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Charlottesville's own Champion Brewing Company opened it's Richmond Brewpub Friday night. The new location, formerly Aurora Night Club, is located at 401 East Grace Street. The location will serve pub fare, as well as beer brewed onsite and from the main brewery in Charlottesville. If you're in the area, be sure to stop by and show your supp ...

Image from Baskervill Architecture http://www.baskervill.com/projects/concept-restaurant-brewery/Richmond Bizsense is reporting that Stone Brewing is ready to turn focus to the first stages of its World Bistro and Gardens, on RVA's Riverfront:  Steve Wagner, president of the California-based brewery, said the firm met with its general con ...

The annual Alumni Charity Challenge is upon us! Join your fellow alumni September 14th from 5:30-8:30pm at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, in a race to see who can raise the most canned goods. All donations will go to the Central Virginia Food Bank.  If you are not familiar with the competition for a good cause, the Alumni Charity Challen ...

You’ve probably already read, heard, or felt a disturbance in the force that Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) has acquired Virginia’s own Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company. That happened. Devil's Backbone sold…to the devil? That seems to be many craft beer enthusiasts' initial response. On BeerAdvocate, Instagram, Reddit, ...

The Veil Brewing Opens Saturday April, 16th, in the Scott's Addition Neighborhood of RVA! The brewery will join neighbors Isley Brewing Company, Ardent Craft Ales, the upcoming Buskey Cider, Black Heath Meadery, and the soon-to-open new home of Blue Bee Cider, to make for one hell of a reason to visit/move to Scott's Addition. 

Press Release: Bend, OR/Roanoke, VA – March 22, 2016 – Deschutes Brewery announced its much anticipated decision on an east coast location today at an event in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. The growing brewery, which was founded in Oregon in 1988 by Gary Fish, has explored hundreds of potential locations in the region over the l ...

May 20 & 21: BBQ and Beer Festival a tasty good time  -- Kick-off summer at the Second Annual Saltwater Brew ‘N’ Que in Chincoteague, Virginia. The weekend event will feature a barbeque cook-off, beer tasting, live music and family attractions. – CHINCOTEAGUE, Va., March 18, 2016 – No question where craf ...

Clay and I (with wives in tow) had a few in Stone's newish tasting room last Friday night. The tasting room is -as Clay put it- essentially, the hottest bar in RVA right now. To give you an idea of the vibe, we experienced people yelling directions at their Uber driver (they got annoyed eventually hung up), no where to sit f ...

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While visiting Norfolk earlier today, I grabbed a flight at the city's newest craft brewery, Coelacanth. Only open for about a week, I was happy to see the tasting room filled with patrons on a Sunday evening. Most customers were enjoying pints and flights, while watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail via a massive projector setup. The curr ...