A Beer For Strange Climates

Category: Virginia

  • Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville

    Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville

    Flying Ace Farm in Lovettsville, Virginia, beckons with Thursday burger and beer specials and a great outdoor BBQ atmosphere.

  • Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia

    Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia

    Fortunately, our trip down last weekend coincided with the grand opening of a new brewery in Montross, Virginia, the Northern Neck Brewing Co. With a resident chef and a full range of beer styles, the new project certainly looked promising.

  • Random Row, Charlottesville, Virginia

    Random Row, Charlottesville, Virginia

    The walk that became a quest took us from the center of Charlottesville past a strip mall and a renovated Art Deco-era building to the low-slung dark façade housing Random Row Brewing Co.

  • James River Brewing, Scottsville, Virginia

    James River Brewing, Scottsville, Virginia

    The James River Brewery was a local joint my cousin had spotted before, but hadn’t yet tried, so we spent a lovely Sunday afternoon in early March sampling a few of its award-winning beers.

  • Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Virginia

    Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Virginia

    Highway 15 winds along the first gasp of the Appalachians as it travels southbound from Maryland into Virginia. In years of living northwest of DC, I can’t tell you how many times I driven around its curves and dips between Frederick and Warrenton. Rarely have I stopped along the way, unless it’s to fly out…

  • Northern Neck Burgers

    Northern Neck Burgers

    It’s the afternoon of the Saturday before the time change, and it’s a calm, cool day, with a bright sun that warms us only a little bit as we sit at a picnic table outside NN Burger in Tappahannock. The pups are leashed up and watching the boys play cornhole. You can tell it’s all…

  • Gone Fishin’

    Gone Fishin’

    Sometimes you need a break…a real Saturday morning evoking your childhood–complete with a bowl of Lucky Charms, sleeping in, and watching cartoons. Okay, so I didn’t do any of those things last Saturday, but I did walk over to the neighbor’s dock, where my love was tying a swivel to the line on a second…

  • Summer Beach Shandy

    Summer Beach Shandy

    It’s not the beach of our dreams, or even our memories. But it’s a strip of sand, and a breakwall, then another strip of sand, and another breakwall, and on ’til the channel that runs into the creek behind my mom’s house on the Northern Neck. Mirra loves to go to the beach–she’ll suck up…

  • Northern Neck Crabs

    Northern Neck Crabs

    “C’mon over on Friday,” said the neighbor. “We should have enough in the traps by then.” It hadn’t been a brilliant year for the crabs running on the Neck, but we’d have a couple dozen by the time the weekend rolled around to create a good crab-fest for the four of us. So we strolled…

  • Kilmarnock Brewhaus, Virginia

    Kilmarnock Brewhaus, Virginia

    What to do on a Sunday afternoon on the Northern Neck? Why, make a foray out to its far reaches, and walk around the charming towns that sit near the water, the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers as they reach out into the sea. One of these towns, Kilmarnock, features one of the Northern Neck’s new…