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On the Cover: (L-R) Sasha Kingry, Elizabeth Geiger & Kristi Griner
ingredients 8 News Briefs 12 Virginia Craft Brewers Conference & Gala 14 Report from National Wholesalers Convention 18 NoVA’s Pink Boots Collaboration 20 Mug Shots 24 Crafty Gift Items 26 Feature: Beltway Bats 1,000 30 Beer Clubs 32 Mark Thompson: One Year Reflection 34 Leesburg Golf Car Pub Crawl 38 Profile: Willow Springs Brewing 40: Profile: Winchester Brew Works 42 Profile: Makers Craft Brewery 44 Brew Reviews 46 Events & Festivals 63 Brewery/Cidery Guide
PUBLISHER/EDITOR Jeff Maisey jeffmaisey@yahoo.com ADVERTISING/MARKETING Jennifer McDonald Brian Koski CREATIVE DIRECTOR Brenda Mihalko CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jefferson Evans Lee Graves Sam Hedenberg Greg Kitsock 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 Summertime in Virginia means relaxing on the beach, camping and hiking in the mountains, taking in a baseball game, dancing at music festivals, and of course, enjoying award-winning craft beer and cider! In this issue, we make sure to give you many options to keep your calendar full of beer-centric events this summer! If you are headed to Northern Virginia, be sure to check out Beltway Brewing Company in Sterling and congratulate them on reaching the 1,000th turn of the brewhouse. Jeff visits with Sten Sellier, Beltway’s founder and president, and chats about the past five years as a contract brewer in Virginia, their 1,000th milestone, their commemorative beer – Batting a 1,000 Red Lager, and a love of the Washington Nationals. Additional brewery profiles include the new Light Well Brewery in Orange, Maker’s Craft Brewery in Norfolk, and Winchester Brew Works. Michael Jarvis tells us about a fun concept in Leesburg – golf cart pub crawls. In his article, he introduces us to Asa Rusk and his business CartWheels, a fleet of road-ready carts that shuttle passengers to and from Leesburg’s popular breweries and beer pubs. And, Mark Thompson reflects on the early days of brewing craft beer in Virginia, the three tiered distribution system, and how things have come full circle. Brew News is full of interesting tidbits.Writer Greg Kitsock gives us highlights from the National Beer Wholesalers Association annual conference held in DC in April. Jeff provides updates on the big changes to this year’s Virginia Craft Beer Cup competition and shares his conversation with Virginia Craft Brewers Guild President and CEO Brett Vassey. Other Brew News includes Annie Tobey’s look at Breweries’ Beer Club programs for patrons and Jeff Evans and Chuck Triplett’s history lesson on the creation of The Pink Boots Society and their annual brew day in Northern Virginia where 34 breweries participated to create a hoppy honey American Wheat beer. Plus, lagers from Virginia win national acclaim from Paste Magazine, Bold Rock has a new hard seltzer, Harrisonburg’s Brothers Craft Brewing created a new special edition for its Virginia pale ale The Great Outdoors, Norfolk’s Coelacanth Brewing Company has been named Virginia Green Brewery of the Year, and the Coastal Virginia Brewery Alliance announces their first beer festival which will showcase beers from 28 Coastal Virginia breweries. Brew Reviews gives you a few options to help keep your beer fridge stocked this summer. And, as always, the Events Calendar is filled with beer festivals, pint nights, brewery events and more! Plus, our Brewery Guide breaks everything down region by region. We hope to see you out and about this summer! Cheers! Jennifer McDonald Jennifer.McDonald@hotmail.com VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM
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Lagers from Virginia Gain National Acclaim By Jeff Maisey
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believe we got it right in the last issue of this magazine in reviewing O’Connor Brewing Company’s Proper Lager with the bold proclamation that it is perhaps the best of its style in America. Seems the folks at Paste Magazine nearly agreed when they ranked it #4 in the nation for craft beer lagers. We still stand by our highly opinionated #1 ranking of the beer. Proper Lager was two years in the making as brewers tweaked five variations and ultimately lowered
O’Connor’s Proper Lager is on fire right out of the gate
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the bitterness to perfection — an amazing 17 IBUs. Kevin O’Connor, the brewery’s founding president, said the rollout for Proper Lager was probably the company’s most ambitious promotional effort for a new brand. It seems to be paying dividends. It’s fantastically crisp, clean and delicious — everything you’d want in a proper lager. At the end of a long, hard, hot workday when you just thirst for a damn cold-one, this is it.
That said, Proper Lager wasn’t the only Virginia-brewed lager to get noticed in the Paste tasting poll. Triple Crossing’s Fault Line Lager was ranked #3. The Paste panel ranked only the top 30 lagers. Others within the top 102 lagers from Virginia were Final Gravity’s Lakeside Lager, Old Glory from Coelacanth, Hardywood Park’s Richmond Lager, and Stone Brewing’s Tropic of Thunder.
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Nelson County-based Bold Rock Cider delves into the hard seltzer market
Bold Rock Unveils Hard Seltzer Popular cider-maker Bold Rock didn’t waste any time getting into the hard seltzer market. Beginning June 10, Bold Rock will release a Grapefruit and Cucumber Melon in both 12-ounce cans packaged as 6-packs. Both will be available on draft as well. “Nearly a year of research and development led our liquids team to an innovative approach that allows for significant breakthroughs in quality and taste,” explained Brian Shanks, co-founder of the Nelson County cidery. “Alcohol from real fruit and all-natural ingredients form the foundation of Bold Rock Hard Seltzer while our process imparts a perfect finish to each sip. We can’t wait to share this line of refreshment with both new friends and old as we launch into the rapidly expanding hard seltzer category.”
C’mon, Get Happy (Hour) New laws regarding marketing happy hours go into effective July 1. Restaurants may promote their happy hour time span, and list specific drink types and brands through advertisements on websites, social media and posters. Jack Brown’s Beer & Burger Joint could promote “All Parkway Brewing beers on Happy Hour in July.” - 10 -
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Coastal Virginia Brewery Alliance Only 60% of Virginia Announces Festival Breweries Certified Craft After a couple of years talking about it, regional independent breweries have formed the Coastal Virginia Brewery Alliance (CVBA) and are kicking things off with an inaugural Beer Fest at the Hermitage Museum & Gardens on June 29 in Norfolk. The festival will exclusively showcase the craft beers produced in the Coastal Virginia region. Earlier this year, the Alliance announced 27 breweries had joined the CVBA.
According to the Brewers Association (BA) only 60% of small and independent brewing companies in Virginia have signed up to use the BA’s official seal signifying they are certified independent craft brewing companies. The BA developed the seal in light of large corporate brewing conglomerates selling “crafty beer.” “The number of brewers who’ve signed on to use the independent craft brewer seal across the country as well as in Virginia continues to rise,” explained Julia Herz, Craft Beer Program Director for the Brewers Association. “In the past year alone, Virginia specifically has seen an increase of 6% (amounting to its current 60%) of seal adopters. To date, 4,339 and counting craft brewers from across the country have signed up, representing more than 85% of the volume of craft brewed beer. Though the sign-on process for the seal is simple and free, it can take time for packaging and marketing materials to be updated, which explains why you might see packaging with the seal today, that didn’t have it yesterday. The seal is less than 2 years old and we are so impressed by the momentum it has gained thus far. We look forward to seeing the seal’s impact and visibility continue to grow.” Virginia Craft Brewers Guild CEO Brett Vassey said his goal is to have 100% of the Guild’s membership adopt the seal within the next two years.
Supporting LGBT Community Ballad Brewing, in Danville, will be celebrating its 2nd annual Pride event on June 22, though a full weekend of festivities has been planned. “We will be brewing a special beer for the event called Love Wins Wheat, which is a wheat IPA we brewed last year for Pride and are excited to bring back,” said Tim Meyers, Ballad’s business operations manager. “Our assistant brewer, Chris Myers, will be DJing on the 22nd for the celebration.”
Green Beer Honors Nifty labels from Brothers Craft Brewing
Loving Virginia’s Great Outdoors
Brothers Craft Brewing of Harrisonburg has released a special edition label for its Virginia pale ale called The Great Outdoors. “We are celebrating with Virginia Tourism’s 50 Years of the LOVE campaign,” said Jason Shifflett, co-owner, Brothers Craft Brewing. “We love the label and the cause.”
Norfolk’s Coelacanth Brewing Company has been named Virginia Green Brewery of the Year. “We are incredibly proud to recognize Coelacanth Brewing as the Virginia Green Brewery of the Year,” says Tom Griffin, the Executive Director of the Virginia Green Travel Alliance. “The growth of the Virginia Green program statewide has been remarkable, and our awards program is a celebration of that progress. Virginia Green Travel partners are truly leading our program’s efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of the industry and to increase green tourism business in Virginia.”
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Brothers Craft Brewing won last’s year’s Virginia Craft Beer Cup
Big Changes for Virginia Craft Beer Cup By Jeff Maisey
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s major restructuring of the annual Virginia Craft Beer Cup is taking shape. I caught up with Virginia Craft Brewers Guild President & CEO Brett Vassey to discuss the changes as well as a few topical items of importance to the industry. Vassey had a lot to share, so let’s get to it.
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Can you give us an update on the 2019 Virginia Craft Beer Cup competition and festival? This year, we’ve now opened registration for the Virginia Craft Beer Cup. This is our eighth year. We are expecting to judge over 400 beers this year — a record number of beers.
We’ve had a whole bunch of changes we’re very excited about. One is bittersweet: our head judge, Tom Cannon, has retired after five years. We’re proud of his service as our head judge. We have a new judge, Anna Shore, and we’re excited about her leadership. She’s been a judge for the Cup in years past. She’s also the head judge for the Dominion Cup, so she’s got a tremendous knowledge in the BJCP rules. All judges have to be BJCP certified. We believe we’re the only Guild in the country that runs it in this nature for this long. So, we’ve had about 100 breweries registered. Judging is on June 8. This year, we are making some major changes in the recognition program. One, we are creating a set of labels that winners will be able to use in all of their branded materials. Number two, we’re trying to create the best of GABF (Great American Beer Festival) and CBC (Craft Brewers Conference) at the national level all in one event in Virginia. What we’re doing is rebranding our day of programming around technology, distribution, quality, safety, all the things we do as far as workshops at our annual meeting. We’re rebranding that the Virginia Craft Beer Conference. This year, we’ve created the very first annual Virginia Craft Beer Cup Gala. It will be a stand-alone event in the evening at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. We’ll have production on our awards ceremony. We’re making this a very exclusive event; very highly produced. Really trying to raise the bar on quality of recognition and the use of the Cup as an opportunity to build market opportunities and public awareness for brands. What is the date of the Conference and Gala? The Conference and the Cup Gala are June 17. In addition to a conference and awards ceremony, the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild has produced a festival open to the general public. The past two years the event was held in downtown Charlottesville. Is such an event planned for 2019? We’ve not released our event calendar for the year. We’re still working on all of our events. What we’ve done this year is we decided to make a substantial investment
in expanding our events and the types of events. We’re working on two new events. We don’t have all the dates and times yet.
together around that in a very positive way. It was a win-win for retailers and brewers.
The Brewers Association reports that 60% of Virginia craft breweries have adopted the official Independent Seal. The cost is free. How can the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild work to increase that number closer to 100%?
What is the general consensus among craft brewers you’ve talked to lately: Are we still in that euphoric the sky’s the limit stage or are there concerns about a quickly maturing industry?
That’s a good question. That is actually one of our strategic goals of our marketing and tourism committee. It is to gain 100% adoption by brewers of that label. We really have a two-pronged approach to this. One is to get all of our members to include it in their labeling and social media. Those who don’t distribute should at least recognize it in their tasting rooms to educate the public. That’s a second goal. The third goal is we decided one of the most important things we want to do in the next two to five years is to build-out our own retail relations program. It will start with the VIP buyers (retailers) at our Cup. We want to educate them to educate the consumer to look for the seal. It just takes time, volunteers and consistent messaging. We think it will take a couple of years to get the first two goals accomplished. There are new happy hour laws going into effect in July in Virginia. Does the Guild leadership have a stated opinion on the impact of these laws on breweries and will this improve relationships with the Restaurant Association?
We do an annual marketing and tourism survey of our members, and in that we include how they feel about the industry and how they feel about their own products as far as growth for the next 12 months. Over 80% of our members in this last survey responded not only do they feel positive but they plan on expanding production. As far as euphoria, it does continue. Perspective is important here. When you’re small, making a few hundred barrels is an exciting expansion. It’s a little more difficult for the larger guys. The larger brewers are still growing, but it’s a lot more challenging because of the competition in the (Virginia) marketplace and from out of state, particularly imports. Packaged beer is just becoming very competitive as far as grocery store chains. Bottle shops are still good opportunities for our larger members and those looking for new packaged beer. The bottom line is our industry builds on the success of how we brand ourselves in our tasting rooms. The vast majority of brewers see the tasting room as the way they get brand awareness, consumer buy-in, and then distribution comes after that.
We are absolutely 100% in support of the expansion of the happy hour law. We lobbied it. We actually put resources into lobbying that bill in the General Assembly. It was one of our priority bills for this session for the Guild. We also will be working with the Virginia ABC on the rule making process; there’ll be either a set of guidance documents or a circular that’s going to be developed on the tasting room regulations. We’ve already met a couple of times with the ABC on what we would want to see in those guidance documents as it pertains to (brewery) tasting rooms. As far as retailers, we’ve been working very closely with individual retailers and trying to educate them on how we can support that regulation. We all came VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM
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Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia took an active role in the national conference
Beer Wholesalers Roll Out the Barrels on Capitol Hill By Greg Kitsock
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hat case or keg doesn’t sprout legs and walk the last mile to your retailer. A middleman called a distributor or wholesaler trucks the beer to its point of sale. He’s part of a three-tiered system of beer distribution that evolved after Prohibition. Although states allow brewpubs and brewery taprooms to sell directly to the public, most beer must still pass through a wholesaler. These messengers deal not only with narrow streets and traffic jams but also with an ever-expanding selection of beers from the nation’s 7,400+ breweries. The average wholesaler’s inventory has ballooned from about 100 products (called “SKUs” or stock-keeping units in the business parlance) 10-20 years ago to over 1,000 today, reckons industry consultant Kary Shumway. “Brand loyalty is on hiatus,” he observes.
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The 141,000 Americans who work for distributorships have a powerful voice in the Alexandria-based National Beer Wholesalers Association. Every year, about the same time the cherry blossoms sprout, the NBWA holds its annual legislative conference at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill. The General Industry Session is the meat-and-potatoes of the conference, where attendees (700 distributors from 50 states made the trip this year) learn of the burning issues confronting their industry before they fan out to meet with their Congressmen. It’s a formal, suit-and-tie affair that begins with a military color guard carrying Old Glory to the stage while the audience stands, hand over heart, for the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. Last year’s conference seemed to take place under a rain cloud. It began
with Craig Purser, CEO and president of the NBWA, relating how one of his constituents buttonholed him with the plea: “Sales suck – do something!” Attendees were bombarded with a litany of depressing statistics: Beer, which enjoyed a commanding 60% share of the beverage alcohol market in 1991, had slipped below 50%. Over the last two decades per capita consumption has shrunk by two cases per year. This year, the beer industry’s mavens delved more deeply into the statistics and found what Purser called “some green shoots” poking through the parched ground. Even if overall volume was down, the amount Americans spend on beer was up 1.2% in 2018, topping $38 billion: a result of drinkers trading up from premiums and budget brands to pricier craft and imports. continued
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brewNEWS/chalk art And beer is showing up in new venues. “There are retirement homes, for crying out loud, trying to get liquor licenses to get people to hang out there,” noted Lester Jones, the NBWA’s chief economist. Beer is becoming better integrated into our lives. Just visit your taproom, Jones advised. “It’s not just about the beer: it’s about yoga, it’s about knitting lessons. There’s an experiential shift going on.” The discussion cut a broad swath from what’s on the Supreme Court’s docket to marijuana legalization to, of course, the taxman. The beer industry still basking in the glow of the Craft Beer Modernization and Tax Reform Act, a 2017 tax overhaul that halved the excise from $7 to $3.50 on the first 60,000 barrels produced by small domestic brewers. (It also afforded tax relief to small vintners, cidermakers and distillers.) But those tax breaks are set to expire at the start of 2020 if Congress does nothing. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) have introduced legislation to make them permanent. Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, one of several guest speakers, offered guarded optimism: “I think most of the provisions will be made permanent … but there is significant energy to tweak portions of it.” However, that tax relief could go for naught, warned Jim McGreevy, president of The Beer Institute, a trade group that’s been representing the nation’s brewers since 1862. The Trump Administration’s tariff on aluminum imports, he estimated, will cost the beer industry $347 million this year and could jeopardize 20,000 jobs. “The government giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other,” bemoaned McGreevy. “The best solution is complete repeal,” he asserted. On the lighter side, he noted that his group polled 1,500 Americans on the question, “Who would you most like to share a beer with?” The most common answer: actress Betty White. (Better hurry, though: she turned 97 this past January.) Normally, drinking is reserved for the evenings, but special guest speaker Paul Begala, former Clinton advisor and CNN political strategist, jumped the gun by swigging a Shiner on stage. “I worked as a bartender at the University of Texas,” he explained. “I proposed to my wife over a Shiner Bock at the Dry Creek Saloon in Austin.” Begala held up beer distributors as a model for America’s increasingly contentious politics. “When you want to expand your sale, do you say, ‘Wine drinkers are morons,’ ‘Spirits drinkers are idiots?’ No!” One segment of the beer industry was conspicuously absent from the proceedings: America’s craft brewers. It wasn’t a snub. It so happened that the Brewers Association, the small brewers’ trade group, scheduled its annual Craft Brewers Conference for Denver for April 8-11, largely coinciding with the distributors’ confab (April 7-10). But, they did send plenty of beer for a series of evening receptions that peaked with the SAVOR-inspired Cheers! A Celebration of Beer and Food in the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building. Port City Optimal Wit, anyone? Hardywood Pils? Or maybe a Donner Party Porter (slogan: “Your friends never tasted so good!”) from FiftyFifty Brewing Co. in Truckee, California would pair better with that potsticker? It was the distributors’ annual salute to the craft segment, which, states statistician Lester Jones, “has slowly taken control of our overall industry and is pulling us along.” - 16 -
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The delicious Pink Boots collaboration beer.
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he year was 2007 and two women were separated by great distances, both in life experience and geography. Kristi Griner had passed the four-year mark of her first brewing job — handling all facets of brewing on the 7-barrel brew house at Hops Grill and Brewery in Alexandria, VA’s Potomac Yards, and yet she was quite aware of feeling alone in her position as a woman brewer. Brewing at the time was an incredibly male dominated industry and while she received friendship and even mentorship from her male Northern Virginia brewing colleagues, they couldn’t fully appreciate the daily challenges and biases, large and small, she faced daily. Meanwhile, just over 2,800 hundred
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By Jefferson Evans and Chuck Triplett
miles away, Teri Fahrendorf was leaving, after 17 years, her job as regional brewmaster for Steelhead Brewery in Eugene, OR where she supervised 11 brewers at five brewpubs in two states. She had blazed a trail as the third woman craft brewmaster in the USA, following Mellie Pullman of Wasatch Brewery of Park City, UT and Carol Stoudt of Stoudts Brewing Company of Adamstown, PA, and as the first woman Class President at the Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology. She was leaving on an epic journey as a gypsy brewer, which saw her cross 12,656 miles and brew at 38 different breweries. And she would answer a question that has been luring in the back of her mind, just as it is in
Kristi’s: Are there other women brewers out there? “She’s a bad motor scooter,” Kristi said, talking about Teri Fahrendorf. I find the comment ironic given that plenty of folks in the NoVa brewing community think of Kristi as being pretty bad ass herself these days, and what is certainly true that as a woman brewer she is not alone. Griner’s road had passed from Hops to Vintage 50 in Leesburg, VA to Capitol City Brewing Company in Arlington, VA to Beltway Brewing Company of Sterling, VA. It is at Beltway that she has played host to an impressive assemblage of brewing skill and general beer knowledge. As it happens, they are all women. Every year, the legacy
degrees. The hops included the recent blend from Yakima Chief Hops that the company provides just for the Pink Boots Society and bittering with Magnum hops. But what lives on is the camaraderie and fellowship and the knowledge that in
the age of the #MeToo movement, the advances we see in the brewing world are real and long-lasting. Because bad ass brewers wear pink boots and quite a few of them are making the beer world of Northern Virginia better every day.
Photo by Brooke Nelson
of Teri Fahrendorf is celebrated by events like the one that took place on International Women’s Day at Beltway Brewing Company where women from over 30 Virginia breweries, women home brewers and other women active in the local beer industry came together to brew a beer. As it happens, some of them were wearing pink boots. One of Teri Fahrendorf first stops was at Southern California’s Stone Brewing Company where she found herself teamed up with Laura Ulrich, Stone’s first female brewer, who whispered the question, “There are others like us? How many?” A seed was planted. An ideal is born. Teri left Stone with the ideal of finding out just how many women brewers were out there and helping them to become a community and find ways to support each other. By the end of her trip, she had 60 names. She posted the list online and named the group the Pink Boots Society after the pink boots she had been given by her mother-in-law and which she wore while brewing. Calls started coming in immediately from women (and men) who wanted to join the group, inspiring the response of “Shit, I didn’t know this was something people would want to join.” But a few months later, Fahrendorf and Ulrich were hosting the first meeting of the Pink Boots Society at the Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego. Twenty-two women came together to form a group that now has non-profit status, actively provides scholarships and professional growth opportunities to women interested in beer, and has chapters as far afield as Japan and India. This Pink Boots Society brew day this year resulted in a hoppy honey American Wheat beer, formulated by Kristi and Bridgette Turner of Solace Brewing Company, Melissa Romano of Lake Anne Brew House, and Allison Lange of Old Ox with lots of input from others. A total of 34 Northern Virginia breweries participated. Port City Brewing Company contributed some Virginia-grown red wheat and Jasper Akerboom provided yeast that gave a very vigorous fermentation even at 66
A few of the Virginia Pink Boots collaborating women brewers including Beltway’s own Kristi Griner. VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM
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collabstock at The farm Brewery at broad run, broad run
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the virginia beer co. three-year anniversary party, williamsburg
benchtop brewing company, Norfolk
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the girls of summer
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Beltway Brewing Company’s love for the Washington Nationals is reflected in their 1,000th turn of the brewhouse
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Beltway Brewing hits high mark while paying homage to the Nationals By Jeff Maisey
Following is my Q&A with Sten Sellier.
ust after the National Baseball League began its 2019 season, Beltway Brewing Company hit a monumental milestone to light up its scoreboard. The Sterling, Virginia contract brewery notched its 1,000th turn of the brewhouse. They did so with a limited edition brand of their own to mark the occasion — Batting 1000 Red Lager. Sten Sellier, the brewery’s founder and president, is a huge Washington Nationals fan. The beer’s recipe and packaging design — color scheme included — are a nod to the baseball team. It uses two-row malt with crystal and roasted barley for a rich hue, rolls in Willamette hops from the Northwest for a mild herbal spice, and lager yeast stitches it all together, creating a clean, crisp, malt-forward beer. To learn more about Beltway’s grand slam of a beer and to educate readers on the uniqueness of the brewery, I visited Sellier and the Beltway team — Elizabeth Geiger (Operations Manager), Kristi Griner (Technical Brewer), Jason Boland (Brewer), Sasha Kingry (Cellar Person), Ryan Shintani (Brewer), Eric Dolinger (Cellar Person), AJ Harris (Production Assistant/Logistics), and Brooke Nelson (Marketing).
Take us back 5 years or so when Beltway got its start as a rookie free agent contract brewing company. What was your game plan?
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I was looking to start my own brand of beer and thought — since I didn’t have a couple million dollars in my back pocket — was to bring my recipes to other small breweries and say, ‘Hey, can you make small batches of this for me?’ I’d go out and sell it and raise enough money for my own brewery. I quickly found that there were not any available breweries of the right size with capacity that were interested in doing those small batches, or even interested in sharing their capacity at all. So, I started to look into why there wasn’t anything like that. When I saw there weren’t any other breweries dedicated to brewing for other brands, I decided to pivot and be the first one that I knew of to have a brewery dedicated to being a host for craft breweries to contract with. In addition to Virginia breweries are you contract brewing for out-of-state companies? Yeah. We have shipped beer as far away as Brazil. There was a start-up in Brazil that found out to brew in Brazil was going to be more expensive than reaching out to someone in the States. That was definitely the most extreme. The first couple of years, we brewed for breweries in Alabama, South Florida, New York, the Pacific Northwest, Ohio. We had more customers outside Virginia than in Virginia. What was your first contracted beer? It was Black as Your Soul from Adroit Theory, right here in Purcellville. It was their imperial stout. When did you decide to brew your very first Beltway brand of beer? The first official Beltway brand was actually Batch #1, which was a test brew from our system when we got it to make
sure that before we took on a client we were able to successfully brew what we wanted. Unlike a lot of breweries, we did not have to dump that first batch. It came out great. It was a malty pale ale. We didn’t do another one until our first anniversary — we just did some nano batches. It became a tradition each anniversary to brew a Beltway brand beer to celebrate. The second anniversary we did Hansel Sour IPA. Hansel became a cult classic that had a life of its own. We rebrewed that a couple times and distributed it very limitedly. It was only at the end of 2018 where we started to see the craft beer growth curve flatten out. There was less demand coming in for contract brewing because there’s a lot of people with excess capacity. We decided to take advantage of the capacity we had and started having some fun and creativity of our own. We started with three beers: HOV Blonde Ale, Changing Lanes Double IPA, and Batting 1000. Can youexplain what “turn of the brewhouse” is? We have a 30-barrel brew system with 60 and 90 barrel fermenters. We track our batch numbers by every time we do a turn out of that brewhouse; every time we produce 30 barrels of wert is one turn. For the same 90-barrel batch we’ll brew three times to fill a 90-barrel tank. Right now we brew 12 hours a day, Monday through Friday. Your initial label design for Batting 1000 included a “W” very similar to that of the Washington Nationals logo. Can you share how that “W” became dropped before you distributed the product? We had been getting some great response from our PR. It did not take long for them (Nationals) to call us and politely ask us not to use that anymore. continued VIRGINIACRAFTBEER.COM
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Team Beltway celebrates its Batting 1000 Red Lager
I had a great conversation with their corporate partnership VP and he was very understanding. We told him we were big fans and were trying to show our support for the team. They said, “Unfortunately, due to a contractual agreement they have with Anheuser-Busch to make a Nationals brand of beer” for them they could not allow us to have that on our beer. We relabeled the cans. We’re still big fans of the Nationals…we want to stay friendly. We’d love if the Nationals decided to partner with a local brewery to do a branded beer instead of a multinational mega corporation.
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At Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies in Denver, I noticed several local craft beers being sold at the game. Have you inquired about selling Batting 1000 at Nationals home games? We’re not distributing in DC yet. We’re looking for the right partner to do that. Once we do, I hope to get some penetration into the stadium. Other brands like Atlas, Mad Fox and Port City are all pouring beer inside that park. Many Virginia craft breweries in the 2006-2012 era produced an Irish red or amber ale as part of their starting lineup. Batting 1000 is really quite different, isn’t it? It is, and that’s exactly what we were going for. We were thinking: Batch 1000. What would be special? It’s going to come out in springtime and we do love baseball
and our Nationals. Our mind went straight to a red ale. We know a lot of folks — like you said — are doing red ales as a very typical springtime release. We were coming off a very successful collaboration with Old Ox Brewing where we did a dry-hopped lager using Jasper yeasts — a high-pressure lager strain. It came out really nice. Kristi Griner, who is our technical brewer here, has a long history of brewing lagers. She was in love with it; just the fact we could use this highpressure strain and get long conditioned results in a short time. Because of that success, we said, “Let’s take that red ale idea and instead of ale let’s lager it.” We used that yeast strain and it made our dreams come true. We’ve got a nice malty backbone with a clean, crisp finished lager. It has a little more excitement than a lager and it’s more refreshing than a typical red ale.
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Beer Clubs: Hip or Hype? By Annie Tobey
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kip the lines! Score members-only beers and specialreleases, guaranteed! Attend exclusive events! Get discounts, brewery swag, and a free beer for your birthday! Be a VIP! All this for the amazing low price of $99.99! It seems like a hawker’s plug, but for some craft beer lovers, a beer club may be just the ticket. Breweries throughout Virginia offer membership with a variety of perks at a range of price points. With breweries already claiming a chunk of the beer lover’s budget, is membership worth the price?
EVOLVING AS THEY GROW Two of the commonwealth’s early craft beer clubs, Brothers Brewing Horizon Society and Hardywood Park Craft Brewery’s Family Tree, have changed since inception. “Horizon Society started in 2015, and since then, we have learned a lot,” says Chris Ward at Brothers Brewing in Harrisonburg. “It has been a constant work in progress … The beer selection, the included merchandise, the rate and timing of releases, communication methods, service at pick-up, you name it.” Hardywood added more members the second year and a second membership level the third year, with different price points and corresponding perks. Of the lessons that they’ve learned, Jillian Edwards, marketing coordinator at Hardywood, says, “Scheduled communications (monthly newsletters) are important to manage expectations and to keep members up-to-date with the latest news. You can never have enough information or too many reminders!” As the club has grown, she adds, “We have designated team members to focus on the organization and development of the Family Tree.” Hosting a beer club benefits a brewery, too. “Our members provide us with valuable feedback on beers, merchandise, and customer experience,” says Edwards. “Members frequently share our beers with friends unfamiliar with the brewery and have helped to advocate for the Hardywood brand.”
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CHOICES, CHOICES, CHOICES! A club may seem irresistible at first glance but not-soexciting upon deeper investigation—at least not to you. Examine the perks and decide if they add up to the price you’d pay.
Beer: Do members get exclusive beers? Do they get first dibs on limited releases that generate long lines and sell out quickly? Would you be likely to buy the club beers if you weren’t a member? Can a proxy pick up your product if you can’t? Discounts and free beers: Will you go to the brewery frequently enough to make discounts and free beers worthwhile? Swag: Do you consider the swag valuable? Would you use it? Is it for members only? Special events and VIP sections at public brewery events: How often do these events occur? What do they entail? Given time and distance, how likely are you to attend? Do you get a plus-one ticket? Can you give your spot to someone else if you can’t attend? Before you decide whether a beer club is for you, seek out reviews and additional details from members. As with any review, filter the information and don’t just take it at face value. “Obviously, the beer is a big draw,” said Jared Ross, member of Hardywood Family Tree Beer Club. “However, there’s definitely more to it than that. I gained access to a group of people that shared similar interests as me. It provided me with a community of people to socialize with, talk about (and drink) local beer with, etc. It was like joining a book club, but for beer!” Beer lover Kevin Dixon said of one club he had joined, “The exclusive beers end up being sold to the public anyway.” He also suggests that clubs increase the level of VIP service they provide to members. “It’s the nonmonetary value that would keep someone participating year after year.” If you take the dive, maintain reasonable expectations. Members are not knighted or granted royal status. Each brewery determines membership perks that will be worthwhile for members while still beneficial to the brewery. Don’t expect the golden key that will grant unlimited perks.
VIRGINIA BREWERY CLUBS Clubs in the commonwealth range from several hundred dollars to no-cost mug/VIP clubs. Some memberships are limited in number of members; others are unlimited. Some accept members at certain times of year; others year-round. Virginia clubs (excluding free clubs) with 2019 listed prices (subject to change) and top benefits (not comprehensive) include:
Adroit Theory Black Heart Society Purcellville ($150, $300) Exclusive beers, member parties, and discounts.
Adventure Brewing Pioneer Club ($100 annual, $10,000 lifetime) Larger pours, discounts, and party. Lifetime membership includes sizable discounts.
Aslin Mug Club ($250) Early access to releases, discounts, birthday month freebies.
Bald Top Brew Club ($150) Merchandise, members-only events, discounts, early access to releases.
Brothers Horizon Society Harrisonburg ($150) Access to Resolute Russian Imperial Stout and variants. Includes beers, swag, discounts, events, and exclusive beers.
Castleburg Knights of Malta (Ask at taproom) Points, birthday beer, membership mug.
Hardywood Family Tree Beer Club Richmond ($245, $295) Quarterly packages with exclusive beers and swag; prerelease options for many popular beers. Membersonly party for top-tier members.
Intermission Encore! Beer Club Membership ($65) Larger pours, birthday beer, newrelease previews, and discounts.
Legend Mug Club (Ask at brewpub) Discounted beers on Mondays and new release previews.
O’Connor Think Tank Society Norfolk ($100, $175, and $300) Discounts, early access to releases, and events.
Reaver Beach Crow’s Nest ($99, $199) Swag, discounts, sour/wild beers and/or barrel-aged beers. Exclusive bottle and brew day for top tier.
Smartmouth Inner Circle Norfolk and Virginia Beach ($200) Events, limited-release beers, and a birthday beer.
Three Notch’d Case Club Richmond, Charlottesville and Harrisonburg ($25 or $35 monthly) A monthly case of beer (whatever is available packaged) and discounts. VIP gets a limited-release beer, weekly beers, and quarterly beer school.
Virginia Beer Co. Full-Time Friends Williamsburg ($175) Member-only beers, quarterly events, release previews, swag, a birthday pint, and discounts.
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What a Long Strange Trip it Has Been By Mark Thompson
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he close of the 1990s brought the opening of the craft beer scene in Virginia. Until then, there were very few craft breweries in the state and the consumer preference for locally made beer was ambivalent at best. The prevailing headwinds were that craft beer was just another fad, destined to come in with hype and fade to the ashbin of history. Who would have imagined that a rag tag group of passionate brewers would have the courage to take on ‘big beer’ with a little known “bath tub gin.” Looking back, there were only a handful of breweries in the state and few consumers who had adopted the beer as other than a novelty. Virginia had Jerry Bailey and his all-star staff at Old Dominion Brewery as the largest and most prolific brewery in the state, and then a small group of fledgling breweries. Outside of Old Dominion, at the dawning of the 2000s, Virginia was a bleak landscape of misfit breweries. From memory, you had Andy Rathman at St. George Brewery, Fabio at Richbrau, Jacque Landry and Taylor Smack at South Street, Tom Martin at - 32 -
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Legend Brewing, and myself at Starr Hill. There were probably a couple of others, but this small clan bonded together as a band of brothers. It is hard to overstate how at the time, no one thought that craft beer would evolve into what it is today. The challenges were overwhelming, consumer demand was low, wholesalers were apathetic, and retailers did not see a saleable product. Throughout the early 2000s, consumer demand for craft beer in Virginia was low. The perception of craft beer was that the flavors were too bold and the quality too low. There was not an appetite for the aggressive flavor profiles in a market dominated by lagers that were yellow in color, low in hop bitterness and flavor, and generally lacking in robust flavors. Access to market has always been controlled at the wholesale tier. Craft brewers are prohibited from selling beer directly to retailers. The evolution of the distribution tier over the last 20 years has been amazing to watch. It was not that long ago when the choice for a brewer on how to distribute were twofold. One group of wholesalers were well funded and worked almost
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exclusively for one of the three large national beer brands. The second group was a small and underfunded independent wholesaler. It was slim pickings for the brewer to gain access to the market through this dichotomy of wholesaler choices. The large national brewery wholesalers were not interested in taking on the challenges of selling a low volume and at times suspect product like craft beer. The prevailing thought was that craft beer would not be around for all that long. In fact, one of the three national breweries had a 100% mind share or exclusive business approach to distribution. That brewery sought to create a barrier to market by keeping their wholesalers only selling their product and no others. Under this exclusive approach, the national brewery would reward wholesalers who followed the exclusive model and punish ones who sold beer outside of the family. Bottom line for the craft brewer was that it was extremely difficult to gain distribution through one of the three national brewery wholesalers. On the other side of the spectrum were a handful of independent wholesalers who had assembled large portfolios of craft brewers from around the country. For the most part, breweries were funneled into the independent distribution channel not by choice, but by necessity. The independent wholesalers were grossly under resourced, as they had very few sales resource or physical infrastructure. They typically would try and have sales coverage across the entire state, where a national beer wholesaler might service 4 or 5 counties. Chain and big box retailers would not deal with the independent wholesaler due to poor service and the lack of consumer demand. Things began to change in the early 2000s when a couple of craft brewers chose to start their own distributorships who only sold their breweries beer. The adage that ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ applies. Self-distribution is not allowed in the state, but a close family relative could own the wholesaler, and thus bypass the constraints of having to go through the traditional distribution channels. As the craft beer industry matured during the late 2000s, the large national wholesalers began to reevaluate their exclusive mind set and began to take on more craft breweries. What was once a business advantage to be exclusive was now a deficit. Local beer had grown in popularity and captured the romance of beer by telling the story of small business owners making flavorful styles of beer. The consumers continued to adopt a preference for these locally made beers and that demand opened up both wholesale and retail opportunities. The irony of this journey is that currently the industry has matured, wholesalers that once would not take on a craft brewery have rushed in to start selling them, and now find themselves unable to handle the increasing number of those breweries in their portfolio. We have come full circle to the point that a new packaging brewery will have a hard time fitting in to a wholesaler’s portfolio and find access to market. Who knows what the future will hold, but the momentum in the industry is for small “tasting room” breweries with little to no distribution. Mark Thompson is president and brewmaster of The Brewing Tree Beer Company in Afton,Virginia.
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Leesburg’s New Spin on Pub Crawls: Golf Carts By Michael T. Jarvis
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eesburg’s numerous breweries and watering holes have a new service: a pub crawl on wheels. In December, Asa Rusk created CartWheels, a fleet of road-ready club cars that shuttle passengers around town. “It’s $4 one way or $7 dollars and you can ride all night long,” says Rusk, a former truck driver from nearby Round Hill. “You can ride 20 times if you want to.” The CartWheels circuit include stops at — or near — Leesburg’s most popular beer hangouts including Loudoun Brewing; MacDowell Brew Kitchen; Bike TrAle Brewery; Crooked Run Brewing; Tarbenders; SideBar; Black Walnut Brewery; Black Hoof Brewery; and Delirium Cafe USA. - 34 -
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The service so far has ferried the obligatory bachelor/ bachelorette parties along with beer tourists and locals who want to sample Leesburg’s many popular breweries and beer pubs without the hassles of parking or traffic. Passengers are enjoying the ride. “It’s curbside service!” said Paul, a DOD employee who asked that his last name not be used. Another passenger, Jeremy Wright of Berryville says he likes the freedom CartWheels provides. “The wind blows through your hair” says the Loudoun County educator. “It’s kind of like an old man’s rollercoaster.” Another disembarking passenger, Clark County resident Ryan Coppage, agrees. “It is F-U-N fun,” he says with a laugh. “I felt
young again. I’ve never been in a golf cart and this is quick and open. Going from brewery to brewery is fun and easy.” Every weekend, Leesburg draws thousands of visitors who embrace the area’s rich history. Created in 1740, Leesburg served as the temporary seat of the US Government during the War of 1812 and often changed hands during the Civil War. More recent (and somewhat civil) skirmishes at Leesburg City Hall have revolved around food trucks, parking, murals and traffic. But, Rusk successfully navigated through the red tape to make CartWheels a reality. “I got with the Leesburg Mayor Kelly Burk and she was all for it,” Rusk says of his shuttle service. “It took a while but the town council got on board. We had to get an amendment to drive the carts on the roads.” Local breweries are thrilled. “It’s awesome,” says Phil Fust, the effervescent brewer and raconteur of Loudoun Brewing Company, the current most-eastern hub for CartWheels. “I can’t say enough great things about CartWheels. It’s good for businesses downtown and it’s going to keep people off the streets who have already been drinking. It’s safer for all the customers and the businesses. Our parking lots work well as a pickup and drop off point. CartWheels is a great service.” After only three years, Loudoun Brewing is just one of many success stories on the booming beer scene in Loudoun County,
which had only two licensed breweries in 2012 and now hovers closer to 35 breweries with more to come. Loudoun Brewing has outgrown its space and recently grabbed an adjoining building for a new brewhouse in order to add more room and meet demand. In addition to partnering on local fundraisers for countless charities in the area — in May, they hosted an annual chili cook-off, Kegs for Eggs, for the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition — the company rolls out a new beer almost every week. This year, Loudoun Brewing became the first partner-sponsor with Loudoun United FC, Leesburg’s first professional soccer team and a feeder for DC United of Major League Soccer. In August, Loudoun United holds its season opener at the new 5,000 seat stadium in Leesburg. For the kickoff, Loudoun Brewery has created Unified golden ale and Fust just can’t contain his enthusiasm about the soccer team or the new beer. “Loudoun United COO Adam Behnke is pumped for opening day and Unified will be on tap at the stadium and other locations, including the brewery.” A nearby stadium, as well as other large developments around the burgeoning beer scene in Leesburg and Northern Virginia, is leading Rusk to propose an expansion of his fleet and destinations. He is working with the town of Leesburg to expand continued
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his service to include historical tours to other historic destinations such as the John Marshall House, the governor’s mansion at Morven Park, the Loudoun County Courthouse and more. “This is a test run for the town. I can come back and ask for permission for more carts and so the boundaries can get bigger.” Rusk has operated Road Yachts, a free, sober ride service in Northern Virginia for 10 years. When he and Azmi Zarou of Spanky’s Shenanigans saw the need to keep customers and the public safe, the free cab service was born. Road Yachts offers safe late-night rides (passengers are expected to tip the drivers) as well as bus and limousine rentals for weddings and wine tours. “It got so busy and so many bars were calling that we decided to make a company,” Rusk says.”The Road Yachts and CartWheels go hand-in-hand.” The popularity of CartWheels is accelerating new business opportunities for Rusk. “I get calls to do a lot of things in other towns as well. I’ve had wineries call to rent out CartWheels. Some of these wineries are interested in hiring for Fourth of July and other events as some of the larger wineries can be hundreds of yards from parking.” A likely candidate for expansion could be the nearby, beerfriendly Purcellville, where Road Yachts is already sponsored by Coach’s Corner and Hamilton Station Gastropub, and is the home to local breweries Belly Love, Dragon Hops, and Adroit Theory. The new Purcellville Pub, from the same folks who created the widely popular tap house and restaurant Ashburn Pub, is slated to open in June. CartWheels has its own expansion plans for all-day service in Leesburg versus only weekends. If he gets permission from the town, Rusk hopes to add two more 6-seaters along with two new 10-seaters and two new 8-seaters, hopefully with wheelchair access. “It’s up to the town. I want to run from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Some people want to eat lunch and get a quick ride from the Leesburg County Courthouse or the Inova Hospital and it is hard to get parking. Some people, older people don’t want to walk up hills or lose their parking space.” Despite his beer-driven success, Rusk knows his limits and says he already has turned down other offers. “I’ve had bar owners in Washington DC ask if I’d go with the CartWheels there. I’m not going there.” More info at cartwheelsva.net - 36 -
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Dave Ganoe
Beer Flows from Willow Spring Inside the Light Well By Jennifer Waldera
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n the center of the town of Orange, on its quintessential smalltown Main Street, is the county’s first brewery, Willow Spring. Named for the property which has a natural spring on it adorned with willow trees, owned and lived on by the founders of the brewery, Willow Spring is housed inside the Light Well, a casual eatery with contemporary American fare. The brewery currently produces four beers that it serves on tap.
Opened in 2010 by Emily Van Santvoord, with a strong background in restaurants since childhood, and her parents Marty and Buzz (as well as others who are no longer invested in the restaurant), The Light Well was already known for its lengthy list of craft beers. In 2015, Van Santvoord and her husband Dave Ganoe decided to experiment with beer brewing and branched out with Willow Spring.
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“Virginia was on the cusp of the local brew fad and we thought it would be fun to try it. We also saw it as a great way to bring more business to our restaurant,” Van Santvoord shared as their reason for beginning the brewing operation. Ganoe, also an owner, manager, and head chef at the restaurant, began brewing armed only with moderate home brewing experience and an eagerness to learn as he brewed with a goal of creating a consistently high quality product. “Local beers are always appealing to tourists and locals alike, but what makes it last and grow is a consistent product,” Van Santvoord says.
Ganoe’s experience in the kitchen also helps him to create his craft brews. “Dave’s knowledge and expertise in flavor profiles and palates influences his recipes,” says Van Santvoord. Ganoe uses major beer suppliers, such as More Beer and More Flavor, currently, to supply their ingredients but the husbandwife team of Van Santvoord and Ganoe have a vision of using more local suppliers in the future in their operation. The hops that they use now include Centennial, Sterling, Tettnanger, Cascade, and Amarillo, among others. Their current beer list, brewed inhouse at the Light Well pays homage to
local history and includes their flagship brew, an American Style pale ale that commemorates an 1888 train accident west of Orange in which a wooden trestle collapsed and resulted in several fatalities. “Nancy” was the trestle-watcher, not at home the day of the crash. The Mad Jimmy brew is named for President James Madison and is a hoppy “up-front” brew while the dark, smooth and full-bodied Chicken Mountain Stout is named for a hill or small mountain that butts up to the property of Montpelier, James Madison’s home.
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Their final brew is a witty named one related to the local river, Rapid Ann Rye. It is a red ale named after the Rapidan River. All of their beers are offered on draft as well as in 22 ounce bottles with a goal for growlers on the horizon. Production levels are moderate and Van Santvoord states it’s understandably challenging for Ganoe to brew on a regular basis. “Since he is also a working manager, having to run the kitchen in many ways, it is hard to brew on a consistent schedule. The system we have makes 15 gallons at a time.” As for feedback from the community, Van Santvoord couldn’t be more appreciative. “We have gotten a huge amount of love and support from our community. Regulars enjoy our beer and tell all of their friends about it, tourists are intrigued by it, and other local businesses have initiated and offered coupons and packages involving incentives on our beer to their guests.” While the couple hasn’t delved much into the more recent beer cocktail trend or creating recipes with their brews, they have suggested using the stout in a stew, like a beef and lamb version they tried. For the future, there are hopes of making a lager as well as a more sessionable IPA, as well as possibly acquiring another spot for larger brewing operations. “We really hope we can have Willow Spring Brewery take off. Our goal is to get the restaurant to fully be able to sustain itself so we can put more focus on the beer and eventually move to our own location.”
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Maker’s Craft Brewery
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ick Mariani likes to make things. He built his own sports car, and kept his buddies’ sports cars on the road by repairing them. He had such a knack at making repairs to keep his buddies’ cars on the road that they told him “You’re a damn maker.” He’s been in manufacturing most of his life. He’s an owner/operator of Sorrentino Mariani & Company, a company located here in Norfolk, VA, that builds a variety of furniture on a large scale. You need 500 tables that look Mission-esque for your new hotel? Talk to Rick. In addition to making furniture, Rick wanted to make a consumable product, something that he liked, but what was it going to be? Well, he likes beer and he likes cigars, so that narrowed the choices
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down for him. He’s a homebrewer and can make a pretty good ale, but not on an industrial scale, so he’d need a brewer. He’s a cigar aficionado, but can’t make one and doesn’t know quite enough about them to be a cigar retailer, so he’d need someone that knew the difference between a panatela and a perfecto. Wait a minute, he’s “a damn maker,” he could make a place where he could combine these two likes into a livelihood – he could make a brewery that had a cigar retailer and cigar smoking room. He could partner with a brewer and a cigar purveyor, and the maker would have
it made. And thanks to the sobriquet from his sports car buddies, he had a name, too, Maker’s Craft Brewing. Rick told Chris, “When I started looking at this, I realized how little I knew, so I started talking to people like Michele,” meaning Michele Lowney, a talented brewer with over 20 years of experience brewing beer in a variety of places including Phantom Canyon Brewing in Colorado Springs, CO, and Mountain Sun Brewery in Boulder, CO. Rick and Michele were apparently in synch, and Michele became Rick’s Head Brewer and partner in
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the business. Now, they needed a building to make into Maker’s. Rick’s search for an appropriate building began several years ago. A building in the Ghent section of Norfolk was initially considered, but that didn’t pan out. The pursuit for a perfect place to pour pints continued until they discovered a big building at the corner of Church Street and 23rd Street in Norfolk’s “Railroad District,” a stone’s throw from the former Farmer’s Market location on Church Street. Rick felt the building had “good bones in it,” with character, a high ceiling and a lot of space inside, and with some “making,” they could put flesh on that building’s bones. So at this stage, you had a “maker,” Rick, a brewer, Michele, and a brewery under construction. They needed two more things, a cigar source and a person to help them run the place. Where did they find a cigar purveyor? They chose Emerson’s Cigars, returning Emerson’s to the Norfolk market. Where did they find their “front of the house” manager? Up north, in the land of deflated footballs, in New England. They selected Marquis Witcher, a first-string veteran food and beverage marketermanager who had been working at entertainment venues associated with the New England Patriots. After talking with Rick for a bit, Marquis left Kraft for craft, and made his way to Maker’s. Construction was completed and their grand opening was March 9, 2019. The inside of the building is beautiful. In the large, open, high-ceiling tasting room, you can see the results of a lot of creative craftsmanship. The tables and chairs, the bar, even most of the windows were made at the Sorrentino Mariani & Company manufacturing facility. Look in one direction and you can see the 20-barrel brewhouse and seven large fermenters. Look in another direction and you can see the enclosed cigar smoking area with its own bar and a walk-in humidor operated by Emerson’s Cigars that has more stogies for sale than you can shake a stick at. The outdoor area is a work in progress, but will eventually have tables, fire pits, and a large open area where you can enjoy your craft beer alfresco. There is a retail corner in the tasting room where you can get traditional brewery swag (glassware, T-shirts, etc.) and something a little unusual, coffee and jewelry. Cups of coffee are free, but you’re encouraged to donate a buck when you get one. A dollar from the sale of each bag of coffee beans goes to a pug rescue facility in Pennsylvania. Come on, caffeine achievers, drink a little coffee, save a little dog. There is also beer available in the tasting room, and the beer is why we’re here, right? In early April, there were eight beers on tap, all of which were under 6% alcohol by volume (ABV), which, for “brewery commuters” is a beautiful thing. The Red IPA (5.3% ABV) and the Rye Pale Ale (5.2% ABV) are both quite tasty. The Rauch Beer (3.5% ABV) is smokin’ and would be the perfect accompaniment to some food truck barbecue. They make a crisp Pilsner Ale (brewed as an ale instead of a lager, 5.2% ABV), pretty much a Norfolk version of a California “steam” beer. Their Mango Pilsner Ale (5.3% ABV) is loaded with flavor and fruit, as you know, is part of a healthy diet. Get flights of four, get half or full pours, get growlers galore. Maker’s Craft Brewery is located at the corner of Church Street and 23rd Street at 735 E. 23rd Street, Norfolk, VA 23504 in Norfolk’s “Railroad District.” They’re on Facebook. They’re closed on Mondays, and are open from 4 to 9 PM Tuesdays through Thursdays, and earlier on the weekends; food trucks are routinely scheduled for your dining pleasure; see Facebook for the nitty gritty. Make your way to Maker’s Craft Brewing.
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Mae West Blonde Ale 6 Bears & A Goat Fredericksburg Mae West is 6 Bears & A Goat’s award-winning Blonde Ale. It won a Gold Medal in the 2018 Virginia Beer Cup and a Bronze Medal in the US Open Beer Championship. It pays tribute to Hollywood legend Mae West. According to the notes on the can, World War II serviceman honored the blonde bombshell by naming an inflatable life jacket after her famously buxom figure. When the front air pockets of the life vest inflated, it gave the wearer a “top heavy” appearance, much like the well-endowed actress. Similar to its namesake, this blonde ale is full bodied and sassy. Its low bitterness and light floral and spicy hop character make it refreshing and easy drinking! It’s the perfect companion for hot days on the beach!
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Extra Plenty Margarita Gose steam bell beer works Midlothian In early May, Steam Bell Beer Works released two variants in its Extra Plenty Gose series – Red Wine Sangria and Margarita. Extra Plenty Red Wine Sangria is available in the taproom only. The Margarita is available in their Virginia distribution market. Both are available in cans and draft. The Margarita is brewed with pink Himalayan salt, Persian limes, and blue agave. Grab your friends and a six pack...it’s time for a fiesta!
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Roxanne Starr Hill Brewery Crozet Roxanne, a raspberry American sour from Starr Hill’s new “Say It Ain’t Sour” series, is flavorful and yet only mildly sour, thus making it highly refreshing for summertime consumption. Poured from the ice-cold bottle, you’ll immediately notice a high level of carbonation adding to that pleasingly refreshing quality. The brew team made use of kettle-soured wheat ale combined with raspberry puree. If Fresca came in raspberry flavor, it’d taste similar. So clean and crisp.
abv: 4.7%
Partly Cloudy Solace Brewing Co. Dulles Partly Cloudy is a NEIPA by Solace Brewing Co. This big juicy IPA is sure to comfort you no matter the situation. From the moment you crack the can open to the last drop of hazy liquid gold, you know you’re in for a treat. Double dry-hopped exclusively with El Dorado and Citra, every sip becomes a therapeutic relief from the daily grind. So do yourself a favor, pick up a four pack and Find Your Solace.
abv: 7.5%
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Round & Round We Go Ocelot Brewing Company Sterling Ocelot Brewing Company’s rotating single hop series: Round & Round We Go features a single hop as the backbone of the IPA Series. This particular one features Southern Passion, a South African Hop. The color is a hazy lemon with tropical citrus notes like grapefruit and guava. It has a hoppy start and finishes very smooth. At 6.3%, you can feel good about going Round & Round without falling down. And, like Ocelot likes to say: It’s Just Beer ...although this one is a pretty damn good one! 6.3% ABV
abv: 6.3.%
Wicked Nymph Adventure Brewing Company Fredericksburg Wicked Nymph is quite the beauty. It’s a dark, roasty Imperial Stout by Adventure Brewing Company, which just celebrated their 5-Year Anniversary last month. It pours jet black with a tan head. The sweet chocolate and coffee flavors make this a very approachable beer even in a time when one may be gravitating towards a light more Summery beer style. Perfect for those nights where the AC is blasting and all you want is a delicious night cap to send you off to dreamland. This is where the Wicked Nymph lives.
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Drag Yourself to Brunch at The Vanguard Sun., June 2 & July 7, 10:30am
A wonderful New Drag Brunch Show with The Original Queen B of Brunch Victoria L. Foster & Her Amazing Show Cast. $35 includes your All-You-CanEat delicious gourmet brunch buffet along with your first drink and of course a fierce show. The Vanguard Brewpub and Distillery 504 N. King Street, Hampton thevanguard757.com
Tour de ORF at Smartmouth Sun., June 2, 12-1pm
Join us for a leisurely bike rides through Norfolk. All skill levels are welcome. 1309 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk
Drink Inside the Lines at The Virginia Beer Company Mon., June 3, 10, 17, & 24, 4-9pm
Join us for Coloring Night at the brewery! VBC will be supplying colored pencils and coloring books. Every night, one brilliant display will make it on the beer fridge and will award the winner with a prize from the brewery vault. 401 Second Street, Williamsburg virginiabeerco.com
Paints & Pints at MoMac Brewing Co.
Tues., June 4, 6:30-8:30pm
Norfolk Harborfest Fri.-Sun., June 7-9
The NEW Norfolk Harborfest Music, Food & Maritime Festival is stocked full of activities on land, sea, and in the sky! For three incredible days, you’ll experience tall ships, Parade of Sail, artisan foods and beverages, work boat demonstrations, unique and unusual performances, one of the largest fireworks shows on the East Coast, family games and activities, national and regional entertainment, and so much more! Town Point Park Waterside Drive, Norfolk 757.441.2345 • festevents.org
Summer Crafted Market at Smartmouth Sat., June 8, 12-6pm
Featuring a full lineup of artists, crafters, and makers of kinds plus food trucks, music, and the best handmade! 1309 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk
Food Truck Rodeo at Big Ugly Sun., June 9 & July 14, 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
Fur Baby IPA Can Release at Smartmouth
Food Truck Rally at Back Bay’s Farmhouse
Join us for Pints for Pups to benefit the Norfolk SPCA. This IPA is packed with an obscure hop – Styrian Wolf – to give it its seasonally appropriate floral aroma and strawberry notes. 1309 Raleigh Avenue, Norfolk
Featuring some of the area’s finest food trucks, live music, beer, cider, wine, and yard games. 1805 Kempsville Road, Virginia Beach
Sat., June 8, 12-10pm
Revel Fest
Sat., June 8, 12-5pm
Revel with us in the beer garden with unlimited beer pours from 11 local craft breweries, food from our new restaurant, live music, and the Revel Fest Marketplace. Tickets by Eventbrite: $50 New Realm Brewing 1209 Craft Lane, Virginia Beach
Wed., June 12 & 26, 5-8pm
Drag Show at Alewerks Taproom Thurs., June 13, 7-9pm
Circus of Sistahs brings female illusionists that will blow your mind with their beauty and grace! Admission is $20 and that includes a core beer or non-alcoholic beverage! 189-B Ewell Rd., Williamsburg
Paint and sip on a couple of cold ones. Cost is $25 for the 11” x 14” size or $30 for the 16” x 20” size. 3228 Academy Avenue, Portsmouth
Sponge at The Vanguard Fri., June 14, 9pm-midnight
Sponge returns to The Vanguard celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their platinum album “Rotting Pinata.” With special guest EverAfter playing an all original set from their upcoming album. Tickets: $16.50 in advance; $20 at the door. The Vanguard Brewpub and Distillery 504 N. King Street, Hampton thevanguard757.com
1st Annual Live + Local Music & Arts Festival for Charity Sat., June 15, 2-11pm
This exciting fundraiser features 9 local bands representing various genres of music to benefit ForKids and Soundscapes. Plus, Magic by Scott Wagoner, guitarART works of Eric Worden, and paintings of Ernest Flores. Auction and door prizes too. The Vanguard Brewpub and Distillery 504 N. King Street, Hampton thevanguard757.com
Pop Up Sunday: Featuring Vintage Tavern at Brick & Mortar Sun., June 16, 2-8pm
Showcasing small dishes that your taste buds have never experienced! Brick & Mortar Brewing Company 212 E. Washington Street, Suffolk
Kick Off to Summer Happy Hour at Hank’s Fri., June 21, 3-7pm
Welcome summer with MoMac Brewing Company! Hank’s Filling Station 4301 Colley Avenue, Norfolk
THIS IS HOW WE WEEKEND. From a revitalized waterfront to a burgeoning culinary and craft beer scene, there’s a lot to love about Norfolk. But you already know that. Get up, get out and do something. To get started, check out visitnorfolk.com
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Arts & Ales 7 at Port City Sun., June 9, 2-8pm
The local artists are back and they will have a wide array of art for you to enjoy and purchase. Plus, there will be music, video, art throughout the facility, and a food truck. 3950 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria portcitybrewing.com
First Day of Summer at Adventure Brewing Fri., June 21, 8-10pm
Celebrate the first day of summer with beer and live music. Country music duo Diggs and Burns will be performing from 8-10pm and Phat Yummies Quesadilla Cantina On Wheels will be serving tasty quesadillas. 33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Fredericksburg adventurebrewing.com
2019 PWC Eatz and Brew at Manassas Mall Sat., June 23, 12-5pm
Family-friendly festival with beer, food, vendors, exhibitors, entertainment, prizes, DJ, fun, fitness, fashion, face painting and more! Manassas Mall 8300 Sudley Road, Manassas
Wreaths & Brews Patriotic Workshop at Solace Brewing Company Wed., June 26, 7-9pm
The workshop is $50 per person and includes all supplies for wreath design and guided instructions. 42615 Trade West Drive, Suite 100, Sterling
The Brewery Improv Tour at Highmark Brewery Sat., June 29, 9:30-10:45pm
Herron will be branching off and providing Improv as well, featuring performers from world famous Improv Theaters UCB, Second City, Magnet and IO. Tickets are $15 in the taproom. 390 Kings Highway, Fredericksburg
Hot Dog & Beer Pairing at Adventure Brewing Sat., July 6, 12-5pm
4 mini hot dogs paired with 4 beers.7 33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Fredericksburg adventurebrewing.com
Hop’N Uke Fest at Adventure Brewing Sat., July 20, 12-10pm
Adventure and Fredericksburg Ukulele eNsemble’s first Ukulele Festival featuring Rachel Minke, jam sessions, vendors, food trucks, and beer. 33 Perchwood Dr., Unit 101, Fredericksburg adventurebrewing.com
SHENANDOAH VALLEY Team Trivia at Winchester Brew Works
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
Randall Night at Wolfe Street Brewing Every Tuesday
Enjoy a specialty beer we infuse using our randall! 120 W. Wolfe St., Harrisonburg wolfestreetbrewing.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
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
Steal the Barrel Glass & Bock Release Party at Stable Craft Brewing Wed., June 5, 4-9:30pm
Special release of our new Bock, Mother Clucker. Come join the fun and pick up a glass with any beverage purchase. 375 Madrid Rd., Waynesboro stablecraftbrewing.com
Brews in the Blue Ridge Sat., June 8, 11am
B Chord Brewing presents Brews in the Blue Ridge, a day festival featuring beers from breweries around the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley area. Live music all day and into the night. Overnight camping. Cornhole Tournament, food, and craft vendors. Tickets by Eventbrite: $35. Clarke County Ruritan Fairgrounds 890 W. Main Street, Berryville clarkecountyfair.org
Every Monday, 6:30pm
Teams of 6 compete for gift certificates and prizes! 320 N. Cameron St., Winchester winchesterbrewworks.com
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Hops Flower & Solstice Celebration at Mountain Valley Brewing Sat., June 22, 12pm-June 23, 1am
Celebrate the longest day of summer with us and our hops as they make the transition from flower to fragrant, delectable additions for your favorite brews. Enjoy a full day of music and overnight camping. 4220 Mountain Valley Road, Axton mountainvalleybrewing.com
Tourism Takeover at Mountain Valley Brewing Fri., July 26, 6-9pm
Visit Martinsville and Mountain Valley Brewing are partnering to Celebrate 50 Years of Love in Virginia with a special Vinyl Night at the brewery with a 60’s theme. The first 50 visitors to the brewery will receive a souvenir pint glass! 4220 Mountain Valley Road, Axton mountainvalleybrewing.com
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Beer & Hymns at Soaring Ridge Craft Brewery Thurs., June 13 & July 14, 6-8pm
We’ll be singing some of your favorite Easter hymns (and a few new ones) while sampling delicious craft brews. 523 Shenandoah Ave., Roanoke
The Homecoming Brew Fest Fri.-Sun., June 14-16, 12-5pm
Be sure to snag a “Hub Pass” for the opportunity to sample over 300 unique craft brews & ciders from award winning breweries & cideries in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, and North Carolina! Home-brewing competition, educational workshops & lectures, on-site hop yard tours, optional river floats along the Cowpasture River, mountain bike race, camping & more! The Farm at Glen Haven 4301 Longdale Furnace Road, Clifton Forge thehomecomingfestival.com
Big Lick Burger Bash Sat., June 15, 1-9pm
700 S. Jefferson Street, Roanoke 540.580.2481 • biglickentertainment.com
Body by Parkway Runner’s Club
Big Lick Summer Kickoff Party
Parkway Brewing 739 Kessler Mill Road, Salem 540.483.9293 parkwaybrewing.com
Kick off the summer season with food from Hanu Truck, live music by Crockett & McSherry (4-6pm) and The Broadcast (7-9:30pm), and tasty brews! Big Lick Brewing Company 409 Salem Avenue, SW, Roanoke
Every Thurs., 6pm
Shine Runners Club
Thurs., June 6, July 4, & Aug. 1, 6pm
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
Franklin County Gran Fondo Bicycle Race at Chaos Mountain Sun., June 9
2 routes 61.5 miles and 31.8 miles Chaos Mountain Brewing 3135 Dillons Mill Rd., Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com
Sat., June 15, 1-10pm
BAM! Beer & Music
Sat., June 29, 11:30am-6:30pm
Featuring beers by Parkway Brewing Company and music by Chupacabras, Southern Culture on the Skids, and JP Harris & The Tough Choices. Food trucks and concessions. Kid friendly. Tickets: $20 in advance; $25 at the gate. Salem Kiwanis Field 731 Indiana Street, Salem parkway.yapsody.com
Roll Over Cancer 6th Annual Chaos Mountain Brewing Ride sat., July 20, 8am-3pm
2 routes 50 miles (9am start) and 25 miles (10am start) Chaos Mountain Brewing 3135 Dillons Mill Rd., Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com
Help us fill the Events Calendar! Send your beer & brewery events and festivals to Jennifer. McDonald@hotmail.com. Deadline for submission for the August/September issue is Monday, July 8.
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BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS 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 Company 120 N. Chestnut Street Marion 276.780.8860
Right Mind Brewing Company 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 Company 2351 Glade Rd Blacksburg 410.596.1200
River Company Brewery Krista is serving up the stupid good beer at Smartmouth Brewing Company in Norfolk.
6633 Viscoe Rd. Radford (Fairlawn) 540.633.3940 therivercompanybrewery.com
Studio Brew
221 Moore Street Bristol studiobrew.net
APPALACHIA Busted Still Brewing Company
Wolf Hills Brewing Company
350 Park St. Abingdon 303.5508762 wolfhillsbrewing.com
185 Homeplace Drive Gate City 24251 276.210.6038
CENTRAL VIRGINIA
Lonesome Pine Brewing Company
AMMO Brewing Company
15 East Main Street Lebanon 276.274.3697
Painted Peak Brewing Company 386 Main Street Tazewell 276.980.7325 paintedpeakbrewing.com
Sugar Hill Brewing Company 16622 Broad Street St. Paul 24283 276.780.4397 sugarhillbrewing.com
235 N Market Petersburg 23805 804.722.1667 facebook.com/ammobrewing
Antioch Brewing Company Palmyra 434.249.6727 antiochbrews.com
Apocalypse Ale Works 1257 Burnbridge Rd Forest 434.258.8761 endofbadbeer.com
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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
510 Grove Street Bedford 540.583.5113 bealesbeer.com
Bingo Beer Co.
2900 West Broad Street, Richmond 804.386.0290 bingorva.com
Black Narrows Brewing Company 4522 Chicken City Road Chincoteague blacknarrowsbrewing.com
Blue Mountain Brewery
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 Company 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 Company
401 Grace Street Richmond 804.344.5108 championbrewingcompany.com
Colonial Beach Brewing
215C Washington Avenue Colonial Beach 540.226.2114 colonialbeachbrewing.com
Cooling Pond Brewery
4411 Zachary Taylor Highway Mineral
Devils Backbone Brewing Company - Basecamp
200 Mosbys Run Roseland 434.361.1001 dbbrewingcompany.com
Extra Billy’s
1110 Alverser Dr. Midlothian 804.379.8727 extrabillys.com/ ExtraBillysBarBQ2.htm
Final Gravity Brewing Company 6118 Lakeside Ave. Richmond 804.264.4808
Fine Creek Brewing Company 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
Loose Shoe Brewing Company 198 Ambriar Plaza Amherst 434-941-7345 looseshoebrewing.com
Midnight Brewery
2410 Granite Ridge Rd. Rockville 804.356.9379 midnight-brewery.com
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 Company 608 Preston Avenue Charlottesville 434.284.8466 randomrow.com
Reason Beer Co.
1180 Seminole Trail, #290 Charlottesville reasonbeer.com
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
1000 W. Main Street Charlottesville
11800 W. Broad Street Richmond 23233 804-237-1684 rockbottom.com
Intermission Beer Co.
South Street Brewery
10089 Brook Road Glen Allen 804.585.0405 intermission.com
106 South Street Charlottesville 434.293.6550 southstreetbrewery.com
Isley Brewing Company
Starr Hill Brewery
1715 Summit Avenue Richmond 804.499.0721 isleybrewingcompany.com
5391 Three Notch’d Rd. Crozet 434.823.5671 starrhill.com
James River Brewery
Steam Bell Beer Works
561 Valley St. Scottsville 434.286.7837 jrbrewery.com
1717 E. Oak Lake Blvd. Midlothian 804.728.1876 steambell.beer
Kindred Spirits Brewing Company
Stone Brewing Company
12830 W. Creek Parkway Goochland 804.708.0309 kindredspiritsbrewing.com
Legend Brewing Company 321 W. Seventh St. Richmond 804.232.3446 legendbrewing.com
Lickinghole Creek Farm Brewery 4100 Knolls Point Dr. Goochland 804.314.4380 lickingholecreek.com
Lickinghole Goodwater
1717 East Franklin Street Richmond lickingholecreek.com
4300 Williamsburg Avenue Richmond 23231 760.294.7899 facebook.com/ stonebrewingrichmond.
Strangeways Brewing
2277 Dabney Rd. Richmond 804.303.4336 strangewaysbrewing.com
The Answer Brewpub
6008 West Broad St. Richmond facebook.com theanswerbrewpub.com
The Veil Brewing Company 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 Company RVA Colab House 2930 W. Broad St. Richmond threenotchdbrewing.com
Three Notch’d @ IX Park
522 2nd Street, SE Charlottesville threenotchdbrewing.com
Trapezium Brewing Company 423 Third Street Petersburg 23803 571.758.2738 trapeziumbrewing.com
Triple Crossing Brewing Company
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 Company
1129 Boissevain Avenue Norfolk 757.321.9482 benchtopbrewing.com
Big Ugly Brewing Company 845 Battlefield Blvd. S., Chesapeake biguglybrewing.com
Billsburg Brewery
113 S. Foushee Street Richmond 804.308.0475
2054 Jamestown Road Williamsburg billsburg.com
Triple Crossing Brewing Company
Black Narrows Brewing Company
5203 Hatcher Street Richmond 804.496.1955 triplecrossingbeer.com
Vasen Brewing Company
3331 Moore Street, Richmond 804.588.5678 vasenbrewing.com
White Rock Brewing Company 2117 Bruno Drive Goodview 24905 540.890.3359 whiterockwines.com.
Wild Wolf Brewing Company
2461 Rockfish Valley Highway Nellysford 434.361.0088 wildwolfbeer.com
WildManDan Beer Centric B&B 279 Avon Road Afton 434.270.0404 wmdb3.com
Willow Spring Brewery in The Light Well Restaurant 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
4522 Chicken City Road Chincoteague blacknarrowsbrewing.com
Bold Mariner
2409 Bowdens Ferry Road Norfolk boldmariner.com
Brass Cannon Brewing Company 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 Company 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 Company 2036 Exploration Way Hampton 757.788.7276 capstanbarbrewing.com
Coelacanth Brewing
760 W. 22nd Street Norfolk 757.59.UGLY.1 coelacanth.com
Commonwealth Brewing Company 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
5104 Colley Avenue Norfolk 757.695.3909 elation.beer
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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 735 E. 23rd Street Norfolk 757.226.8506 makers.beer
MoMac Brewing Company 3228 Academy Avenue Portsmouth 757.383.9572 momacbrewing.com
Montross Brewery
15381 Kings Highway Montross 804.452.7394 montrossbrewery.com
New Realm Brewing Company 1209 Craft Lane Virginia Beach 757.302.8550 newrealmbrewing.com
O’Connor Brewing Company 211 W. 24th Street Norfolk 757.623.2337 oconnorbrewing.com
Oozelfinch Craft Brewery 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 Project
St. George Brewing Company 204 Challenger Way Hampton 757.865.7781 stgeorgebrewingco.com
That Damn Mary Brewing Company 5036 George Washington Memorial Highway Hayes 804.436.2204 thatdamnmarybrewing.com
The Bunker Brewpub & Cadence Hall 211 21st Street, Virginia Beach 757.227.4250 bunkerbrewpub.com
The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery 504 N. King Street Hampton 757.224.1807 thevanguard757.com
The Virginia Beer Company 401 Second Street Williamsburg 757.378.2903 virginiabeerco.com
Tradition Brewing Company 700 Thimble Shoals Blvd. Newport News 757.303.3415 traditionbrewing.com
Wasserhund Brewing Company 805 Laskin Rd. #102 Virginia Beach 757.618.6051
Wharf Hill Brewing Co.
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
NORTHERN VIRGINIA 2 Silos Brewing Co.
9925 Discovery Blvd. Manassas 703.420.2264 2silosbrewing.com
6 Bears & A Goat Brewing Company
521 Prince George St, Ste 101 Williamsburg 757.790.2299
11440 International Drive Fredericksburg 540.356.9056 6bgbrewing.com
Reaver Beach Brewing Company
1781 Brewing Company
1505 Taylor Farm Road Virginia Beach 757.563.2337 beachbrewingcompany.com
Rip Rap Brewing Company
11109 Plank Rd. Spotsylvania 804.842.0199
1836 Kitchen & Taproom
116 E 25th Street Norfolk riprapbrewing.com
34 E. Broad Way Lovettsville 540.668.5835 1836kitchenandtaproom.com
Smartmouth Brewing Company
Adroit Theory Brewing Company
1309 Raleigh Ave., #300 Norfolk 757.624.3939 smartmouthbrewing.com
Smartmouth Pilot House
313 32nd Street Virginia Beach smartmouthbrewing.com
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404 Browing Ct., Unit C Purcellville 703.722.3144 adroit-theory.com
Adventure Brewing North 33 Perchwood Drive Fredericksburg 540.242.8876 adventurebrewing.com
Adventure Brewing South 3300 Dill Smith Drive Fredericksburg aventurebrewing.com
Aslin Beer Company
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 Company
8420 Kao Circle Manassas, 20110 badwolfbrewingcompany.com
BadWolf (Little) Brewing Company 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 Company 4187 Plank Rd Fredericksburg 540.785.2164 chancellorpub@msn.com
Bear Chase Brewing Company
18294 Blue Ridge Mountain Road Bluemont
Beer Hound Brewery
201 Waters Place Culpeper 22701 540-317-5327 beerhoundbrewery.com
Belly Love Brewing Company 725 E Main Street Purcellville, VA 20132 540.441.3159 bellylovebrewing.com
Beltway Brewing Company 22620 Davis Dr. #110 Sterling 571.989.2739 beltwaybrewco.com
Bike TrALE Brewing Company 101 Loudon St. SW Leesburg 571.293.0050 biketralebrewing.com
Black Hoof Brewing Company 11 S. King Street Leesburg 571.707.8014 blackhoofbrewing.com
Black Walnut Brewing Company
Forge Brew Works
Brew Republic Bierwerks
Front Royal Brewing
Caboose Brewing Company
Gordon Biersch
Chubby Squirrel Brewing Company
Growling Bear Brewing Company
210 S King Street Leesburg facebook.com/ blackwalnutbrewery
15201 Potomac Town Place Woodbridge 703.594.7950 brewrepublic.beer 520 Mill Street NE Vienna 703-865-8580 caboosebrewing.com
10382 Willard Way Fairfax 571.989.1082 chubbysquirrelbrewing.com
Corcoran Brewing Company
205 E. Hirst Road, Suite 105 Purcellville 540.441.3102 corcoranbrewing.com
Crooked Run Brewing Company 22455 Davis Drive Sterling cookedrunbrewing.com
Crooked Run Brewing Company 205 Harrison Street SE Leesburg 571.978.4446
Ono Brewing Company 4520 Daly Drive Chantilly 571.409.6662 onobrewco.com
Dirt Farm Brewing Co.
18701 Foggy Bottom Rd. Bluemont 540.554.2337 dirtfarmbrewing.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
Eavesdrop Brewery
7223 Centreville Road, Yorkshire 703.420.8955 eavesdropbrewery.com
Fair Winds Brewing Company 7000 Newington Road, Suites K&L Lorton 703-372-2001 fairwindsbrewing.com
Far Gohn Brewing Co. 301 S Main Street Culpeper
The Farm Brewery at Broad Run
16015 John Marshall Hwy. Broad Run 703.753.3548 thefarmbreweryatbroadrun.com
8532 Terminal Rd., Ste. L Lorton 703.372.2979 forgebrewworks.com 122 E. Main Street Front Royal 540.631.0773 frontroyalbrewing.com Tyson’s Corner Mall McLean 703.388.5454 gordonbiersch.com 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 Brewery
390 Kings Hwy. Fredericksburg 540.207.1725 highmarkbrewery.com
Hillsborough Farm Brewery 36716 Charles Town Pike Purcellville 540.668.6216
Honor Brewing Co.
14004A Willard Road Chantilly 703.596.1567 honorbrewing.com
Hopkins Ordinary Ale Works 47 Main Street Sperryville 540.987.3383 hopkinsordinary.com
House 6 Brewing Co.
44427 Atwater Drive Ashburn 585.520.5710
Jack’s Run Brewing Company 108 N. 21st Street Purcellville 540.441.3382 jacksrunbrewing.com
Lake Anne Brew House
11424 Washington Plaza West Reston 571.758.2739 lakeannebrewhouse.com
Lost Rhino Brewing Company
21730 Red Rum Dr., Ste. 142 Ashburn 571.291.2083 lostrhino.com
Lost Rhino Retreat
22885 Brambleton Plaza Brambleton 703.327.0311
Loudoun Brewing Company
Powers Farm & Brewery
Mad Fox Brewing Company
Quattro Goombas Brewing Company
Maltese Brewing Company
Red Dragon Brewery
Market Common Brewpub & Roastery
Rocket Frog Brewing Company
310 E Market St. Leesburg 703.350.8553 loudounbrewing.com
444 West Broad St., Ste. I Falls Church 703.942.6840 madfoxbrewing.com 11047 B Pierson Drive Fredericksburg maltesebrewing.com
9269 Redemption Way Midland 540.272.5060 powersfarmbrewery.com 22860 James Monroe Highway Aldie 703-327-6052 goombabrewery.com 1419 Princess Anne Street Fredericksburg 22401 540.382.4342 reddragonbrewery.com
2900 Wilson Blvd., #104 Arlington 571.208.1355 hbcmarketcommon.com
22560 Glenn Drive, Suite #103 Sterling 571.375.7920 rocketfrogbeer.com
Mustang Sally Brewing Company
Sinistral Brewing Company
14140 Parke Long Court Chantilly 703.378.7450 msbrewing.com
9419 Main Street Manassas sinistralbbrewingcompany. com
New District Brewing Company
Solace Brewing Company
2709 S Oakland Street Arlington 22206 703.888.5820
42615 Trade West Drive, #100 Dulles solacebrewing.com
Ocelot Brewing Company
Spencer Devon Brewing Company
23600 Overland Drive, Ste. 180 Sterling 703-665-2146 ocelotbrewing.com
106 George Street Fredericksburg 540-999-6253 spencerdevonbrewing.com
Old Bust Head Brewing Company
Strangeways Brewing
7134 Lineweaver Rd. Warrenton 540.347.4777 oldbusthead.com
350 Landsdowne Road Fredericksburg 540.371.1776 strangewaysbrewing.com
Old 690 Brewing Company
Sweetwater Tavern
15670 Ashbury Church Road Purcellville old690.com
Old Ox Brewery
14250 Sweetwater Ln. Centreville 703.449.1100 greatamericanrestaurants.com
44652 Guilford Dr Unit 114 Ashburn 703.729.8375 oldoxbrewery.com
Sweetwater Tavern
Old Trade Brewery
Sweetwater Tavern
3066 Gate House Plaza Falls Church 703.645.8100 greatamericanrestaurants.com
13270 Alanthus Road Brandy Station 774.218.8645 oldtradebrewery.com
45980 Waterview Plaza Sterling 571.434.6500 greatamericanrestaurants.com
Ono Brewing Co.
The Craft of Brewing
4520 Daly Drive Chantilly 571.409.6662 onobrewco.com
Pen Druid Brewing
7 River Lane Sperryville, 22740 540.987.8800 pendruid.com
Phase 2 Brewing
19382 Diamond Lake Drive Leesburg 540.987.0219
Port City Brewing Company 3950 Wheeler Ave. Alexandria 703.797.2739 portcitybrewing.com
Portner’s Brewhouse
5772 Dow Avenue Alexandria 703.646.0466 portnerbrewhouse.com
21140 Ashburn Crossing Drive, Suite 170 Ashburn 703.687.3932 thecraftob.com
Tin Cannon Brewing Co
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 Company 101-D Executive Drive Sterling 703.791.9363
Vanish Brewing
44624 Leelyn Farm Lane Leesburg 20176 vanishbeer.com
Water’s End Brewery
Escutcheon Brewing Company
12425 Dillingham Square Lake Ridge 571.285.1997 watersendbrewery.com
150 W. Commercial Street Winchester 540.391.8713 escutcheonbrewing.com
Wild Run Brewing Company
Great Valley Farm Brewery
3071 Jefferson Davis Hwy Stafford 540.659.3447 wildrunbrewing.com
60 Great Valley Lane Natural Bridge 540.521.6163 greatvalleyfarmbrewery.com
Wort Hog Brewing Company
Hawksbill Brewing Company
41 Beckham Street Warrenton 540.300.2739 worthogbreweryllc.com
22 Zerkel Street Luray 540.860.5608 hawkbillbrewing.wordpress.com
SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Pale Fire Brewing Company
Alesatian Brewing Company 23 N. Loudoun Street Winchester 540.667.2743 alesatianbrewing.com
Backroom Brewery
217 S. Liberty Street Harrisonburg 540-217-5452 palefirebrewing.com
Queen City Brewing
834 Springhill Road Staunton 540.213.8014 qcbrewing.com
150 Ridgemont Rd. Middletown 540.869.8482 facebook.com/ BackroomBrewery
Redbeard Brewing
Basic City Beer Co.
Ridge Runner Farm & Brewery
1010 E. Main Street Waynesboro 540.265.8062 basiccitybeer.com
Bedlam Brewing Company
2303 North Augusta Street Staunton 540.416.4634
Blue Lab Brewing Company 123 S. Randolph St. Lexington 540.458.0146 bluelabbrewing.com
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
120 South Lewis St. Staunton 804.641.9340 redbeardbrews.com 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 Company 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
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 Company 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
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Sly Clyde Ciderworks
515 8th Street, SW, Suite 228 Roanoke 540.339.9562
207 E. Mellen Street Hampton slyclyde.com
Bick Lick Brewing Co.
NORTHERN VIRGINIA
409 Salem Avenue SW Roanoke
Chaos Mountain Brewing Company
3135 Dillons Mill Rd. Callaway 540.334.1600 chaosmountainbrewing.com
Deschutes Brewery - Roanoke Tasting Room 315 Market Street SE Roanoke 540.259.5204 deschutesbrewery.com
Hammer & Forge Brewing Company
70 Main Street Boones Mill 540.909.3200 hammerandforgebrewing.com
Ober Brewing Company 1443 Lakeside Circle Salem 540.404.0050 Oberbrewing.com
Olde Salem Brewing Company 21 E. Main Street Salem 540.404.4399 oldesalembrewing.com
Parkway Brewing
739 Kessler Mill Rd. Salem parkwaybrewing.com
Soaring Ridge Craft Brewers 523 Shenandoah Avenue Roanoke 540.529.2140 soaringridge.com
Starr Hill Pilot Brewery 6 Old Whitmore Road Roanoke 434.823.5671 starrhill.com/roanoke
Sunken City Brewery
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
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
Bryant’s Small Batch Cider 3224 East Branch Loop Roseland 804.420.9683 bryantscider.com
Buskey Cider
Cobbler Mountain Cellars 5909 Long Fall Lane Delaplane 540.364.2802 cobblercellars.com
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
Halcyon Days Cidery Company
Courthouse Creek Cider 3300 W. Broad Street Richmond courthousecreek.com
Coyote Hole Ciderworks 225 Oak Grove Drive Mineral 540.894.1053 coyotehole.com
Garden Grove Brewing and Urban Winery
3445 W Cary Street, Richmond 804.338.6029 www.gardengrovebrewing.com
Potter’s Craft Cider
Charlottesville potterscraftcider.com
Skjald Meadworks
106A South Street, SE Leesburg 833.675.WILD
Castle Hill Cider
1581 Maidens Road Goochland courthousecreek.com
2053 E. River Road Fork Union 434.842.2200 thethistleandstag.com
Wild Hare Cider
SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Courthouse Creek Cider
The Thistle and Stag Meadery
207 W. Washington St., Middleburg 540.687.8100 mtdefiance.com
2910 W. Leigh Street Richmond buskeycider.com 6065 Turkey Sag Rd. Keswick 434.296.0047 castlehillcider.com
Enjoy a refreshing cider at Sly Clyde Ciderworks in historic Phoebus (Hampton).
4135 S Lee Highway Natural Bridge 540.291.1340 halcyondayscider.com
Old Hill Cider
17768 Honeyville Rd. Timberville 540.896.7582 oldhillcider.com
The Winery at Kindred Pointe 3575 Conicville Rd Mt Jackson, Shenandoah County 22842 540.477.3570 kindredpointe.com
Winchester Ciderworks
2502 N. Frederick Pike Winchester 540.550.3800 WinchesterCiderworks.com
VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS Big Fish Cider
59 Spruce Street Monterey 540.468.2322 bigfishcider.com
621C Broad Street Altavista, VA 434.515.2482 skjaldmeadworks.com
BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS BLACKSNAKE MEADERY
605 Buffalo Road Dugspur, VA 24325 540.834.6172 blacksnakemead.com
CENTRAL VIRGINIA BLACK HEATH MEADERY
1313 Altamont Ave Richmond, VA 23230 703.582.0856 blackheathmeadery.com
Garden Grove Brewing and Urban Winery
3445 W Cary Street, Richmond 804.338.6029 gardengrovebrewing.com
Hill Top Berry Farm and Winery 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
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COASTAL VIRGINIA 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
NORTHERN VIRGINIA STONE HOUSE MEADERY
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
SHENANDOAH VALLEY MISTY MOUNTAIN MEAD WORKS 1531 Pack Horse Road Winchester, VA 22603 540.888.4420 mistymountainmead.com
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