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Tapped: Hardywood’s Raspberry Stout, Midnight Brewery’s Red Moon Ryesing, & Isley’s Peach Plain Jane

by | Jan 2, 2017 | BREWS, SPIRITS & WINE

What’s happening craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s “Tapped,” RVA Magazine’s go to weekly craft beer column where you can find all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals and all the booze news your little hearts desire.

Our cup is overflowing with news this week, but first head over here to check out what awesome brews were released in Richmond last weekend.

So HAPPY 2017 all of my craft beer lovers!! Hope everyone had a good New Years and are ready to drink even more beer this year. (We’re definitely going to need it.) And we have it all for you right here in Tapped, so hold on to your mugs because we’re getting ready to tap this thing!

Hardywood will release their Raspberry Stout this Saturday. The 9.2% stout is brewed with heaps of chocolate malt, cacao nibs, and local, late season red raspberries from Agriberry CSA and Farm.

Three Notch’d Brewing Company RVA Collab House will unleash another awesome beer collab upon us on Thursday. This time the brewery has teamed up with local band Clair Morgan to brew “New Lions” a blonde stout named after the band’s latest album, New Lions and The Not Good Night. The brew has notes of vanilla and roasted coffee and you can get a taste this weekend and check out Clair Morgan perform as well!

Isley is bringing back their weekly fusions this Friday with Peach Plain Jane, an infusion of their Belgian White, the Plain Jane.

The Veil Brewing Co. is releasing cans of LOL Tho(Amarillo DIPA) and Crucial Taunt(their house DIPA) today (Wednesday) so make sure you stop by the brewery on Roseneath Road at pick some up!

Midnight Brewery will start releasing a new beer the first Saturday of each month. This Saturday, Jan. 7, Red Moon Ryesing, a red rye IPA.

Ardent Craft Ales will host a beer dinner Mon. Jan. 16 with Heritage to benefit Diversity Richmond. The beer dinner will be held at Heritage Restaurant and feature five courses prepared by their chef Joe Sparatta along with uest Chefs Brittanny Anderson, Lee Gregory, Jason Lucy & Adam Hall paired with five of Ardent’s beers. $75/person.

Garden Grove Brewing Company will also host a beer dinner on Mon. Jan. 16 with chef Craig Perkinson of Southbound. Five courses and five GG beers for $38/person plus tax and tip.

The Carytown brewery also has Drunken Barista back on tap, a rich coffee stout bursting with cold pressed coffee flavors courtesy of Rostov’s coffee.

Send all submissions for Tapped to amy@rvamag.com. Cheers and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Words by Amy David

Amy David

Amy David

Amy David was the Web Editor for RVAMag.com from May 2015 until September 2018. She covered craft beer, food, music, art and more. She's been a journalist since 2010 and attended Radford University. She enjoys dogs, beer, tacos, and Bob's Burgers references.

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