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Ardent and Friends at the Cask– The Cask Cafe, Wednesday

Get rid of the mid-week doldrums by heading over to the The Cask and enjoy some of Ardent’s leftovers from their Block Party. These are prime leftovers in the form of rare beers.

Join us for a fun night of awesome guest beers at The Cask Cafe!

We have a few great guest kegs that we weren’t able to serve at our Third Anniversary Block Party, and we want to share the wealth with you. So our friends at The Cask are hosting a night of great featured beers:

▷ Charles Towne Fermentory ▷ Double Dry Hopped Sungazer IPA
▷ Almanac Beer Co ▷ Cherry Picker Sour
▷ Aslin Beer Company ▷ Johann and the Giant Peach DIPA

Come hang out with us and enjoy some awesome beer!

Cover to Cover Purple Rain – Hardywood, Saturday

Remember back in the day when you’d listen to an album start to finish? Shuffle on your mobile device takes you on an erratic, zig-zag of music. The album experience follows a specific path that has its own set of rewards. Give it a try this Saturday at Hardywood.

Trunk Show Band (give them a LIKE!) returns on Saturday, July 15, with their next full album cover show: PURPLE RAIN, by Prince and the Revolution! Take a trip back to 1984 and join us for an evening celebrating the life and music of the one and only Prince. This event is FREE and open to ALL AGES!

This also happens to be Trunk Show’s 10th full album cover show, so they’re kicking the night off with a Memory Lane Mix-tape featuring a tune from each of their 9 prior albums, with music from They Might Be Giants, The Killers, Fleetwood Mac, Green Day, Amy Winehouse, Heart, Paul Simon, David Bowie and Alanis Morrisette

Pets & Pints – Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery, Saturday

Some breweries are perfect for taking our four-legged companions. Lickinghole Creek is one of those breweries with its wide open spaces and farm setting. Taking the family pet to the farm out in the country can be a good thing. It’s only natural that the Goochland brewery would want to help out their furry visitors.

Saturday, July 15th we are hosting a benefit event for Goochland Pet Lovers, an incredible organization who is raising funds for the development of a new state-of-the-art Adoption, Care, and Education Center. This facility will serve as the hub for innovation adoption and education programs designed to engage and empower the community to make a positive, lasting change in the lives of animals in our community!

Join us for a day of fun and fundraising! This event will include;
-Raffle
-Pet Adoption Area
-Local Vendors
-Live Music

And the release of our Magic Beaver Belgian Pale Ale! A portion of all sales will be donated to Goochland Pet Lovers…donations are appreciated as well!

Live Music- Cook County Bluegrass
Food- Arroz, Eastern Star Catering

Seafood Pop Up – The Veil Brewing Co., Sunday

Summer time is for the beach and the beach is for drinking beer and eating seafood. If you can’t get to the beach head to Scott’s Addition.

The Veil Brewing Co. will be hosting a Seafood Pop Up with Northern Neck Oyster Co. and Chef Andrew Manning and Steve Farr. Expect Raw Oysters and Crabs from the Chesapeake Bay, Brasa (wood and coal grilled) Monkfish, Spicy Octopus, and more. Start the Summer off right!

BEER NEWS

New Beer Festival at VHS

Virginia Historical Society brews up new craft beer festival featuring rare, historic recipes

Triple Crossing Getting Tanked

Increased beer making capacity is on the way for Triple Crossing in Fulton with the arrival on Monday of a new 60bbl fermenter. The tank you see below came from Detroit by Craftwerk Brewing Systems.  

Image: Triple Crossing Facebook

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For those craving the new and shiny beers there are a couple good ones coming out for and they’re on different approaches to the wonderful world of hops.

Triple Crossing has their new IPA hopped exclusively with Galaxy hops, All Neon Like. This beer will debut Friday, July 14th at the Foushee location. They tend to more in-your-face style of hops 

Final Gravity is taking a more subtle approach with their take on hops. They’re presenting Fast Machine American Hopped Pilsner on Thursday. This one will have American Simcoe and Chinook hops, promising a rush of pine citrus but will still cool you down at 5.5%. Don’t worry if you want a little more bite in your hops because on Friday Final Gravity is re-releasing Solar Flares DIPA brewed with Mosaic, Amarillo, and Citra and Triple Dry Hopped. This one has a two crowler limit.

Look at that, three beers coming out and six types of hops being used. It’s a magical world we live in.

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