Port City Brewing Company opened in Alexandria, Virginia earlier this year. In just a few months they’ve gained a pretty wide distribution, even down into Fredericksburg. The brewery is a production brewery, not a brewpub, though tours and tastings are…

This past weekend saw avid shooters from around the East Coast at the Nevco Targets VA/MD Sectional Championship Match, held right here in Fredericksburg. I’ve been looking forward to the match for several months. The stage layouts looked challenging. …

Daniel Bradford of All About Beer Magazine, sponsor of the World Beer Festival has announced that the Richmond event scheduled for June 18 in Richmond, VA has been canceled. In a letter sent out today Bradford writes:
Greetings:

It is with deepest reg…

Recently I had the chance to try out a new beer from Blue & Gray Brewing. The brewery’s as yet unnamed IPA is likely to become a new favorite when it’s available on a regular basis. Now it appears that my favorite brewpub has brewed another new bee…

Seriously?

Here at Musings Over a Pint, we’re unabashed about our infatuation with the hamburger. It’s the typical food with which we judge a pub. But when Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ate his 25,000th Big Mac recently, he …

A few weeks ago the monthly USPSA match at Fredericksburg Practical Shooters was a “classifier match.” Four of the six stages were classifiers; standard exercises used to rank shooters against the whole of the USPSA membership. This was a good opportun…

Virginia craft beer fans are in for treat in June. There are two great beer fests are coming up.

First up is the Second Annual World Beer Festival in Richmond on Saturday, June 18, 2011 on Brown’s Island. For tickets, visit www.allaboutbeer.com/wbf o…

It’s always a great day when yet another Virginia craft brewer gets recognized. From Blue Mountain Brewery
One of the cover stories in the June issue of Food & Wine Magazine is a ‘Guide to Amazing Beers Across America’. Blue Mountain Brewery’…

Is this a case of the big guy versus the little guy? Norm’s Beer and Wine has been a destination in Vienna, VA since 1988. It’s the “go to” retail store for Northern Virginia craft beer fans. I’ve made the drive from Fredericksburg several times for be…

Here’s a link to an article in The Virginian-Pilot on some local craft brewers. The article focused on four Virginia Beach-area breweries; O’Conner Brewing, Beach Brewing, Gordon Biersch, St. George and Williamsburg AleWerks. Beach Brewing is the newco…