Virginia Craft Beer Magazine

12/25/2025

12/23/2025

Cheers to the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild leadership team for 2026.

Join us in welcoming your 2026 Leadership Council!🎉 This exceptional group of leaders will strive to keep the Virginia craft beer scene informed, innovative, and thriving.

Bill Spence, The St. George Brewing Company - Chairman
Jason Romano, Lake Anne Brew House - Vice Chair
Chris Smith, The Virginia Beer Company - Government Affairs Committee
Mark Benusa, Fine Creek Brewing Company - Government Affairs Committee
Neil Burton, STRANGEWAYS BREWING - Tourism & Marketing Committee
Craig Nargi, Stable Craft Brewing - Tourism & Marketing Committee
Brian Faivre, New Realm Brewing Co. - Virginia Beach - Quality & Operations Committee
Matt Mullett, Richbrau Brewing - Quality & Operations Committee
Dave St. Clair, Swover Creek Farms Brewery - Farm Brewery Committee
Janell Zurschmeide, Dirt Farm Brewing - Farm Brewery Committee
Bill Butcher, Port City Brewing Company - Virginia Craft Beer Cup Advisor
Eric McKay, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery - Virginia Craft Beer Cup Advisor
Julie Tridente, Precarious Beer Project - Operations Advisor
Taylor Smack, Blue Mountain Brewery - Distribution Advisor

Raise a glass with us as we toast to another year of collaboration, creativity, and community.🍻 Here’s to making 2026 the best year yet for independent craft beer in the Commonwealth!

12/13/2025

It's time to put on your most festive, ugliest holiday sweater and head to Hawksbill Brewing Co. (in Luray) tonight for their Annual Ugly Sweater Party!🎅🎄🍻

Christmas is coming early! December 13 is our 7th annual Ugly Sweater Party — a festive night of fun, prizes, and giving back. 🎄🎅🏼🎁

Join us and Starv'n Marvin from 6 to 9 this Saturday night. The brewery will be a collection site for food items as well as host of Pints for a Cause in support of Page One of Page County.

So dig out your tackiest holiday sweater and come celebrate a great local tradition with friends, food, and great beer! Cheers! 🍻

12/06/2025

It's going to be a great day for the Crozet Winter Brews Festival today!

A little snow can't stop this party train!! We'll see you tomorrow at Crozet Park for some heady winter brews, seasonal ciders, craft spirits, live music, food trucks, holiday market, Krampus and our first festival SHOTSKI!! Bundle up and get some good boots on, we're stoked for an epic day to celebrate the change of seasons with the community 🍻 Get your Tasting Tickets TODAY 👉 https://www.crozetbeerfest.com/

12/06/2025

It's a beautiful, snowy evening at 1781 Brewing Company in Spotsylvania!

12/05/2025

Congrats to all of the Hampton Roads Breweries who won Veer Magazine's Golden Tap Awards!

By Jeff Maisey Maker’s Craft Brewery took home the 2025 Golden Tap Award by accumulating the most points in our annual region-wide competition. This marked the 10th anniversary of VEER’s Golden Tap Awards. Gold medals earned three points, silver received two points, and one point for bronze. The...

12/04/2025

Bundle up and warm up with this amazing line up of beer at the Crozet Winter Brews Festival this Saturday, December 6 at Claudius Crozet Park.

🍻 Check out this boozy seasonal lineup from Virginia Breweries 🍻 Join us on Saturday, December 6th to taste through some unique winter brews and barrel aged delights!! Tasting Tickets are $35 for unlimited samples of brews, ciders and craft spirits 👉 https://www.crozetbeerfest.com/ Live Music 🎸 Holiday Market 🎁 Food Trucks 😋 Krampus ❄️ and our first festival wide SHOTSKI at 2:30 pm 🎿 See you Saturday at Crozet Park 12-5 pm 🍻
7th Annual Crozet Winter Brews & Booze Claudius Crozet Park, Inc. Rockfish Brewing Company Devils Backbone Brewing Company Patch Brewing Co. Basic City Beer Co. Three Notch'd Brewing Company South Street Brewery Starr Hill Brewery Wildmandan Brewery Selvedge Brewing Decipher Brewing Pro Re Nata Brewpub & Music Hall Random Row Brewing Co. Alewerks Brewing Company Blue Toad Hard Cider - Virginia

11/29/2025

Shop Small today and don't forget your local breweries for gift cards and merchandise such as hats, beanies, t-shirts, hoodies, glassware, koozies, and more. And, reward yourself with a refreshing beer!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🍻

11/21/2025

We love our partnership with Beach Ambassadors and being able to give back to our friends at Hope House Foundation!

The good cheer continues...
We were super excited to present our partner charity Hope House Foundation with a check from this year's 757 Battle of the Beers.

We planned. You played. They benefit.