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American Craft Beer Week RVA 2013: Festivals & Parties

American Craft Beer Week officially runs from May 13th to 19th but as in years past Richmond will start the party early.  Here are some details on festivals and parties happening during the week.  Bookmark this page and check back for updates.

Saturday May 11th

Virginia Hops and Barley Fest

The third annual Virginia Hops & Barley Festival will feature over 30 Virginia craft beers.  Tickets are $15/person in advance or $20/person at door if available and include unlimited sampling of all the beers. VIP tickets are $45/person and include:

Parking
Food
Specialty Collectable Glass
Tented Area
Complimentary Beverages
Private Restrooms

Designated driver tickets will be sold at the gate.

Order tickets here.  Want to win tickets? Local Suds is giving away a pair.  All you have to do is leave a comment on their Facebook page telling them what you like about their mobile app.

UPDATE:

Pins available at the festival:

  • Hardywood Capital Trail Pale Ale
  • Legend Pale with Cascade & Chinook hops

Take a look at the beer list:

Hardywood – RVA                                O’Connor – Norfolk
Twilight Weiss                                       Great Dismal Black IPA
Saison Rustica                                      Spyhop White IPA

Devils Backbone – Lexington                 Starr Hill – Crozet
Schwartz Bier                                        Grateful Pale
Reilly’s Red                                           Double Platinum

Bold Rock – Nellysford                           Legend – RVA
VA Draft Cider                                        Urban Legend Series Lost City Saison
VA Apple Cider                                      Legend Hefeweizen

James River – Scottsville                       Apocalypse Ale Works – Lynchburg
Rock Island Red Ale                               Hopocalypse Imperial Red
Packet Boat Porter                                Golden Censor Belgian Pale

3 Brothers – Harrisonburg                       Extra Billy’s – RVA
Brathair Scottish Ale                              Billy’s Brown Ale
Great Outdoors Pale                              Hoptrick IPA

Midnight – Goochland
New Beginning Kolsch
Not My Job Brown Ale
(Backed up with Head First Pale)

Truck Beers
Bull & Bones Lunch Pale
Wolf Hills Trooper IPA
Roanoke Railhouse Track 1
Big Daddy Sunshine Wheat
Big Daddy Hopdog IPA
Mad Fox Defender American Pale Ale

Plus a few surprises!!
http://www.vabeerfest.com/

.Check out the Facebook event here.

Saturday May 18th

Midnight Brewery First Anniversary — 1PM

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James River Homebrewers 30th Anniversary — 6PM

JRHB will celebrate their 30th anniversary at Legend Saturday night.  While it is a private party, there is nothing stopping you from heading to Legend to raise a glass to one of the oldest homebrew clubs in the country.

Style Weekly Brings RVA Beer Big Guns To Capital Ale House

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Credit: Style Weekly

Join Style Weekly’s Jason Roop as he presents a panel discussion on Richmond’s craft beer revolution at Capital Ale House Downtown Thursday March 21st. Here are the big guns of the Richmond beer scene joining in on the Barons of Beer event:

  • Dave Gott — vice president, Legend Brewing
  • Patrick Murtaugh — co-founder, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
  • Steve McKenna — bartender, co-star of “Drinking Made Easy”
  • An “Mekong” Bui — chief beer officer at Mekong Vietnamese Restaurant
  • Mike Killelea — head brewer, Center of the Universe Brewing & Chairman of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild

The event starts at 5:30pm with a special tasting.  The panel discussion will start at 6pm followed by a beer enthusiast reception from 7 – 8pm.  Tickets are $25/person and include 3 tastings and hors d’oeuvres.  Go here to buy tickets and for more information.

Bourbon Your Saturday With Hardywood And Starr Hill

Bourbon Weekend 030213Looking 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.

Craft Beer Enters Virginia Wine Expo’s Burger Blast For First Time This Friday

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UPDATE: Burger Blast is SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets at the door.

Now in its sixth year, the  Virginia Wine Expo will offer craft beer for the first time as they present Burger Blast this Friday February 22nd from 5 – 10pm.  Burger Blast will feature artisan burgers with samplings of craft beer and wine.

Tickets include the following:

  • Selection of creative, artisan-made burgers cooked fresh by the regions’ best chefs  – a full meal!
  • Samples of craft beer from Virginia and the U.S.
  • Samples of Virginia wine
  • Live music
  • Riedel crystal wine glass (used for wine & beer)
  • People’s Choice Award for best burger
  • Perfect opportunity to unwind and start your weekend with a Blast!

Restaurants
Carytown Burgers and Fries
Rowland’s Fine Dining
Arcadia
J Sargeant Reynolds
Salt Pork
Selba
India K’Raja
Popkin Tavern
On The Rox
Burgerworks
Sam Snead’s Tavern at The Homestead
Culinard Culinary Institute of Virginia – Richmond

Virginia Breweries
Hardywood Chocolate Heat – Richmond, VA
Devils Backbone Schwartzbier – Lexington, VA
Starr Hill Saison – Crozet, VA
Center of the Universe Plowed Brown – Ashland, VA
Legend Hopfest – Richmond, VA
O’Connor Great Dismal Black IPA – Norfolk, VA
Midnight Granite Oatmeal Chocolate Stout – Goochland, VA
Bold Rock Virginia Draft Cider – Nellysford, VA
3 Brothers Elementary Porter – Harrisonburg, VA
Apocalypse Hopocalypse IPA – Lynchburg, VA
Blue Mountain Barrel Aged Dirty Belgian — Afton, VA

National Breweries
Flying Dog Single Hop Imperial IPA (Galaxy) – Frederick, MD
Dogfish Head My Antonia Pils – Milton, DE
Sixpoint Diesel American Stout – Brooklyn, NY
Wolavers Alta Gracia Coffee Porter – Middlebury, VT
Terrapin Hop Karma Indian Brown Ale – Athens, GA
New Belgium Lips of Faith Cascara Quad – Ft. Collins, CO
Brooklyn Fiat Lux Belgian Style Witbier – Brooklyn, NY
Allagash Grand Cru Belgian Dark Ale – Portland, ME
Ommegang Duvel Rustica Belgian Golden Ale – Cooperstown, NY

Burger Blast will be held in the Ballroom of the Greater Richmond Convention Center.  Tickets for the event are $35 (advance) or $48 (at the door if available). For more information and to purchase tickets, head over to the Virginia Wine Expo event schedule here.

Libbie Market Celebrates Three Years With Local Tasting

Libbie Market is celebrating their three year anniversary by hosting a local beer tasting at their Ridgefield location today Saturday February 9th from 1 to 4pm.

Here is what they will be sampling:

Starr Hill: Love, Saison
Legend: Golden IPA, Maibock, Brown Ale
Devils Backbone: Dark Abbey, Schwartz Bier
Bold Rock: Virginia Apple, Virginia Draft
St. George: Porter (draft)
Beach Brewing: Hoptopus (draft)
Blue Mountain (draft)
Midnight: Not My Job Brown (draft)
Mud Hound Brewing: Oatmeal Stout (draft-only) RVA debut
Others: 3 Brothers Brewing & COTU

If that were not enough, drop your name or business card into a drawing for:

(1) Hardywood Original Gingerbread Stout ’12
(1) Hardywood Bourbon Barrel Gingerbread Stout ’12
(2) Hardywood Park Craft Brewery GBS Glasses

Taste something you like? Growler fills will be available on all draft items.

Libbie Market Ridgefield
10470 Ridgefield Parkway
Henrico, VA 23233
(804) 741-0063

Join Good People Beer Club At Mekong For Bottle Share To Benefit MS Society

Mekong GPBC Bottle ShareHead over to Mekong this Saturday February 9th to participate in a bottle share thrown by the Good People Beer Club with Screens N Suds to raise money to benefit MS Society.

The bottle share will be GPBC’s first and they hope annual event run at the same time with an event in NYC.  They are focusing on more malt forward beers for this sharing session and ask that you bring your best  stouts, porters, barleywines, scotch ales, etc.  $10 gets you in at the door and you will receive 10 pours for each 22oz bottle and 5 pours for each 12oz bottle you bring.

The event will last from 3 – 6pm with food provided by Mekong.  Make sure to register here and check out the Facebook event to see what other people are bringing.

Richmond Saturday Beer Roundup

It is already the second week of September and the summer of 2012 may be coming to a close but beer events in Richmond are only ramping up.  This weekend is a prime example. Richmond, here’s your roundup for Saturday, September 8th.

Libbie Market Ridgefield — 12PM

Newly opened Libbie Market Ridgefield  will be the focus of a Local Patronage MOB and a pumpkin beer tasting.

PumK’n Smash Tasting line-up:

Southern Tier PumKing
New Holland Ichabad
Dogfish Head Punkin
Terrapin Pumkinfest
Longtrail Pumpkin
Buffalo Bill’s
Longtrail Imperial Pumpkin
Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin
Shipyard Pumpkin
Tommyknocker Pumpkin
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale
Brooklyn Post Road
Starr Hill Boxcar Pumpkin Porter

Growler Feature: Introducing Virginia’s Wild Wolf Pumpkin

If you’re looking for beer your Halloween party, I hear there will be case deals available for booking for Halloween Parties on Saturday.

Libbie Market
10470 Ridgefield Parkway
Henrico, VA 23233
(804) 741-0063

Hardywood RVA IPA Release— 2 – 9PM

Did you pick or donate hops at Hardywood’s hop harvest festival at the beginning of August?  Come taste the fruits of your labor with the release of Hardywood’s RVA IPA — The Community Hopped IPA this weekend.  RVA IPA used more than 300 pounds of local Cascade, Columbus, Chinook, Glacier, Magnum, Nugget and Centennial hops to produce a 40-barrel batch of beer.

TJ’s Charity Oyster Festival — 4PM

TJ’s at Jefferson will reopen their freshly remodeled bar with a Flying Dog tap takeover and oyster charity festival.  You will  have to go to the Facebook event to see the awesome food menu but here are the beers:

Sour Cherry
Gose (with Old Bay)
Citra Imperial IPA
Imperial Red
Disobedience Abbey Dubbel
Barrel Aged Gonzo
Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout Nitro
Underdog Atlantic Lager
Doggie Style Pale Ale
Old Scratch Amber Lager
Wildeman Farmhouse IPA
Inheat Wheat

Plus a Firkin of Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout

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.

Comedy of Laughing Dog Comes to Beer Theater

Ben — the Original Logo Dog for Laughing Dog Brewing

Beer Theater is back for another installment in Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall tonight June 21st. Brewmaster Fred Colby of Laughing Dog Brewing will be the guest for this Skype tasting session.   Doors open at 5:30pm; the six beer tasting will run from 6-7pm. Cap Ale will offer happy hour special as well as an after event special.

The tasting menu will be selected from the following beers:

Alpha Dog
Anubis Imp. Coffee Porter
CSB
Devil Dog
Dogzilla
Huckleberry Cream Ale
Rocket Dog
Sneaky Pete

Cover charge  for the tasting is $10 and can be purchased in advance here or at the door.

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