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Three tours: Saturday 12-4:30pm and 2-6:30pm, Sunday 1-5:30pm
Pick up and drop off at the Crozet Downtown Square or Starr Hill Brewery (Crozet location).
Visit three breweries: Starr Hill, (1 hr), Pro Re Nata (1 hr), Blue Mountain (1 1/2 hr)
Trolley riders get $1-off pints.
$39/person
Join us on Saturday, March 17 as we turn the Brewery & Tap Room
into our own Irish Pub for a day of festive celebration!
We’ll be tapping several limited-release beers inspired by the Emerald Isle,
featuring the return of the award-winning Amber Ale Irish-Style Red Ale,
paired with delicious Irish-style food offerings from a local chef
along with live music, games, and a great cause.
Join us on Saturday, March 17 as we turn the Brewery & Tap Room
into our own Irish Pub for a day of festive celebration!
We’ll be tapping several limited-release beers inspired by the Emerald Isle,
featuring the return of the award-winning Amber Ale Irish-Style Red Ale,
paired with delicious Irish-style food offerings from a local chef
along with live music, games, and a great cause.
Inspired by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the rich musical traditions tied to them, Tara Mills describes her music as, ” original mountain americana;” an original blend of folk, bluegrass, and americana.
Writing and singing most of her life, it wasn’t long before Tara picked up a guitar and taught herself how to express the melodies in her head through her songs and hauntingly beautiful lyrics. Influenced by bluegrass, old country, and traditional mountain folk, she creates an original sound that captures true human feeling and emotion.
Based out of Charlottesville, VA, Tara plays and writes in a couple of different musical projects. In Tara’s current project, Yankee Dixie, she combines her lyrics and voice with Ohio native John Howard to create a very powerful yet driving original sound described as a mix of modern day folk, bluegrass, and americana. Tara and John alternate between playing the guitar, mandolin, banjo, stomp box, and harmonica and are backed up by Turtle Zwadlo on the upright bass.
Her most recent solo project, Tara Mills with Strings Attached, incorporated some of the areas most talented musicians performing original blue ridge folk and bluegrass. The band consists of an upright bass, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, banjo, mandolin, and sometimes fiddle and dobro.
Tara Mills with Strings Attached and Yankee Dixie have played at many music festivals including DelFest, The Festy Experience, Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, Red Wing Roots Music Festival, Campout East, Camp Barefoot, Pink Moon Festival, Misty Mountain Music Festival, The Crozet Music Festival, The Blue Ridge Oyster Festival, Mountain Cove Music Festival, and many other venues, radio and television broadcasts, and on the internet.
Join us at the Tap Room Sunday, December 14th to hear a great set by Tara Mill’s and enjoy some good eats from Delicious Dishe food truck!
Enjoy some great blues over a few delicious brews, this Friday (9/12) at Starr Hill Brewery!
Starr Hill’s Grand Opening Weekend will kick off on Friday, April 18th, and the festivities will continue through Sunday, April 20th. The much-anticipated Grand Opening Weekend will feature several new limited release beers on draft, including Starr Hill’s summer seasonal, Soul Shine Belgian-Style Pale Ale. There will also be a special cask-style beer and multiple barrel-aged beers that are only available in the Tasting Room. Local food trucks Morsel Compass Mobile Kitchen and Big Easy Metro Market will be on site, and Richmond-based bluegrass trio Red Light Rodeo will perform the afternoon of Sunday, April 20th. Patrons can look forward to occasional performances by local musicians, as a portion of the Tasting Room has a dedicated stage for live music, equipped with a new, high-quality sound system.
The inaugural Brew Ridge Trail Music Festival will feature great live music and beers from "Brew Ridge Trail" members Starr Hill, Devils Backbone, Blue Mountain, South Street and Albemarle Cider Works.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22nd
ON THE GROUNDS OUTSIDE OF
DEVILS BACKBONE BREWING COMPANY – NELSON COUNTY, VA
NOON-8PM
ALL AGES WELCOME!
$15 IN ADVANCE/$20 DAY OF SHOW
BUY TICKETS AT THE ADVANCE PRICE – GET FREE MUSIC FROM THE PERFORMERS AND A CHANCE TO WIN THE BRTMF GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE (see details below)
Performing live on the NTELOS WIRELESS Stage:
Sons of Bill
The Infamous Stringdusters
Jesse Harper (of Old School Freight Train)
William Walter & Tucker Rogers
Robbing Mary
Earl Knox
BUY TICKETS AT THE ADVANCE PRICE – GET FREE STUFF!
Get free songs from each of the bands performing when you purchase your tickets through Musictoday! Songs include a live track from Sons of Bills legendary Paramount Theatre show in June as well as live tracks from The Infamous Stringdusters performing at DelFest and in Chicago at The Morse Theatre. CHECK YOUR MUSICTODAY EMAIL CONFIRMATION FOR THE LINK TO THE FREE TUNES!
BREW RIDGE TRAIL GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE GIVEAWAY
Every order purchased in advance will also be automatically entered into our grand prize package giveaway. The winner will be announced before Sons of Bill takes the stage and here are some of the great prizes we’ll be giving away that day!
VISIT THE BREW RIDGE TRAIL WEBSITE
For more information on the music festival. You can also find out more info on the Stampede on Horseshoe Mountain, a mountain bike race that will take place from 9-11AM. The race finishes at the main entrance of the festival grounds.
These are photos taken on Saturday, 26 July at Starr Hill Brewer in Crozet. David H. Ferrall & David Bailey provided the great tunes.
If you have free time on a Saturday, I highly recommend going.
As noted in December, Starr Hill is going national. Congratulations to them, although seeing a Budweiser truck in front of Starr Hill’s Crozet operation was a bit odd.
