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Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

2408 Ownby Lane
Richmond, VA, 23220
United States

804-420-2420

Year Established: 2012

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The Founders: The story of how Hardywood Park Craft Brewery came to be is about as old as it’s co-founders, Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh. Lifelong friends, Eric and Patrick first discovered hand crafted beer in 2001 at a sheep station in Australia called Hardywood Park, and have been brewing and introducing people to great beer ever since. Eric and Patrick have worked as brewers apprentices, bar tenders, and for nearly a decade, in sales and marketing for a leading group of craft beer distributors. Accomplished home brewers, Eric and Patrick are both BJCP judges. While working as the marketing director for one of America’s leading craft beer wholesalers, Eric created GreatBrewers.com and the BeerCloud mobile app, he served as a speaker on beer marketing strategy innovation at several beer industry conferences around the country, he earned his MBA with honors from Fordham University, he was selected to serve as a GABF judge and he became Richmond’s first Certified Cicerone™. Following in the footsteps of three generations of brewers in his family, Patrick became a full time brewing student at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago in 2010. After extensive technical coursework at Siebel, Patrick relocated to Munich, Germany for practical brewing training at the renowned Doemens Academy, earning his Master Brewer Certification. Apprenticeships with Brauerei Heller Trum in Bamberg, Germany, as well as Captain Lawrence Brewing Co. and Defiant Brewing Co. in New York, rounded out Patrick’s brewing training. After a decade of hard work and planning, Eric and Patrick are thrilled to finally have the opportunity to launch the Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, and look forward to spending the rest of their careers helping others discover extraordinary beer. The Name: Hardywood Park is the place where Eric and Patrick first discovered hand crafted beer. In the fall of 2001, both Eric, for study, and Patrick, for travel, ended up in Australia. The two met up at Hardywood Park, a sheep station outside of Bathurst, New South Wales, where the Crawford family had graciously hosted Eric during his orientation trip, and where days of working on the farm always ended with a wonderful home cooked meal and some of David Crawford’s delicious home brewed amber ale. The degree of flavor and complexity in David’s beer was enlightening, and from that moment on, Eric and Patrick have devoted themselves wholly to the pursuit of brewing the finest ales and lagers available on the planet, and to helping people discover the joy of authentic, hand crafted beer. While the original Hardywood Park has changed owners and names, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery is named in tribute to David Crawford, whose beer inspired Eric and Patrick’s quest. The Brewery: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery operates in a 12,000 square foot, fully conditioned building situated between the Diamond and the Fan, in the heart of a historic German brewing district in Richmond, Virginia. Every recipe is perfected on a 20-gallon pilot brewery before graduating to a custom built, 20-barrel Newlands brewhouse. The brewery is equipped to produce a range of traditional European ales and lagers, as well as a host of innovative new styles with American, Virginian, and specifically, Richmond, influences. Hardywood Park Craft Brewery works hard to serve as a steward in environmental preservation. 100% of the brewery’s electricity comes from sustainable energy sources (99% wind power, 1% other renewable energy) via the Dominion Green Power program. Hardywood also employs high efficiency equipment which helps minimize water usage at the brewery, recycles its residual grain for composting and feed, uses 100% recycled packaging, uses reclaimed and sustainably "treecycled" wood for furniture, fixtures, tap handles and coasters, and maintains a nearly paperless office environment.

ID: 10912 Last updated 5 days ago Added to database 11 years ago

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Beer | Style | ABV Score
Hardywood Park Baltic Sunrise
Baltic Porter| 9.1 %
3.250 (1)
Hardywood Park Belgian DIPA
Imperial IPA| 8 %
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Hardywood Park Bourbon Barleywine
American Barleywine| 13.3 %
3.200 (1)
Hardywood Park Bourbon Cru
Abbey Quadrupel| 10.2 %
3.380 (2)
Hardywood Park Bourbon DIPA
Imperial IPA| 9.4 %
3.300 (1)
Hardywood Park Capital Trail Pale Ale
American Pale Ale| 5.6 %
-
Hardywood Park Christmas Morning
Imperial Stout| 9.2 %
3.325 (1)
Hardywood Park Cream Ale
Cream Ale| 4.4 %
2.780 (2)
Hardywood Park Cuvee Peach
Abbey Tripel| 9 %
3.175 (1)
Hardywood Park Farmhouse Pumpkin
Spiced Beer| 8.5 %
3.075 (1)
Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout / Hardywood Park GBS
Imperial Stout| 9.2 %
3.729 (4)
Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout / Hardywood Park GBS (Bowman Bourbon Barrel)
Imperial Stout| 10.2 %
3.400 (1)
Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout / Hardywood Park GBS (Rum Barrel)
Imperial Stout| 10.6 %
3.300 (1)
Hardywood Park Great Return
IPA| 7.5 %
-
Hardywood Park Hopkeeper
Imperial IPA| 8.5 %
-
Hardywood Park Hoplar
Imperial IPA| 8.5 %
-
Hardywood Park Kentucky Christmas Morning
Imperial Stout| 10.6 %
3.275 (1)
Hardywood Park Mocha Belgique
Imperial Porter| 7.2 %
-
Hardywood Park Oyster Stout
Oyster Stout| 5.5 %
3.250 (1)
Hardywood Park Peach Tripel
Abbey Tripel| 8.2 %
3.125 (1)
Hardywood Park Pils
Bohemian / Czech Pilsener| 5.2 %
3.025 (1)
Hardywood Park Raspberry Stout
Imperial Stout| 9.3 %
3.150 (1)
Hardywood Park Raspberry Stout (Bourbon Barrel)
Imperial Stout| 12.4 %
3.275 (1)
Hardywood Park Richmond Lager
Lager| 5 %
2.925 (1)
Hardywood Park Rum Barrel Pumpkin
Spiced Beer| 10.5 %
3.175 (1)
Hardywood Park RVA IPA
IPA| 7 %
-
Hardywood Park SB 604 - Special Bitter
Extra Special Bitter| 3.8 %
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Hardywood Park Sidamo Coffee Stout
Imperial Stout| 9.3 %
3.620 (2)
Hardywood Park Singel
Belgian Ale| 6.2 %
3.200 (1)
Hardywood Park The Great Return
IPA| 7.5 %
3.240 (2)
Hardywood Park Tropication
IPA| 7.5 %
-
Hardywood Park VIPA / Hardywood Park Virgindia IPA
IPA| 5.2 %
3.075 (1)
Hardywood Park Virginia Blackberry
Fruit Beer| 6.8 %
-
Hardywood Park Virginia Strawberry
Fruit Beer| 5.8 %
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