Tag Archives: VA Beer

Triple The Barrel Aged Goodness From Three Brothers at Mekong Thursday Night

I try to keep from telling you that you absolutely have to try a particular beer or go to a certain event.  I guess rules were meant to be broken because personally I really think you deserve to try these barrel aged beers from Three Brothers tomorrow night at Mekong.

  • Rum Barrel Dubbel — I snagged a growler from Whole Foods right before it won a 2013 GABF medal
  • Resolute — aged in bourbon barrels for 9 months! I was hooked after only a sip.
  • Barrel Aged Vanilla Elementary — aged in barrels that once held Resolute; less bourbon flavor but vanilla and oak highlights shine through.

I would expect these to be tapped by 5PM but who knows what tricks An has planned.  Go and try these irresistibly delicious beers from one of the rising stars of Virginia beer.

I have only one question for Three Brothers. What is “Senantona?”

Get Wacky Tonight at Southern Railway Taphouse

Head over to Southern Railway Taphouse tonight Wednesday January 15th as they present Wacky Wednesday.  They will be serving up some favorite original craft beers right along side an altered variant.

SRT will be offering special deals on flights to allow you a better opportunity to taste standard and altered versions side by side.

Here are the beers they will be tapping starting at 5pm:

Great Divide
Yeti
Oak Aged Yeti

Hardywood
Gingerbread Stout
Bourbon Gingerbread Stout

Allagash
Tripel
Curieux — Bourbon barrel Tripel

Blue Mountain 
Dark Hollow — Bourbon barrel stout
Local Species — Bourbon barrel pale ale

Founders
Dirty Bastard
Backwoods Bastard

Petrus
Aged Pale
Aged Red – 15% Aged Pale with fresh cherries

DC Brau
Corruption
Brainless Corruption — Collaboration with Epic Brewing

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.

111 Virginia St.
Richmond, VA 23219

POSTPONED: Lickinghole Creek Beer Dinner at The Viceroy This Sunday

UPDATE: I’m hearing this has been postponed to sometime in March. 

Last minute, I know, but check out the menu for Lickinghole Creek’s first ever beer dinner over at The Viceroy Sunday, January 12th starting at 6:30pm.

The dinner is $53/personReserve your spot by calling the restaurant at (804) 342-7696.

The Viceroy
600 N Sheppard St.
Richmond, VA 23221
(804) 342-7696

Tale of Two Legend Barleywines Tonight at Capital Ale House

Remember when Legend Brewing made a barleywine for Capital Ale House’s 10th Anniversary? I remember it being quite tasty.

Well, it’s back tonight at Capital Ale House Downtown starting at 4pm:

A Tale of Two Barleywines, the Legend continues. Featuring on draft the Legend Barleywine. This beer is generously hopped to balance the huge malty sweetness. We also “Dry Hopped” this one, giving it a nice spiced-floral aroma. Expect a lingering finish with plenty of warming alcohol.15% Alc. By Vol. By its side, we will be serving their 2012 Capital Ale House Anniversary Barleywine from a bottle. This beer was delicious and well balanced the first time around. Aged for a year, this beer will become a lot different as the malt-hop balance changes dramatically. These two big, complex, flavorful beers are perfectly suited for the winter season. You can also try one here and take the other home. Both come with a glass for you to take home! Glassware is very limited so don’t miss out.

Head over to the Facebook event for more information.

Want A Tap Takeover This Week? How About Four?

I couldn’t help but interrupt my little vacation to bring you some cool tap takeovers happening around town this week.

Tuesday December 17th

Heavy Seas Mutiny on the Taps at Sedona Taphouse — 5PM

Join Virginia fleet captain Brian and sail the Heavy Seas over to Sedona Taphouse.  They will be tapping some fantastic brews as well as selling some vintage bottles. When your pillaging is done, you will have a new glass to add to your booty.

Here is the tap list for the night:

Plank II (2012)
Loose Cannon IPA
Small Craft Warning Uber Pils
Gold Golden Ale
Cutlass Amber Lager
Holy Sheet (2013)
CASK – Yule Tide
Plus bottles of Holy Sheet (2013), Below Decks (2012) and more!

Goose Island Takeover at On the Rox — 6PM

Head over to On the Rox to enjoy some Goose Island beers including the limited Bourbon County series.  There will be glasses to steal as well.

Draft
Bourbon County Stout
Bourbon County Barleywine
Lolita
India Pale Ale

Bottles
Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Matilda

Wednesday December 18th

Devils Backbone Takeover To Benefit No Kid Hungry at Brew — 5PM

Brew will be tapping 10 Devils Backbone beers including the debut of one never tapped outside the brewpub as well as a special cask Vienna Lager. Warren Haskell from Devils Backbone will be on hand to talk all things Devils Backbone. Brew has chosen to donate one dollar of every glass of Devils Backbone beer ordered to No Kid Hungry.  They will also be accepting canned good donations as well. If you bring a canned good, you can get a ticket good for 50% off your first glass of Devils Backbone beer.

Here is the tap list with one or two more to be added soon:

Vulkaan (Oud Bruin aged on whiskey wood
Metro Berliner Weiss (with choice of 3 different house made syrups)
Vienna Lager
Eight Point IPA
Schwartz Bier
Dark Abby
Gold Leaf
Bavarian Dark Lager
Pub Ale
Ramsey’s Nitro Stout
Teddy Bear — cask conditioned pin of Vienna Lager with cacao nibs, vanilla beans, and cinnamon, think chocolate Teddy Grahams.

Thursday December 19th

Blue Mountain & Devils Backbone at Sedona Taphouse — 5PM

Sedona Taphouse’s second takeover of the week brings together Devils Backbone and Blue Mountain with eleven beers each including Marsedon, their collaboration quad which was brewed at both breweries.

Here’s what you’ll find on tap from each brewery:

Blue Mountain
Full Nelson
Export Stout
Foxy Mama
Cheer Beer
Lights Out
Long Winters Nap
Blitzen
Local Species
BaDonka
Dark Hollow
Marsedon – collab quad

Devils Backbone
Vienna Lager
Eight Point IPA
Dark Abby
Pear Lager
Marsedon – collab quad
Flor di luna jasmine
Berliner Metro Weiss
Vulkaan
Mile Post 5
Betamax DIPA
Ramsey’s Draft Stout – Nitro

On The Bright Side, There Will Still Be Some Hardywood Bourbon Gingerbread Stout

By now you’ve probably seen the post below from Hardywood.

While some of you may still be going through the stages of grief, here’s the good news: there is still Bourbon GBS to be had.  Now is a time to be thankful for the little things.  Hardywood was able to save about 18 barrels worth of the beer; that is over 4500 pints.

How will these 18 barrels be divided up, you ask? I can’t say exactly but here is what I do know:

  • A very limited quantity of bottles will be sold starting at 1PM Saturday.  Bottles will only at the brewery so Hardywood can hope to recover some of the loss.  When I stopped by Thursday, there was a palette bottled with more to be packaged.  Bottles will be limited to 2 per person. So get there early if you absolute have to have a bottle.
  • Some kegs will make it to the market. So if you’ve seen an event planning to have Bourbon GBS, I’d expect that they will still have it but probably at a lesser quantity than planned.

Here are some events where you’ll find BB GBS at:

This is not all the places who will get a keg but it will get you started.  I’ll update when I have more tapping times.

Between Stone & Strangeways Takeovers Tonight

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Here are two interesting tap takeovers for your consideration tonight Friday November 22nd. 

Conundrum of Copious Curiosities & Blitzkrieg Bock Escape Party! — 4PM

Strangeways gets even stranger as they take over all of their taps. Wait?! What?! Yep, those crazy guys will have 25 different beers flowing in the lab on at one time including their new Blitzkrieg Bock.

Here’s the run down on their newest stranger:

Hey ho, let’s go…Blitzkrieg Bock is a revved up black lager brewed with a slew of angst-ridden malts. Opal, Smaragd and Perle hops are piling in the back seat, as healthy additions of cinnamon and cocoa nibs pulsate to the back beat. Blitzkrieg Bock went through a tight wind in some old oak barrels, while simultaneously being intensified with a duo of light roasted local RVA coffees. The brewers are losing their minds worshipping this Punk Anti-Stout. 6.66% ABV/17 IBU

Head over to the Facebook event for more details and updates.

Strangeways Brewing
2277A Dabney Rd
Richmond, VA 23230

Gargoyle Takeover: Stone Brewing Co. Extravaganza — 5PM

Capital Ale House Downtown is celebrating with a night of all things Stone Brewing. They will have some limited glassware and growlers to steal as well. You will have the opportunity to try some rare and highly sought after beers from this year and years past.

Here’s what they will be tapping starting at 5pm:

Arrogant Bastard
Oaked Arrogant Bastard
Double Bastard
17th Anniversary Ale
Oaked Old Guardian
Belgo Old Guardian
R&R Coconut IPA
Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
Farking Wheaton w00tstout
Suede Imperial Porter (collab with BlueJacket in DC)
Ruination IPA

Check out the Facebook event for more information.

Capital Ale House
623 E Main St
Richmond, VA 23219

Virginia Craft Beer Invades Visual Arts Center’s Craft + Design Show Saturday

Craft + Design Pins 112313-3 Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s 50th Anniversary Craft + Design Show will open to the public Saturday November 23rd at 10am showcasing local favorite craft artists as well as artists from California to Maine and members of VCU’s Contemporary Craft Society. This year some of Richmond’s favorite craft breweries and local food vendors have also been invited to participate.

As a special treat, each brewery was paired with a local artist to decorate and fill pins with cask beer.  Here are the cask to be tapped Saturday:

  • COTU & Diego Sanchez: El Duderino with Mexican cinnamon & sugar, dried peppers, vanilla bean, and cocao nibs (inspired by Mexican hot chocolate).
  • Hardywood & Ed Trask: Gingerbread Stout with cocao nibs & Blanchard’s Dark as Dark coffee beans.
  • Lickinghole Creek & Chris Milk: Three Chopt Tripel conditioned on 2006 Pu-er tea.
  • Strangeways & Mickael Broth: new Blitzkrieg Bock with vanilla beans & cocao nibs

Here are the other beers on tap for the event:

Center of the Universe — Ashland Hardywood — Richmond
Pocahoptas Singel
Main Street Dry Irish Stout
Lickinghole Creek — Goochland Strangeways — Richmond
Magic Beaver Belgian Pale Ale Albino Monkey
Three Sheets ESB Woodbooger
Bold Rock Cider — Nellysford
Virginia Apple

Alamo BBQ and Mosaic will be the featured food vendors.  Go out and enjoy craft beer and some of the finest contemporary crafts in the nation!

General admission for the show is $8/person or $6/person with valid student ID or VisArts or Science Museum membership.  Craft beer tickets will be $6 each or you can get a commerative tasting glass for $12 that includes four tasting tickets.

Head over to the Facebook event for more information and updates.

Hardywood Throwing Tantrum Of A Takeover at Joe’s Inn Tomorrow

Hardywood is celebrating their Terrible Two’s by taking over the entire draft lineup at Joe’s Inn tomorrow Wednesday November 20th. 

Here is what Joe’s will be tapping starting tomorrow morning except for all GBS variants, which will be tapped at 6pm:

RVA IPA
Virginia Blackberry
Bourbon DIPA
Bourbon Sidamo Coffee Stout
Sidamo Coffee Stout
Bourbon Cru
Raspberry Russian Imperial Stout
Saison Rustica
Coconut Porter
Hardywood Singel
Belgian Dubbel
Belgian Tripel
Belgian Quad
Hoperation Pink
2012 Farmhouse Pumpkin
2013 Farmhouse Pumpkin
2013 Gingerbread Stout — tapping at 6PM
Russian Imperial Stout Aged in Heaven Hills Barrels
Nitro Gingerbread Stout — tapping at 6PM
2nd Anniversary Ale (Tequila Barrel Aged Tripel)
Doppelbock
Rum Pumpkin (Farmhouse Pumpkin aged in Caribbean Rum Barrels)
Gingerbread Stout (cask conditioned pin)  — tapping at 6PM

Go out and celebrate!  Check out the Facebook event for more information.

205 N. Shields Avenue
Richmond, VA 23220
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