Richmond Brewery Tours

I was surprised this past Saturday by Jess with an afternoon of Richmond Brewery Tours! WOO WOO!!

The event started promptly at 11:30am with our tour guide going over a brief history of beer, reviewing the vital ingredients, mentioning the reinheitsgebot, and concluding with the breweries we were to visit that afternoon: Legend, Midnight, and Hardywood. Before leaving we had 2 samples at Cap Ale House, Blue Mountain’s Kolsch and Chaos Mountain’s Smokey the Beer, a smoked porter, aged in bourbon barrels. Chaos Mountain brews just hit Richmond distribution so I was very excited to try one of their offerings which I thoroughly enjoyed.

After waivers were signed and beers were drunk, it was time to load up the bus.

With 14 people the bus was full. The company offers snacks (chips, pretzels, etc.) on the bus and encourages you to purchase beer at the breweries. The first drive was to Legend where we unloaded overlooking Richmond and the James River. We entered through the back entrance, which