RVA On Tap’s 2015 RVA Beer Madness Poll kicks off today!

by | Mar 17, 2015 | EAT DRINK

RVA’s BEER MADNESS is back for the second year!! It’s 2015 March Madness time, and people all over are preparing their NCAA Division I Basketball Championship brackets.

RVA’s BEER MADNESS is back for the second year!! It’s 2015 March Madness time, and people all over are preparing their NCAA Division I Basketball Championship brackets. Here at RVA Magazine and RVAontap.com, we are bringing back our local beer lovers’ spots for our own version of March Madness. We created this bracket of matchups between craft breweries and various beer spots in RVA, broken down by regions of the city.

Cast your votes for our matchups for Round 1, and feel free to share this bracket with friends and businesses in our community. We’ve broken things down as follows:

4 Regions (Divisions)
– Downtown / Shockoe Bottom
– The Fan / Scotts Edition
– Carytown / Museum District
– West End / Southside

Within those divisions, we’ll have 8 matchups per region, with 32 overall matchups in round 1. We’ve got lots of tough matchups to start us off for Beer Madness, so make sure and cast your votes to move your favorites into round 2.

You can also check out our friends at Trinkin.com to see what’s on tap at many of the locations in the tourney.

Round 1 voting ends at 12 noon Monday March 23rd, at which time we will list winners and move to round 2!! Thanks for your time, and HAPPY VOTING!

Marilyn Drew Necci

Marilyn Drew Necci

Former GayRVA editor-in-chief, RVA Magazine editor for print and web. Anxiety expert, proud trans woman, happily married.




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