NEWS: Grinding Out a Historic Lager
(Ground six-row barley) By Jeff Maisey Talk about made from scratch: When Winchester-based Broken Window head brewer Jacob Arnaud and Clarke County Historical Association director Nathan Stalvey...
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NEWS: Community Brewing Ventures to Guide Bold Mariner
(Mike Stacks has The Bold Mariner Brewing Company expanding its horizons.) By Jeff Maisey Community Brewing Ventures (CBV), whose mission is to help small and medium breweries overcome growth...
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TRENDS: Hot & Hazy for Summer
(Starr Hill is amping up a big summer push with Sonic Haze) By Jeff Maisey Summer forecasts call for hot and hazy days ahead, and we’re not just talking about the weather. Hazy IPAs, also referred to...
View ArticleNEWS: Rebranding in the Cards for Legend
BY JEFF MAISEY Emerging from the hazy fog of a 21st century plague, a young RVA craft beer drinker seeks advice from a mystical seer. Beer Drinker: Tell me ol’ wise one of the past, present and...
View ArticleNEWS: 2021 Virginia Craft Beer Conference
On July 26-27, the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild will hold its Virginia Craft Beer Conference as a virtual event from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM The keynote speaker on Day 1 this year is Dr. J Nikol...
View ArticleThe Guild Turns 10
By Jeff Maisey This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild’s formation. All of its original mission objectives have largely been accomplished, and certainly there is much...
View ArticleBreweries Breathing New Life into Old Buildings
(The recently opened Camp Trapezium maintains elements of an 1890 icehouse. Photo by Annie Tobey.) By Annie Tobey Beer plays the starring role at a brewery, and taprooms are designed to enhance the...
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Brewery Fills the Harvest Gap
(Harvest Gap Brewery is located in a rural setting beautiful day or night. Photo courtesy Harvest Gap) By Michael T. Jarvis Mike and Katherine Virts are producing beer, wine and cider in Hillsboro, not...
View ArticleCold Beer & Hot Chicken at Champion Ice House
(Hunter Smith and Craig Hartman share a light moment at Ice House. Photo by Do Me a Flavor and Robinson Imagery.) By Jennifer Waldera Over a decade ago Chef Craig Hartman opened the doors to BBQ...
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RESULTS: 2021 Virginia Craft Beer Cup
(The Virginia Beer Company’s Terminally Pretty won second place in the overall Best in Show category) The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG) announced the 2021 Virginia Craft Beer Cup winners on...
View ArticlePROFILE: WAR Craft Scores a Direct Hit
(WAR Craft Brewery is a hit with couples with its rural setting, wine, and low ABV beers.) By Jennifer Waldera While the last few years may not have been the start to the contemporary roaring ‘20s that...
View ArticleThree Notch’d Acquires Wild Wolf Space
(Attractive grounds area of Wild Wolf will continue to lure fans when Three Notch’d Brewing takes over the space.) By Jeff Maisey In early 2022, Mary Wolf, founder of Wild Wolf Brewing Company on...
View ArticlePROFILE: Hop On Over to Patch
(Gordonsville locals love Patch Brewing Company) By Jennifer Waldera After founding and running the successful Hop On Tours, a bus excursion company that has hosted thousands of guests on trips to...
View ArticleMonticello Mountain Ale Debuts
By Jeff Maisey Beer was such an essential ingredient to colonial life, Thomas Jefferson designed spaces for brewing and storing home-brew on the grounds of Monticello. Much has been written on the...
View ArticleTrivia Night Fever
(Chris Drummond of World’s Okayest Trivia. Photo credit Logan Martin.) By Jefferson Evans & Chuck Triplett So it struck Chris Drummond one day while running The Art of Music memorabilia store...
View ArticleYeast is King
(Yeast is an essential ingredient to create unique flavors in beer. Photo courtesy of Jasper Yeast.) By David Hoff As winter starts giving away to spring, the brewers at Pen Druid get ready to make...
View ArticleOld Bust Head’s Carbon-Captured Beers — For Finley
(The Old Bust Head brew crew celebrates its first carbon-captured beer.) By Jeff Maisey When you hear the term “carbon capture” used it’s primarily in reference to carbon emission originating from oil...
View ArticleNEWS: Stone Barges In
(A barge was used to transport Stone Brewing’s new fermenting tanks up the James River. Photo courtesy of Stone.) Staff Report How big are Stone Brewing’s new fermenting vessels? Large enough that they...
View ArticleVirginia Breweries Score World Beer Cup Awards
Compiled by Staff The World Beer Cup — considered the “Olympics of Beer Competitions” — was held in early May in Minneapolis. Seven breweries from Virginia earned hard-to-get medals. “The World...
View ArticleLawnmower beer season is back
By Jeff Maisey Back in 2014, some in the craft beer world had latched onto the label lawnmower beer to describe what were light lagers serving as a way to quench your thirst during the dog days of...
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