Beer Tasting Mix Pack

Available every Wednesday (for as long as there is interest or until the pandemic wanes) you can get a mixed pack of four or five beers lovingly curated by us (plus the Beer of the Week). This week’s six pack — When It’s BAD to be Basic!

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Beer of the Week! 07/13/21

For this beer, Herndon’s Aslin Beer Company reaches all the way out to Drecker Brewing Company in Fargo, North Dakota! Appropriate to Drecker’s whole viking ethos (look it up; they have a whole, viking ethos), the two have built this beer around LalBrew Voss Kviek yeast. Just wait, it gets even better …

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Beer of the Week! 07/06/21

Being inveterate city folk, we were confused about the name of this beer … until Goochland’s Lickinghole Creek reminded us that they are a farm brewery (Virginia’s first). That means when they brew, they use many ingredients that they grow, like the blueberries for this beer … and bears — forever unconcerned about claims of personal property — love blueberries ...

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Beer of the Week! 06/29/21

it’s been ten years since childhood friends Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh started Hardywood Craft Brewery. When they started, only Legend Brewing Company was making beer in Richmond. Now, Hardywood is an elder brewer among a truly impressive RVA craft scene. However, time has neither dimmed Hardywood’s place in our hearts nor on our palettes …

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Beer of the Week! 06/22/21

“One night in Iraq, SEAL team member Sean Haggerty felt like having a beer. It was his third tour, he’d just come back from a raid, and it seemed like the thing to do. The problem was, there was no craft beer around … so he made some. Years later, after his service, Haggerty started homebrewing. Those efforts eventually gave birth, in 2017, to Protector Brewery in San Diego, CA …”

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