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Screens N Suds And Hardywood Release The Quadrawine

Credit: Nick Walthall

Screens N Suds and Hardywood are set to release their Quadrawine on Thursday November 1st at a preview event starting at 5pm.  Quadrawine is Hardywood’s first barrel aged blend release brewed in collaboration with Screens N Suds with screen printed labels by Richmond’s Itty Bitty Press.  This extremely limited beer will be sampled Thursday night at Hardywood; bottles will be sold at Gallery 5 during Screen N Suds’ QUAD.

The small scale batch resulted yielded two 1/6 kegs and over seventy 750mL  bottles.  Corked, caged and numbered Quadrawine (13% ABV, 60 IBU) bottles will be on sale at Gallery 5 Saturday November 3rd.  Bottles will be $40 each (limit 1bottle/person) with 100% of the proceeds benefiting MS Society.

In addition to tasters of Quadrawine, here’s the tentative beer list for Saturday’s Gallery 5 event:

Virginia Breweries
Devils Backbone: Vienna Lager, Kilt Flasher
Legend: Chocolate Porter, Brown
Starr Hill: Cryptical, Northern Lights
Hardywood Park: Singel, Quadrawine, Farmhouse Pumpkin
Midnight: Rockville Red
Wolf Hills: Wolf’s Den Double IPA
O’Connor – Mild Child
Blue Mountain: Full Nelson, Mandolin, TBD
St. George: IPA cask, Pilsner

National Breweries
Terrapin: Monk’s Revenge, Rye Pale Ale
Dogfish Head: 60 Minute IPA, Palo Santo Marron
New Belgium: Tart Lychee, Snow Day, Fat Tire
Sierra Nevada: Celebration, Estate

 

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!

Start Your Weekend Early With Hardywood

If you need to get your Hardywood fix in, this weekend has no shortage of opportunities for you to get some.

Thursday October 4th

As it does every Thursday, Richmond’s Food Truck Court gathers at the brewery from 6 – 9pm

Meanwhile, Mekong celebrates their favorite beer bar win with a special Hardywood lineup:

2012 Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout Pin
2012 Bourbon Barrel Gingerbread Stout Pin
2012 Farmhouse Pumpkin
Mekong Fresh Hop brewed with grapefruit peel and local honey
Bourbon DIPA
RVA IPA

Friday October 5th

It is a double Firkin Friday at the brewery with two different milk stout creations:

  • Bourbon Barrel Milk Stout with mole and Heritage’s house blend of Rostov’s coffee from Matthias Hagglund
  • Edward the Great: milk stout with vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, Maker’s Mark soaked ancho chiles, and orange zest from Dave Witte of Municipal Waste.

Saturday October 6th

Saturday sees the official release of this year’s Farmhouse Pumpkin at. the brewery starting at 2pm  As they approach their one year anniversary, this will be the first new vintage of one of their Reserve Series beers to be bottled.  Head over to the Facebook event  for more info; RSVP while you’re at it so they can prepare for the crowds.

Sunday October 7th

End your weekend with a beer dinner at Cous Cous.  Take a look at the menu.

MENU

Welcome Beer
Singel

Arugula salad with cherries, dates, quince and goat cheese; in a roasted shallot vinaigrette
RVA IPA

Duck confit with pumpkin risotto and maple pear sauce
Farmhouse Pumpkin

Braised lamb in mole sauce
Hoplar

Coffee torte with nutella cream
Mocha Belgique

The dinner starts at 5pm and costs $45/person (tax included).  The event will be capped at 50 people, so get your reservations asap by calling the restaurant at (804) 358-0868 or emailing alrcopeland@gmail.com (subject “hardywood dinner”).

900 W Franklin St
Richmond, VA 23220

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.

Devils Backbone Striped Bass Pale Ale at Conch Republic Tonight

The only three kegs of Striped Bass Pale Ale from Devils Backbone will be tapped at a party tonight September 12th at Conch Republic. 

Devils Backbone founder Steve Crandall will be in attendance to present the Chesapeake Bay Foundation with a check for $30,000 to support their efforts to restore and protect clean water in Virginia’s streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay.

The party starts at 6pm

Conch Republic Rocketts
11 Orleans St.
Richmond, VA 23231
(804) 226-6242

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.

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