Good afternoon, Richmond! Have you been on the fence on attending Hop Culture’s Juicy Brews festival at Triple Crossing coming up on June 10th?
Well, I think I have the deal that will put you just over the edge. For a limited time, you can use the code BEERMEISTER to get 20% off tickets to either session(11am – 2:30pm or 4pm – 7:30pm). This code will also discount designated driver tickets as well as the newly added VIP merch option.
Ticket prices before discount are $62.50/person. Designated driver tickets are $20/person. The discount lowers the cost for each of these to $50 and $16, respectively.
This is your first time hearing about the festival? Who will be there? Other than me?
Here is the list of over thirty breweries that will be in attendance.
Credit: Hop Culture
But you want to know about the beers? Here’s something from brewery number 33.
Or maybe one of these is more your style?
Here is the VIP package I mentioned earlier.
Now hop to it and grab those tickets and don’t forget to use the discount code BEERMEISTER. See you on the 10th!
Check out the Facebook event for updates and more details.
Legend Brewing and Triple Crossing will both celebrate anniversaries this weekend. Legend commemorates the start of craft brewing in Richmond with its twenty four years. Triple Crossing follows in their footsteps with four years of the successful resurgence of the brewing industry in the city.
Here are the details on each of their anniversary celebrations.
Legend has broken with tradition this year for their anniversary. It is no longer a ticketed event and a few food trucks have been invited to serve food.
24 years ago, Legend began as a small tasting room and pub off of an old gravel road called West 6th Street in Richmond’s Historic Old Manchester District. Today, Legend hosts a 380 seat deck overlooking the city with 18 taps of Legend Beer flowing. It’s that time of year again to shut it all down and bring out the big stage.
Join us as we celebrate 24 years of good beer and fun! We’re hosting live bands on the city stage, food trucks, face painting and cornhole.
ADMISSION IS FREE! Beer tickets will be available for $5 each.
Triple Crossing will have anniversary celebrations all weekend at both its locations starting Friday April 13th with a noon can release at Fulton. Though if you want to get a jump start on your TC party, head downtown tonight at 7pm as they host Vinyl Me, Please’s The Spins: Arctic Monkeys ‘Whatever People Say I Am.‘
What would an anniversary be without some new beer to go with it? Here’s a look at Fulton’s Friday draft list.
The action moves Downtown Saturday April 14th with a wild ale release and more draft.
The rules of Can Jam Southeast at Triple Crossing’s Fulton location are pretty simple today Sunday February 11th. Pick a can and drink it. Follow that first can with as many as you can handle.
But which can should you start with? Here’s a handy list of the visiting breweries attending and the cans they will be bringing.
Credit: Triple Crossing
The All Star line up for tomorrow! Tickets will be sold for $6 and can be redeemed for any can. There will be some rules to how Can Jam will be operated, so please read these in advance of coming to the brewery Sunday:
1) Triple Crossing packaged products will only be available at our Downtown location on 2/11. There will be no packaged products (or to-go products) of any kind available at our Fulton location for the duration of the event on 2/11.
2) Tickets, which will be exchanged for cans, can be purchased upon arrival. Only 3 tickets can be purchased at a time. You can get in line again to purchase 3 more, if so desired.
3) Each ticket may be exchanged for one brand from one brewery at a time. For example, you may exchange all 3 tickets at once, but it must be for 3 different beers from 3 different breweries. We’ve done this to ensure that as many guests as possible have the opportunity to try out a wide variety of breweries and their beer.
4) Any cans you receive will be opened by our server upon ticket exchange. There are no exceptions to this rule.
5) Absolutely no outside beer will be allowed on Triple Crossing premises.
If you need a memento of your time today, consider the $3 Can Jam SE koozie.
Credit: Triple Crossing
Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.
Triple Crossing has gone binary with their beer names. Don’t worry, I’ve done the work for you. “01100111 01110010 01101001 01100100” translates to GRID.
Hardywood has a new sipper coming your way in the form of Brandy Cru this Saturday September 23rd. Sounds like it will be a nice beer to curl up with by a fire as the nights get colder. Head over to the Facebook event to learn more.
I hope your clicker finger is ready. Tickets for Triple Crossing’s East Coast Covenant Beer Festival go on sale this Friday September 8th at 10am online here.
Here is everything you will need to know:
This festival will showcase 24 of some of the best breweries on the East Coast. We will be utilizing the entire Fulton brewery for this event and splitting the event into two 400 ticket sessions. Tickets are $75/each and will guarantee you one 4oz pour from each of the 24 breweries attending. Along with the ticket you will receive a limited edition ECC glass and a custom can tote bag.
On the day of the event we will also be releasing three separate cans and our first Proximity Project Wild Ale Series Beer. Purchase of an East Coast Covenant ticket secures you the ability to buy the following items on the day of the event:
Battle Creek DIPA – 1 – 4 pack
DDH Clever Girl IPA – 1 – 4 pack
Waxing Poetic 100% Raspberry – 1 – 4 pack
Proximity Project – 1 Year Old Wild Ale Series Bottle
There will be two sessions on 11/11/2017:
Session 1 – 12PM – 3:30PM (400 people)
Session 2 – 5PM – 8:30PM (400 people)
Tickets
Tickets will go on sale Friday, September 8 at 10am at $75+ per ticket exclusively ONLINE at Brown Paper Tickets.
Each ticket will guarantee a 4oz pour from every brewery, ECC Glass, ECC Can Tote, reservation to purchase TC can releases and wild ale series bottle.
Food and other merchandise are not included in the ticket price.
Tickets are non-transferrable and non-refundable.
You will be allowed to buy 4x ticket per person. Every guest MUST be present with the ticket purchaser. Each guest must have their ID in order to enter the venue.
This event will be 100% Will Call the day of the event. No physical tickets will be present.
Designated Driver tickets will be $3 plus fees and sales tax. DD attendees will not receive glassware or tote. DD tickets only grant purchasers the ability to enter the venue. DD attendees may purchase merchandise and food but will receive no beer pours or packaged product.
Food
We will be dialing up some quick pizzas from our pizza kitchen and catering from Elwood Thompson’s. All food sales are separate from ticket sales.
Merchandise Available
We will also have limited t-shirts and limited edition posters available for sale with East Coast Covenant branding.
Volunteers
Please e-mail info@triplecrossingbeer.com if you are interested in volunteering for the event.
Parking
Please try to carpool and utilizing ride sharing if possible.
Twenty three breweries from up and down the coast will join Triple Crossing at the first annual East Coast Covenant Beer Festival on Saturday November 11th. I have a feeling you’re going to want to mark your calendar for this.
How is your Virginia Craft Beer Month going so far? If you’re behind, Triple Crossing has plenty of chances for you to catch up this Friday August 11th. You will just have to go to both locations if you’re trying to get everything. Starting at noon, their Fulton location will see the release of four new beers. At the same time downtown, they will be releasing their first gose, Salinity, in crowlers along with some draft only variants.
Here is the rundown on each of the beers being offered:
Richmond, another Memorial Day weekend is upon us! Whether you’re just looking for a beer to take a cookout or if you’d rather leave the cooking to the professionals, I have your look at the days ahead.
Steal the Vessel at Strangeways — ALL WEEKEND
This actually started yesterday but I missed it earlier:
It’s the Thursday before a long holiday weekend. If you’re headed out of town or headed to a backyard barbeque, you need to stock up on the juice that keeps the party going. Lucky for you Steal the Vessel day has arrived. Purchase To-Go beer for a Growler, Grunt, Blue Ball mason jar, or CAN-ABLE Crowler, and receive the vessel for free every Thursday. Already have plenty? Bring back in your Strangeways glass for discounts on refills. For all you holiday travelers coming through RVA, stop by… we’ve extended Steal the Vessel for the entire holiday weekend. Take a little strange on vacation or home with you.
She’s more lethal than ever. Double citra and double mosaic for an even heavier hop punch. Available for the first time ever in cans, this Friday in Fulton, 5/26. 4x 4packs per person limit.
COTU has prepped the soundtrack for your weekend with their 5th annual Summer Moon Music Festival featuring two days of 13 local bands battling to support the charity of their choice. New to the festival this year is the addition of an acoustic stage to up the live music factor.
In addition to the regular lineup of beers, COTU will be pouring their Summer Moon Raspberry Lemonade Wheat Ale, a summer ale brewed with 600 pounds of fresh raspberries and the zest of 700 lemons.
I have been waiting very patiently for this beer to come out. Cuvee Peach is the newest addition to Hardywood’s barrel series line. Rather than beer from barrels aged the same amount of time, Hardywood has taken a blended barrel approach where their Peach Tripel was aged in chardonnay barrels anywhere from 10 weeks up to two years. Ethen Adams, Hardywood’s Wood Cellar Manager, explains more on that here.
It’s the second Saturday in Virginia Craft Beer Month and things are rolling by so quickly August will be done before you know it. Here are a few things to keep you busy this weekend.
Element 79 – Leaner, meaner.. well maybe just gluten leaner
Our incredibly sessionable amalgamation of an American Blonde/British Golden Ale has undergone a significant change for those that have a gluten intolerance – and basically zero change for those that don’t. We decided to try a relatively new product to reduce gluten levels in our summer ale after an integral member of our team found that his gluten intolerance reached a level that forced him to stop drinking beer altogether – unacceptable in our eyes.
So, after hearing some positive reports about White Labs Clarity Ferm, we decided to give it a try. The short of it is that Clarity Ferm is an enzyme that, while added prior to fermentation, significantly reduces the gluten content in beers made with barley and wheat. The majority of beers tested fall below the current international standard of 20ppm gluten. For more information check out the White Labs spec sheet here.
Given that Element 79 is nothing more (or less) than 100% Pale Ale malted barley, we’d hoped this stuff would work its magic. Sure enough, after a completely normal fermentation and normal everything else for that matter, we were left wondering what if anything actually happened. The beer seemed like its old self, no changes… until we had our aforementioned guinea pig give it a shot – via two 16 oz pints. Zero. Issues. But please be aware of the following: 1) the beer was made from a grain that contains gluten; 2) there is currently no valid test to verify the gluten content of fermented products; and 3) the finished product may contain gluten. Needless to say, we’re thrilled he can enjoy his favorite beer again, and we couldn’t be happier to offer this beer to those with any sort of gluten intolerance, in the hope that they can once again enjoy barley based beer.
Cheers!
Team TCB
Head over to Triple Crossing today Friday July 10th at 4pm as they debut their reworked Element 79 as gluten reduced:
Times they are a’changing and we’ve decided to make Element 79 a ‘gluten-removed’ beer going forward!
That’s right, one of our flagship brands has been crafted to remove gluten. But please be aware of the following: 1) the beer was made from a grain that contains gluten; 2) there is currently no valid test to verify the gluten content of fermented products; and 3) the finished product may contain gluten.
This batch of Element 79 was treated with Clarity Ferm, a White Labs product designed to remove gluten from the beer.
To celebrate, we’ll have Relay Foods on site with gluten free products available to hand out to visitors. We’ve also got VCU jazz musician Willie D playing some jams throughout the evening.
Whether people with gluten intolerance or celiac disease will be able to enjoy this beer is a complicated question. For one while crafted to greatly reduce the gluten content of the beer, it is still brewed in an environment with barley, wheat, and rye grains. Secondly, the range of sensitivities for people suffering from gluten intolerance or celiac disease are different from person to person.
With those warnings out of the way, this beer should hopefully provide a new option for people who would not have been able to enjoy it all in the past.
Check out the Facebook event for more details and updates.
Contact me at rvabeermeister@gmail.com to send recommendations on beers to try, places with a beer selection I should check out, or upcoming beer events.
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