Whistle Belly Festival in Williamsburg

Whistle Belly Festival in Williamsburg

  By Jeff Maisey   The popular DoG Street Pub Craft Beer Festival has gotten a new name this year. Scheduled for Sunday, August 2 (12:30 PM to 5:00 PM), the event is now dubbed Whistle Belly and will be presented by The Juniors Woman’s Club of...
Bold Mariner Lands in Lamberts Point

Bold Mariner Lands in Lamberts Point

  By Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones   Ah, life in the United States Navy, haze gray and underway.  Periodically while afloat in a boat, the salty sailor gets a hankering for some salubrious suds.  All that time at sea, and you can’t see a malted...
Virginia Distillery Company

Virginia Distillery Company

By Jim Roberts According to Andrew Shand, a master distiller who worked in Scotland’s whisky industry for 35 years before moving to Virginia two years ago, the most important qualification in his trade is patience. “We always say: If you want gin or vodka, you order...
Taste of Spring – and BEER – at Tides Inn

Taste of Spring – and BEER – at Tides Inn

By Jeff Maisey   The scenic Tides Inn, known for its romantic location on the Chesapeake Bay for weddings and its world class marina, spa, golf course and restaurants, has decided to give ol’ man winter the boot and celebrate the full bloom of warmer weather with...
Real Ale Makes a Comeback

Real Ale Makes a Comeback

By Elizabeth Erschens   Okay, class, raise your hands. Who knows what a real ale is? Until relatively recently, most people in this country wouldn’t have known the answer. The process of brewing real ale goes back to the origins of beer – some 6,000 years...