Beer of the Week! 08/03/21

“Trapezium Brewing Company is headquartered just 20+ miles south of Richmond in Petersburg, VA. It’s dedicated to brewing in quirky ways. As such, many of their beers sit outside strict categories, and even when Trapezium takes on a tried and true style, they like to mess with it a little. They have a particular penchant for brewing with fruit, which leads us to this little dear here …”

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Beer of the Week! 07/27/21

Using rice as a fermentable grain while making beer is nothing new. Japanese breweries have been making rice lagers since the 1870s. Also, of course, American mega-brewers regularly use rice ... However, recently craft breweries have been putting a new spin on an old fermentable — sake rice.

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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 five pack — The Fab Sabro! (Spotlight on the Sabro Hop)

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Beer of the Week! 07/20/21

So, because it’s such a simple and straightforward style, it’s hard to make a good Pilsner. For the same reason, it’s hard to make a Pilsner that stands out. Thus, it’s notable when Virginia Beach’s Commonwealth Brewing Company does both …

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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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