmaster Geoff Logan’s most delicious offerings and a regional cult beer. He ages an amped up version of his Coffeehouse stout in Virginia Gentleman’s Bourbon Barrels for 3 months. One of VA’s best beers!

Tuesday, Oct. 15th, 4:30pm – Great Divide Yeti (2010 Vintage) 9.5%. We were saddened to see Great Divide pull out of the Richmond markets a few years back. But we were smart enough to squirrel away a keg of their award winning Imperial Stout for just the right occasion. Now, in addition to celebrating our 20th anniversary, we are also welcoming Great Divide back to town!

Wednesday, Oct. 16th, 4:30 pm – Eggenberg Urbock 23, 9.6%. At 23 degrees plato this was once one of the strongest beers in the world. Those days are long gone, but it’s never too late to revisit one of the precursors to the extreme beer revolution. Brewed by the oldest family owned brewery in Austria and patiently matured for 9 months before being packaged and shipped.

Thurday, Oct.17th. 4:30 pm- kick the kegs and bottle blowout!!!

 

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