What’s happening craft beer lovers of RVA?!
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 you missed last week.
Now hold to your mugs craft beer lovers, because we’re about to tap this thing!
Triple Crossing will bring back its much awaited DIPA collaboration with The Answer Brewpub Street Cred this Saturday. It will be back on draft and in bottles.
If you’re a member of Isley Brewing’s Mug Club, you can head over to the Scott’s Addition brewery tonight (Wednesday) and pick up your t-Shirt! They will have free hot dogs and of course delicious brews.
Bottles of Szechuan Peppercorn Saison are back at Ardent Craft Ales.
Lickinghole Creek will release its Coconut Quad this Saturday Feb. 27. Clocking in at 11.2%, this Belgian-Style Quadrupel Ale combines the flavor of fresh coconut with the mysterious sweetness of a Belgian Quad.
The long awaited and much anticipated Stone Brewing held their soft opening this weekend on Williamsbrug Avenue in Rockets Landing. Although it was announced quietly, it was quite a huge turnout for the California-based brewery. Stay up to date with us on the new brewery that will open their doors officially March 2nd.
On Saturday, Strangeways has a pretty cool event going on. It’s “The Pursuit of Hoppyness” Day at the brewery and will be bringing back Wampus Cat Tripel IPA along with a few other BONUS hoppy beers so stay tuned to their Facebook page!
Blue Bee Cider recently announced its expanison into Scott’s Addition and a $1 million investment to revamp and open a historic property. The cidery will purchase more than 850,000 pounds of Virginia-grown apples and berries over the next three years allowing the company to triple its hard cider production to over 100,000 bottles per year. Read more here.
Legend Brewing will release its Gorilla Train Coffee Stout this Sunday to mug members. It’s their first urban legend brew of 2016! General public customers will get to try it on Monday!
Garden Grove Brewing in Carytown has a couple cool events you should check out! They will host a beer dinner on Monday Feb 29th featuring Richmond’s “Chef of the Year” Owen Lane of Vagabond. They’re still have some seats left so reserve your seats here.
The brewery also just released Imperial Immortal Black Ale,a dark 7.4% brew fermented in red wine barrels.
Last week, RVA Mag had the chance to head up to Nelson County-based brewery Wild Wolf Brewing to help brew the Richmond Kickers’ annual brew Kick It Hunny. We got to learn and participate in the brewing process, hear what their plans are for the coming year, watch their canning line in action and taste some beers! Read about our trip here.
Probably some of the most exciting news is RVA Magazine’s collaboration beer with Ellwood Thompson’s and Legend Brewing! We had the chance to work with the organic grocery store and longtime brewery to brew up something special that we all can be proud of. Legend brough their Golden IPA, Ellwood’s provided the spices, which included fresh locally-sourced beets, ginger, and Buddha fingers and our president here John Reinhold helped throw it all together to create “Hoppy Buddha.”
This will be a kickoff beer series for Ellwood’s Beet Cafe with more collaborations to come in the future. And the best part of all this? RVA Magazine, Ellwood Thompson’s, and Legend Brewing will throw a release party this Friday, Feb. 26 at The Beet Cafe to celebrate the making of Hoppy Buddha and share the fruits of our labor with all of you.
To submit events or ideas to Tapped please email amy@rvamag.com. Cheers!
