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1st Annual VA Craft Brewers’ Festival
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August is Craft Beer Month in the great state of Virginia. Some cities designated a particular week as "Craft Beer Week" and local restaurants had special menus. If you felt like bopping around from Falls Church to Richmond to Hampton to Charlottesville, you could find special deals every week of the month. Another Virginia Craft Beer Month event was the 1st Annual Craft Brewers' Fest. Lyle Brown, Director of the VA Craft Brewers’ Cup Competition, just released the results" Congratulations to all of the breweries participating in the 1st Annual VA Craft Brewers’ Festival and VA Craft Brewers’ Cup. Winners were awarded in 5 categories. Pale Ale: Gold: Port City Monumental IPA Silver: Starr Hill Double Platinum Bronze: Mad Fox English Summer Ale Dark: Gold: Capital City Oatmeal Stout Silver: Hardywood Park Gingerbread Stout Bronze: Port City Porter Lager: Gold: Devil’s Backbone Schwarzbier Silver: Lost Rhino Rhinofest Bronze: Starr Hill Festie Belgian: Gold: Wild Wolf Blonde Hunny Silver: Devil’s Backbone Azrael Bronze: Port City Optimal Wit Specialty: Gold: The River Brewing Co Farmhouse Heffeweizen Silver: Lost Rhino Rye Wit Bronze: Wild Wolf Ginger Lager Best of Show, and winner of the VA Craft Brewers Cup: Devil’s Backbone Schwarzbier Congratulations to all the winners. This was a very close competition, and each one of these medals was hard won! Cheers!! -Lyle C. Brown VA Craft Brewers’ Cup Competition Director
12 years ago
Hoisting the Virginia Craft Beer Cup The crowing moment of the 1st ever Virginia Craft Brewers Festival: The winning brewers hoist the Virginia Craft Brewers Cup, the trophy fabricated from beer kegs. Festival held at: Devils Backbone Brewing Roseland, Virginia. 25 August 2012. *************** Photo by Skye Marthaler of www.beerfellows.com. Commercial use requires explicit permission, as per Creative Commons. [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/cizauskas/7876908218/?v=1&ref=nf[/url]