Virginia Craft Beer Magazine

08/08/2025

Hey C'Ville Fans — Be sure to pick up a copy of the new issue of Virginia Craft Beer Magazine at your local brewery and read Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones' article about a walkable beer tour through Charlottesville.

Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & Brewery - Charlottesville
South Street Brewery
Random Row Brewing Co.
Rockfish Brewing Company
Starr Hill Brewery
SuperFly Brewing Company
Selvedge Brewing
Högwaller Brewing
Experience Charlottesville

08/06/2025

The new issue of VCB is making its way around the state this week! Pick up a copy at your local brewery and celebrate Virginia Craft Beer Month with us! 🍻

08/06/2025

The Rockbridge Beer & Wine Festival is happening ONE MONTH from today -- Saturday, September 6 at Lime Kiln Theater in Lexington.

Get your tickets today and enjoy beer, wine, and cider plus live music and food!

Join us for the Rockbridge Beer & Wine Festival at Lime Kiln Theater in Lexington, Virginia.

08/01/2025

Happy Friday!! We're enjoying Future IPA at Three Notch'd in Virginia Beach!🍻

08/01/2025

August 1st officially kicks off Virginia Craft Beer Month!!

What VA brewed craft beer are you drinking to celebrate? 🍻

07/26/2025

A fun day at 🍻🍻

07/16/2025

Congratulations to our home-state independent craft breweries who score medals in the 2025 U.S. Open Beer Championship. Below are the categories in which Virginia breweries were awarded.

24: Classic Irish Dry Stout�
Gold: O’Dark Thirty – 6 Bears & A Goat Brewing Company – Virginia�
Silver: Splittin’ B’s – Buckstin Brewing Company – Texas�
Bronze: Dry Irish Stout – Union Bear Brewing – Texas

30: American Imperial Stout�
Gold: Hardware Store – Franklins Restaurant Brewery and General Store – Maryland�
Silver: Ape Hanger – Big Ugly Brewing – Virginia�
Bronze: Navel Gazer – New Heights Brewing – Tennessee

38 (A-B): Bitter
�Gold: Pennyfarthing – Dirigible Brewing Company – Massachusetts�
Silver: Forest Moon – Port O’Pints Brewing – California
�Bronze: Coach Beard – Benchtop Brewing Company – Virginia

44: Robust Porter�
Gold: Twenty-Two Porter – Big Ugly Brewing – Virginia�
Silver: Donner Party Porter – FiftyFifty Brewing Co. – California�Bronze: Into the Void – Moontown Brewing Company – Indiana

67 (A-E): Belgian Lambic
�Gold: Squared Pants – 2 Silos Brewing – Virginia�
Silver: Stupid Sexy Flanders – Sun King Brewery – Indiana�
Bronze: Faithful Instruction – Monday Night Brewing – Georgia�Bronze: The Forever Echo of Your Laugh – Forgotten Road Ales – North Carolina

72: Contemporary Gose�
Gold: Aloha State of Mind – COVA Brewing Company – Virginia� Silver: Huckleberry Cheesecake Gose Pilot Brewing – North Carolina�
Bronze: Punk Fuzz – MachineHead Brewing Co. – California

73: Other Kettle Sours�
Gold: Mother Fluffer – Afterglow Brewing – Virginia�
Silver: Pastry Fiend: Key Lime Pie – Bru Daddy’s Brewing Co. – Pennsylvania�
Bronze: Funky Diablo – Third Eye Brewing (Sharonville) – Ohio

77: American Premium Lager
Gold: Delux Lager – Cooper Landing Brewing Co – Alaska
Silver: Blackberry Smoke American Lager – New Realm Brewing – Georgia
Bronze: T-Town Lager – Inside the Five Brewing Company – Ohio

82 C: New Zealand Lager
�Gold: Sentries of the Broken Brain – Geisthaus Brewing Company – California�
Silver: Pilsmarillion – Big Ugly Brewing – Virginia�
Bronze: Pilz with Frilz – Sandy Springs Brewing Co. – Ohio

87: Vienna-Style Lager
�Gold: Vienna VA Lager – Caboose Brewing Company – Virginia�
Silver: Wherever I May Foam – Magnanimous Brewing – Florida�Bronze: Red Moon Rising – Mutation Brewing Co. – Georgia

103 (A-B): Pumpkin�
Gold: Pumpkin Ale – 2 Silos Brewing – Virginia�
Silver: Pumpkin Spice J. Marie – River North Brewery – Colorado�Bronze: Jack Of The Lantern – Nine State Brewery – Florida

109: Rye Beer�
Gold: All Rye All Rye All Rye – Afterglow Brewing – Virginia�
Silver: Red Your Last Rytes – Liability Brewing Co. – South Carolina
�Bronze: Rye’ll Be Bock – Oregon City Brewing – Oregon

134: American-Belgo-Style Ale�
Gold: Hazy Shade of Spring – Braided River Brewing – Alabama�Silver: Citra Wit – Reuben’s Brews – Washington�
Bronze: Sirens Lure – Fair Winds Brewing Company – Virginia

145: Pink Boots Hop Blend�
Gold: Stone She’s The Brewer – Stone Brewing – California�
Silver: Lupulin Omen #5 – Aeonian Brewing Company – Ohio�Bronze: Her – Big Ugly Brewing – Virginia

146: Collaboration Beer: Lagers
�Gold: ¿Cómo Se Dice Nice?, Los Dos Potrillos Cerveceria Castle Rock + Littleton Brewing Co.�
Silver: AL PASTOR TACOS, TapRoom Beer Co. + Ravenna Brewing Co.�Bronze: Czech 10 P Lager, Monday Night Brewing + Cohesion Brewing Co.�
Bronze: Dopplerbock Effect, Big Ugly Brewing + Caiseal Beer and Spirits (The Vanguard Brewpub & Distillery

Top 10 Beer Names at the U.S. Open Beer Championship�
1) Not a Cure for Baldness – Buck Bald Brewing
�2) She’s The Brewer West Coast IPA – Stone Brewing – California(Pink Boots Entry)
�3) Fight! Flight! Or Pizza! – Moonraker Brewing
�4) Thick Thighs and Luscious Eyes Imperial Stout – Hop District Community Brewing�
5) Pants Off Pilsner – Dakota Point Brewing�
6) That’s What She Saaz – Afterglow Brewing �
7) Toxic Positivity – Sugar Monkey Brewing�
8) Frankenfish Forschungbier – Muskellunge Brewing Company
�9) Nut Crusher Peanut Butter Porter – Wild Ride Brewing�
10) Olly Olly Gluten Free – Sibling Revelry Brewing

07/16/2025

We're celebrating VIRGINIA CRAFT BEER MONTH in the August/September issue of Virginia Craft Beer Magazine. 🍻

If you're a brewery, let us know what you have planned and we'll include it in the Events Calendar in the magazine.

07/14/2025

We had a great time celebrating Afterglow Brewing's 2 year anniversary on Saturday in Norfolk! Cheers! 🍻

07/13/2025

We stopped by yesterday to celebrate their 8 year anniversary!🍻

07/12/2025

Two Hampton Roads' breweries are celebrating anniversaries this weekend...
Afterglow Brewing is turning 2 and MoMac Brewing Company is 8! Congrats to both! If you are in the 757, go have a beer with them!🍻

07/11/2025

Cooling off at .vabeach with a couple of refreshing IPA's.🍻