Weekend Tap Update: Parkway’s Factory Girl And A Couple of Great Local Tap Rooms To Have a Beer In

Another great warm weather weekend is descending upon us here in Roanoke and with it comes that familiar, growing anticipation for a beer or two to celebrate. Below are a couple beers that have either recently shown up around town, or will this weekend, to consider doing exactly that with.

Local Roots has recently added Stone’s newest collaboration IPA, called Collective Distortion, to its tap list. A double IPA coming in at just over 9%, the beer is brewed with an addition of elderberries and coriander. While the only familiarity I have concerning elderberries doesn’t have anything to do with taste or aroma or beer, but instead seems to be some vague, dusty, long lost association to a song lyric or two about “elderberry wine”, and I’m betting a lot of you out there are the same, we must always consider that Stone rarely produces an IPA that is less than tasty. Also, in keeping with their usual focus on locally produced beer, Local Roots is looking to add Parkway Brewing’s session

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