by Jeff Maisey | Mar 24, 2018 | Drink, News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey San Diego-based Green Flash Brewing Company appears to be liquidating all assets of its Virginia Beach facility including the facility itself, bottling line, tasting room and draft system. The auction is being done through Heritage Global Partners,...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 21, 2018 | Kirwin, News & Views
By Brian Kirwin I’m frustrated. I understand the arguments and I listen to legislators and activists across the spectrum debate this issue over and over and over and I only come to one conclusion. No one knows the solution. They know some partial solutions. They know...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works… ~ The Gospel According to Matthew, 5:16 Last year at this time, I was struggling to process the news that my longtime mentor, Nat Hentoff, had died. (See ‘Thank You, Nat...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Jeff Maisey Green Flash Brewing Company, with production facilities in San Diego and Virginia Beach, announced it was cutting 15% of its workforce (33 people), primarily in administrative, marketing and events planning roles. Among those cut in Virginia Beach was...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 16, 2018 | News, News & Views
By Annie Tobey Mike Isley has mastered the art of riding the waves with his eponymous brewery, so it’s only fitting that his second brewery will open in Virginia Beach. Isley Brewing Co. opened in October 2013 in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition (before Scott’s Addition...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 27, 2017 | Horton, News & Views
By John L. Horton “Free at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I shall try to give you some anecdotal background on my experience with “Watch Night – Freedom’s Eve,” and the like:My first experience with...