Greater Richmond, Virginia

Cider Week Virginia is held annually in November

October is Virginia Wine Month

August is designated Craft Beer Month

Richmond’s Blue Bee Cider was Virginia’s first urban

cidery

Virginia’s first cidery was founded in 2005 in Dug-spur. As of 2014, there were 11 cideries across the state, including Blue Bee Cider in Richmond’s industrial Manchester neighborhood. Blue Bee is the state’s first and only urban cidery.

Virginia’s craft brewery industry and love of craft beers has been in the national spotlight recently: large breweries with a long history in Virginia such as Anheuser-Busch and Coors Brewing have been joined by a growing number of craft brewer-ies. There are currently 150+ breweries operating or in the planning stages in Virginia.

The Virginia wine industry consistently produces high value products. Virginia is the fifth largest wine grape producer in the country. There are currently over 200 wineries across the state of Virginia, nine of which are located in the Greater Richmond region.

Virginia is getting back to its roots with a resur-gence in the craft spirits industry. The number of small distilleries has been steadily increasing across the state. There are currently 17 distill-eries in Virginia, including the recently licensed Belle Isle Moonshine located in Richmond. The distilleries produce craft spirits ranging from whisky to moonshine.

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SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS

CRAFT BEVERAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS IN RICHMOND, VA

Company Name Services Provided Website

Alfa Laval Solutions for Heat Transfer, Separation and Fluid Handling alfalaval.com

Anton Paar Beverage Analysis Systems, Alcohol Meter, Process Instrumentation anton-paar.com/corp-en

CDA USA Labeling Machines da-usa.com

GHT Insurance Winery, Cidery & Brewery Insurance Specialists ghtinsurance.com

Old Dominion Mobile Canning Cans olddominionmobilecanning.com

PBE Incorporated Filtration pbe-usa.com

RVA Yeast Labs Yeast and Bacteria Supplier rvayeastlabs.com

Shine Craft Vessel Co. Stainless Steel Growlers shinevessels.com

William R. Hill Glass Bottles wmrhill.com

Williams Compliance Handles Reporting, Product Registration, TTB.ABC Laws, License Renewal, Price Posting, Initial Permitting williamscompliance.com

Greater Richmond includes Virginia’s capital city, Richmond, and the vibrant counties of Chesterfield, Hanover, and Henrico. There are numerous companies in the Richmond Region that already support the craft beverage industry.

DISTRIBUTORS IN RICHMOND, VA

Company Name Regions Covered # of Brands Phone #

Brown Distributing Co., Inc. (beer and ale) Central Virginia, Florida 85 (804) 553-1520

The Country Vintner 6 states + D.C. 100+ (804) 752-3670

Free Run Wine Merchants (craft beer and wine) Virginia, D.C. & Maryland 120 (804) 359-3733

Kozak Beverages, Inc. (beer and malt) 15 Va. counties + 2 military bases 100+ (804) 732-1085

Loveland Distributing Co., Inc. (beer and ale) 31 Va. counties 32 (804) 355-4943

Republic National Distributing Co. (beer and ale) 18 states + D.C. 550+ (804) 226-4362

Specialty Beverage of VA (only craft beers and wine) 14 states N/A (804) 749-8016

Tap 26 (wine and wine keg distributor) Virginia, D.C. 60 (804) 240-5630

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New Law: In 2012, the governor of Virginia signed two pieces of legislation to support Virginia craft brewers: House Bill 359 allows manufacturers to lease space in their brewhouses to smaller-scale brewers and Senate Bill 604 allows retail sales of beer and sampling on the premises of Virginia breweries.

New City Ordinance: Following the announcement in 2014 of the proposed Stone Brewing facility, an ordinance was signed by the Richmond City Council which lowers the utility surcharge on wastewater for breweries and cider makers located in the City of Richmond.

Licensing Requirements: A brewery can open a distribution center in Virginia without having manufacturing capacity. However, they can only distribute beer from the facility to registered wholesalers; they can not sell beer directly to customers such as grocery

stores, convenience stores, restaurants, or the general public.

In addition to obtaining necessary licensing, new wineries, breweries and distilleries in Virginia are required to pass a food safety

inspection by the Virginia Department of Agri-culture and Consumer Services. For more, visit the Va. Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control website at www.abc.virginia.gov/licensing/manfwhole.htm

The City of Richmond welcomed Virginia’s first Growlers to Go store in December. Growlers to Go has 56 taps that include a rotating selection of Richmond-area beers as well as Virginia and other national craft favorites. A stock of about 150 types of bottled beer and some wine is also available. Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control regulations did not initially allow for this type of store. Growlers to Go owners worked with the Virginia ABC Board to amend regulations and additional Growlers to Go stores are planned for the region.

NEW BREWING LEGISLATION

LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

GROWLERS TO GO

CRAFT BEER IN ACTION

Four Virginia breweries won medals at the 2014 World Beer Cup, competing with 4,754 beers from around the world:

AWARD-WINNING VIRGINIA BEERS

Category 17: American-Belgo-Style Ale, 56 Entries

Gold: Whiter Shade of Pale Ale, Starr Hill Brewery, Crozet, Va.

Category 35: Vienna-Style Lager, 39 Entries

Silver: Vienna Lager, Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Outpost, Lexington, Va.

Category 45: American-Style Dark Lager, 18 Entries

Gold: Old Virginia Dark, Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Basecamp, Roseland, Va.

Category 77: Scotch Ale, 47 Entries

Silver: Heavy Red Horseman Scottish Style Ale, Apocalypse Ale Works, Forest, Va.

Growlers to Go, located in the City of Richmond, has 56 taps including local, state and national craft beers.

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n 7 Hills Brewing South 17th St., Richmond, Va. facebook.com/7hillsrva1n Ammo Brewing (coming 2016) 235 N Market St., Petersburg, Va. facebook.com/ammobrewingn The Answer Brewpub 6008 W. Broad St., Richmond, Va. theanswerbrewpub.comn Ardent Craft Ales 3200 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. ardentcraftales.comn B.J.’s Restaurant & Brewhouse 12010 W. Broad St., Henrico, Va. bjsrestaurants.comn Belle Isle Craft Spirits 615 Maury St., Manchester, Va. belleislecraftspirits.com n Black Heath Meadery 1313 Altamont Ave., Richmond, Va. facebook.com/blackheathmeadery n Blue Bee Cider 212 West 6th St., Richmond, Va. bluebeecider.comn Bodie Vineyards Winery 1809 May Way Dr., Powhatan, Va. bodievineyards.comn Buskey Cider (Coming 2016) 2910 West Leigh St., Richmond, Va. twitter.com/buskeybarreln Byrd Cellars 5847 River Rd. West, Goochland, Va. byrdcellars.comn Castleburg Brewery and Taproom 1626 Ownby Ln., Richmond, Va. castleburgbrewery.comn Center of the Universe Brewing Co. 11293 Air Park Rd., Ashland, Va. cotubrewing.comn Cirrus Vodka 1603 Ownby Ln., Richmond, Va. cirrusvodka.com n Cooper Vineyards 13372 Shannon Hill Rd., Louisa, Va. coopervineyards.comn Courthouse Creek Cider (Spring 2016) 1581 Maidens Rd., Goochland, Va. facebook.com/pages/Courthouse-Creek-Cidern Double Dizzy Brewery Amelia Court House, Va. doubledizzy.net

n Elk Island Winery 5759 River Rd. West, Goochland, Va. elkislandwinery.comn Extra Billy’s 1110 Alverser Dr., Midlothian, Va. extrabillys.com/brewery.phpn Final Gravity Brewing Co. 6118 Lakeside Ave., Richmond, Va. facebook.com/FinalGravityBrewingCon Fine Creek Brewing Company 2425 Robert E Lee Rd., Powhatan, Va. finecreekbrewing.com n Garden Grove Brewing Company 3445 West Cary St., Richmond, Va. gardengrovebrewing.comn Grayhaven Winery 4675 East Grayfox Cir., Gum Spring, Va. grayhavenwinery.comn Hardywood Park Craft Brewery 2408 Ownby Ln., Richmond, Va. hardywood.comn Isley Brewing Co. 1715 Summit Ave., Richmond, Va. isleybrewingcompany.com n James River Cellars Winery 11008 Washington Hwy, Glen Allen, Va. jamesrivercellars.comn James River Distillery 2700 Hardy St., Richmond, Va. jrdistillery.comn Kindred Spirit Brewing (upcoming 2016) Southlake Blvd, Midlothian, Va. facebook.com/ksbbeer n Legend Brewing Co. 321 W. Seventh St., Richmond, Va. legendbrewing.comn Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery 4100 Knolls Point Dr., Goochland, Va. lickingholecreek.com

n Midnight Brewery 2410 Granite Ridge Rd. #5, Rockville, Va. midnight-brewery.comn New Kent Winery 8400 Old Church Rd., New Kent, Va. newkentwinery.comn Reservoir Distiller 1800 Summit Ave., Richmond, Va. reservoirdistillery.comn Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery 18000 W. Broad St., Henrico, Va. rockbottom.comn Rusty Beaver Brewery 18035 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Ruther Glen, Va. rustybeaverbrewery.com n Saude Creek Vineyards 16230 Cooks Mill Road, Lanexa, Va. saudecreek.comn Skippers Creek Vineyards 965 Rockyford Rd., Powhatan Va. skipperscreekvineyard.comn Steam Bell Beer Works (Coming 2016) 1717 Oak Lake Blvd., Midlothian, Va. steambell.beer n Stone Brewing Co. (Coming 2016) Greater Fulton Community stonebrewing.comn Strangeways Brewing 2277A Dabney Rd., Richmond, Va. strangewaysbrewing.com n Triple Crossing Brewing Co. 116 S. Foushee St., Richmond, Va. triplecrossingbeer.comn The Veil Brewing Company (coming 2016) 1301 Roseneath Rd., Richmond, Va. theveilbrewing.com n Weston Farm Vineyard and Winery 206 Harris Creek Rd., Lousia, Va. westonfarmvineyardandwinery.com

RICHMOND’S REGIONAL BREWERIES, CIDERIES, DISTILLERIES AND WINERIES

Blue Bee Cider Center of the Universe Strangeways Brewing

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

n Virginia Winewww.virginiawine.org

Virginia Wine provides informa-tion about wineries, wine events, and the wine industry across Virginia. It is the most comprehen-sive guide to the state’s expansive wine industry. The site also provides support for the burgeon-

ing cider industry across the state.

n Virginia Vineyards Associationwww.virginiavineyardsassociation.com

The Virginia Vineyards Association began in 1979 as a joint effort among Virginia viticultur-ists, wineries and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The association promotes discussion of mutual interests in various aspects of the Virginia wine industry for all levels of wine enthusiasts.

n Bottle Society-Virginiawww.bottlesociety.com

The Bottle Society provides in-formation about the craft spirits industry across the U.S. The website allows visitors to filter

distilleries by state and view information such as recent news and locations of existing distilleries.

n Vine to Wine Co-opwww.vinewine.coop

The Vine to Wine Co-op, located in Richmond, seeks to create a pathway to success for Virginia

vineyards and winer-ies by taking control of stressful, time-con-suming processes like equipment purchases

and distribution. Members of the co-op remain in-dependent entrepreneurs while retaining benefits such as share of common stock and voting ability, preferred vendor contracting in each purchas-ing category, and custom wine club packing and shipping.

n Virginia Craft Brewers Guildwww.virginiacraftbrewers.org

The intent of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild is to organize craft brewers for purposes of economic

development, business development, supply chain management, tourism and government affairs. Mem-bership will be extended to craft brewers, and associate

memberships will be extended to businesses and organizations that provide support services or products to the industry (e.g., equipment

manufacturers, agricultural interests, economic development, etc.).

n VA Drinkswww.vadrinks.org

This website tracks Virginia’s craft and micro breweries. It provides information on recent beer-related news, a list of breweries, stores and outlets and is member based.

n Virginia Beer Wholesalers Associationwww.vbwa.org

The VBWA is a non-profit, tax exempt corporation representing Virginia’s inde-pendent, family-owned and operated beer distributors.

n Richmond Breweries Unitedwww.rvacraftbeer.com

Richmond Breweries United is a partnership between Richmond Regional Tourism, Richmond beer writers, and the Richmond area breweries. The goal is to educate others about Richmond’s rich beer

culture and to grow beer tourism to our beautiful city, one delicious sip at a time.

WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Craft Beverages Unlimited is an annual event held in Richmond, Virginia featuring expert speakers and an extensive trade show tailored to meet the specific needs of the craft beverage industry, as well as tastings, networking and social events.

The Virginia Wine Expo is the nation’s premier single-region wine and food event. The annual weekend-long event includes wines from guest regions, Walk-Around Grand

Tastings, and food from the region’s top-notch chefs.

Virginia Wine Month is a month-long celebration of local wine with special events, tastings, festivals and more at Virginia’s 200+ wineries statewide.

Virginia Cider Week features an event a day where cider enthusiasts can learn more at tastings, classes, and special events through-out the week. Establishments that celebrate

Cider Week include fine dining, farm-to-table cuisine, wine bars, bistros, wine and beer shops, taverns, neighborhood bars, casual cafés and more.

Capital Ale House National Beer Expo is held every July in Richmond. The National Beer Expo offers unlimited tastings of hand-crafted beer from breweries in Virginia and around the U.S. at the Walk-Around Grand Tasting.

CRAFT BEVERAGE EVENTS

The Partnership’s Rowena Fratarcan-gelo with Geoffrey Giraud of CDA USA and Lionel Candau of Ton-nellerie Sansaud, a French barrel company.

Attendees of the Virginia Wine Expo line up for tastings inside the Greater Richmond Con-vention Center. The six-day event is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday.

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n Richmond is strategically located at the mid-point of the East Coast, less than 100 miles from Washington, D.C.n Interstates 64, 95, 85 and 295 converge in the metro arean More than 55% of the nation’s consumers are within 750 milesn Two of the nation’s largest rail operators, CSX and Norfolk Southern, provide freight service and AMTRAK provides pas-senger servicen Richmond International Airport (RIC) provides about 200 daily flights with connecting flights to destinations worldwide. Wash-ington Dulles International Airport (IAD), one of the nation’s largest international airports, is only 120 miles from Richmond, with nearly 50 non-stop flights to international destinations n The Port of Richmond is a multi-modal freight and distribu-tion center on the James River. The Richmond Region’s shippers are also within 100 miles of the Port of Virginia at Hampton Roads, the 3rd largest container port on the U.S. East Coast

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Virginia agriculture, the state’s largest industry, supplies food and

beverage manufacturers with crops such as hops, soybeans and more.

n Black Hops Farm collaborates with distilleries, brew-eries, and restaurants to put quality Virginia agricultural products to use behind the bar. The farm serves the initial hops supply for James River Distillery’s Commonwealth Gin. Find out more at www.blackhopsfarm.com.

n Lucketts Mill HopWorks is the largest hops process-ing facility on the East Coast which is operated alongside Black Hops Farm. The processing facility is the first commercial-scale hops processing operation in the Mid-Atlantic region. Find out more at www.blackhopsfarm.com/lucketts_mill.html.

HOPS FARMING AND PROCESSING

Gov. McAuliffe an-nounces $80,000 in grants to aid an effort to build the Mid-Atlantic region’s first ever commercial-scale hops processing facility.

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The Richmond Region is a proven location for food and beverage re-lated R&D with companies such as Sabra and MWV leading the way.

Greater Richmond offers affordable wages and a productive, skilled

labor force of 6,200 food workers comfortable with 24/7 operations.

Appalachian Mountain Spirits Whiskey is a two-time

War Horn gold medalist

INDUSTRY INCENTIVES

Below is a sampling of available incentives relevant to the craft beverage industry. Contact the Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc. for further information about additional incentive opportunities.

Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund (AFID)

Strategic grant available to companies that produce “value-added agricultural or forestal products.” A minimum of 30% of the agricultural or forestal products to which the company is adding value must be produced within the Commonwealth of Virginia and the grant request may not exceed $250,000 or 25% of qualified capital expenditures

Virginia Jobs Investment Program Supports the creation of new jobs and investment and helps businesses train new and existing workers

Governor’s Opportunity Fund A “deal closing” fund to be employed at the Governor’s discretion to secure a company location or expansion in Virginia

Enterprise Zones Specially designated zones offer additional incentive opportunities

Barge and Rail Usage Tax Credit Tax credit given for moving goods by barge or rail

Research and Development Expenses Tax Credit Tax credit for R&D expenses

Major Business Facility Job Tax Credit A corporate income tax credit of $1,000 for each new full-time job created over a threshold number of jobs

n Local Universities and Local Breweries Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Randolph-Macon College (R-MC) professors and students benefit from hands-on experi-ence of applied science while assisting small craft brewers to acquire more in-depth knowledge of the microbial properties that are important to the brewing process. Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has worked with both VCU and R-MC. The VCU Lab has a sterile environ-ment, sub-zero freezer and other specialized equipment that can help Hardywood’s yeast management program. R-MC taught a micro-biology class using Hardywood Snapdragon, the brewery’s first sour, wild-yeast beer. Vir-ginia State University’s agricultural research station is working to identify hop varieties that grow well in Virginia. This would benefit both breweries and Virginia farmers.

n Center of the Universe Brewing Co. and The Richmond Flying Squirrels – Collabo-rated on “Chin Music” beer, described as “an

amber lager as crisp as opening night and as smooth as a walk-off swing. Chin Music is the perfect brew to enjoy while watching America’s favorite pastime, baseball.”

n Blue Bee Cider and the Virginia Histori-cal Society – “Complete Cyder” is based on a cider recipe from the 1742 edition of “The Compleat Housewife,” the first cookbook pub-lished in America, from the Virginia Historical Society’s rare book collection.

n Ardent Craft Ales and the Virginia Historical Society – Jane’s Percimon beer – crafted using a local 18th-century recipe from the Virginia Historical Society’s archives.

n Triple Crossing Brewing and the Poe Museum – The Masque of the Red Death hoppy imperial red ale – inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS

A member of the Richmond Flying Squirrels’ staff slings cans of Chin Music at The Diamond.

Richmond Flying Squirrels

The first beer sold in a can in the United States debuted in Richmond in 1935 by the

Gottfried Krueger Brewing Co.

Locally owned Mekong was voted Best Beer Bar in the country three times

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The Greater Richmond Partnership, Inc., is the regional economic development group representing the City of Richmond and the Counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico. We offer site location assistance and other services to domestic and foreign companies planning new or expanded facilities.

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WHY GREATER RICHMOND FOR YOUR BUSINESS? Richmond is the capital of Virginia, the center of commerce, government and academic endeavors:n Home to 10 Fortune 1000 headquartersn Population of nearly 1.3 millionn Diverse local economyn Located at the mid-point of the East Coast, less than 100 miles from Washington, D.C., with more than 50 percent of the nation’s consumers within a 750-mile radiusn Excellent transportation network with rail, air, and port servicen Nearly 30 colleges and universities with almost 80,000 stu-dents and more than 15,000 degrees conferred annuallyn Virginia is a right-to-work state with moderate wages, low levels of unionization, and Unemployment and Workers’ Com-pensation costs among the lowest in the U.S.

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