Event Details
Celebrate Virginia Craft Beer Month with the Virginia Museum of History & Culture as it hosts the ninth annual Virginia Brews craft beer festival on Saturday, August 1st. This year’s event will feature a selection of brews from across the Commonwealth, live music, food trucks, and access to all of the museum’s exhibitions, including access to the museum’s newest exhibitions, We The People: The World in Our Commonwealth, and Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865.
In addition, watch traditional barrel making demonstrations by Marshall Scheetz of Jamestown Cooperge as we prepare to commemorate America's 250th.
Scheetz practices tight, dry, and white coopering and creates accurate reproductions of period cooperage including hogsheads, barrels, firkins, butter churns, tubs, piggins, tankards and other coopered containers. Scheetz is an independent scholar researching and documenting the culture and economy of coopers from the 18th and 19th centuries. He collaborates with museums and educational institutions to promote understanding of coopering and coopered containers.
All Tickets Include:
Free admission to the museum
Admission to the festival site with eight, 3 oz. pour tickets and a dozen breweries from around the Commonwealth
Commemorative tasting glass
Access to live music and food concessions
Additional pour tickets will be available for purchase
Breweries:
Fine Creek Brewery
Virginia Beer Company
Triple Crossing Brewing
Old Bust Head Brewing Company
Quattro Goombas
Wheatland Springs
Fairwinds Brewing Company
Three Notch'd Brewing Company
Blue Mountain Brewery
2 Silos Brewing Co.
Food Trucks:
Con Salsa
Global Fusion
Band:
My Son the Doctor - An homage to the current We The People exhibition, this popular local band plays eclectic, infectiously danceable mix of eastern European and Balkan folk and pop music.
Non-Alchoholic Beverages:
Blue Ridge Bucha
Hike Hopped Seltzer
Pricing:
VMHC Members - $40
Non-Members - $45
Designated Driver - $15
DON'T WAIT - TICKETS WILL SELL OUT
Important Event Info:
Attendees must be 21 years of age or older and all guests must have a ticket.
No coolers, pets, or outside food or drink are permitted. Smoking is only permitted in designated areas.
Event will take place rain or shine.
Event opens at 6:00pm and closes at 9:00pm
Also, mark your calendar for these other Libation Series events: Virginia Distilled - September 12; Virginia Vines - October 24
Virginia Brews, Virginia Distilled, and Virginia Vines are presented by Dominion Energy.
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