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Place Your Crazy Bet At Center of the Universe Tonight

COTU Crazy BetHead 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

3 Bros Join Brotherhood2Harrisonburg’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?

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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.

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

Vote For Hardywood Brewer In Best Beard Of Craft Beer Finals

Alright Richmond, now is the real time to vote.  Nick Walthall has made to the finals of Craftbeer.com’s Best Beards of Craft Beer contest.  Head over here and vote for #19 to grab another win for RVA!

From earlier post:

Hardywood’s Nick Danger Walthall is in the running as one of the best beards in craft beer through CraftBeer.com.

Credit: CraftBeer.com

Credit: CraftBeer.com

Head over and like Nick’s photo on Facebook to push him on to the finals. Who knows, soon we may have another #1 title to add to Richmond’s tally.

Andy Hannas’ Farewell Devils Backbone Beer Dinner At Acacia

Next week will be  Andy Hannas’ last week as sous chef at Acacia Midtown before leaving Richmond at the end of the month. To commemorate this event,  Devils Backbone rep Warren Haskell and Andy have planned a beer dinner next Wednesday March 13th starting at 6:30pm. Andy has been responsible for planning the menus for many of Acacia’s past beer dinners and desert pairings.  If youhave enjoyed any of his past preparations, you are going to want to come and say good bye.   

MENU

Reception
Chapel Creek Oyster on the Half Shell with Pickled Ginger Mignonette
Pin of Garland (dry hopped blonde ale)

1st Course
Fluke Sashimi, Pickled Plums, Tempura Sea Beans, Yuzu Ponzu, Foie Gras Emulsion
Congo Belgian IPA

2nd Course
Miso Glazed Grouper Cheek, Napa Cabbage Salad, Toasted Rice Powder
Vienna Lager (classic german style amber lager)

3rd Course
Housemade Spiced Pork Sausage, Peanut and Scallion Waffle, Bok Choy, Hoisin Sauce
Schwartz Bier (german style black lager)

Cost for the dinner is $30/person excluding tax and gratuity.  Reservations are recommended. Call (804) 562-0138 to RSVP.

Acacia
2601 W Cary St
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 562-0138

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

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.

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