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PUBLISHER/EDITOR Jeff Maisey jeffmaisey@yahoo.com ADVERTISING/MARKETING Jennifer McDonald

8 News Mad Fox 12 Business News 14 Virginia Brewing History 18 Copperwood Taverns 20 Mug Shots 26 Virginia Craft Brewers Cup Winners 36 Winchester Brew Works 38 Old Ox Middleburg 40 Front Royal Brewing Co 42 Precarious Beer Hall 44 Vasen’s Outdoors Appeal 48 Lockn’: Music & Beer 51 Events Calendar 63 Brewery/Cidery Guide

Brian Koski CREATIVE DIRECTOR Brenda Mihalko CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Diane Catanzaro Jefferson Evans Lee Graves Sam Hedenberg Greg Kitsock Chris Jones Wade Reynolds Jim Roberts Mark Thompson Annie Tobey Chuck Triplett WEBMASTER Giorgio Valentini Copyright 2019 Ghent Media, Inc. Virginia Craft Beer Magazine is published bi-monthly

by Ghent Media, Inc. PO Box 11147 Norfolk, VA 23517 For advertising and subscription inquiries: 757.403.5852 jennifer.mcdonald@hotmail.com For editorial inquiries: 757.237.2762

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publisher’s NOTE If it’s August, it is officially Craft Beer Month in Virginia.

As has become tradition here at Virginia Craft Beer Magazine, we are featuring the newly crowned Virginia Craft Beer Cup Best in Show winner on our front cover as part of our feature with the complete results, category by category, and with comments from Brett Vassey, the President and CEO of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild.

We were honored this year to be selected as the official media sponsor of the 2019 Virginia Craft Brewers Cup competition and gala by the Guild.

In addition to our craft beer awards feature, this issue includes award-winning beer author Lee Graves’ expanded historical research into the role slaves and indentured servants played in harvesting hops and in the brewing process, as the City of Hampton and Fort Monroe commemorate the 400th anniversary, in August, of the arrival of the first Africans to the New World.

Also in this issue, Annie Tobey shares Vasen Brewing Company’s Nordic roots and connection to the great outdoors; Michael Jarvis shines a light on Old Ox Brewery’s satellite touch-down in downtown Middleburg; Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett turn us on to Front Royal Brewing Company; Diane Catanzaro and husband Chris Jones report on the Precarious Beer Hall in Colonial Williamsburg and interview three “local”Virginia bands tapped to perform at Lockn’.

Plus, Greg Kitsock explains how Copperwood Tavern’s two NoVA locations are promoting Virginia’s craft beers.

Ironically, as we hail and celebrate the growth, enhancements and achievements of the Commonwealth’s independent brewing industry in this August/September issue, we also bring the sad news of Mad Fox Brewing Company’s closing in Falls Church, leaving Northern Virginia beer enthusiasts in complete shock.

Bill Madden, the hands-on brewer/owner of Mad Fox, was an encouraging supporter early on of our magazine as well as one of the pioneers of the modern craft beer revolution. Let’s hope we’ve not seen the last of Madden in our beer scene.

In the meantime, raise your pint glass, goblet or aluminum can in a toast to the great independent craft beer made right here in Virginia.

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Bill Madden behind the bar at Mad Fox Brewing Company in 2016.

Mad Fox Closes

By Jeff Maisey

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n July, craft beer enthusiasts in Northern Virginia were shocked to learn Mad Fox Brewing Company was closing its doors. The news came via a social media post from the brewpub’s founding CEO and Executive Brewer, Bill Madden.

“The decision to close has been an extremely difficult one to make,” Madden shared with patrons. “We have witnessed restaurant competition in the 2.2-square-mile Falls Church City become fierce since our opening in 2010 with multiple businesses opening in the last year alone. As much as we tried to compete, there are an overwhelming number of choices for the local population. Sales have been on a slow decline over the last several years and, unfortunately, staying open is no longer sustainable.

“On the brewing side of our business, we continue to see more breweries opening in Virginia with two new Taprooms setting up shop within a mile of Mad Fox in the last year,” Madden continued. “When we opened in 2010, there were 40 breweries in Virginia. Now there are close to 250. The Brewpub business model is a tough one to maintain compared to a Brewery Taproom with little overhead, lower rents and outsourced food trucks. Our draw from the surrounding areas has dwindled in what has become an extremely competitive craft beer market, which has resulted in this final decision.

“We attempted to work with our bank and our landlord for more favorable terms, and while both were willing, we ultimately could not come to an agreement that would allow Mad Fox to be breakeven or better.”

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As his official biography notes, Bill Madden moved to Northern Virginia after graduating from the Master Brewers Program at the University of California-Davis in 1995. Since then, the Gettysburg College graduate developed his skills by opening and operating seven brewpub locations in Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland while at Capitol City Brewing Company, Founders Restaurant and Brewing Company, and Vintage 50 Restaurant and Brew Lounge. He also worked at AC Beverage where he built and serviced beer systems at the highest volume brewpubs and restaurants in the Washington, DC region.

Mad Fox – derived from the first three letters of Bill’s last name combined with his wife’s maiden name, Fox – operated a large brewpub situated in the heart of Falls Church. The space was warm and inviting, with dark wood, large windows, visible oak barrels and a view of the brewery. Among the many awards earned by the brewery winning a Gold Medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival for its Kellerbier Kolsch instantly established Mad Fox as what Zagat labeled one of the “Best gastropubs in the DC area.”

“I’ve always been a brewpub brewer,” Madden told Virginia Craft Beer Magazine in 2016. “Being a brewpub brewer is different than a packaged brewery in that you’ve got a connection with the guests.”

Sadly, that connection has been lost.

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The Return of Richbrau Richbrau, a Richmond beer brand that had been popular from the 1930s through the ‘60s, and that had been revived in the early 1990s before being shuttered in 2010, has been brought back from the dead by a new group of owners — Hank Schmindt, Brian McCauley and Matthew Mullett — who purchased the trademark in 2016.

The new Richbrau operates in a former auto shop in RVA’s Shockoe Bottom. Among Richbrau’s first beers to be released are Psychic Horse (hazy IPA with citra hops), King of Strays (sour ale with strawberry and pink guava), and 4th Street Horribles (sour tart lemon ale with lactose=sweetened tea).

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Ribbon-cutting celebration in RVA with the return of Richbrau

Get back: Starr Hill Downtown C-Ville As The Beatles sang in 1969, “Get back to where once belonged,” Starr Hill Brewery, which got its start in 1999 in a music hall, is returning to its downtown Charlottesville roots in the spring of 2020.

“We have wanted to get back downtown for a long time as the beer market in Charlottesville has exploded since we left our original downtown location,” said Duke Fox, Starr Hill’s Vice President of Sales. “Charlottesville is our home and we want to play a role in making Charlottesville one of the premier craft beer markets in Virginia.”

According to Fox, Starr Hill’s Crozet location will remain open and continue to be its primary production brewery.”

Starr Hill has expanded its brand footprint in markets throughout Virginia by opening a satellite tasting room micro brewery in Roanoke, a Starr Hill bar in the center of downtown Norfolk’s Waterside District (an indoor venue), and it will unveil its Starr Hill Beer Hall & Rooftop in Richmond’s popular Scott’s Addition.

Is there more to come?

“We are looking at opportunities in Virginia all the time but at this point we do not have any further plans as we have plenty on our plate with Scott’s Edition and the new Downtown Charlottesville location opening in the next 9 months,” Fox said.

Liquid Escape Goes Year-Round For the first time since opening in March of 2016, The Virginia Beer Company is adding a new recipe to its portfolio of Year Round offerings. Liquid Escape – a Tart Ale brewed with Lemongrass and a touch of Australian Sea Salt – is available on draft and in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans.

“This Tart Ale brewed with Lemongrass and Sea Salt was really popular when we released it as a taproom-only offering,” reflected Brewmaster Jonathan Newman. “It’s just tart enough so you know it’s Kettle-Soured without being overpowering. We loved the way it could diversify our other offerings and complement any occasion, and at 4.4% ABV we know it’s a crusher.”

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Non-Traditional Financing Helps Brewers W

ith all due respects to the Reinheitsgebot, craft beer requires one more important thing beyond water, malt, hops and yeast: money. To launch his Purcelville, Virginia brewery, Stephen Mackey skipped the banks and best friends routes and turned to Brewery Finance.

The nation’s first craftbeer-focused equipment lender, the Coloradofounded company provided Mackey with funds for a pilot system that will enable him to add beer to the fermented beverage lineup at his established Notaviva Vineyard winery.

“We’ve been a vineyard for 12 years now,” Mackey says. “But there’s a real passion for farm breweries here in Northern Virginia, so we’re adding beer to our mix and re-shaping our company.”

Brewery Finance was started in 2005 by longtime homebrewer and craft beer fan Rick Wehner.

Mackey says he chose the company for funding help for his new brewing system (manufactured by Ruby Street Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado) for several reasons.

“What made it attractive to us,” Mackey says, “was Rick’s deep understanding of brewing and the gear we need. He knows the brewing business and the equipment -- unlike a bank that would ask, ‘What is this stuff you want to buy?’”

The company also enabled Mackey to get his equipment in quick fashion and with a few needed extras. “The approval time was fantastic, everything happened in just a couple days,” Mackey says. “Brewery Finance also helped us purchase an eighttap kegerator, kitchen equipment, and outdoor seating for our patio. We couldn’t do that with a bank.”

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payments or tying up funds while awaiting approvals or slogging through the red tape of traditional funding.

“It took two days for the funds to be approved and the process was easy,” Mackey says.“A couple days later the equipment was at my door and we put into action. I could quickly monetize the gear right away.”

Brewery Finance’s customer list includes such American craft beer icons as Russian River, Oskar Blues, Maui Brewing, Surly Brewing and hundreds more. The company finances everything from brewing equipment and canning systems to kegs, forklifts, software and much more.

The brewery also has a Better Beer Now program that enables craft brewers to quickly and affordably get quality control gear. “The biggest challenge a brewery has is gaining a customer’s trust,” says Mary Pellettieri, Quality Instructor for the Brewers Association. “That trust is lost and hard to gain back if there are quality problems up front. The Better Beer Now program,” she says, “could save a brewery from so many losses it is Rick Wehner started Brewery Finance in 2005. hard to even quantify how high its value can be.”

In these tightening and more “Best of all,”Wehner says,“we make it competitive times, access to funding is possible for brewers to hang onto their harder to come by. Especially for brewers hard-earned bucks and spend them on that have maxed out their other options other important things like marketing and or that lack the credit history and time in promxceptional beer and feeble promotion business required for bank funding. are over.” otion. The days of being successful “What separates us from traditional with une lenders,” Wehner says, “is we take into Mackey expects his music-themed account more than your credit score and winery to reap the bennies of adding your bank balance. Your background and small-batch beer and gear through business plan, the beers you make, how the equipment-funding route. “With they match up with the current craft beer the excitement the brewery is already trends - we factor in those things, too.” creating,” Mackey says, “I’m going to be Wehner and his company can also get a calling Brewery Finance again very soon to brewer’s gear in place without large down get more equipment.”

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Slaves and Indentured Servants Were Vital to Virginia’s Colonial Beer-Making

By Lee Graves

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The City of Hampton and Fort Monroe will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in America August 23-25.

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n late August 1619, the British privateer White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, near present-day Hampton. Its cargo included scores of Africans who had been captured that summer from a Spanish vessel, the San Juan Batista.

Thus began slavery in Virginia.

A month later, in September 1619, another British vessel, a bark called the Margaret, set sail from England for Virginia. The passenger list included more than a dozen indentured servants, men who would ply their trades for a set number of years and then be granted land and freedom. Among the cooks, carpenters, sawyers and coopers was a man named Thomas Perise. His purpose?

“For hops,” the record reads.

These events four centuries ago might seem to have little in common. Yet slaves and indentured servants played an important role in growing hops and brewing beer in early Virginia, and their story adds a rich chapter to American history.

Beer had already made its debut. The English settlers who landed at Jamestown in 1607 carried ale, long considered a staple for its nutrition and as a safeguard against drinking contaminated water.

That first crew, however, did not include any brewers, an error soon remedied in subsequent arrivals.

Brewing good English ale required hops, and despite the species being native to Virginia, the founding farmers gave a high priority to cultivating the crop—just as they found good use for slave labor. “There were in Virginia, in 1648, about fifteen thousand English, and of negroes that had been imported, three hundred,” according to one agricultural report. “The abundant crop of barley supplied malt, and there were public brew-houses, and most planters brewed a good and strong beer for themselves. Hops were found to thrive well.”

Indeed, hops were regarded as a staple commodity. The Virginia legislature passed a law in the session of 1657-58 providing premiums for several crops, including “hopps at twenty shillings per hundred.”

The reference to planters brewing “good and strong beer for themselves” begs clarification. It was generally the planters’ wives who made sure ale and cider were readily available, and often their role was supervisory. Slaves did the actual mashing and fermenting in the kitchen, we can assume, although few records exist because enslaved people were regarded as property being bought and sold. An ad in the June 6, 1745, Virginia Gazette, though, includes brewing among desired skills: “To be sold to the highest bidder: A Valuable young Negro woman, very well qualified in all Sorts of Housework, as Washing, Ironing, Sewing, Brewing, Baking.”

Just as slaves did the hands-on brewing, they bent their backs among the hop bines on Virginia’s plantations. Landon Carter, son of Robert “King” Carter and one of Virginia’s gentry in Revolutionary times, wrote a 16-page treatise on hops cultivation in the mid-1700s. His essay describes soil preparation, cultivation, picking, drying and bagging. Was he actually in the fields doing the hoeing and harvesting? Unlikely, as his estate had some 500 slaves.

Because hops were a prevalent crop and slaves were the backbone of field labor, it’s easy to assume that enslaved workers learned not only the value of hops but the art of growing them as well. No wonder they began turning their knowledge and skill to their own advantage, in their own gardens.

Indeed, numerous records show plantation owners and brewers purchasing hops from African Americans. A ledger for the brewery at the College of William & Mary shows “Paid

Nottoway Negroes for Hops” in a December 1775 entry. George Washington’s accounts show a payment in 1798 for six pounds of hops to one Boatswain, a “ditcher” at Mount Vernon’s Mansion House farm.

The records of Thomas Jefferson, and his wife, Martha, provide more details. An avid and highly regarded home brewer, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson bought hops from Monticello’s slaves.

She bought hops from neighbors’ slaves. She bought hops from slaves in Williamsburg. “Hops was among the most frequently purchased product from the slave community by Martha,” wrote author Peter Hatch, former director of gardens and grounds at Monticello. In one journal entry, Martha notes trading seven pounds of hops for “an old shirt.” While she doesn’t name the seller, it takes only a small leap of curiosity to ask, “Who would want an old shirt?”

The most eye-opening transaction occurred in 1818. Thomas Jefferson paid $20 to Bagwell Granger, a notable figure in Monticello’s slave community, for sixty pounds of hops. Sixty pounds! Wet or dry, that’s a lot of hops, and one wonders if it might have included some wild hops in the bargain. And $20! In today’s economy, that would equal about $800.

It is at Monticello that we also find perhaps the most notable intersection of beer and slavery in Virginia. Though known widely as a wine lover, Jefferson was also a beer geek. He grew hops. He built a malt house. He designed a brew house, though no record of its construction exists. He sought books about brewing. Because barley was expensive to import and did cont'd

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not grow abundantly in Virginia (despite the 1648 report), he experimented with brewing beer with corn and wheat.

After his two terms in the White House, circumstances afforded Jefferson the opportunity to up the ante on brewing at Monticello.

During the War of 1812, a former professional London brewer named Captain Joseph Miller returned from England to his native America to claim family estates. A series of misfortunes— and suspicion about his English ties during wartime—left him stranded in Albemarle County. Jefferson befriended him and asked him to share his brewing expertise with one of his slaves.

That man was Peter Hemings, son of Elizabeth Hemings, brother of Sally Hemings and half-brother to Martha Jefferson herself. Peter Hemings was already a skilled tailor and chef.

Miller and Hemings began brewing at Monticello in September 1813, and Peter proved a quick study. Jefferson described him as possessing “great intelligence and diligence both of which are necessary.”

Brewing was seasonal, and the quantities dwarfed Martha’s 15-gallon batches. “We brew 100 [gallons] in the fall & 300 [gallons] in the spring,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1821 to James Barbour, a former governor of Virginia and a U.S. senator at the time. “Peter’s brewing of the last season I am in hopes will prove excellent. At least the only cask of it we have tried proved so.”

Jefferson invited others, such as James Madison, to send slaves to learn from Hemings. “Our malter and brewer is uncommonly intelligent and capable of giving instruction if your pupil is as ready at comprehending it.”

A sadder tale at Monticello serves as a reminder of slavery’s harshness. Nance Hemings, the third daughter of Elizabeth Hemings and kin to Peter, worked there as a weaver, cook and brewer, according to the estate’s records. She and her two children, Billy and Critta, were given to Jefferson’s sister as a present in 1785. However, 10 years later Jefferson needed a weaver, so he bought Nance Hemings back for sixty pounds; he did not, however, buy either of her children. Thomas Mann Randolph, Jefferson’s son-in-law, did purchase Critta. When Jefferson’s estate was auctioned in 1827 to repay debts, Nance Hemings was listed as “Worth nothing” and became the property of Randolph.

At the same auction in 1827, Peter Hemings was purchased by Daniel Farley, a free black man in Charlottesville who allegedly was his nephew. Farley also was a hops grower—he sold an unknown quantity to Thomas Jefferson in 1812 for $1.33.

Thanks to the labor of slaves, Virginia was the leading hops producer in the South in the decades leading to the Civil War. The 1862 report of the Department of Agriculture shows the Old Dominion producing 10,015 pounds of hops in 1860, the most by far among the “disloyal” states in the report.

That war led to emancipation, and nearly a century later federal legislation codified civil rights. Yet our nation still struggles with racial issues. Acknowledging the roles of enslaved people in our history is a step toward deeper understanding, and what better way to do that than over a beer.

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Copperwood Shines Spotlight on Virginia’s Beermakers

By Greg Kitsock orthern Virginia’s Copperwood Taverns – farm-to-table restaurants with locations in Arlington and Loudoun County, and a third set to open in Falls Church in 2020 – are a showcase for the state’s produce, its spirits and, above all, its beers.

Scan the menu and you’ll find that all 20 draft selections are from small breweries and cideries in the Old Dominion. The list, as we went to press, ranged from Sessions in the Abyss (a 4.5% session IPA from Fair Winds Brewing Co. in Lorton) to Blue Mountain’s formidable bourbon-barrel aged imperial stout Dark Hollow (10% abv).

That beer list is lovingly assembled

by Jody Hessler, beverage director for the Copperwood Taverns and several affiliated bars. Hessler has been in the hospitality business for nearly a quarter century, working at The Hamilton and Chef Geoff’s in Washington, DC prior to his current gig. He’s hard to pin down.

“I’ll log 15 to 20,000 miles a year visiting breweries and distilleries,” he estimates.

Recent pit stops included Bear Chase Brewing Co. and Dirt Farm Brewing Co. (both in Bluemont), and Quattro Goombas Brewery in Aldie.

What impressed him? He cites several fruit beers, including Dirt Farm’s Tart 31, a sour ale made with the farm’s own Montmorency cherries, and Resistance, a mango passionfruit wheat ale from Quattro Goomba.

Hessler is picky. He won’t tap beers from out-of-state breweries like Stone, Ballast Point or Deschutes, even though they have outposts in Virginia. But he’s not

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averse to occasionally carrying Striped Bass Pale Ale from Devils Backbone Brewery, even though that company is now owned by Anheuser-Busch. Devils Backbone, he explains, is a homegrown operation, and the company donates a slice of the proceeds from Striped Bass to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

The Copperwood Taverns serve a house pale ale currently being brewed

by Lost Rhino Brewing Co. in Ashburn.

They also do their own barrel aging. As Hessler explains, Copperwood sends an assortment of wooden casks (some of which held wine, some beer, some even maple syrup) to the Catoctin Creek Distillery in Purcellville. Catoctin gives a portion of its whiskey a final 2-6 months of conditioning in the barrels, after which the limited run is bottled and sold under the Virginia Heritage Cask label. The empty barrel then gets sent to Adroit Theory Brewing Co. (also in Purcellville) for one of their experimental one-offs.

Expect an imperial stout aged in a Cabernet barrel to hit the taps this August or September, Hessler promises.

Hessler also oversees the taps at two other Arlington bars: Quinn’s on the Corner, a comfy dive between the Rosslyn and Court House neighborhoods; and Dudley’s Sport and Ale, a sprawling sports pub in the Village at Shirlington. Neither

is Virginia-centric.

This fall, though, the company plans to open the Pinemoor catercorner from the Clarendon Metro. Hessler describes it as “like Copperwood, but a little more relaxed.” The six taps will dispense large domestic drafts, while twenty Virginia craft beers will be available in cans. (It’s exactly the opposite from Copperwood, which stocks a few cans of mass-market brews like PBR and Miller Lite.)

Beer lovers have another reason to thank Copperwood. It rescued the Village at Shirlington’s annual Oktoberfest (one of the region’s longest-running beer events, dating back to 2000) after original sponsor Capitol City Brewing Co. folded in April of last year. The Capitol City Oktoberfest morphed into Shucktoberfest, as Copperwood partnered with the Northern Neck’s Waverly Point Oyster Company and recruited about 20 Virginia breweries to pour beer.

Said Hessler: “We want to do it again this fall – we’re just waiting for the powers-that-be to give us a date.”

The Copperwood Tavern-Shirlington is at 4021 Campbell Ave. in Arlington (703-552-8010) and the Copperwood Tavern-Loudoun is at 20465 Exchange St. in Ashburn (703-724-4006).

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The New Realm Brewing team proudly hoists the Virginia Craft Beer Cup

By Jeff Maisey

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n late spring, independent craft breweries from around the Commonwealth gathered for the 2019 Virginia Craft Beer Cup competition presented by the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild.

This year, a record 342 beers were entered in 35 categories. Each brewery was limited to three entries in categories of their choosing.

James River Homebrewers president Anna Shore led a crew of 39 certified beer judges in scoring each entry.

As Virginia beer historian Lee Graves noted in his blog post, “Breweries in the Tidewater area took home 21 medals. In the Richmond area, the count is 14 medals; in Central Virginia (Charlottesville and beyond), 13 medals; in the Roanoke area and Southside, nine; in the Shenandoah Valley, 10; in Loudoun County, eight; in outer Northern Virginia (including Fredericksburg), 10; in inner Northern Virginia (Alexandria, Arlington, etc.), also 10.”

New Realm Brewing Company’s Euphonia Pilsner was crowned Best in Show, which then earned the Virginia Beach brewery the coveted 2019 Virginia Craft Beer Cup. “It means a lot,” said New Realm CCO and co-founder Bob Powers, noting the brewery opened in Virginia Beach just last year. “We’ve really been welcomed in the Virginia community and we’re excited to be here.”

The Best in Show victory for a pilsner represents a trend with lighter style beers — lagers — taking the overall top honor for three consecutive years.

“It is amazing,” said Virginia Craft Brewers Guild CEO and President Brett Vassey. “Eight years ago, when we started the Cup, folks thought that it would be IPAs and more IPAs. The very interesting thing is that people are getting excited about pilsners and lagers. We see it in our tasting rooms.”

Past Virginia Craft Beer Cup winners are as follows: 2018: Brothers Craft Brewing, Lil Hellion Helles Lager 2017: Smartmouth Brewing Co., Safety Dance Pilsner 2016: James River Brewery, River Runner ESB 2015: The Answer Brewpub, Larceny IPA 2014: Devils Backbone Outpost., Turbo Cougar 2013: Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Smokehaus Lager 2012: Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Schwartz Bier

The complete 2019 Virginia Craft Beer Cup competition results by category are as follows:

BEST IN SHOW 1st Euphonia Pilsner

2nd

Fine Creek Brewing Company

3rd

ALTERNATIVE FERMENTABLES BEER 1st Honey Meade Lager

St. George Brewing Company

2nd DeadRYEz

Gloucester Brewing Company

Glutenless Maximus - Pale Ale Chaos Mountain Brewing

AMBER AND BROWN AMERICAN BEER

1st Triple “A” American Amber Ale

2nd 3rd

1st PataDe Palo (Peg Leg)

New Realm Brewing

2nd Dry Hopped Brett Saison

3rd

AMBER BITTER EUROPEAN BEER MoMac Brewing Company

Article One Amber Lager Mustang Sally Brewing Company

Linden Lager

Front Royal Brewing Company

AMBER MALTY EUROPEAN LAGER 1st Rauche

Makers Craft Brewery

AMERICAN PORTER AND STOUT

1st Stone Espresso Totalitarian Imperial Russian Stout

2nd

Stone Brewing

BlackOx

Old Ox Brewery

Parkway Brewing Company

3rd

Spencer Devon Brewing

AMERICAN WILD ALE

Pulchritudinous Brown Easy Money

That Damn Mary Brewing Company

Wicked Nymph Imperial Stout Adventure Brewing Company

1st Dry Hopped Brett Saison

2nd 3rd

Fine Creek Brewing Company

The Captain

Coelacanth Brewing

Red Ale

Center of the Universe

BELGIAN ALE

1st Optimal Wit

2nd

Port City Brewing Company

Belgian Wit

Garden Grove Brewing & Urban Winery

BRITISH BITTER

1st Bust Head English Pale Ale Old Bust Head Brewing Company

2nd Great American Restaurants Pale Ale

Great American Restaurants - Sweetwater Tavern

3rd Lord Fairfax

Lake Anne Brew House

BROWN BRITISH BEER 1st No Veto Brown

2nd Great American Restaurants earned two golds and a silver

3rD

Three Notch’d Brewing Company

Bishop Brown

The Board Room VA

Fast Mail

Ballad Brewing VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM

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CZECH LAGER

1st Nature Boy Pilsner

2nd

Pro Re Nata Brewing Company

Aurora Pils

Seven Arrows Brewing Company

DARK BRITISH BEER 1st One Lion

2nd 3rd

Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery

2019 va craft beer cup

Great American Restaurants - Sweetwater Tavern

Everywhere You Look There’s Something Precarious Beer Project

1st Peach Farmhouse Ale

3rd

The Virginia Beer Company

Strangeways Brewing

FRUIT BEER

Elbow Patches Oatmeal Stout

Great Valley Farm Brewery

Sour Grapes

Seven Arrows Brewing Company

Dewitt’s Wit

The Farm Brewery at Broad Run

GERMAN WHEAT BEER 1st The Love

Starr Hill Brewery

Black Lager

2nd

Dark Side

3rd Tailwind

Bingo Beer

Center of the Universe Origin

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2nd

2nd

Backroom Brewery

1st Rusty Roadrunner Lager

3rD

1st Uberlin

Oatmeal Stout

DARK EUROPEAN LAGER 2nd

EUROPEAN SOUR ALE

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Witch Haze Ale

2 Witches Winery & Brewing Company Bike TrAle Brewing Company

www.baldtopbrewing.com

Virginia's first historic farm brewery serving handcrafted beer with food trucks and live music every weekend!

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CONTACT US Email: info@baldtopbrewing.com Tel: (540) 999-1830 Address: Bald Top Brewing Company 1830 Thrift Road Madison, VA 22727

HOW TO FIND US From 29 South, take the 29 business exit and proceed through Madison and past the County Courthouse. Soon thereafter turn right (West) onto Thrift Road and proceed 1 mile to our farm entrance.

From 29 North, exit onto 29 business and continue north about 1/2 mile and turn left (West) onto Thrift Road and proceed 1 mile to our farm entrance.

Our mission is to share remarkably fresh and great-tasting beer that appeals to the spectrum of your senses, proudly brewed with our hops and farm fresh ingredients, and served with Madison, Virginia hospitality.

We are proud to offer an experience you’ll want to share with all your friends and family, but don’t just take it from us – come on by and taste for yourself!

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Drink In The Moment! © 2016 Bald Top Brewing Company LLC All rights reserved.

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Hours of Operation: Tues-Sat: 11am - 11pm Sun: 11am - 9pm I Mon: Closed Live Music: Tues-Sun

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2019 va craft beer cup

The Center of the Universe team won a trio of medals

HISTORICAL BEER

1st Classic Lager

2nd 3rd

Blue Mountain Barrel House

Pleasure House Brewing

2nd

Gratzer

3rd Red Willie Irish Red

Castleburg Brewery and Taproom Beale’s Beer

1st Frogman Lager

3rd

1st O’Brien Clan Irish Red

Castillian’s Champagne Grodziskie

INTERNATIONAL LAGER 2nd

IRISH BEER

The Bold Mariner Brewing Company

Batting 1000

Beltway Brewing Company

No Limit Lager The Board Room VA

IPA - American

Vixen Irish Style Red Ale Old Bust Head Brewing Company Tradition Brewing Company

PALE AMERICAN ALE

1st Mosaic Pale Ale

Random Row Brewing Company

2nd Lucky 13 3rd

Broken Window Brewing Company

Ghost of the 43rd

Three Notch’d Brewing Company

PALE BITTER EUROPEAN BEER

1st

BOFT IPA

1st Euphonia Pilsner

2nd

Mosey Along the Dan

2nd

Rockers

3rd

3rd

Barrel Oak Farm Taphouse

2 Witches Winery & Brewing Company Big Ugly Brewing Company

IPA - Specialty

New Realm Brewing

Liberty Light Lager

Bald Top Brewing Company

Quayside Kolsch

Fair Winds Brewing Company

PALE MALTY EUROPEAN LAGER

1st

Morning Glory

1st Yippee Ei-O Springbook

2nd

Cashmere Secrets

2nd

Final Gravity Brewing Company V�sen Brewing Company

3rd Red Leaf IPA

Twin Creeks Brewing Company

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3rd

Great American Restaurants- Sweetwater Tavern

Lil’ Hellion

Brother’s Craft Brewing

Reh of Sunshine Helles Black Hoof Brewing

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SEPTEMBER 21 Noon to 6pm

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Additional tasting tickets and full beers can be purchased at the event.

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Must be purchased in advance Includes: T-shirt, tasting glass, unlimited tastings, and a swag bag.

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General Admission is FREE Advance tickets available for purchase at

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SCOTTISH ALE

1st 80 Shilling Scottish Ale 7 Dogs Brewpub

SMOKED BEER

1st Secretly Smoked Lager

2nd 3rd

1st House Lager

2nd

Reaver Beach Brewing Company

United Craft Lager New Realm Brewing

Bald Top Brewing

3rd Mexican Lager

Alewerks Brewing Company

STRONG AMERICAN ALE

Pancake House Stout Smoke Eater House 6 Brewing

Trapezium Brewing Company

1st Changing Lanes

beltway Brewing Company

SPECIALTY BEER

2nd

South Street

3rd

Smartmouth Brewing Company

STRONG BELGIAN ALE

1st Soft-Serv Ice Cream Porter

2nd 3rd

2019 va craft beer cup

STANDARD AMERICAN BEER

Mount Up

Raspberries on Acid

Blue Mountain Barrel House

SPICED BEER

1st Little Red Rooster Coffee Cream Stout

2nd 3rd

Starr Hill Brewery

“Just-In” Time for Breakfast 2 Witches Winery & Brewing Company

Coffee Blonde Ale

Caiseal Beer & Spirits Company (The Vanguard Brewpub)

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Hopsneeze Gen2 IPA

Alesatian Brewing Company

Wind’s Eye

Rip Rap Brewing

1st Barnfire Saison

2nd 3rd

Maltese Brewing Company

Strongman

Bike TrAle Brewing Company

New Year’s First Place:en Ale Lake Anne Brew House

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STRONG BRITISH ALE

1st Black Sail Scotch Ale Adventure Brewing Company

STRONG EUROPEAN BEER 1st Inked

2nd 3rd

Restless Moons Brewing

Accelerator Big Ugly Brewing

K�nig Fruhling

1781 Brewing Company

TRAPPIST ALE

1st Monkeys Uncle

2nd

2019 va craft beer cup

3rd

Center of the Universe

Brohead Fred

apocalypse Ale Works

Belgian Dubbel

Skipping Rock Beer Company

WOOD BEER

Three silvers for 2 Witches Winery & Brewing

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1st

Old Dominion Barrel Reserve Series

2nd

Chocolate and Coffee Dark Hollow

3rd

Cooper’s Cloak Bourbon Barrel-Aged Quadrupel

2 Silos Brewing

Blue Mountain Barrel House

Old Ox Brewery

MOZZIE JUICE Hazy IPA

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Bonnie Landy and Holly Redding

3 Babies, 3 Years, 1 Brewery

By Jeff Maisey

I

t’s hard enough running an upstart craft brewery in a town known for its apple sauce products and country music legend Patsy Cline, but when Bonnie Landy and Holly Redding gave birth to Winchester Brew Works in 2016, they soon discovered making babies would be as much a part of the plan as makin’ beer.

“We started planning the brewery back in 2014,” explained Holly Redding, whose primary focus is on marketing and running the tasting room. “Having babies was certainly not part of the plan, but based on our ages and our desire to start families, we knew it was probably going to end up being the case. It wasn’t written into the business plan.”

Redding had her first child in 2016 just three weeks before the brewery’s soft opening.

“We were scrambling to open at the end of my pregnancy and trying to do everything ourselves,” she said.

Child care is a big part of any working mom’s concerns. Some women have family members to call upon, while others seek-out locally from their local church or often costly professional daycare centers.

Others — especially if self-employed — can have their infant at work with them.

Babies in a production brewery, as you can imagine, is not the same as having

the wee ones crawling around the kitchen floor at home.

So what option works best for Redding and Landy?

“When we were opening, I had a premature baby,” said Redding. “I had to spend more time with him at home. I was still living in Harrisonburg at the time, which is an hour away from the brewery, so I wasn’t coming back and forth too often with the baby. My husband helped out a lot at home with the newborn.”

Redding made a point to work special events behind the tasting room bar.

Once her child was a few months old, she had a nanny come to the house a couple of days a week. At five months, she enrolled her child in full-time daycare.

Holly gave birth to her second child in April 2019 and implemented a similar process for childcare.

Bonnie Landy had her first child in August 2018 and ended up bringing the baby to the brewery. She started full-time daycare in April of this year. For the sake of running a business, it was important for the dynamic women not to give birth at exactly the same time.

“We kind of joked with Holly and her husband that we had to stagger them no matter what because while I was ‘on maternity leave’ — if you can call it that

because there’s never really maternity leave when you have a business — but when I was doing a lot less for the brewery, Holly had to pick up the slack.”

Landy began as the only brewer for Winchester Brew Works for its first two years. Among the nano brewery’s beer selection are Paddle Boat Pils, Coconut Canoe Love (cream ale), #glamping Key Lime Shandy, Winchester Wheat, Over Look Double IPA, Old Rag Rye, Cascade Falls IPS, and Stargazing Black Lager.

When Landy became six months pregnant, the daily brewing responsibilities were passed on to an employee.

“I’m not physically doing much of the brewing anymore,” said Landry, “but I’m still shepherding along the batches and making sure everything is coming out the way we want it to and organizing the brewing schedule.”

While Landy is still considering another child sometime in the future, Redding has made a proclamation.

“I have no plans for any more children,” said Redding.

Both Redding and Landy said they’d be thrill if their children follow in mom’s boot-steps and make Winchester Brew Works a longtime, multi-generational family business.

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Old Ox Brewery is a welcomed addition to Middleburg.

New Old Ox Makes Middleburg a Hoppy Place

By Michael T. Jarvis

E

arlier this summer, about 60 fans of Old Ox Brewery in Ashburn paid $50 to be taken to the police station in Middleburg. They weren’t arrested at the former police station because it’s now home to the new Old Ox Brewery and subterranean beer garden.

It was hard to tell who was more anxious about the bus tour to the new Middleburg brewery: the passengers getting off the bus — which included the non-secretive members of the Order of the Ox, or the host, Old Ox President Chris Burns, who held court in the subterrestrial pub.

“We’re excited to use Middleburg as our lab, tasting room and to show our brewer’s creativity,” said Burns, an affable guy with a great sense of humor. A former federal contract manager, Burns and

company opened Old Ox in Ashburn five years ago during the great Loudoun County Beer Rush that grew from two breweries in 2012 to more than 30 today.

This is a game changer for the town of Middleburg, population less than 1,000, which bills itself as “The Nation’s Horse and Hunt Capital.” Established in 1787 at the halfway point between Alexandria and Winchester, the town of Middleburg is home to high-end horses, trust funders, blue bloods, polo players, fox hunts, wineries and shops that sell, among other sundries, postcards of Jackie Kennedy riding her horse English style along with her two young children in the early 1960s.

While there are plenty of dressy clothing and home decor stores, Middleburg does not contain a lot of places to pop in for a beer. That’s left

some craft beer fans in the area seeing red, due to their limited options. Other than King Street Oyster Bar and the very ritzy Salamander Resort and Spa, the town offers the Red Fox Inn and Tavern, established in 1728, a regal restaurant with a small bar; the Red Horse Tavern with fast and late night food, a patio and full bar; and also the Red Bar Sushi, which serves saki and beer with a full bar.

The new Old Ox brew house is located in a separate building behind the tap room. It once served as a preschool and still has the hieroglyphics of finger paint and chalk from students who now are old enough to drink. Beer from the five-barrel system is pushed through a large pipe that runs across an alley and along the fence line back into the tap room.

“The five-barrel system is the closest

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Customer service is the priority at Old Ox Brewery in Middleburg

to keep everything rotating and fresh,” said Burns. “We found that when you get smaller than five barrels, it doesn’t replicate well with the 30-barrel system in Ashburn.”

Burns has made plenty of new friends in Middleburg. During construction, it seemed as one curious beer lover after another would stop by and ask about the opening. “A lot of locals are really supportive,” Burns said. “When you open a business, your concerns are about public perception and everybody has been so supportive.”

That includes endorsements from some unlikely places. “Middleburg is a little bit of both the super high-end locals and the people like us, who work the farm,” said Melanie Natoli, the winemaker and vineyard manager at Cana Vineyards & Winery of Middleburg. She heartily welcomes the brewery to town. “If you look at the Loudoun County map, this whole south-east corner has had no beer breweries. I’ve been making wine in a

in a warehouse built in 1985. We think more about the customer services in Middleburg. It’s nice to express the look and feel that we want and to reflect the community.”

The original Old Ox in Ashburn faced a very different environment. After 10 months in operation, the company was accused of trademark infringement from the heavyweight energy drink company Red Bull. Old Ox was told to never use the color red, silver or blue; never use red with any bovine term or image; and never produce soft drinks. Despite the obvious differences between bulls and oxen (castration), the issue was resolved and Old Ox lives on. “We came to an amicable agreement,” Burns said with a grin, in reference to his beef with Red Bull. “It’s behind us.”

Burns said he has spent a lot of time at local businesses in Middleburg getting a feel for what will work for his menu, which was still being solidified. “Hanging out and getting to know the town, there’s a real robust lunch and happy hour and dinner,” he said. “We think to capitalize on that, it’s important to have food with other options.”

Burns will continue to tweak the new brewery for events and acoustic music for the beer garden, which can seat 80 people. “We’re seeing how we can best amplify the vibe in the community.

We need to reflect the community and its needs.” The brewery already has beer desert.” completed the landscaping, a walk up The brewery is located on Madison window in the beer garden, a pet-friendly Street in the heart of town, just off Main environment inside and out, and its access Street (AKA John Mosby Highway or US for wheelchairs.

50). Across the street is the bustling The hardcore Ashburn patrons who King Street Oyster Bar restaurant which took the bus tour definitely are sold on already carries Old Ox on tap. Burns Middleburg. “We get consistent regulars calls Oyster Bar co-owner Rick Allison because our growler fills are cheaper and “a great resource” who has helped him the beer prices are better,” said Ashburn with insights on the opening of his new veteran Ward Seymour. location.

One local, who asked to be identified Working with the Town of Middleburg on the planning and construction permits only as Dave, said the new Ox will be his regular stop. “It’s great. There hasn’t been was a pleasant surprise, Burns admitted. anything like this in Middleburg. The town “You have to follow the process and they helped me navigate it and were helpful to took a hit with the road widening a few get it off the ground. The Middleburg town years ago. This will help bring people in.

We like taking our dogs to Salamander streetscape committee was great to work and we will stop here for a beer.” with. It’s a historic town and they want to Old Ox is now neighbor to a Pilates keep the look and feel. It’s a charming studio and doctors office. Although it once town.” housed the Middleburg PD, Burns said he It also is very different from the hasn’t had any strange encounters at the Ashburn flagship brewery, Burns said. new Old Ox. “We haven’t experienced “Ashburn is more industrial and the any ghosts ... yet.” main focus was cranking out beer. It’s VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM

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(L-R) Front Royal Brewing co-owner/ president Jerry Welcome, head brewer Tim Arndt and co-owner Kerry Barnhart.

Welcome to Front Royal

By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett

H

is name is Welcome.

No, really, Jerry Welcome, and the president and co-owner of Front Royal Brewing Company lives up to his name.

Welcome exudes a great combination of friendly optimism with the air-of-a-man used to working with people and getting things done.

Welcome extends his good intentions via the way station the brewery

established for hikers taking a break from their expedition along the Appalachian Trail (Front Royal is roughly halfway along the trail which extends 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine). Hikers can shower, wash clothes, store stuff in lockers, and get good food and beer.

Jerry noted a lot of hikers decided to take advantage of the service (and the

TVs above the bar) during the recent Women’s World Cup. So, how was Front Royal Brewing Company conceived? Jerry’s son, Andrew, worked in the restaurant business. When he became involved with homebrewing, the connection to the business of brewing beer was born.

Andrew Welcome met Tim Arndt (President of the Shenandoah Valley

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Homebrewers Guild from 2012-2017 and a certified Beer Judge and Cicerone) and then introduced him to his father.

While helping Pave Mint Smokin’ Taphouse open, with Jerry providing carpentry work and Tim helping to put in tap lines, the two began to talk seriously about opening a brewery together in Front Royal. They looked at potential spaces, but found the early options too cost prohibitive.

Enter Kerry Barnhart, a woman with a background in consulting, managing large staff, and strategic planning. Kerry had retired from working with companies like Aetna and had launched a commercial landlord company and gotten involved in the Main Street revitalization project and in doing so had helped win an award from the American Institute of Architecture.

And, a certain building is at the heart of that – Boyd’s Garage.

Built in the 1920s, the Boyd’s building was once home to the fanciest cars around and at various times served as a pool hall, a furniture store, and an auction house.

Kerry decided she liked the idea of a brewery taking up residence in at least part of the building, and in April of 2017, a lease was signed and so began the arduous transformation of Boyd’s Garage into Front Royal Brewing Company.

The brewery tasting room retained some really cool details like license plates from 1917-19 embedded in the ceiling of the main bar. With entrances from both Main Street and the parking lots on Peyton Street, the brewery surprises with its spaciousness, including a main bar with space for bands to play, a full restaurant dining area, and multiple outside seating areas.

As for the beer-making, Tim Arndt brews on a 10-barrel system, which includes a 3-barrel brewhouse, six 10-barrel fermenters, a 10-barrel bright tank, and six 7.5-barrel serving tanks. All the tanks are named after 1980s pop culture references such as Andre (the Giant) and R2D2. The brewery has its own canning machines and primarily cans its flagship beers for on-site sales.

Tim believes in brewing to style and German-style beers in particular are near and dear to his heart and are reflected in the Linden Lager Vienna Lager (2019 Virginia Craft Beer Cup medalist), Friendly Confines, Czech Pilsner, and Hauptstrasse, a historic German Kottbusser style beer. IPAs get solid recognition with the Tenfold Double IPA, The Major’s Rye IPA, Not Responsible New England IPA and Canoe Capital American IPA. Stouts, Porters, Belgian Blondes, Irish Reds, Wheats, and English Bitters also find their places at times on the Front Royal Brewing Company on-tap lineup. Tim brews exclusively with yeast obtained with Jasper Akerboom of Jasper Yeast.

Front Royal didn’t need any more reasons to be worth a visit, but how great that the town can now boast an award-winning brewery with great atmosphere in a cool space that regularly hosts live music and delicious food.

fu** your brewery expansion.

Actually, “fund” is not an f-word with us. Need equipment? beermoney@breweryfinance.com

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Brewmaster Greg Fleehart

Precarious Beer Hall – Ale, Arcade, and Americana Words & Photos by Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones

W

hat are the sounds you associate with Colonial Williamsburg?

Pumpa-rum pumpa-rum twee twee tweeee…that’s a fife and drum corp as they march through the pedestrian area.

Jolted by a deep ka-BOOM! at noon? Must be the iron cannon being fired outside the armory. Bloodthirsty jeers and cries of “hang the scallywag!!!” That’s the trial of pirate Israel Hands, brought to justice for the dastardly deeds he purportedly perpetrated as a member of Blackbeard’s crew in the early 1700s. An oxcart, led by a man in period costume, crunches dry earth and kicks up dust as it bounces along a rutted road. You are getting parched and thirsty from this trip back in time. The Colonial-era feel is so realistic,

you are wondering if the water is safe to drink. In Colonial times, water was often polluted and so your everyday drink was not water but table beer or cider, which had the benefit of a solid boil to kill impurities.

All of a sudden you walk into a building and hear sounds you don’t associate with Colonial Williamsburg.

A WHA-WHA-WHA that sounds like electronic weapon fire. WHOOSH WHOOSH, a carousel-like musical beat, and then electronic fingernails across a chalkboard. Thunk-a-dunk clunk. What’s all this about? You’ve stumbled into a time warp and the “noisy amusements” of Space Invaders, Pac-Man Battle Royale, and Skee-Ball jolt you back into

the modern era. And, you realize that your thirst can indeed be slaked in the way approved by the early Colonists, with fresh locally brewed beer and cider. You have discovered the new Precarious Beer Hall on South Henry Street, a revolutionary addition to the Colonial Williamsburg action, where a pint and sustenance make both locals and visitors compatriots.

The Precarious Beer Hall is a modern brewery and tasting room with twenty arcade games, eighteen taps, and the “Electric Circus Taco Bar.” Commodious, community picnic-style tables crafted of blond wood, ample bar seating, lots of light streaming through large windows, and a friendly staff create

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-Kung Fu Kittens, an award-winning hazy American IPA, 6.6% ABV. -Ethically Flexible, a bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout, 12% ABV.

Spacious Precarious Beer Hall is fun, fun, fun

an inviting atmosphere. A neon sign and funky graffiti-adorned corrugated steel frame surround the street-style taqueria kitchen window. These colorful touches and the beckoning of the arcade games add to the vibrancy and entertainment value of the Precarious Beer Hall. An outdoor patio with firepit, lounge and bar seating overlooks the green lawn of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg (where Bruce Hornsby held his Fun House Fest, on hiatus this year). The Precarious Beer Hall will offer live music most Friday and Saturday evenings beginning at 9 pm. The Grand Opening celebration on Saturday June 15 featured the No BS! Brass Band.

The Precarious Beer Hall is the brainchild of Andrew Voss and Chris Cook, founders of The Amber Ox Public House, Williamsburg’s first brewpub and a fine restaurant in its own right.

Brewmaster Greg Fleehart’s beers, under the Precarious Beer Project moniker, have been winning fans and awards since the Amber Ox opened in 2017. Having a second outlet for these in-demand beers seemed a natural progression, and hence the idea of the Precarious Beer Hall was born. Tricking out the brewery tasting room with arcade games and street tacos seems like a winning formula. Parents can

enjoy a beer, wine, or cider while the kids play air hockey, arcade basketball, pinball, or another game. And, there are multiplayer games to engage a family or group.

The Precarious Beer Hall has a 10-barrel brewhouse, augmenting the 7-barrel brewhouse at the nearby Amber Ox, and a canning machine to package beery goodness to take home with you when a growler just won’t do.

With two breweries and the expanded capacity, Greg has two new brewers to keep things humming. Megan Kersting most recently brewed at Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, MO, and Matt Fantz hails from Noble Ale Works in Anaheim, CA. The Precarious Beers at the Beer Hall’s soft opening included a nice range from the quaffable to the heavy-duty. Here are some examples of the beers offered, but realize that these offerings can change as creative inspiration strikes.

-HAWK pale Mexican cerveza style lager, made with 50 lbs of house-made tortillas, 4.7% ABV. -Kool Beans Hefeweizen, a German style wheat beer with Rogue Elephant coffee in the mash, 5.1% ABV. -Everywhere You Look There’s Something, a Flander Oud Bruin brewed with Bergamot sugar, 6.9% ABV.

In addition there were several other IPAs (including double and triple IPAs), a pilsner, a saison, a tomatillolime gose, a Mexican dark lager, a barleywine, and a 4% ABV American lager that is under 100 calories, in case you want to save room for dessert. Potter’s craft cider will also be available. There were four wines, including an Oregon pinot gris. For nondrinkers, designated drivers, and youngsters there are fruity Mexican sodas, Mexican coke, cold brew coffee, and self serve ice water.

The tacos are a perfect accompaniment, and reflect the culinary roots of the Amber Ox. This ain’t your daddy’s taqueria! (Unless your daddy was aiming for Michelin star status).

Examples are cola braised shortrib, smoked pork carnitas, Korean pork belly, fried oyster, Nashville hot chicken, ground bison, and blacked local fish.

There are two great veg options, fried zucchini with jalapeno and corn relish, and crispy avocado with preserved citrus and cilantro. All tacos have tasty accouterments and are served on a pair of corn tortillas made fresh daily in house. Snacks include nachos, chips and dips, street corn, black bean and corn salad, and a quesadilla. Dessert offered at opening was electric churros, with ancho chili, cayenne pepper, cinnamon and sugar. You order and pick up your food at the Electric Circus window.

The Precarious Beer Hall is located at 110 South Henry Street, in the Henry Street Shops in Merchant’s Square, at the corner of South Henry and Francis Street 757-808-5104. Bring quarters!

(Or use the change machine to turn your cash dollars to quarters).

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NORTHERN EUROPEAN STYLE WITH AN OUTDOOR FLAIR Consistency and changes at Väsen Brewing in Richmond

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reweries, like people and other businesses, adapt and change. You may drop in to a brewery from time to time – or see a friend around town – but unless you go deep, you may miss significant changes.

I first interviewed Väsen Brewing co-owners and cousins Joey Darragh and Tony Giordano in July 2017, just before the Richmond brewery opened. I’ve visited Väsen Brewing in Richmond multiple times since then, but I wondered how much had changed behind the scenes.

I met with Darragh in early July to catch up.

As a little background, Giordano and Darragh grew up in Northern Virginia.

Giordano moved to Colorado, where he worked for Boulder Beer Company, and Darragh to California. When they decided to scratch the itch to move

back, closer to family, they decided to open a brewery.

“In visiting Virginia over the years, it seemed like all of the beers that we were enjoying out west were eventually going to make it to Virginia,” recalled Darragh. “It was just a matter of time before things like sours and farmhouse beers grew in popularity, so we saw it as an opportunity for us to get ahead of that and try to become one

of the breweries that is most closely associated with those styles of beer in the state.”

The branding at Väsen has a Scandinavian focus to celebrate the cousins’ heritage: “väsen” means essence or spirit in Swedish, and the beers were to have a Northern European väsen: farmhouse beers and sours, plus Belgian and German styles.

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But popular beer styles don’t stay static; nor has the Väsen line-up.

“We’ve branched out a bit since we first opened,” said Darragh. They still use two 80-barrel wooden foeders, visible from the tasting room, but they’ve expanded the selection, too.

The tap list includes darker beers and lagers year-round. By volume, crowd favorites have been the Läger, the house double IPA and the Norse double IPA. “But in terms of excitement, it’s beers like Smoked Blood Peach Sour, a very unusual and very strange flavor combination that works," Darragh said. “The sours in general stir a lot of excitement because we’re trying to do unique flavor combinations.”

The Triple Berry Sour is another crowd favorite, especially among the bar staff. “A lot of these beers that we bring back for a second or third round, it’s usually because our bar staff asks for it, and sometimes they’re the proxy for the customers.”

Väsen’s biggest change is the addition of IPAs. “We opened with no IPAs,” Darragh said. “We told ourselves, we’re never going to make a traditional IPA … on a large production scale.” Customers would ask for a hoppy beer, but bartenders would suggest something similar.

Then they discovered kveik, a Norwegian yeast passed down from generation to generation in traditional farmhouse brewing. “It was different enough that we felt like we were branching out into our own version of IPAs … It had that Scandinavian connection, and the Norwegian kveik yeast is a farmhouse yeast strain, so it checked all the boxes for us and ended up making incredible hazy IPAs.” From the start, Väsen has had an inhouse scientist, Jon Warner. Given the brewery’s dozen-plus strains, Warner spends much of his time propagating yeast. Darragh said they hope to bring on additional staff in the next year or two so Warner can pursue other experimental avenues, including more cultivation of wild yeast and bacteria.

“We’ve already done a few trips around town and into the mountains and collected random samples,” he said, “and we got some things that seem like they have potential. They’re sitting in storage waiting for us to have

the bandwidth and resources to really experiment with them.”

In the brewery, additional small fermenters have been added for use with the small-batch pilot system and wild beers, and the brewery still has room for growth. Väsen began canning in May, which expanded its distribution beyond kegs, festivals and limitedrelease bottles. Besides Richmond, beers now reach Charlottesville, Hampton Roads, Northern Virginia, D.C. and Fredericksburg.

A PASSION FOR THE OUTDOORS

From its inception, an important component of Väsen was an environmental focus, in practicing sustainability and in promoting the outdoors. The 20-barrel brewing system was designed to be environmentally friendly, and they’re looking for opportunities to become even greener.

The tasting room, which hasn’t changed much in two years, reflects the outdoor theme. In the center sits a faux tree and boulder with bar seating.

One side of the room contributes a beer hall feel, with tall ceiling, communal tables and a wall mural by Emily Herr of a caribou, plants and petroglyphlike symbols. The other side houses the service bar and cozier seating, with a cabin-like feel.

Väsen’s initial intent was to connect with local individuals and small organizations related to their mission.

Accordingly, they’ve homed in on partners such as Keep Virginia Cozy, Blue Sky Fund and James River Outdoor Coalition and sponsored clean-ups and outdoor competitions.

Väsen also initiated the Vagabond program, enlisting outdoor sports enthusiasts as brand ambassadors.

“We’ve got an amazing group of folks participating in that right now,” said Darragh, including an ultra-runner, climber, triathlete, guide and hiker. The program continues to evolve, as the athletes carry the Väsen name out on their adventures and onto social media and volunteer at brewery events.

“Now that we’ve put our beers into packaging that’s a little easier to take,” said Jamie Frieling, Väsen brand director, “we’ve had some groups take our cans to Colorado and Idaho states we might not be able to [reach].” Väsen is also ordering new branded stickers and patches featuring outdoor activities.

“Sometimes you’re not able to drink a beer when you’re climbing a very intense wall,” she laughed, “but you can have a sticker on your water bottle.”

Whether a close friend or a business, it’s nice to catch up. And it’s gratifying to hear, as with Väsen Brewing, of positive adaptations and continued growth.

Väsen’s 2nd Year Anniversary Festival

This year’s block party presented more than 25 guest beers, ciders, and mead, plus games, live music and food trucks.

Väsen scaled the festival down from last year, capping the number of tickets and breaking the event into two sessions (noon to 3 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.). This year’s festival was held on Saturday, July 27, at the brewery, spilling into the street but allowing access to the airconditioned tasting room.

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Cucumber Melon Hard batch no. 4 Seltzer Bold Rock Nellysford In June, Bold Rock Hard Cider released two new all-natural hard seltzers crafted from real fruit and fresh Blue Ridge Mountain water – Grapefruit and Cucumber Melon. We tried the Cucumber Melon. It combines a burst of melon balanced by crisp cucumber. It’s very refreshing and perfect for these blazing hot days of summer. And, we’re not the only ones to think so – hard seltzers are appearing at pool parties and at beaches throughout the state. It’s naturally gluten free and at 82 calories, 1 gram of sugar, and 4% ABV, you can have more than one and not feel guilty!

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Three Notch’d Brewing Company Charlottesville

Three Notch’d Brewing Company’s Nephology Series is a little experiment in juicy, cloudy deliciousness. They will be brewing up 12 beers and we the people get to say who’s King!

This is Batch #4 brewed with Zythos, Mandarina Bavaria, and Mosaic hops. The combination of the three makes for an insanely cloudy IPA deserving of the description: Juicy Hazy IPA! These words get thrown around all too often without the actual backing by the beer itself. This is not one of those beers. Is it enough to be crowned King? We shall see. This is your chance to #LEAVEYOURMARK at Three Notch’d Brewing Company.

abv: 8.0%

Orange Crush IPA Back Bay Brewing Company Virginia Beach Orange Crushes have become a staple in Virginia Beach. So, it’s no surprise that one of Virginia Beach’s oceanfront breweries, Back Bay Brewing Co., has created its own version of this beach goer’s much loved cocktail of choice! This IPA is brewed with 22 pounds of sweet orange peel creating a crushable orange and vanilla bean flavor. It’s only available for a limited time. So, grab a six pack and crush it on the beach, on a boat, or in your own backyard. Just crush it!

abv: 6.1%

choosy mother Isley Brewing Company Richmond Isley Brewing Company has a Choosy Mother that even at our most rebellious state of mind... we’d be like, yes Mom! This Peanut Butter Porter is filled with, you guessed it, peanut butter amazement! From the moment you crack the can (by the way, if it’s Pink, Isley will be donating a portion of the sales to Amy’s Army of Cancer Warriors, a nonprofit that benefits The Massey Cancer Center in Richmond.), you can smell the peanut aroma fill the air around you as the first sips give way to a roasted oat, chocolate maltiness.

Dark, smooth, and sweet with a slight hint of bitterness, this beer will not disappoint.

abv: 6.6%

Big Pippin Prickly Pear & Orange Blossom Castle Hill Cider Keswick In January, the creative team at Castle Hill Cider launched a new line of ciders, Big Pippin. There are now four flavors in the line-up - Ginger, All Hopped Up, Elder Cherry Rosé, and Prickly Pear & Orange Blossom. These unique ciders are crafted with fresh pressed apple juice fermented with select non-GMO yeast and blended with an array of fruits and botanicals. We tried the Prickly Pear & Orange Blossom.

Southwestern prickly pear is fused with pressed apples and features an orange aroma. It’s effervescent and revitalizing!

This line of canned ciders was founded upon the motto, “Big Pippin. Big Adventure.” The cans make transport easy and enjoying them on your next adventure even easier!

abv: 6.9.%

all shall perish Adroit Theory Purcellville Adroit Theory dropped a crushable DIPA on the Commonwealth that made the rounds for a few months. If you were lucky enough to enjoy a can or two of All Shall Perish, your taste buds were thanking you. Brewed with 100% Mosaic Hops, this DDH DIPA left you wanting more. The mango and citrus burst through the golden haze giving way to a slight bitterness that you’d expect form an Imperial IPA. This beer is truly one to remember.

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Audacity Brass Band

Rock’n to Lockn’

Virginia beer and bands highlighted at Lockn’ Festival in August

By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones

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he Rockn’ to Lockn’ is a battle-of-the bands-type contest sponsored by the organizers of the four-day Lockn’ Music Festival to highlight some of the finest local bands spawned in Virginia. While Lockn’ features many national recording artists, Lockn’ founder Dave Frey ensures that local music, food, and beer are integral parts of the festival experience. Virginia-based bands apply to the Rockn’ to Lockn’ competition, and based on several rounds of live performances and fan voting, three talented bands are selected to play on the grand main stage at the Lockn’ Festival, held August 22-25 at Infinity Downs in Arrington, Virginia.

This year’s winners are Audacity Brass Band, Surprise Attack, and Free Union.

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ten members of this boundary-spanning New Orleans style funkforward brass band are Tyler Gage, Sam Andrews, Dean Pollard, Cody Lenard, Josh Golub, Michael Velez, Colleen Trempe, Michael Eidson, Nick Gammon, and Nate Irving. If this band was a beer, they’d be an imperial stout, with complex layers of brass, jazz and hip hop that get your attention and deep flavorful notes that stir the soul. Audacity Brass Band will play on Thursday August 22, opening day.

Surprise Attack consists of Tom Casey, Jeremy Begun, Jay Rowe, Dan Durazo, and Ian Frye. The band is unabashedly jam-oriented, with optimistic uptempo songs flavored by mountain bluegrass, swirling improvisations, and psychedelia that will make you want to get up and dance. If they were a beer they’d be a raspberry wheat ale, as they have a refreshing, quaffable appeal and plenty

What are the major influences on the band’s musical style?

Tyler: All ten members write music and bring their style to the band, so we draw from rock, blues, hip hop, jazz, you name it.

That being said, some of my influences are Dave Matthews Band and the Grateful Dead. We might be the first jam band brass band.

Tom: Lockn’ is one of the main reasons why we do what we do!

The collectivism of our music and improvisational style was inspired by that first Lockn’ in 2013 with bands like Further, String Cheese Incident, Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio Band and the whole collaborative aspect.

Michael: Singer-songwriters and soul singers, the music of Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Van Morrison, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, and Steely Dan. More recently Prince has been an influence. I studied jazz at the University of Richmond, and also listened to a lot of rock. Our music has a lot of diverse influences so it’s hard to pigeonhole our sound.

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of sweet, jammy notes that will bring a smile to your lips. Surprise Attack plays Lockn’ on Friday August 23, early afternoon.

Free Union features Michael Coleman and Rob Dunnenberger at its core, with Carrie Coleman, Jacob Ungerleider, Chris Speasmaker, Ryan Lee, Parker Hawkins, Rachel Smith, Becca Bauer, and Michael Pressel contributing. Free Union’s first EP features radio-friendly smooth vocal blends and strong R&B roots, while their live shows demonstrate energetic showmanship and a soul-pop sensibility that will funk you up.

Their message is one of unity rooted in Virginia’s complex sociocultural history. If they were a beer they’d be a homebrew, created by people who care more about creativity than fitting some style guideline or genre, eschewing established recipes in order to create a unique combination of flavors with indigenous ingredients. Free Union plays Lockn’ on Saturday August 24 from 1 to 2 pm.

National acts at this year’s Lockn’ include Bob Weir and Wolf Brothers, Trey Anastasio, Tedeschi Trucks, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Gary Clark Jr., Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, Moe, Steel Pulse, the Revivalists, the Allman-Betts Band, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and lots of collaborations among these artists, which is just one of the things that sets Lockn’ apart from most music festivals. Check the schedule to see the lineup for each day at http://www.locknfestival. com and purchase tickets.

Lockn’ single-day tickets range from $69 (Thursday only) to $139, and multi-day tickets start at $259. Student and military discounts are available. There are on-site camping options at a variety of price points including tent, car, and RV camping. Multi-day VIP tickets start at $899 and have lots of groovy benefits We recently reached out to Farmville-based Audacity Brass Band trumpeter Tyler Gage, Surprise Attack guitarist/singer Tom Casey of Arlington, and Charlottesville’s Michael Coleman, who plays guitar and sings in Free Union to get their take on music and Virginia beer.

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Free Union What are major influences on your beer style preferences?

Tyler: I’m an old school guy, and love easy-drinking lagers and amber ales.

Tom: Starr Hill for sure, with their Northern Lights India Pale Ale. Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager is a classic, and their Eight Point IPA is delicious. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the first beer I fell in love with. The initial Lockn’ was shortly after I turned 21 and there I discovered a diversity of beers that opened my eyes. I tend to favor the pale beers, in summer festival season.

These are ideal to quench a thirst. Pale beers and saisons are my favorites, although I am starting to enjoy some of the darker beers like stouts.

Michael: I feel like you can’t live in Charlottesville or Central Virginia and not drink beer. I don’t drink a ton of IPAs, I’m more of a lager guy. Right now in my fridge you’ll find Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager and some of my wife’s Bold Rock ciders.

Do any of your songs have beer references in the lyrics?

Tyler: Not beer specifically, but we have a song “Raise Your Glass” about any form of alcohol. It’s about going through a rough breakup, going through the stages of grief. And saying, in spite of that, I’m still out here having a good time and partying so raise a glass and kiss that #@$%& goodbye!

Tom: One of our songs, “Pitted Crew,” is titled as a reference to what we obliquely refer to as “getting pitted” based on a friend having a few too many and the misadventures he got into.

Michael: No, maybe we should write one! However at any given show we’re likely to be sipping beers, along with water.

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What does your band drink at practice?

Tyler: We don’t drink at practice because we practice on school grounds where I work! (Tyler is Fuqua School Band Director).

Tom: Lately we’ve been into the juicy, hazy IPAs, like the ones from Lickinghole Creek. Starr Hill always is around during practice.

Michael: Usually I’ll pick up a Starr Hill Variety Pack, as all the players have different preferences. I’m having the lager, others are into IPAs, so the variety let’s everybody choose what they like.

What are some of your favorite Virginia beers?

Tyler: I’m a diehard Harley rider and on a recent really hot day was riding and came upon a brewery not far from the Surry ferry, called Billsburg. They had a red ale that was amazing.

I would have liked to drink another but I was riding. Also, Hardywood’s Richmond Lager and Devil’s Backbone Vienna lager are two of my favorites.

Tom: Hardywood’s beers are killer, and I enjoy drinking their bourbon-barrel aged beers. Ardent and the whole Richmond brewing scene is fantastic. Fair Winds has brewed several saisons that I really like.

Michael: I used to live a couple of blocks from South Street in Charlottesville, and love Satan’s Pony. Actually I tend to drink whiskey, and like trying the craft spirits although I haven’t visited any of the distillery tasting rooms…yet.

Beer Geek Night at Wolf Hills Brewing Every Thursday, 5-9pm

New firkin or small batch beer released every Thursday.

350 Park Street. Abingdon 276.451.5470 • wolfhillsbrewing.co

Live Music at Creek Bottom Brewing Every Friday, 7pm

307 Meadow Street, Galax 276.236.2337 • cbbrews.com

Live Music at Wolf Hills Brewing Every Friday

350 Park Street. Abingdon 276.451.5470 • wolfhillsbrewing.com

Live Music at Damascus Brewery Every Saturday, 7-10pm

A perfect blend of live music and craft beer.

Downtown Galax Grayson Street, Galax 276.235.9399 • galaxdowntown.com

Wolf Hills Brewing Co.’s 10th Anniversary Party Sat., Aug. 10, 6-9pm

Join us for our 10 Anniversary party show with Unknown Hinson and opening act Adam Bolt. $20 pre-sale; $25 day of show.

350 Park Street. Abingdon 276.451.5470 • wolfhillsbrewing.com th

BinGO with the Flow at Creek Bottom Brewing Thurs., Aug. 29 & Sept. 26, 7-9pm

Anyone can play - $3 per card and every player gets a prize. Wing specials all night and happy hour from 4-7pm.

307 Meadow Street, Galax 276.236.2337 • cbbrews.com

50 Days in 2019 – Beer Lovers Day – Steal A Pint!

Sat., Sept. 7

Held on historic Main Street, this event showcases the craft beer industry in Southwest VA, featuring craft beer, wine, and ciders from around the region plus live music and entertainment for all.

Main Street, Tazewell 276.988.5091 • ttownoktobrewfest.com

Tacos & Troubadours Night at Wolf Hills Brewing Every Tuesday, 6-9pm

Featuring delicious tacos by Toni’s Hawaiian Tacos & open mic night hosted

by KT Vandyke.

350 Park Street, Abingdon 276.451.5470 • wolfhillsbrewing.com

Trivia Night at Wolf Hills Brewing Every Wednesday, 6-8pm

350 Park Street. Abingdon 276.451.5470 • wolfhillsbrewing.com

Every Tuesday, 7pm

District Trivia hosts trivia. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

852 W. Main St., Charlottesville 434.760.0771 worldofbeer.com/locations/charlottesville

Trivia Night at Garden Grove Brewing Every Wednesday

Geeks Who Drink Trivia at Pro Re Nata Brewery

Sat., Aug. 3, 3-6pm

Sat., Oct. 5, 5-10pm

Trivia Night at World of Beer

Trivia Night at Creek Bottom Brewing

Rhythm, Brews & Vine

Oktobrewfest

A full day of Flamenco music, delicious taco specials, Bold Rock-a-ritas, and a free chips and salsa bar.

Bold Rock Hard Cider 1020 Rockfish Valley Highway, Nellysford 434.361.1030 • boldrock.com

3445 West Cary St., Richmond 804.918.6158 • gardengrovebrewing.com

307 Meadow Street; Galax 276.236.2337 • cbbrews.com

BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS

Every Tuesday, 11am-8pm

32173 Government Rd., Damascus

Thurs., Aug. 1 & 15, Sept. 5 &19, Oct. 3 & 17, 7pm

APPALACHIA

Fiesta on The Farm at Bold Rock

Rising Silo Brewery in Blacksburg and Sinkland Farms Brewery in Christiansburg will serve the purchased beer of your choice in a souvenir pint glass that you can take home to remember your visit and the 50 years of love celebration! Limited to the first 100 patrons at each establishment.

540.394.4470

Oktobrewfest Sat., Oct. 5, 3-10pm

Featuring local and regional craft beer, cider, and wine, a homebrew competition, food vendors, crafters, artisans, and games and activities for kids.

Main Street, Tazwell 276.988.5091 • tazewellchamber.com ttownoktobrewfest.com

CENTRAL VIRGINIA

Every Thursday, 7-9pm

Pub Quizzes & Trivia 6135 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet

Happy Hour at Blue Bee Cider Every Thursday

Featuring new ciders on draft as part of the small batch cider draft program.

212 W. 6th St., Richmond 804.231.0280 • bluebeecider.com

Trivia Night at Coyote Hole Ciderworks Every Thursday 4-8pm

Featuring trivia by Mixed Entertainment and Catch the Chef food truck.

225 Oak Grove Drive, Mineral 540.894.1053

Trivia Thursday at Castleburg Brewery & Taproom Every Thursday, 7-9pm

Teams of 1 to 6 compete for league points on a quarterly basis. Prizes are given out each week for 1st & 2nd place and Best Team Name.

1626 Ownby Ln., Richmond castleburgbrewery.com

Friday Cheers at Blue Mountain Barrel House Every Friday, 5-9pm

Enjoy live music from 6-8pm and food trucks 5-9pm 495 Cooperative Way. Arrington 434.263.4002 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Friday Night Music at Legend Brewing Co. Every Friday, 8:30pm

321 West 7th St., Richmond 804.232.3446 legendbrewing.com

Full Nelson Fridays at Blue Mountain Brewery Every Friday, 6-8pm

Enjoy live music!

9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton 540.456.8020 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Live Music at Castleburg Brewery & Taproom Every Friday & Saturday

1626 Ownby Ln., Richmond castleburgbrewery.com

$2 Tuesdays at South Street Brewery Every Tuesday until 9pm

$2 draft beers (under 8% ABV) 106 South St., Charlottesville 434.293.6550 • southstreetbrewery.com VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM

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VA Beer & Wine Tasting at Michie Tavern Every Saturday & Sunday, 1-4pm

Enjoy tastings from VA craft breweries and wineries.

683 Thomas Jefferson Pkwy., Charlottesville 434.977.1234

Beer, Bingo, & Bloodies at Center of the Universe

IPA Weekend at World of Beer

Gose Fest at COTU

Farmville Pride

Celebrate IPA Day all weekend long.

Featuring IPA’s from Hardywood, Kindred Spirit, Center of the Universe, O’Connor, Ardent, Devils Backbone, and even Bold Rock!

World of Beer 11600 West Broad Street, Richmond

Featuring the release of There Gose Summer, a traditional German-style sour brewed with tangerine and a dash of salt.

To celebrate the release, there will be 7 variants! Enjoy food from Freakin Rican and live music.

Center of the Universe 11293 Air Park Rd., Ashland cotubrewing.com

Come on out LGBQ+ friends and allies and join us to share the love!

Third Street Brewing 312 W. Third Street, Farmville

Thurs.-Sun., Aug. 1-4

Every Sunday, 2-6pm

Annual Hop Harvest at Blue Mountain Brewery

Brunch at Blue Mountain Brewery

It’s time to pick the hops and you can help! Volunteer for two hours and get a free lunch. Enjoy live music while you pick.

9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton 540.456.8020 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Enjoy a beer bloody and try your luck at hourly bingo for a chance to win COTU swag.

11293 Air Park Rd., Ashland cotubrewing.com

Every Sunday, 11am-2pm

Enjoy live music 2:30-5pm 9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton 540.456.8020 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Fri., Aug. 2, 11am-6pm

Festival Fridays at Bold Rock Fri., Aug., 2 & Sept. 6, 5:30-8:30pm

Local Bucket Sunday at World of Beer

Kick off the weekend and enjoy live music!

Bold Rock Hard Cider 1020 Rockfish Valley Highway, Nellysford 434.361.1030 • boldrock.com

Get specials on local beers on the local beer bucket offering.

852 W. Main St., Charlottesville

Brewhaha Virginia Craft Beer Festival

Every Sunday

Trivia Night at Random Row Brewing Co. Every Sunday, 5-7pm

Hosted by Geeks Who Drink with prizes awarded to the best teams.

608 Preston Ave., Charlottesville randomrow.com

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Sat., Aug. 3, 6-9pm (VIP: 4:30-6pm)

Featuring beer selections from Virginia breweries, live music, and food options.

Free after-hours admission to special museum exhibitions.

Virginia Museum of History & Culture 428 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd., Richmond 804.340.1800 virginiahistory.org

Sat., Aug. 3, 12-10pm

Summer Bluegrass Series at Bold Rock Sat., Aug. 3 & Sept. 21, 5-10pm

Enjoy live bluegrass, food trucks, and Bold Rock Hard Cider!

Bold Rock Hard Cider 1020 Rockfish Valley Highway, Nellysford 434.361.1030 • boldrock.com

Cider Cinema at Bold Rock

Sat., Aug. 10 & 31, Sept. 14, & Oct. 5, 6-10:30pm

A unique cinematic experience featuring Bold Rock Hard Cider, food trucks, movie themed activities, and a movie screening in our main meadow on our jumbo 30 foot screen!

Bold Rock Hard Cider 1020 Rockfish Valley Highway, Nellysford 434.361.1030 • boldrock.com

Cider Under The Stars Sat., Aug. 10, 5-10pm

Enjoy local Virginia ciders, regional ciders, music, food, and fun all in a beautiful outdoor setting. Live music by Jack Ryan Music.

Stony Point Fashion Park 9200 Stony Point Pkwy, Richmond rivercityfestivals.com

Sat., Aug. 17 & Sept. 21, 2-4pm

LOCKN’ Music Festival Thurs.-Sun., Aug. 22-25

A four day music festival, with an emphasis on stellar music, camping, outdoor activities, regional food, beverages, and artisans.

Infinity Downs Farm & Oak Ridge Farm 1510 Diggs Mountain Road, Arrington locknfestival.com

Crabs & Beer by the James Sat., Aug. 24, 12-9pm

Come on out to the ALL YOU CAN EAT Crabs & Beer Festival on Brown’s Island.

Vendors all day. Live music by Southern Soul Artist, R&B Artist, GO-GO Artist, and 6 DJS playing all day. Tickets: $10-$40.

Brown’s Island Richmond

Field Gay at Coyote Hole Ciderworks

Sun., Aug. 25 & Sept. 29, 12-7pm

A family-friendly field day for the LGBTQ community. Featuring games, BBQ, and more!

Coyote Hole Ciderworks 225 Oak Grove Drive, Mineral coyotehole.com

There Gose Summer Kings Dominion Soak City Pop Up Party

Lynchburg Beer, Wine, & Cider Festival

Join the Center of the Universe crew for an epic There Gose Summer Pop-Up Beach Party. COTU will have a giant beer garden and will be sampling out their delicious canned offerings including “There Gose Summer.”

Kings Dominion 16000 Theme Park Way, Doswell kingsdominion.com

Enjoy over 75 different options of craft beer, ciders, and wine from Virginia.

Artisans, food vendors, and live music round out the event.

Tasting Tickets: $25 in advance, $30 at the gate. Non-Drinking: $15 Lynchburg City Stadium 3176 Fort Avenue, Lynchburg 434.473.7319 lynchburgbeerandwinefestival.com

Sun., Aug. 25, 12-6pm

Un-Barrel-ble 5K and 10K at Blue Mountain Barrel House Sat., Aug. 31, 7:30-10:30am

This summer 5K & 10K will run from Blue Mountain Barrel House and the surrounding streets. Come for the race, but stay for the beer.

495 Cooperative Way, Arrington 434.263.4002 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Car Show at Coyote Hole Ciderworks Sun., Sept. 1, 12-5pm

You’ll be able to browse a wide variety of antique cars, classic cars, muscle cars, imports, modern cars, trucks, and jeeps.

Plus, there will be a 50/50 raffle and outdoor, evening movie after the car show.

Coyote Hole Ciderworks 225 Oak Grove Drive, Mineral coyotehole.com

BINGO, Brews & Brewhaha at Starr Hill Thurs., Sept. 5, 6:30pm

Join us for BINGO, hosted by Carly Crickenberger! There will be prizes, laughs, and more!

Starr Hill Brewery & Tap Room 5391 Three Notch’d Road, Crozet starrhill.com

Down on the Farm 5K Sat., Sept. 7, 8am-12:30pm

Featuring a 5K and half mile Kids Fun Run. Benefits the Virginia Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom.

Wood Ridge Farm Brewery 165 Old Ridge Road, Lovingston 434.422.6225

B’Dam Brew Jam Craft Beer Festival Sat., Sept. 14, 12-6pm

Featuring live music, an amazing selection of craft brews and ciders, eclectic food vendors, food trucks, games, and a beer garden.

Ruritan Park 18002 Teman Road, Beaverdam 804.647.1935 beaverjam.org

Oktoberfest at Fine Creek

Wed.-Sun., Sept. 18-22 & 25-29, 3-8pm

We’ll be celebrating the last two weekends of September. New steins will be available. Deals on pours if you purchase an Oktoberfest Stein.

Fine Creek Brewing Company 2425 Robert E. Lee Road, Powhatan

St. Benedict Oktoberfest Fri.-Sun., Sept. 20-22

One of the largest Oktoberfest events in Virginia featuring over 50 craft and German beers, German and Austrian wine, authentic German food and desserts, German music and dance, a children’s area, and Christkindlmarkt, a unique shopping experience.

St. Benedict Catholic Church 300 North Sheppard Street, Richmond 804.254.8810 stbenedictoktoberfest.com

Sat., Sept. 21, 12-7pm

Oktoberfest at Blue Mountain Brewery Fri., Sept. 27-Sun. Oct. 6, 11am-9pm

Celebrate Oktoberfest at Blue Mountain Brewery! German food specials every day, live music, special activities, games, and prizes.

9519 Critzer Shop Rd., Afton 540.456.8020 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Das Bier Run at COTU Sat., Sept. 28, 11am-12pm

It’s Oktoberfest and COTU is throwing a party! Start off with the Das Bier Run. Grab your buddies and make a team of either 2 or 4 people. Teams receive a stein, t-shirt, and more!

Center of the Universe 11293 Air Park Rd., Ashland cotubrewing.com

The Festival of Grapes and Hops

Tastings and Beer Sales End at 4pm

Monday September 2 11am-5pm

Herndon Town Green 777 Lynn Street

Sat., Sept. 28

Join us in historic downtown Petersburg for shopping, live music, wine and craft beer tasting, and more!

Old Town Petersburg 9 East Old Street, Petersburg festivalofgrapesandhops.com

Off the Rails Beer Festival Sat., Sept. 28, 1-7pm

Taste the finest craft beers Central Virginia has to offer in the Center of the Universe, historic small town Ashland.

This family friendly event offers food truck fare, great music, and beer. All proceeds benefit the Hanover Arts & Activities Center. Tickets: $15.

500 South Center Street, Ashland hanoverarts.org

Wahoo Cup Craft Brewers Invitational Sat., Sept. 28, 1-7pm

C’Ville takes on Richmond! The Wahoo Cup pits top breweries in Richmond versus their rivals from Charlottesville.

The winning brew will be selected by beer lovers and a panel of judges.

Proceeds benefit Richmond Cycling Corps. Presented by The UVa Club of Richmond & Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery.

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery 2408-2410 Ownby Lane, Richmond 540.456.8020 • bluemountainbrewery.com

Breakthrough Brew & Wine Fest Sat., Oct. 5, 11am-5pm

Featuring live music combining a mix of country, folk, and top 40 selections, beer and wine samples, and food and craft vendors. Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 at gate.

Pamplin Historical Park 6125 Boyton Plank Road, Petersburg 804.861.2408 pamplinpark.org

_ Craft Beers _ Virginia Wineries _ Live Music All Day _ Craft & Food Vendors

ADMISSION Craft Beer* OR Wine Tasting & Entertainment $25 (*includes 4 beer tasting tickets) You must purchase a $25 bracelet to purchase alcohol ID required to purchase tastings

Entertainment Only or Designated Driver $5 Children 12 & under FREE

Event details at herndon-va.gov/laborday 703-787-7300 PRESENTING SPONSOR

MEDIA SPONSOR

PRODUCED BY

Town of Herndon Parks and Recreation Department Herndon Woman’s Club

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Uncle Kracker at The Vanguard Sat., Aug. 10, 9pm-midnight

Advance Tickets by Aug. 4: $20; General Admission Tickets: $25 The Vanguard Brewpub and Distillery 504 N. King Street, Hampton thevanguard757.com

Food Truck Rodeo at Big Ugly Sun., Aug. 11 & Sept. 8, 12-6pm

Presented by Hampton Roads Food Truck Association. Fantastic food trucks, great beers and music to get you moving.

Big Ugly Brewing Company 845 S. Battlefield Blvd., Chesapeake biguglybrewing.com

Jazz Brunch at Commonwealth Brewing Co. Sun., Aug. 11 & Sept. 12-4pm

Featuring a rotating set of local Jazz artists and some of the tastiest food pop ups and trucks in the area.

2444 Pleasure House Road, Virginia Beach commonwealthbrewingcompany.com

New Realm Pints & Pilates Sun., Aug. 11, 11am-2pm

Indulge in both Pilates and a pint of New Realm beer! Bring your mat/towel along with your thirst.

New Realm Brewing 1209 Craft Lane, Virginia Beach

BBQ on the Terrace featuring Smartmouth Wed., Aug. 14, 5:30-9pm

Enjoy BBQ, local seafood, grilled meats, seasonal market vegetables and homemade signature desserts. Plus, enjoy live music while sipping on a beer from Smartmouth.

The Founders Inn and Spa 5641 Indian River Road, Virginia Beach 757.366.5777

Food Truck Rally at Back Bay’s Farmhouse

Wed., Aug. 14 & 28 & Sept. 25, 5-8pm

Featuring some of the area’s finest food trucks, live music, beer, cider, wine, and yard games.

1805 Kempsville Road, Virginia Beach

Beer Releases at O’Connor Brewing Co. Fri., Aug. 16, 12-9:30pm

Two beer releases: Golden Pear Belgian Tripel and Shi Shi Beach Cranberry Lemon Sour Saison.

211 W. 24th St., Norfolk oconnorbrewing.com

Busch Gardens Bier Fest

Fri.-Sun, Aug. 16-18 & 23-25 and Fri., Aug. 30-Mon., Sept. 2

More than 200 years of Oktoberfest traditions come to life at Busch Gardens with craft beer from around the world, traditional German food, and live music.

Busch Gardens 1 Busch Gardens Blvd., Williamsburg 757.229.4386 buschgardens.com

Jubilee 2019 at Alewerks

Fri. Aug. 16, 4pm – Sun., Aug. 18, 8pm

Join us for our 13th Anniversary for 3 days of music, amazing food, and delicious Alewerks beer! And, we’ll be releasing the 2019 edition of Jubilee, the Belgian dark strong ale brewed annually to mark our anniversary, aged in bourbon port barrels this year!

189-B Ewell Rd., Williamsburg

1619Fest – A Reggae Concert at Billsburg Brewery Sat., Aug. 17, 12-10pm

1619Fest is an event to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of Africans to America. Join us as we recognize this historic time. Events highlighting Jamestown Island include a visit to the “Angela Site” where archaeologists will share information about details and artifacts that they are discovering where one of the first Africans lived. Music begins at 5pm with opening performances by Mighty Joshua and Cultivated Mind and headlined by Akae Beka. Advance Tickets: $30 ($40 at the door) for access to all activities at Billsburg and James City County Marina.

2054 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg 757.926.0981

Full Moon Festival at Commonwealth Brewing Co. Sat., Aug. 17, 4-10pm

Break out your glow sticks and tiedye shirts and join us for a fun night of dancing, tie-dye, face painting, and dancing to celebrate the full moon.

2444 Pleasure House Road, Virginia Beach commonwealthbrewingcompany.com

Warehouse Show #5 at Smartmouth Sat., Aug. 17, 5-10pm

Featuring The Evening Attraction, Ladada, and Suburban Living.

1309 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk

Vinyl Night at Commonwealth Brewing Co. Wed., Aug. 21, 4-9pm

Third Wednesday of every month, bring your own or jam to our all-inclusive staff collection of records. Each month, we will have a different music theme – Rock, Oldies, Jazz, Punk, and more!

2444 Pleasure House Road, Virginia Beach commonwealthbrewingcompany.com

Comedy Night at Alewerks Thurs., Aug. 22, 7pm

Laughs are on tap for this nationwide tour.

New York and Los Angeles-based standups are currently on the road, sampling the local fare, local brews, and providing the finest and funniest in comedy entertainment.

189-B Ewell Rd., Williamsburg

Neptune’s Coastal Craft Beer Festival Sat., Aug. 24, 1-6pm

Enjoy over 65 beers from 30 breweries, live music, food trucks, and more!

Tickets: $30 in advance; $35 day of 31st Street & Oceanfront, Virginia Beach neptunefestival.com

Pints for Parkinson’s at Brick & Mortar Sat., Aug. 24, 1:30-5pm

Help raise awareness about Parkinson’s Disease and local resources in Hampton Roads. Great raffles to help support the mission of American Parkinson Disease Association/Hampton Roads.

Brick & Mortar Brewing Company 212 E. Washington Street, Suffolk

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NORTHERN VIRGINIA Citizen’s Choice Randall Beer Infusion Night Every Monday, 3-7pm

Brew Republic Bierwerks 15201 Potomac Town Place, Woodbridge

Guerilla Series Release Night at Brew Republic Bierworks Every Monday 12-10pm

The Guerrilla Series is Brew Republic’s pilot/experimental program — with a new release every Monday in the tap room. These beers are brewed in extremely small batches, so no growler fills, no keg sales, and no distribution.

15201 Potomac Town Place, Woodbridge

Pint Night at Fair Winds Brewing Co. Every Monday

Enjoy $1 off pints.

7000 Newington Road, Lorton 703.372.2001 • fairwindsbrewing.com

Team Trivia at Ornery Beer Co. Every Monday, 7:30pm

Happy Hour extended to 9pm. Weekly prizes!

14389 Potomac Mills Road, Woodbridge

Beer Yoga at Port City Brewing Co. Every Tuesday, 7-9pm

$20 includes the class and post-yoga pint.

3950 Wheeler Ave., Alexandria portcitybrewing.com

Local Heroes Night at Adventure Brewing Every Tuesday, 3:30-9pm

20% off all beer, merchandise, snacks, and goods to military, police, fire, emergency, and teachers.

Adventure Brewing Company 33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Stafford 540.242.8876 facebook.com/adventurebrewing/

Trivia Night at Wort Hog Brewing Company Every Tuesday, 6-8pm

41 Beckham Street, Warrenton

Vinyl Night at Lost Rhino Brewing Co. Every Tuesday, 6-9pm

Bring your own vinyl!

21730 Red Rum Drive, #142, Ashburn

Bingo Night at Crooked Run Brewing Co. Every Wednesday, 7-9pm

22455 Davis Drive, Sterling crookedrunbrewing.com

Flight Night at Bad Wolf Brewing Co. Every Wednesday

Happy Hour pricing on flights.

8420 Kao Circle, Manassas

Trivia Night at Old Bust Head Brewing Co. Every Wednesday

7134 Lineweaver Rd., Warrenton 540.347.4777 • oldbusthead.com

Citizen’s Choice Randall Beer Infusion Day at Brew Republic Bierwerks

Trivia Night at Belly Love Brewing

Each week, flavor-enhancing ingredients are infused into one of the beers on tap.

You get decide what those ingredients will be.

15201 Potomac Town Place, Ste. 120, Woodbridge 703.594.7950

Trivia Night at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run

Every Thursday, 3-7pm

Every Thursday

725 E. Main Street, Purcellville bellylovebrewing.com

Every Thursday

Happy Hour specials from 3-8pm. Trivia starts at 6pm. $25 gift card for winner.

16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Happy Hour & Growler Night at New District Brewing Co.

Firkin Friday at Fair Winds Brewing Co.

Happy Hour specials and 64oz growler fills are $2 off.

2709 S. Oakland Street, Arlington 703.888.5820

A new firkin is released every Friday.

Rotating food truck.

7000 Newington Road, Lorton 703.372.2001 • fairwindsbrewing.com

Every Thursday, 3:30-7:30pm

Every Friday

Indoor Putting League (Disc Golf)

Justin’s Flavor Infusion Night

Meet interesting people, throw frisbees, and drink beer with them! $5 entry with teams drawn at random.

Vanish Farmwoods Brewery 42245 Black Hops Lane, Leesburg vanishbeer.com

We combine off the wall ingredients with one of our beers to create a one-of-a-kind beer.

Adventure Brewing Company 33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Stafford 540.242.8876 facebook.com/adventurebrewing

Every Thursday, 6-9pm

Open Mic at Bad Wolf Every Thursday

Bad Wolf Brewing Company 8420 Kao Circle, Manassas

Teacher Appreciation at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run Every Thursday

Teachers receive pints of Blonde for $4.50.

16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Every Friday, 3:30-10pm

Live Music at Adventure Brewing Co. Every Friday 8-10pm

33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Stafford 540.242.8876 facebook.com/adventurebrewing

Live Music at Lost Rhino Retreat Every Friday, 7-10pm

22885 Brambleton Plaza, Ashburn lostrhino.com

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Food Truck Saturdays at Solace Brewing Company

Science on Tap – Unique: The Science of Human Individuality

The Lindsay VW Summer of Love Music Festival

42615 Trade West Drive, Suite 100, Sterling

Science lovers can enjoy a beer during Old Ox’s Science on Tap series. The Aug. 6 event features a professor of neuroscience from John Hopkins University.

Old Ox Brewery 44652 Guilford Drive, #114, Ashburn 703.729.8375

Jam out to a lineup of local musicians, singers, and songwriters. Try our 50 Years of Love beer and wine and snag some Summer of Love swag. Family-friendly events and games plus food and local artisan vendors.

B Chord Brewing Company 34266 Williams Gap Road, Round Hill 571.474.9191 visitloudoun.com

Every Saturday, 12-10pm

Live Music at Lost Rhino Brewing Co. Every Saturday, 7-10pm

21730 Red Rum Drive, #142, Ashburn

Hangover Brunch at Lost Rhino Retreat Every Sunday, 11am-2pm

22885 Brambleton Plaza, Ashburn lostrhino.com

Solace and Food on Sundays at Solace Brewing Company Every Sunday, 12-8pm

42615 Trade West Drive, Suite 100, Sterling

Sunday Funday at Brew Republic

Tues., Aug. 6, 6:30-7:30pm

Sat., Aug. 17

Pig Roast & Luau at Adventure Brewing

Beer & Culture Viking Edition at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run

Sat., Aug. 10, 6-10pm

Join us for a fun evening featuring a pig roast, live music, and tropical brews!

33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Fredericksburg adventurebrewing.com

Fri., Aug. 23

16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Cigar, Bourbon, and Beer Festival Sat., Aug. 24, 4-9pm

Taste Leesburg

Sat., Aug. 10, 5-10pm

Yoga at Wort Hog Brewery

Showcasing restaurants, beverages, food trucks, artists, merchants, and businesses of Leesburg. Enjoy live music as you stroll the streets. Food vendors will be set up throughout and breweries and wineries will be serving their finest libations.

Historic Downtown Leesburg E. Market and N. King Street, Leesburg 703.669.2202 tasteleesburg.com

41 Beckham Street, Warrenton 540.300.2739

2nd Annual Oysterfest at Solace Brewing Company

Every Sunday 12-10pm

Join us every Sunday for football, board games, hot and BBQ chicken wings, $5 mimosas, and of course, beer!

15201 Potomac Town Place, Ste. 120, Woodbridge 703.594.7950

Every other Sunday; 11:30am-1pm

Sat., Aug. 17, 12-8pm

Enjoy oysters, great beer, and good company plus live music by Albino Rhino!

42615 Trade West Drive, Suite 100, Sterling

Featuring cigars from Hogshead Cigar Lounge, bourbon from across the country and some from Virginia, craft beer from Fredericksburg Breweries and regional breweries, Virginia wines and ciders, and live music. The event supports Community Outreach Inc. Fredericksburg Fairgrounds 2400 Airport Avenue, Fredericksburg cigarbourbonbeer.com

Annual Herndon Labor Day Festival Mon., Sept. 2, 11am-5pm

A fun outdoor street festival featuring unlimited samples from Virginia wineries, local craft brews, a craft show, sponsorship gallery, food vendors, and musical performances.

Herndon Town Green 777 Lynn Street, Herndon 703.787.7300 herndon-va.gov

Band, Brews, & Barbecue Sat., Sept. 7, 12-6pm

Featuring award winning craft beers & distilled spirits for sampling, some of Northern Virginia’s best barbecue, and incredible live music.

Manassas Museum Lawn 9101 Prince William Street, Manassas 703.361.6599 visitmanassas.org

Beer Release at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run Fri., Sept. 13

Beer Release: Pumpkin Drublic – Pumpkin pin in a glass!

16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Oktoberfest at Adventure Brewing Sat., Sept. 14, 12-10pm

Join us for a fun-filled day of live music, dancers, vendors, food, events, competitions, and beer.

33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Fredericksburg adventurebrewing.com

Virginia Cider Festival Sat., Sept. 14, 11am-5pm

Sample ciders from all across the country plus favorites from Virginia and enjoy live music and food from local Fredericksburg food establishments.

Select distilleries will be on-site too.

Fredericksburg Fairgrounds 2400 Airport Avenue, Fredericksburg vaciderfest.com

October 26, 2019 12PM to 5PM Premium Admission at 11AM 50+ CRAFT BREWERIES LOCAL EATS COOKING WITH BEER DEMOS LIVE MUSIC HOMEBREW COMPETITION

VIRGINIA TECH CORPORATE RESEARCH CENTER 1600 INNOVATION DRIVE

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Oktoberfest at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run

Trivia Tuesday at Redbeard Brewing Company

16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Hosted by Trivia Factory. Prizes awarded to the first and second place teams.

120 S. Lewis Street, Staunton redbeardbrews.com

Fri., Sept. 20

Annual Lovettsville Oktoberfest Fri. & Sat., Sept. 27-28

Celebrate Lovettsville’s rich German heritage with authentic German cuisine, live music performances, beer, wine, and more.

6 Penn Avenue, Lovettsville lovettsvilleoktoberfest.com

Beer Release at The Farm Brewery at Broad Run Fri., Sept. 27

Beer Release: Rum Barrel-Aged Pumpkin Beer 16015 John Marshall Highway, Haymarket

Oktoberfest 2019 at Port City Sat., Sept. 28, 12-10pm

Pizzeria Paradiso is bringing their mobile pizza oven to serve fresh pizzas all day!

More details to come.

3950 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria portcitybrewing.com

Hop N Hog the Culpeper Block Party Sun., Sept. 29, 12-5pm

Featuring live music, savory regional BBQ, a kids corner, specialty foods, local artisans, lawn games, prizes, a selection of wine, cider, and of course great brews all available for purchase.You won’t want to miss CRI’s NEW signature Block Party, happening in Downtown Culpeper, winner of the Great American Main Street award!

Cost: $10 in advance; $15 at the gate.

Downtown Culpeper 540.825.4416 culpeperdowntown.com

SHENANDOAH VALLEY Team Trivia at Winchester Brew Works Every Monday, 6:30pm

Teams of 6 compete for gift certificates and prizes!

320 N. Cameron St., Winchester winchesterbrewworks.com

Virginia Craft on Draft Every Monday, 3-6pm

Enjoy all Virginia pints for $4 and all Virginia Belgians for $5.

Brew Ridge Taps 11 E. Nelson St., Lexington 540.461.8012 • brewridgetaps.com

Backs to Basic Yoga Night at Basic City Beer Co. Every Tuesday, 6-7pm

$10 includes yoga and a pint.

1010 E. Main St., Waynesboro basiccitybeer.com

Taps & Apps at Union Jack’s Every Tuesday, 11am-11pm

Enjoy 1 select specialty draft from a local brewery and 1 specialty appetizer for $10.

101 N. Loudoun Street, Winchester 540.722.2055

Every Tuesday, 8-10:30pm

Randall Night at Wolfe Street Brewing Every Tuesday

Enjoy a specialty beer we infuse using our randall!

120 W. Wolfe St., Harrisonburg wolfestreetbrewing.com

Bingo Night at Wolfe Street Brewing Every Wednesday

Winners of each bingo round receive $15 gift cards to the tasting room.

120 W. Wolfe St., Harrisonburg wolfestreetbrewing.com

Open Mic Night at Queen City Brewing Every Wednesday

834 Spring Hill Rd., Staunton qcbrewing.com

Live Music at Woodstock Brewhouse Every Thursday, 6pm

123 E. Court St., Woodstock

OM Brew at Seven Arrows Brewing Co. Every Saturday, 10:30-11:30am

$10 includes yoga and a beer after class.

2508 Jefferson Hwy., Waynesboro sevenarrowsbrewing.com

Sunday Funday Karaoke at Redbeard Brewing Company Every Sunday, 8-10pm

Hosted by TellAplay Entertainment!

120 S. Lewis Street, Staunton 540.430.3532

Summer of Love Tour Through August 10

Break out the flower crowns and bell bottoms because it is about to get groovy as Loudoun County turns back time to 1969 for the Summer of Love Tour. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Virginia is for Lovers brand, Loudoun will be home to more than a dozen events and festivals between June and August that are inspired by the people, events, music, and iconic moments of 1969. Tour stops will be in both Loudoun’s historic towns and urban destinations and include everything from concerts and blastfrom-the-past movie nights to vintage shopping experiences, artisan pop-ups and release parties for the new 50 Years of Love branded wine and beer.

Loudoun visitloudoun.org/summeroflove

Brewstock

Fri. & Sat., Aug. 2 & 3, 2-9pm

The spirit of Woodstock is alive at Backroom Brewery. Brewstock music and craft beer festival takes place on 25 acres at the brewery and features bands who pay tribute to the original Woodstock performers. Plus, guest breweries, food trucks, and overnight camping available.

Backroom Brewery 150 Ridgemont Road, Middletown 540.869.8482 • brewstockbrb.com

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Hop Harvest Party at Stable Craft Brewing

Appaloosa Music Festival

River & Brews Festival

VIR Craft Beer Fest

Join us for hop harvest time and help us bring in our hops! We will provide beverages while you pick plus the smoker will be full of smoked meats and terrific side dishes.

375 Madrid Rd., Waynesboro stablecraftbrewing.com

The Appaloosa Roots Music and Great Outdoors Festival is Labor Day weekend at the Skyline Ranch Resort nestled among the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Skyline Ranch and Resort 751 Mountain Road, Front Royal appaloosafestival.com

Enjoy a day of fun, delicious food, great live entertainment, and beer with 50+ varieties of beer from breweries all over Virginia and elsewhere.

Village Commons Main & Chester Streets, Front Royal 540.635.3185 brewandblues.com

Toga Dance Party at Stable Craft Brewing

25th Annual Rockbridge Beer & Wine Festival

Toga inspired dance party with music by Prime Time Sound & DJ Services. Tapping of Et Tu Brut IPA. Prizes given for best toga.

375 Madrid Rd., Waynesboro stablecraftbrewing.com

Enjoy craft beer and cider, regional wines, and local food while listening to live music on two stages all afternoon!

Lime Kiln Theater 607 Borden Road, Lexington lexrockchamber.com

The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild in partnership with VIRginia International Raceway presents this unique craft beer tasting event which will take place in the VIR Gallery building. The event will feature 64 different craft beers from Southern Virginia breweries and 2019 Virginia Beer Cup medalists plus music and outdoor games. Attendees can also watch the Sports Car Club of America time trials and have access to the VIRginia International Raceway facilities.

Tickets: $30 in advance; $40 at gate: $10 designated driver.

VIRginia International Raceway 1245 Pine Tree Road, Alton virginiacraftbrewers.org

Run, Sweat, & Beers at Brothers Craft Brewing

Cask for a Cause at Brothers Craft Brewing

Brought to you by VA Momentum, this event is free, low stress, and 100% fun. There are 1, 3, and 5 mile running options - you pick what you’re feeling that day. Plus, there will be discounted brews in the tasting room.

800 N. Main Street, Harrisonburg

Proceeds benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – Virginia Chapter.

Purchase a pint from the cask and participate in the silent auction to help raise money!

800 N. Main Street, Harrisonburg

Craft Brewing Doormat Workshop at Brothers Craft Brewing

Craft Beer Tasting at Big Meadows Lodge

Ticket includes doormat, stencil, paintbrushes, paint, and instruction.

800 N. Main Street, Harrisonburg

Beer tasting featuring Shenandoah Private Label Beers plus light snacks and a handcrafted glass to take home. $20 per person.

Big Meadows Lodge Shenandoah National Park Mile 51, Skyline Drive, Luray 877.847.1919 goshenandoah.com

Sat., Aug. 10, 8am-4pm

Sat., Aug. 17, 6:30-10pm

Fri., Aug. 23 & Sept. 20, 5-8pm

Thurs., Aug. 29, 6-8pm

Fri., Aug 30-Sun., Sept. 1

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA

Sat., Sept. 7, 12-7pm

Live Music at Ballad Brewing Sat., Aug. 3, 10, & 24, 6-9pm

8/3 – Troy Breslow; 8/10 – Matt Walsh; 8/24 – Wamp Show 600 Craghead St., Danville balladbrewing.com

Fri., Sept. 20, 5-8pm

Fri., Sept. 20, 4:30-5:30pm

Sat., Sept. 21, 12-6pm

Adoption Day with the Pittsylvania Pet Center at Ballard Brewing Sun., Aug. 4, Sept. 1, & Oct. 6, 1pm

Adopt your next brewery buddy at Ballad! We’ve teamed up with the Pittsylvania Pet Center for a monthly adoption day! Every first Sunday of the month, you can see a few of the dogs up for adoption in the taproom!

600 Craghead St., Danville balladbrewing.com

Sat., Aug. 3, 3-8pm

Family Yoga at Ballard Brewing Sun., Aug. 25, 4pm

This is a yoga class open to all ages!

Please, bring your own yoga mat.

600 Craghead St., Danville balladbrewing.com

Live Music at Ballard Brewing Sat., Aug. 31, 6-9pm

Live music from our Battle of the Bands Winner! This artist competed at our Battle of the Bands in July and was voted by customers as the winner!

600 Craghead St., Danville balladbrewing.com

The festival we’ve all been waiting for...

Saturday August 10th 12-6pm Downtown Roanoke 50+ Breweries Unlimited Tastings ticket info at www.microfestivus.com Microfestivus is the main charitable fundraiser for the Square Society, a 501c(3) organization.

Microfestivus is a 21+ event only.

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Brewster Walk Craft Beer Festival Featuring more than 50 craft beers and live performances from great bands (TBA).

215 E. Church Street, Martinsville 276.403.0872 roosterwalk.com

Join us as we welcome back MVB Brent Levy and some of his crew. Listen to some of your favorite hymns as well as some of today’s secular music that speaks to our hearts today.

4220 Mountain Valley Road, Axton mountainvalleybrewing.com

Live Music at Ballard Brewing

Parkway Brewing 739 Kessler Mill Road, Salem 540.483.9293 parkwaybrewing.com

Featuring regional and local breweries and wineries, local bands – 360 Band, Blue Mule, and Medicinal Americana, food trucks, and Kids Zone. Tickets: $30 in advance; $35 at the gate; $10 Designated Driver.

Green Hill Park 2501 Green Hill Park Road, Salem 540.387.0267

Microfestivus

9/14 – Paris Avenue; 9/21 – Matt Crowder Band; 9/28 – Brooke McBride 600 Craghead St., Danville balladbrewing.com

Every Thurs., 6pm

Celebrate our partnership with regional farmers, craft brewers, artisan distillers, and Virginia wineries. Sample a variety of locally sourced dishes along with some of the finest the region has to offer in beer, cider, spirits, and wine. Enjoy live music too.

The Omni Homestead 7696 Sam Snead Highway, Hot Springs 540.839.1766 omnihotels.com/hotels/homesteadvirginia

Sat., Aug. 3, 3-8pm

Wed., Sept. 11, 6-8pm

Body by Parkway Runner’s Club

3 miles, 5 miles, or just walk and then socialize at the brewery.

Chaos Mountain Brewing 3135 Dillons Mill Rd., Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com

Kegs & Barrels Craft Beer & Wine Festival

Beer & Hymns at Mountain Valley Brewing

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Taste of the Region

Thurs., Aug. 1, Sept. 5, & Oct. 3, 6pm

Sat., Sept. 7, 12-7:30pm

Sat., Sept. 14, 21, & 28, 6-9pm

Shine Runners Club

Sat., Aug. 10, 12-6pm

Featuring over 70 breweries and 180 beers, food, and live music.

West Side of Downtown Roanoke 540.224.1217 microfestivus.squaresociety.org

6th Annual Squatch Sighting Party at Chaos Mountain Sat., Aug. 17, 4-9pm

Every year, we gather to celebrate all things Squatch, Sasquatch…but mostly we love to celebrate the beer!

Chaos Mountain Brewing 3135 Dillons Mill Rd., Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com

Sat., Aug. 24, 7-9pm

Franklin County Humane Society & Planned Pethood Dog Adoption Day at Chaos Mountain Sat., Sept. 7, 12-4pm

Come meet your new BFF and give a deserving pup a forever home!

Chaos Mountain Brewing 3135 Dillons Mill Rd., Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com

5 Year Anniversary Party at Big Lick Sat., Sept. 21, 12-10pm

Celebrate our 5 year anniversary with live music throughout the day, food trucks, great beer including rare and limited editions plus, we’ll have limited edition five year anniversary glassware.

Big Lick Brewing Company 409 Salem Avenue, SW, Roanoke

Help us fill the Events Calendar!

Send your beer & brewery events and festivals to Jennifer.McDonald @hotmail.com

Big Lick Murder Mystery Sun., Sept. 29, 2-5pm

Big Lick and Jump Into Mystery present an interactive mystery event and live action clue game. $36 per person.

Big Lick Brewing Company 409 Salem Avenue, SW, Roanoke

Deadline for submission for the oct/nov issue is Monday, sept 9.

presents

October 19 & 20, 2019 9 WORKS FROM MORE THAN 135 ARTISTS • LIVE MUSIC DELICIOUS FOOD • FUN CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES

For information, visit StockleyGardens.com. All proceeds benefit the Hope House Foundation. www.Hope-House.org VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM

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BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS 7 Dogs Brewpub

360 W. Spring Street Wytheville 276.228.0994 7dogsbrewpubva.com

Bristol Station Brews & Taproom 41 Piedmont Avenue Bristol 276.608.1220 bristolbrew.com

Bull & Bones Brewhaus 1470 S Main St., #120 Blacksburg 540.953.2855 bullandbones.com

Creek Bottom Brews

307 Meadow Street Galax 276.236.BEER (2337) cbbrew.com

The Damascus Brewery

32173 Government Road Damascus 540.314.2782 thedamascusbrewery.com

Headspace Brewing Comp any 120 N. Chestnut Street Marion 276.780.8860

Right Mind Brewing Comp any 1410 S. Main Street Blacksburg 540.552.7000 facebook.com/leftysgrille

Right Turn, Clyde Brewing Company

300 A Main Street Narrows 540.921.7283 rtcbrewing.com

Rising Silo Brewing Comp any 2351 Glade Rd Blacksburg 410.596.1200

River Company Brewery Meagan greets you with a smile and a flight at Brewing Tree Beer Company in Afton.

APPALACHIA Busted Still Brewing Comp any 185 Homeplace Drive Gate City 24251 276.210.6038

Lonesome Pine Brewing Comp any 15 East Main Street Lebanon 276.274.3697

Painted Peak Brewing Comp any 386 Main Street Tazewell 276.980.7325 paintedpeakbrewing.com

Sugar Hill Brewing Comp any 16622 Broad Street St. Paul 24283 276.780.4397 sugarhillbrewing.com

6633 Viscoe Rd. Radford (Fairlawn) 540.633.3940 therivercompanybrewery.com

Sinkland Farms Brewery

3060 Riner Road Christiansburg 540.835.3395 Sinklandfarmsbrewery.com

Studio Brew

221 Moore Street Bristol studiobrew.net

Wolf Hills Brewing Comp any

350 Park St. Abingdon 303.5508762 wolfhillsbrewing.com

CENTRAL VIRGINIA AMMO Brewing Comp any

235 N Market Petersburg 23805 804.722.1667 facebook.com/ammobrewing

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Antioch Brewing Comp any Palmyra 434.249.6727 antiochbrews.com

Apocalypse Ale Works 1257 Burnbridge Rd Forest 434.258.8761 endofbadbeer.com

Ardent Craft Ales

3200 W. Leigh Street Richmond 804.359.1605 ardentcraftales.com

Bald Top Brewing Co.

1830 Thrift Road Madison 540.999.1830 baldtopbrewing.com

Beale’s

Colonial Beach Brewing

215C Washington Avenue Colonial Beach 540.226.2114 colonialbeachbrewing.com

Cooling Pond Brewer y

4411 Zachary Taylor Highway Mineral

Devils Backbone Brewing Company - Basecamp

9519 Critzer Shop Rd. Afton 540.456.8020 bluemountainbrewery.com

Blue Mountain Barrel House 495 Cooperative Way Arrington 434.263.4002 bluemountainbarrel.com

Brasserie Saison

111 E. Main Street Charlottesville 434.202.7027 brasseriesaison.net

Brewing Tree Beer Comp any 9278 Rockfish Valley Hwy. Afton 540.381.0990

Canon & Draw Brewing Company 1529 West Main Street Richmond canonanddraw.beer

Castleburg Brewery & Taproom 1626 Owenby Lane Richmond 23220 804.353.1256 castleburgbrewery.com

Center of the Universe Brewing Company 11293 Air Park Rd. Ashland 804.368.0299 cotubrewing.com

Champion Brewing Co .

324 6th Street Charlottesville 434.295.2739 championbrewingcompany.com Champion Brewing Comp any

401 Grace Street Richmond 804.344.5108 championbrewingcompany.com

Main Line Brewer y

2410 Granite Ridge Rd. Rockville 804.356.9379 midnight-brewery.com

1110 Alverser Dr. Midlothian 804.379.8727 extrabillys.com/ ExtraBillysBarBQ2.htm

Fine Creek Brewing Comp any

Blue Mountain Brewery

198 Ambriar Plaza Amherst 434-941-7345 looseshoebrewing.com

Extra Billy’s

Bingo Beer Co .

4522 Chicken City Road Chincoteague blacknarrowsbrewing.com

Loose Shoe Brewing Comp any

1603 Ownby Lane Richmond 804-387-9670

Final Gravity Brewing Company

Black Narrows Brewing Comp any

1717 East Franklin Street Richmond lickingholecreek.com

200 Mosbys Run Roseland 434.361.1001 dbbrewingcompany.com

510 Grove Street Bedford 540.583.5113 bealesbeer.com 2900 West Broad Street, Richmond 804.386.0290 bingorva.com

Lickinghole Goodw ater

6118 Lakeside Ave. Richmond 804.264.4808

2425 Robert E. Lee Road Powhatan 804.372.9786 Finecreekbrewing.com

Garden Grove Brewing and Urban Winery

3445 W Cary Street, Richmond 804.338.6029 www.gardengrovebrewing.com

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery 2408 Ownby Ln. Richmond 804.420.2420 hardywood.com

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery West Creek 820 Sanctuary Trail Drive Richmond hardywood.com

Hardywood Pilot Brewery & Taproom 1000 W. Main Street Charlottesville

Intermission Beer Co .

10089 Brook Road Glen Allen 804.585.0405 intermission.com

Isley Brewing Comp any

1715 Summit Avenue Richmond 804.499.0721 isleybrewingcompany.com

James River Brewery 561 Valley St. Scottsville 434.286.7837 jrbrewery.com

Kindred Spirit Brewing

12830 W. Creek Parkway Goochland 804.708.0309 kindredspiritbrewing.com

Legend Brewing Comp any

Midnight Brewer y

Old House Brewing Co .

18351 Corkys Lane Culpeper 540.423.1032 oldhousevineyards.com

Origin Beer Lab

106 S. Railroad Avenue Ashland 804.368.0299 facebook.com/originbeerlab

Pro Re Nata Farm Brewery

6135 Rockfish Gap Tpke.

Crozet 434.823.4878 prnbrewery.com

Random Row Brewing Comp any

704 Dawn Street Richmond 804.303.5528 tabolbrewing.com

The Answer Brewpub

6008 West Broad St. Richmond facebook.com theanswerbrewpub.com

The Veil Brewing Comp any 1301 Roseneath Road Richmond 804.355.58515 theveilbrewing.com

Third Street Brewing

312 W. Third Street Farmville 434.315.0471 thirdstreetbrewing.com

Three Notch’d Brewing Comp any RVA Colab House 2930 W. Broad St. Richmond threenotchdbrewing.com

Three Notch’d @ IX P ark

522 2nd Street, SE Charlottesville threenotchdbrewing.com

Trapezium Brewing Comp any 423 Third Street Petersburg 23803 571.758.2738 trapeziumbrewing.com

608 Preston Avenue Charlottesville 434.284.8466 randomrow.com

Triple Crossing Brewing Comp any

Reason Beer Co.

Triple Crossing Brewing Comp any

1180 Seminole Trail, #290 Charlottesville reasonbeer.com

Richbrau Brewing Co .

5 South 20th Street Richmond richbraubrewing.com

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery

113 S. Foushee Street Richmond 804.308.0475

5203 Hatcher Street Richmond 804.496.1955 triplecrossingbeer.com

Vasen Brewing Comp any

3331 Moore Street, Richmond 804.588.5678 vasenbrewing.com

White Rock Brewing Comp any

11800 W. Broad Street Richmond 23233 804-237-1684 rockbottom.com

2117 Bruno Drive Goodview 24905 540.890.3359 whiterockwines.com.

South Street Brewery

Wild Wolf Brewing Comp any

106 South Street Charlottesville 434.293.6550 southstreetbrewery.com

2461 Rockfish Valley Highway Nellysford 434.361.0088 wildwolfbeer.com

Starr Hill Brewery

WildManDan Beer Centric B&B

5391 Three Notch’d Rd. Crozet 434.823.5671 starrhill.com

279 Avon Road Afton 434.270.0404 wmdb3.com

Steam Bell Beer Works

Willow Spring Brewery in The Light Well Restaurant

1717 E. Oak Lake Blvd.

Midlothian 804.728.1876 steambell.beer

Stone Brewing Comp any

321 W. Seventh St. Richmond 804.232.3446 legendbrewing.com

4300 Williamsburg Avenue Richmond 23231 760.294.7899 facebook.com/ stonebrewingrichmond.

Lickinghole Creek F arm Brewery

Strangeways Brewing

4100 Knolls Point Dr. Goochland 804.314.4380 lickingholecreek.com

Tabol Brewing

110 E Main Street Orange 540.661.0004 thelightwell.com

Wood Ridge Farm Brewery 165 Old Ridge Road Lovingston 434.422.6225

COASTAL VIRGINIA Alewerks

189-B Ewell Rd. Williamsburg 757.220.3670 williamsburgalewerks.com

Alewerks Satellite Brewery

Williamsburg Premium Outlets 5715 Richmond Road Williamsburg alewerks.com

Back Bay Brewing Company 614 Norfolk Ave. Virginia Beach 757.531.7750 backbaybrewco.com

Back Bay’s Farmhouse Brewing Co.

1805 Kempsville Road, Virginia Beach 757.512.6430 farmhousebrewingva.com

Bearded Bird Brewing Co .

727 Granby Street Norfolk beardedbirdbrewing.com

Benchtop Brewing Comp any 1129 Boissevain Avenue Norfolk 757.321.9482 benchtopbrewing.com

Big Ugly Brewing Company 845 Battlefield Blvd. S., Chesapeake biguglybrewing.com

Billsburg Brewer y

2054 Jamestown Road Williamsburg billsburg.com

Black Narrows Brewing Comp any 4522 Chicken City Road Chincoteague blacknarrowsbrewing.com

Brass Cannon Brewing Comp any 5476 Mooretown Road Williamsburg 757.566.0001 brasscannonbrewing.com

Brick & Mortar Brewing Co.

212 E. Washington Street Suffolk 757.533.1173 brickandmortarbrews.com

Bull Island Brewing Comp any 758 Settlers Landing Road Hampton 757.788.9489 bullislandbrewing.com

Cape Charles Brewing Co .

2198 Stone Road Cape Charles 757.695.3909 capecharlesbrewing.com

Capstan Bar Brewing Comp any 2036 Exploration Way Hampton 757.788.7276 capstanbarbrewing.com

Coelacanth Brewing 760 W. 22nd Street Norfolk 757.59.UGLY.1 coelacanth.com

2277 Dabney Rd. Richmond 804.303.4336 strangewaysbrewing.com VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM

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Commonwealth Brewing Comp any 2444 Pleasure House Rd. Virginia Beach 757.305.9652

Deadline Brewing Project

2272 W. Great Neck Road, Suite 2268 Virginia Beach 757.502.4980 deadlinebrewing.com

Elation Brewing

Precarious Beer Project/ Amber Ox Public House

521 Prince George St, Ste 101 Williamsburg 757.790.2299 precariousbeer.com

Reaver Beach Brewing Comp any 1505 Taylor Farm Road Virginia Beach 757.563.2337 beachbrewingcompany.com

6 Bears & A Goat Brewing Company

11440 International Drive Fredericksburg 540.356.9056 6bgbrewing.com

1781 Brewing Comp any

Beer Hound Brewer y

201 Waters Place Culpeper 22701 540-317-5327 beerhoundbrewery.com

Belly Love Brewing Company

11109 Plank Rd. Spotsylvania 804.842.0199

725 E Main Street Purcellville, VA 20132 540.441.3159 bellylovebrewing.com

1836 Kitchen & T aproom

Beltway Brewing Company 22620 Davis Dr. #110 Sterling 571.989.2739 beltwaybrewco.com

Dog Money Brewery 50 Catoctin Circle Leesburg 703.687.3852

Dragon Hops Brewing

130 E. Main Street Purcellville 540.441.3660 dragonhopsbrewing.com

Dynasty Brewing Co.

21140 Ashburn Crossing Drive, Suite #130-135 Asburn 571.246.5991

5104 Colley Avenue Norfolk 757.695.3909 elation.beer

Rip Rap Brewing Comp any 116 E 25th Street Norfolk riprapbrewing.com

34 E. Broad Way Lovettsville 540.668.5835 1836kitchenandtaproom.com

Gordon Biersch

Smartmouth Brewing Comp any

Adroit Theory Brewing Company

Bike TrALE Brewing Comp any

404 Browing Ct., Unit C Purcellville 703.722.3144 adroit-theory.com

101 Loudon St. SW Leesburg 571.293.0050 biketralebrewing.com

Smartmouth Pilot House

Adventure Brewing North

Black Hoof Brewing Comp any

33 Perchwood Drive Fredericksburg 540.242.8876 adventurebrewing.com

11 S. King Street Leesburg 571.707.8014 blackhoofbrewing.com

7000 Newington Road, Suites K&L Lorton 703-372-2001 fairwindsbrewing.com

204 Challenger Way Hampton 757.865.7781 stgeorgebrewingco.com

Adventure Brewing South

Black Walnut Brewing Comp any

Far Gohn Brewing Co .

That Damn Mary Brewing Company

Aslin Beer Comp any

4561 Virginia Beach Blvd.

Virginia Beach 757.490.2739

Home Republic Brew Pub 328 Laskin Road Virginia Beach 757.226.9593

Kilmarnock Brewhaus

44 West Church Street Kilmarnock 804.436.6207 kilmarnockbrewhaus.com

Legend Brewing Depot

1 High Street North Landing, Suite B Portsmouth 757.998.6733 legendbrewing.com

Maker’s Craft Brewery

1309 Raleigh Ave., #300 Norfolk 757.624.3939 smartmouthbrewing.com 313 32nd Street Virginia Beach smartmouthbrewing.com

St. George Brewing Comp any

5036 George Washington Memorial Highway Hayes 804.436.2204 thatdamnmarybrewing.com

735 E. 23rd Street Norfolk 757.226.8506 makers.beer

The Bunker Brewpub & Cadence Hall

MoMac Brewing Company

The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery

3228 Academy Avenue Portsmouth 757.383.9572 momacbrewing.com

Montross Brewery

15381 Kings Highway Montross 804.452.7394 montrossbrewery.com

New Realm Brewing Comp any 1209 Craft Lane Virginia Beach 757.302.8550 newrealmbrewing.com

O’Connor Brewing Comp any

211 21st Street, Virginia Beach 757.227.4250 bunkerbrewpub.com

504 N. King Street Hampton 757.224.1807 thevanguard757.com

The Virginia Beer Comp any 401 Second Street Williamsburg 757.378.2903 virginiabeerco.com

Tradition Brewing Comp any 700 Thimble Shoals Blvd.

Newport News 757.303.3415 traditionbrewing.com

211 W. 24th Street Norfolk 757.623.2337 oconnorbrewing.com

Wasserhund Brewing Comp any

Oozelfinch Craft Brewer y

Wharf Hill Brewing Co .

81 Patch Road Fort Monroe 757.224.7042 oozelfinchbeers.com

Pleasure House Brewing

3025 Shore Dr. Virginia Beach, VA 23451 757.647.8597 pleasurehousebrewing.com

Precarious Beer Hall

110 S. Henry Street Williamsburg 757.808.5104 precariousbeer.com

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805 Laskin Rd. #102 Virginia Beach 757.618.6051

25 Main Street Smithfield 757-357-7100 Wharfhillbrewing.com

Young Veterans Brewing Company 2505 Horse Pasture Rd,Ste. 104 Virginia Beach 757.689.4021 yvbc.com

3300 Dill Smith Drive Fredericksburg aventurebrewing.com 257 Sunset Park Drive Herndon, VA 20170 703.787.5766 aslinbeer.com

Audacious Aleworks

110 E. Fairfax Street, Falls Church 571.303.0177 audaciousaleworks.com

B Chord Brewing

34266 Williams Gap Road Round Hill bchordbrewing.com

BadWolf (Big) Brewing Comp any

8420 Kao Circle Manassas, 20110 badwolfbrewingcompany.com

BadWolf (Little) Brewing Comp any 9776 Center St. Manassas 571.208.1064 badwolfbrewingcompany.com

Barley Naked

15 Tech Parkway, Stafford 540.623.4475 barleynaked.com

Barnhouse Brewery

43271 Spinks Ferry Road Leesburg 703.675.8408 barnhousebrewery.com

Barrel Oak Farm Taphouse 3623 Grove Lane Delaplane 540.364.6402 barreloak.com

Battlefield Brewing Comp any

NORTHERN VIRGINIA

4187 Plank Rd Fredericksburg 540.785.2164 chancellorpub@msn.com

2 Silos Brewing Co .

Bear Chase Brewing Comp any

9925 Discovery Blvd.

Manassas 703.420.2264 2silosbrewing.com

18294 Blue Ridge Mountain Road Bluemont

210 S King Street Leesburg facebook.com/ blackwalnutbrewery

Board Room Brewing Comp any 925 Garfield Street Arlington 703.248.9439 theboardroomva.com

Brew Republic Bierwerk s

15201 Potomac Town Place Woodbridge 703.594.7950 brewrepublic.beer

Caboose Brewing Comp any 520 Mill Street NE Vienna 703-865-8580 caboosebrewing.com

Chubby Squirrel Brewing Company

10382 Willard Way Fairfax 571.989.1082 chubbysquirrelbrewing.com

Corcoran Brewing Comp any

205 E. Hirst Road, Suite 105 Purcellville 540.441.3102 corcoranbrewing.com

Crooked Run Brewing Comp any 22455 Davis Drive Sterling cookedrunbrewing.com

Crooked Run Brewing Comp any 205 Harrison Street SE Leesburg 571.978.4446

Ono Brewing Comp any 4520 Daly Drive Chantilly 571.409.6662 onobrewco.com

Dirt Farm Brewing Co.

18701 Foggy Bottom Rd. Bluemont 540.554.2337 dirtfarmbrewing.com

Eavesdrop Brewery

7223 Centreville Road, Yorkshire 703.420.8955 eavesdropbrewery.com

Fair Winds Brewing Comp any

301 S Main Street Culpeper

The Farm Brewery at Broad Run

16015 John Marshall Hwy. Broad Run 703.753.3548 thefarmbreweryatbroadrun.com

Forge Brew Works

8532 Terminal Rd., Ste. L Lorton 703.372.2979 forgebrewworks.com

Front Royal Brewing

122 E. Main Street Front Royal 540.631.0773 frontroyalbrewing.com

Gordon Biersch

Tyson’s Corner Mall McLean 703.388.5454 gordonbiersch.com

Growling Bear Brewing Comp any 14051 Crown Court Woodbridge, 22193 571.535.1965 growlingbearbrewing.com

Harpers Ferry Brewing

37410 Adventure Center Lane Purcellville

Heritage Brewing Co.

9436 Center Point Lane Manassas 800.432.1792 heritagebrewing.com

Heroic Aleworks

14910 Persistence Drive Woodbridge 571.398.6113 heroicaleworks.com

Highmark Brewer y

390 Kings Hwy. Fredericksburg 540.207.1725 highmarkbrewery.com

Hillsborough F arm Brewery 36716 Charles Town Pike Purcellville 540.668.6216

Honor Brewing Co .

Old Ox Brewery

Hopkins Ordinar y Ale Works

Old Trade Brewery

House 6 Brewing Co .

Ono Brewing Co .

14004A Willard Road Chantilly 703.596.1567 honorbrewing.com 47 Main Street Sperryville 540.987.3383 hopkinsordinary.com 44427 Atwater Drive Ashburn 585.520.5710

Jack’s Run Brewing Comp any 108 N. 21st Street Purcellville 540.441.3382 jacksrunbrewing.com

Lake Anne Brew House

14 S. Madison Street Middleburg 540.326.8943 oldoxbrewery.com 13270 Alanthus Road Brandy Station 774.218.8645 oldtradebrewery.com 4520 Daly Drive Chantilly 571.409.6662 onobrewco.com

Pen Druid Brewing

7 River Lane Sperryville, 22740 540.987.8800 pendruid.com

11424 Washington Plaza West Reston 571.758.2739 lakeannebrewhouse.com

Phase 2 Brewing

Lost Rhino Brewing Comp any

Port City Brewing Comp any

21730 Red Rum Dr., Ste. 142 Ashburn 571.291.2083 lostrhino.com

Lost Rhino Retreat

22885 Brambleton Plaza Brambleton 703.327.0311

Loudoun Brewing Comp any 310 E Market St. Leesburg 703.350.8553 loudounbrewing.com

Maltese Brewing Comp any 11047 B Pierson Drive Fredericksburg maltesebrewing.com

Market Common Brewpub & Roastery 2900 Wilson Blvd., #104 Arlington 571.208.1355 hbcmarketcommon.com

Mustang Sally Brewing Company 14140 Parke Long Court Chantilly 703.378.7450 msbrewing.com

New District Brewing Comp any 2709 S Oakland Street Arlington 22206 703.888.5820

Ocelot Brewing Comp any

19382 Diamond Lake Drive Leesburg 540.987.0219 3950 Wheeler Ave. Alexandria 703.797.2739 portcitybrewing.com

Portner’s Brewhouse

5772 Dow Avenue Alexandria 703.646.0466 portnerbrewhouse.com

Powers Farm & Brewery

9269 Redemption Way Midland 540.272.5060 powersfarmbrewery.com

Quattro Goombas Brewing Comp any 22860 James Monroe Highway Aldie 703-327-6052 goombabrewery.com

Red Dragon Brewery

1419 Princess Anne Street Fredericksburg 22401 540.382.4342 reddragonbrewery.com

Rocket Frog Brewing Comp any

45980 Waterview Plaza Sterling 571.434.6500 greatamericanrestaurants.com

The Craft of Brewing

Spencer Devon Brewing Comp any

42615 Trade West Drive, #100 Dulles solacebrewing.com

7134 Lineweaver Rd. Warrenton 540.347.4777 oldbusthead.com

106 George Street Fredericksburg 540-999-6253 spencerdevonbrewing.com

Old 690 Brewing Comp any

Strangeways Brewing

350 Landsdowne Road Fredericksburg 540.371.1776 strangewaysbrewing.com

Sweetwater Tavern

14250 Sweetwater Ln. Centreville 703.449.1100 greatamericanrestaurants.com

150 Ridgemont Rd. Middletown 540.869.8482 facebook.com/ BackroomBrewery

Basic City Beer Co .

1010 E. Main Street Waynesboro 540.265.8062 basiccitybeer.com

Bedlam Brewing Comp any

Tin Cannon Brewing Co

123 S. Randolph St. Lexington 540.458.0146 bluelabbrewing.com

7679 Limestone Dr. #130 Gainesville 571-248-0489 tincannonbrewing.com

Tucked Away Brewing Company 8420 Kao Circle Manassas 703.420.2890 tuckedawaybrew.com

Twinpanzee Brewing Comp any 101-D Executive Drive Sterling 703.791.9363

Water’s End Brewery

9419 Main Street Manassas sinistralbbrewingcompany.com

Backroom Brewery

21140 Ashburn Crossing Drive, Suite 170 Ashburn 703.687.3932 thecraftob.com

Sinistral Brewing Comp any

Old Bust Head Brewing Comp any

44652 Guilford Dr Unit 114 Ashburn 703.729.8375 oldoxbrewery.com

Sweetwater Tavern

Vanish Brewing

Solace Brewing Comp any

Old Ox Brewery

3066 Gate House Plaza Falls Church 703.645.8100 greatamericanrestaurants.com

22560 Glenn Drive, Suite #103 Sterling 571.375.7920 rocketfrogbeer.com

23600 Overland Drive, Ste. 180 Sterling 703-665-2146 ocelotbrewing.com

15670 Ashbury Church Road Purcellville old690.com

Sweetwater Tavern

44624 Leelyn Farm Lane Leesburg 20176 vanishbeer.com 12425 Dillingham Square Lake Ridge 571.285.1997 watersendbrewery.com

Wild Run Brewing Comp any

3071 Jefferson Davis Hwy Stafford 540.659.3447 wildrunbrewing.com

Wort Hog Brewing Comp any 41 Beckham Street Warrenton 540.300.2739 worthogbreweryllc.com

SHENANDOAH VALLEY Alesatian Brewing Comp any 23 N. Loudoun Street Winchester 540.667.2743 alesatianbrewing.com

2303 North Augusta Street Staunton 540.416.4634

Blue Lab Brewing Comp any

Brothers Craft Brewing 800 N Main Street Harrisonburg 540.432.8940 threebrosbrew.com

Devils Backbone Brewing Company - Outpost

50 Northwind Lane Lexington 540.462.6200 dbbrewingcompany.com

Escutcheon Brewing Comp any 150 W. Commercial Street Winchester 540.391.8713 escutcheonbrewing.com

Front Royal Brewing Company 122 E. Main Street Front Royal 540.631.0773 frontroyalbrewing.com

Great Valley Farm Brewery

60 Great Valley Lane Natural Bridge 540.521.6163 greatvalleyfarmbrewery.com

Hawksbill Brewing Comp any

22 Zerkel Street Luray 540.860.5608 hawkbillbrewing.wordpress.com

Pale Fire Brewing Comp any 217 S. Liberty Street Harrisonburg 540-217-5452 palefirebrewing.com

Queen City Brewing

834 Springhill Road Staunton 540.213.8014 qcbrewing.com

Redbeard Brewing

120 South Lewis St. Staunton 804.641.9340 redbeardbrews.com

Ridge Runner F arm & Brewery 6895 Back Road Maurertown 571.201.2963 virginiafarmbrew.com

Restless Moons Brewing Company 120 W. Wolfe Street Harrisonburg 540.217.2726 restlessmoons.com

Seven Arrows Brewing Comp any

2508 Jefferson Hwy. Ste 1 Waynesboro 540-221-6968 sevenarrowsbrewing.com

Shenandoah Valley Brewing Company 103 W. Beverly Street Staunton 540.887.2337 shenvalbrew.com

Skipping Rock Beer Co .

414 Parkersburg Turnpike Staunton 540.466.5692 skippingrockbeer.com

Stable Craft Brewing at Hermitage Hill

375 Madrid Road Waynesboro 540.490.2609 stablecraftbrewing.com

Swover Creek Farm Brewery 4176 Swover Creek Rd. Edinburg 540.984.8973 swovercreekfarms.com

The Friendly Fermenter

20 South Mason Street, Suite B10 Harrisonburg friendlyfermenter.com

Three Notch’d Brewing Co .

Harrisonburg Taproom 241 E. Market Street Harrisonburg 540.217.5939

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Winchester Brew Works

320 N Cameron St. Winchester 540.692.9242 winchesterbrewworks.com

Woodstock Brewhouse

123 E Court Street Woodstock 22664 woodstockbrewhouse.com 540-459-2739

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA 2 Witches Winery & brewing Company

209 Trade St. Danville 434-549-BREW (2739

Ballad Brewing Company 600 Craighead Street Danville balladbrewing.com

Buggs Island Brewing Comp any 110 College Street Clarkesville

Mountain Valley Brewing Company

4220 Mountain Valley Road Axton 276.833.2171 mountainvalleybrewing.com

Staunton River Brewing Co .

1571 Mt. Calvary Road Brookneal stauntonriverbrewing.com

Parkway Brewing

739 Kessler Mill Rd. Salem parkwaybrewing.com

Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers

Bryant’s Small Batch Cider 3224 East Branch Loop Roseland 804.420.9683 bryantscider.com

523 Shenandoah Avenue Roanoke 540.529.2140 soaringridge.com

Buskey Cider

Starr Hill Pilot Brewer y

Castle Hill Cider

2910 W. Leigh Street Richmond buskeycider.com

6 Old Whitmore Road Roanoke 434.823.5671 starrhill.com/roanoke

6065 Turkey Sag Rd. Keswick 434.296.0047 castlehillcider.com

Sunken City Brewer y

Courthouse Creek Cider

40 Brewery Dr., Hardy 540.420.0476 sunkencitybeer.com

The Hive

1116 A Main Street SW Roanoke 540.597.8739 blacksnakemead.com

Three Notch’d Craft Kitchen & Brewery 24 Campbell Avenue SE Roanoke 540.492.5005 threenotchdbrewing.com

Twin Creeks Brewing Co.

111 Pollard Street, Vinton 540.265.8062 twincreeksbrewing.com

A Few Old Goats

515 8th Street, SW, Suite 228 Roanoke 540.339.9562

Winchester Ciderworks

3300 W. Broad Street Richmond courthousecreek.com

Coyote Hole Ciderworks

Olde Salem Brewing Comp any 21 E. Main Street Salem 540.404.4399 oldesalembrewing.com

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CENTRAL VIRGINIA Albemarle CiderWorks

2545 Rural Ridge Ln. North Garden 434.297.2326 albemarleciderworks.com

Blue Bee Cider

1320 Summit Avenue Richmond 804.231.0280 bluebeecider.com

Blue Toad Hard Cider Pub

9278 Rockfish Valley Hwy. Afton 434.996.6992 bluetoadhardcider.com

Bold Rock Hard Cider

1020 Rockfish Valley Hwy. Nellysford 434.361.1030 boldrock.com

2800 Berry Hill Rd Nellysford, VA 22958 434.361.1266 hilltopberrywine.com

Honey Grail

525 E. Market Street, #135 Leesburg 202.455.5520 honeygrail.com

SAGA MEADERY

Madison Heights, VA 339.221.3115 sagameadery.com

The Thistle and Stag Meadery 2053 E. River Road Fork Union 434.842.2200 thethistleandstag.com

Skjald Meadworks

621C Broad Street Altavista, VA 434.515.2482 skjaldmeadworks.com

VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS COASTAL VIRGINIA

Garden Grove Brewing and Urban Winery

59 Spruce Street Monterey 540.468.2322 bigfishcider.com

3445 W Cary Street, Richmond 804.338.6029 www.gardengrovebrewing.com

Big Fish Cider

Melo Lion Meadery Yorktown, VA 757.713.4885 melolion.com

SILVER HAND MEADERY

224 Monitcello Ave, Suite C Williamsburg, VA 23185 757.378.2225 silverhandmeadery.com

Potter’s Craft Cider

COASTAL VIRGINIA

NORTHERN VIRGINIA

Sly Clyde Ciderworks

STONE HOUSE MEADERY

5909 Long Fall Lane Delaplane 540.364.2802 cobblercellars.com

Chaos Mountain Brewing Company

1443 Lakeside Circle Salem 540.404.0050 Oberbrewing.com

2502 N. Frederick Pike Winchester 540.550.3800 WinchesterCiderworks.com

Hill Top Berry Farm and Winery

225 Oak Grove Drive Mineral 540.894.1053 coyotehole.com

Cobbler Mountain Cellars

409 Salem Avenue SW Roanoke

Ober Brewing Comp any

The Winery at Kindred Pointe

Courthouse Creek Cider

Big Lick Brewing Co .

70 Main Street Boones Mill 540.909.3200 hammerandforgebrewing.com

17768 Honeyville Rd. Timberville 540.896.7582 oldhillcider.com

1581 Maidens Road Goochland courthousecreek.com

NORTHERN VIRGINIA

Hammer & Forge Brewing Company

Old Hill Cider

3575 Conicville Rd Mt Jackson, Shenandoah County 22842 540.477.3570 kindredpointe.com

2814 Main Street Hot Springs bacovabeer.com

315 Market Street SE Roanoke 540.259.5204 deschutesbrewery.com

4135 S Lee Highway Natural Bridge 540.291.1340 halcyondayscider.com

207 E. Mellen Street Hampton slyclyde.com

Bacova Beer Company

Deschutes Brewery - Roanoke Tasting Room

Halcyon Days Cidery Company

Charlottesville potterscraftcider.com

VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS

3135 Dillons Mill Rd. Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com

SHENANDOAH VALLEY

Corcoran Vineyards Hard Cider 14635 Corky’s Farm Lane Waterford 540.882.9073 corcoranvineyards.com

Hinson Ford Cider & Mead 379 Hinson Ford Road Amissville 540.219.8397

Lost Boy Cider

317 Hooffs Run Drive Alexandria 703.868.4865 lostboycider.com

Mount Defiance Cidery & Distillery 207 W. Washington St., Middleburg 540.687.8100 mtdefiance.com

Wild Hare Cider

106A South Street, SE Leesburg 833.675.WILD

36580 Shoemaker School Rd Purcellville, VA 20132 571.512.0763 stonehousemeadery.com

Maidstone Meadery

9364 Justice Lane Delaplane, VA 20144 703.303.2090 maidstonemeadery.com

BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS

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