March 18, 2010
ShareAfton/Roseland Nelson County, Virginia The weather was perfect and many local wineries and breweries were busy now getting ready for the summer season ahead. St. Patrick’s Day was spent in proper style bottling over a thousand cases of wine at Cardinal Point in Afton. “This is all 2009 vintage, so everything is harvested this past [...]
August 10, 2009
Share Wintergreen Performing Arts presents an Oktoberfest. Join us for a celebration of German culture and food – a family event in a beer garden setting. Feast on brats, wursts, German potato salad, and kraut, along with American hot dogs and hamburgers. Enjoy traditional “om-pah” band music and taste local microbrewery beers. The music will [...]
June 10, 2009
ShareAfton Nelson County, Virginia It’s been a busy week already for the folks at Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton. They have been in the process of offloading a new tank that will double their draft and bottled beer distribution in stores and restaurants. “We just recently got to the momentous mark of having our draft [...]
January 19, 2009
ShareNelson County, Virginia It’s been one busy weekend across Nelson County, Virginia. Yep! The skiing has been great, but lots more has been taking place as well. Like the wine and cheese pairing Saturday night over at Wintergreen Winery. Below, cross the road diagonally from Wintergreen Winery and head into Devils Backbone Brewing Company and [...]
November 21, 2008
ShareRoseland – Nelson County, Virginia All of the practice runs are history and Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company just south of Nellysford at the intersection of Route 664 & 151, is opening today for regular business at 11:30 AM EST. The restaurant will be open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner along with custom [...]
November 19, 2008
ShareIt’s just about official! Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company (DBBC) is readying for the real thing. This will make the second Nelson brewery to open after Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton opened just over a year ago. Tuesday night DBBC held the first of three private soft opens to give the staff a chance to rev [...]
November 7, 2008
ShareVisit HoboJac’s Web page by clicking here. Click here for Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company – Nelson County, Virginia More about HoboJac: Hobo*Jac was born from two guys’ love of music and being in the right place at the right time. Beginning at open mic nite John Howard aka…Hojo and Jacob Allen aka…Bojac found that similar [...]
November 7, 2008
ShareWork continues on Devils Backbone Brewing Company (DBBC) for opening later this month. It’s located near the intersection of Route 664 and 151 in Beech Grove just outside of Nellysford, Virginia. We have been following the progress here in earlier posts. This week much of the furniture arrived, booths have been installed, along with other [...]
October 30, 2008
ShareIt’s official, Nelson’s 2nd microbrewery is on the way to opening in a little more than a couple of weeks. Within the past day or so Brewmaster, Jason Oliver, of Devils Backbone Brewing Company, fired up the system making the first of what will be countless batches of custom beers turned out at the brewery [...]
October 13, 2008
ShareAs NCL has been following since the beginning, the wait will soon be over for Nelson’s second microbrewery scheduled to open next month in the Beech Grove area of Nelson County, Virginia. That’s on the two lane highway leading up to Wintergreen Resort, just south of Nellysford. Steve Crandall, founder of Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company, [...]