Monday April 15th should be an interesting night at Station 2. Three Wolf Hill beers never tapped in Richmond before plus head brewer Drake Scott will be on hand for the evening.
Check out the Facebook event for more information.
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Place Your Crazy Bet At Center of the Universe Tonight
Head up to Center of the Universe tonight Friday April 5th as they release their latest beer. From the imagination of head brewer and armchair historian, Mike Killelea, COTU’s Crazy Bet Imperial Amber is named after Elizabeth Van Lew a prominent Richmond resident during the Civil War, who used her Church Hill mansion to hide escaped slaves and Union prisoners of war.
Crazy Bet has a base of English mild ale malts with different caramel malts to adding sweetness and a deep ruby color. Hop additions in the boil include Columbus, Mount Hood, and Nugget in order to balance the bitterness and intense aromas. As a final measure, the beer is dry-hopped with Columbus and Nugget.
COTU will tap the new beer starting at 4pm. Head over to the Facebook event for more information.
11293 Air Park Rd
Ashland, VA 23005
Meet Three Brothers At Sedona Taphouse Tonight
Harrisonburg’s newest brewing sensation comes back to Richmond tonight Tuesday April 2nd as Three Brothers Brewing invades Sedona Taphouse starting at 5pm. Here are the beers they will be tapping tonight:
The Admiral DIPA
Hoptimization IPA
Coffee Breath Brown Ale
Elementary Porter
Great Outdoors Pale Ale
Come out and meet the brothers who make this great beer and snag a pint glass to take home. Head over to the Facebook event for more information.
15732 WC Main St.
Midlothian, Virginia 23113
Can You Solve The Devils Backbone Mystery Pins?
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.
Any Day This Week Will Be A Great Day For Barrel Aged Beers At Mekong
Mekong will kick off the celebration of their 18th anniversary all this week starting tonight March 25th with a festival of barrel aged beers. They even got you a gift by expanding to fifty taps including a new Andall setup. When ever you decide to go to Mekong this week, know that you find many of these great beers on tap including:
Goose Island Bourbon County 2012
Hardywood Bourbon DIPA 2012
Hardywood Bourbon Hoplar
Hardywood Barrel Blend #3
Hardywood Barrel Blend Blackberry/Grand Cru
Hardywood Bourbon barrel Imperial Stout
Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo (coffee stout aged in Maker’s Mark barrel)
Hardywood Bourbon GBS 2012
Hardywood Bourbon Pumpkin 2012
Hardywood Barrel Aged Singel
Hardywood Special Pin Rachael Cardwell Special Blend
Del Ducato Blueberry Nightmare
BFM Abbaye de St Bon Chien 2011 & 2012 (maybe)
BFM Sq Rt 225 Saison Aged in Bon Chien barrel
Baladin Wayan Sour
Allagash Curieux 2009, 2010, & 2011
Allagash Interlude 2011
Allagash Bourbon Black
Allagash FV 13
Loverbeer Madamin
t’Smisje Oudanarde Imperial Sour Red
De glazen Toren Cuvée Angelique Ransom Barrel
Barley Friska Romanto Barrel
Hofstetten Kuelbelbier Ransom Barrel
Firestone Walker 16th Anninersary
The Bruery Smoking Wood
The Bruery Sour in the Rye
COTU Oak Aged PocaHOPtas
COTU Barrel Aged Scotchtown 2012
COTU Bourbon Barrel 13% Imperial Milk Stout
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti 2009
Great Divide Oak Aged Chocolate Yeti 2009
Great Divide Oak Aged Espresso Yeti
Barley Toccadibo aged in Bella late harvested Zinfandel Barrel
J W Lees Harvest Calvados 2011
Flying Dog Barrel Aged Gonzo 2012
Bavik Petrus Aged Pale
Liefmans Oud Bruin
Duchesse de Bourgogne
Ichtegem Grand Cru
Bockor Cuvée de Jacobin Rouge
De Proef/Hair of Dog Flanders Fred
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow Coffee
Blue Mountain Barrel Aged Dirty Belgian
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron 2010, 2011
Dogfish Head Red n White 2010
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Terrapin Oak Aged Big Hoppy Monster
Founders Backwoods Bastard 2010
Ommegang Biere d’Hougomont
Trolls Palanfrina Special Batch aged in Ramsom Spirit barrel
Harviestoun Bitter & Twist aged in Gin/Pinot Noir barrel
Hitachino Nest Ancient Nipponia aged in Ransom Whisky
Reisdorf Kolsch aged in Channing Daughter’s PAZZO barrel
Uinta Sea Legs Baltic Porter aged in 16yrs Ritterhouse Whisky
Uinta Cockeye Cooper Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
Uinta Labyrinth Black Ale aged in Rye and Bourbon barrels
Mad Fox Oak Aged Wee Heavy
Mad Fox Crazy Ivan Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout
Mad Fox Batch 100
Laughing Dog 2010 Bourbon Barrel Dogfather Imperial Stout
St Bernardus ABTO
Heavy Seas Bourbon DIPA
Heavy Seas Bourbon Barrel Barleywine
New Belgium Lip of Faith Julie Kessler Select 1
Lost Rhino Woody Stout
Legend Barrel Aged Brown
Legend Barrel Aged Doppelbock
Legend Barrel Aged Hopfest
Legend Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine
Legend Wee Heavy Aged in Rye Whisky Barrel
Sierra Nevada Brandy Barrel Quad
Sierra Nevada Scotch Whisky Barrel Aged Bigfoot
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Ovila Quad
Midnight Barrel Aged Series #1
New Holland 2009 Dragon’s Milk Stout
Here are the Andalls that have been lined up for the week so far:
- Blackberry Gueuze — Hardywood Blackberry and Gueuze TBD
- Untamed Italian Wild — Madamin and Bon Chien
- Strawberry Gueuze — Hardywood Strawberry and Gueuze TBD
- Bon Berry — Hardywood Blackberry and Bon Chien
- Plead the Fifth with oak chips n vanilla beans
- Tamarind chili Stout — tamarind fruit, habenero, Bourbon oak chips and stout yet to be pick
- Peach Sour in the Rye — Sour in the rye and fresh peach
- Sour Peach — fresh peach and Gueuze TBD
Mekong will tap beers beginning at 5pm Monday March 25th. Good luck!
Celebrate St Patty’s Weekend & Avoid Green Beer
Most of Richmond will spend their St Patrick’s Day weekend down in Shockoe Bottom for Shamrock The Block. Don’t get me wrong if you can stand the crowd, it can be an interesting time. If that’s your plan, know that On the Rox or Station 2 will serve as your craft beer oases. If you’re looking to avoid the sea of green beer and the crowds that come with it this weekend here are a few under the radar events for you to checkout.
Saturday March 16th
Hardywood Raspberry Stout Pilot Release — 1PM
Hardy wood taps their newest pilot beer, a Russian Imperial Stout aged on local raspberries with music from Zep Replica starting at 5pm.
Crossroads’ Southern Tier St. Patty’s Stout Spectacular — 3PM
Crossroads Forest Hill will tap five different Southern Tier imperial stouts with music from the Beer Ticks starting at 7:30pm. Here are the stouts plus two other Southern Tier beers they are tapping:
2x Milk
Creme Brûlée
Jahva
Mokah
Oat
Eurotrash Pilz
IPA
Update: You can also get a Southern Tier pint glass to take home.
Sunday March 17th
Richmond.com’s St Paddies Brew Tour — 1PM
There are only four tickets as I type this so get on snacking them up here. The tour will start at Capital Ale House’s St Patrick’s Day Celebration continuing on to Legend, Hardywood, and Midnight Breweries. Each brewery is opening up especially for the tour so you will have them all to yourself.
Capital Ale House’s 11th Annual St Patrick’s Day Celebration
Capital Ale House’s St Patrick’s Day celebration has grown over it’s eleven years to cover all five of it locations. Head to the one near your for over ten different Irish & Scottish style ales, traditional Irish food, and music.
Saison’s “Local Is Green” Tapping — 4PM
Saison will tap these five great Virginia beers St Patrick’s day:
Alewerks Bitter Valentine
Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter
Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo
Port City Two Smoked Porter
Wolf Hills Wolf’s Den DIPA
Meet The Brewers Night Goes Southside With Legend And Hardywood
Take a trip over to Southside Richmond for a couple of “Meet the Brewer” events tonight Tuesday March 5th.
Head over to Bailey’s Southside to join the folks from Hardywood for a few beers starting at 5pm. Richmond Beer Lovers will be also be in the house for their happy hour meetup. Join up with them to hear about their other events. Beers for the night include:
Singel
Sidamo
Chocolate Heat
Bourbon Sidamo
Bailey’s Pub and Grille
11581 Robious Rd
Richmond, VA 23235
Meanwhile, Sedona Taphouse will be the site of a Legend Tap Invasion. Enjoy a few beers, chat up the brewer and take home some glassware. Beers for the night include:
Brown Ale
Lager
Hopfest
Maibock
Guardian Dog Dopplebock
Sedona Taphouse
15732 WC Main Street
Midlothian, VA 23113
Bourbon Your Saturday With Hardywood And Starr Hill
Looking for bourbon barrel aged stouts this Saturday March 2nd? Here are two ways to get your fix.
Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo Release
Hardywood celebrates the release of their barrel aged Sidamo Coffee Stout with a bottle-only sale in the morning followed by tasting room opening for bottles, draft, and food vendors at 2pm. and an acoustic evening of Exebelle and the Rusted Cavalcade!
Hardywood will be open 10AM – Noon Saturday morning for a pre-sale event for bottles and merchandise. If you’re looking to skip the lines before tasting room hours start at 2PM, this is when you want to be at the brewery.
Tasting room hours will be open from 2 – 9PM with Bourbon Sidamo Coffee Stout available in half or full pints with most likely a special randall. Exebelle and the Rusted Cavalcade will play acoustic sets starting at 5:30pm.
Food vendors for the night will be Monique’s Crepes, Estes BarBQue, and Station 2.
Head over to the Facebook event for more information.
Starr Hill ROCK MS Bourbon Barrel Cryptical Release
First off, thanks to Screens N Suds for making me aware of this event
Take the scenic drive up to Starr Hill in Crozet, VA as they kick off their month-long celebration of ROCK MS. They will be having a special tapping of their rare Bourbon Barrel Cryptical Imperial Stout in their tasting room.
While bottles will be made available at a later date, tastings, pints and growler fills will be available. Sign up to stake your claim for special Bourbon Barrel Cryptical bottles from their super limited run of this extremely rare brew.
Local food truck favorites Delicious George and The Lunchbox will be serving grub. If you have what it takes you compete in a fierce corn hole tournament for VIP tickets to ROCK MS, Starr Hill merchandise and more. Come for the afternoon to sample and sip on this limited-edition extraordinary brew.
This Saturday marks the first of many community events surrounding Starr Hill’s fundraising efforts for the National MS Society Blue Ridge Chapter and the James Q. Miller MS Clinic at UVA. The main event, ROCK MS will be held at the Jefferson Theater on Saturday, April 13th featuring the soul legend Charles Bradley.
To donate directly to Walk MS, click here: http://bit.ly/WGFkwp
To purchase tickets to ROCK MS featuring Charles Bradley, click here: http://www.jeffersontheater.com/rock-ms
Head over to the Facebook event for more information.
Sedona Rolls Out The Barrels For Takeover
Head over to Sedona Taphouse Tuesday February 26th as they roll out an evening of barrel aged beers. Here is what they will tapping starting at 5pm:
Allagash Curieux
Allagash Interlude
Blue Mountain Dirty Belgian
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Cooney Island Human Blockhead
Hardywood Bourbon Cru
Hardywood Bourbon DIPA
Hardywood Bourbon Gingerbread Stout
Heavy Seas Bourbon Below Decks
Heavy Seas Siren Noire
Innis and Gunn Scottish Ale-Jim Beam Barrels
Laughing Dog Dogfather
New Holland Dragons Milk
Ommegang Biere D’ Hougoumont
Terrapin Spike and Jerome Barley Ryne
Terrapin Oaked Hoppy Monster
Weyerbacher Insanity
Williamsburg Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter
Williamsburg Alewerks Cafe Royal
In addition to the pretty cool lineup, Sedona is allowing growler fills for all of these beers except Bourbon Cru and Gingerbread Stout.
Are You Ready For Super Beer Sunday?
Richmond, today Sunday February 3rd is the day for football and commercial watching. Haven’t decided which parties you are going to tonight? Let me throw a few other choices into the mix.
Second Annual Super Barrel Party — Saison — 2pm
Nevermind the fact they have not been opened a year, Saison is tapping some really cool beers for their second annual buper barrel party including a cask of Brian’s Barrel Blend #3 from Hardywood. Here is a little more of what they have planned:
Epic Oak Smoked
BFM Square Root Saison in Bon Chien Barrels
Allagash Interlude
JW Lees in Lagavulin cask
Cidre DuPont in Calvados barrels
Allagash Bourbon Black
Petrus Aged Pale
Anderson Valley Barney Flats in Wild Turkey barrels
Tilquin Gueuze
Schlenkerla Oak Smoke Doppelbock
Saison
23 W Marshall St
Richmond, VA 23220
The Super Bowl of Beers — The Camel — 5pm
Watch the big game on The Camel’s 173″ screen and drink some of the best beers to make their way to RVA. Here is what they will be tapping:
Alewerks Bourbon Barrel Porter ’12
Alewerks Cafe Royale
Allagash White
Bell’s Hopslam
Bell’s Smitten
Bell’s Two Hearted
Blue Mountain Dark Hollow
Blue Mountain Full Nelson
Bold Rock Virginia Apple
Devils Backbone Vienna Lager
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack
Green Flash Palate Wrecker
Hardywood Bourbon Cru ’12
Hardywood Bourbon GBS
Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
Hardywood Heavy Roller Oatmeal Pale
Hardywood Sidamo Coffee Stout
Hardywood Singel
Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’
Legend Brown
Legend Winter White
Natty Boh
New Belgium Fat Tire
Sam Adams New World Tripel
Sixpoint 3Beans
Starr Hill Psycho Kilter
They will also have bottles of Goose Island Bourbon County, Lagunitas Sucks, and Bell’s This One Goes To Eleven.
Fourth Annual SuperBOWL Eating Contest — Mekong — 5pm
Mekong will crown their fourth Pho King champion tonight where ten men and women will down a lot of pho and beer. Get there early if you think you have what it takes to sign up. Of course, Mekong will be tapping some special beers. The champion will be crowned before the kickoff of the big game so stick around and watch it on their big screen.
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