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We’re so excited for @junipertreemusic to make their Benchtop debut today. They’ll be joining us from 4-6.

We invite you to join us anytime between 12-10! 😉🤗🙌🍻🌭

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$5 Friday! Come get you a mug after work. You won’t regret it. 🍺 🙌

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🌾 TODAY, 3pm - NFK 🌾
🌾 FRIDAY, 12pm -online shop
🌾 Tuesday, 3 pm - @benchtopbrewing_rva Tasting Room 🌾

We present the newest iteration of our beloved house pilsner Crispy Whip. Throughout the years we have constantly tinkered with the yeast, malt bill, and hop schedule in an effort to continuously improve this beer.

We felt the wonderful results from our recent exploration into the world of decoction mashing needed to be explored here. At it's core, this pilsner was designed to combine the things we love of about Czech Pilsner and German Pilsner into something we call our own. We actually ran the first turn of a double batch day with a wonderful undermodified German Pilsner malt from @sugarcreekmaltco and a single decoction mash schedule. We then ran the 2nd turn utilizing our tried and true German style step mash utilizing Bavarian pilsner malt. By blending these two methods, we feel we have taken this concept to the next level.

For some time we have felt that our house pilsner deserved a rebrand and it's own special artwork. We again commissioned @joshasorusrex and he once again didn't disappoint. The idea here was to really highlight the hops and the foam. As you may know, we enjoy bitter or at the very least balanced beer over here. Foam stability is also of great importance to us and we are thrilled with how that has really come to life in this artwork.

🌾 4.8% ABV
🌾 $14.50 4-pack

🌿 HERBAL
🌾 SOFT BREADY FLAVOR
🪴FRESHLY MOWN HAY
💐 FLORAL

📸: @goldendazephoto

💌 There's nothing better than having beer delivered right to your doorstep. Visit our online shop, order up your favorite Benchtop brews & get ready to enjoy our freshest releases without even leaving your house!

#benchtopbrewing #drinklocal #loyaltolocal #craftbeer #beer #beerstagram #instabeer #craftbeerlife #cheers #nfkbeer #nfkbreweries #norfolk #757beer
#beerrelease #freshbeerhere #canningdaysarethebestdays #vacraftbeer #virginiacraftbeer #beerphotography

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⌛ TODAY, 3pm - NFK ⌛
⌛ FRIDAY, 12pm -online shop
⌛ Tuesday, 3 pm - @benchtopbrewing_rva Tasting Room ⌛

Our exploration into the world of Czech Lagers has brought us here with the release of Anytime Pivo. As soon as we heard about what @sugarcreekmaltco was doing with Czech Moravian lace race varieties of pilsner malt, we knew we had to try to get our hands of some this special product. This Edelweiss malt is highly under modified creating the need for an intensive decoction mash process. This is our first beer using this double decoction mash method.

We decided to keep the boil steps fairly short as we wanted to break down the malt and deliver some additional rich flavors, but we still wanted to maintain a pilsner that is quite light and crisp. In order to really evaluate this mash process and new exciting pilsner malt, we kept this pilsner out of the foeders and it was aged in our horizontal stainless bright tanks. We layered the hop additions with hand selected Czech Saaz hops for some delightful spicy notes to compliment gentle bread dough and hay that this malt delivers. Clocking in at 4.1%, this delightful pilsner can also be enjoyed anytime.

We also felt this was a perfect opportunity to feature the 4 tap tower from @lukr.cz we purchased for our @benchtop_rva location about a year ago. We commissioned the super talented @joshasorusrex to come up with this incredibly clean artwork. This will be a tasting room exclusive so that we can justify the extremely labor intense process utilized to deliver this delicious beer.🍺🍺

⏱️4.1% ABV
⏱️$14.00 4-pack

🌿 HERBAL
🌾 SOFT BREADY FLAVOR
🪴SPICY NOBLE CHARACTER
💐 FLORAL

📸: @goldendazephoto

💌 There's nothing better than having beer delivered right to your doorstep. Visit our online shop, order up your favorite Benchtop brews & get ready to enjoy our freshest releases without even leaving your house!

#benchtopbrewing #drinklocal #loyaltolocal #craftbeer #beer #beerstagram #instabeer #craftbeerlife #cheers #nfkbeer #nfkbreweries #norfolk #757beer
#beerrelease #freshbeerhere #canningdaysarethebestdays #vacraftbeer #virginiacraftbeer #beerphotography

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Have you checked out our upcoming events for the month of April? If not, you should, they’re going to be a lot of fun!

Tap the link in our bio for details and to reserve your spot today.

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It’s trivia night! Come hang with us and @highfivetrivia to test your knowledge. Points for correct AND funny answers. Prizes for 🥇 and 🥈 place.

🤓 Trivia starts at 7.
🍺 Taproom opens at 4.

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🚨 Beer Drop 🚨
#citrahops fans take note! Mini Machine and Redemption Gong are back and available on draft and in package.

We also welcome, Brown 🐻 Honey Pot - Batch 5.

For our solera Batch #5 of our Foeder Oud Bruin Series Brown Bear Honey Pot, we took our Batch #3 that was refermented with fresh local peaches and then let it rest in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels for a year!!

🥃 This aging mellows out the acidity a little and adds some nice subtle notes of vanilla to compliment our rich oud bruin base. As usual this beer is 100% bottle/keg conditioned with local honey. 🐝🍯🐝🍯🐝

Scoop some up today!_____________________
Don’t forget on Tuesday’s we offer 15% off all package!

Taproom opens at 4.

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It's another great week at 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠! Tap 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 ⬇️ for more details on this week’s releases and happenings!

𝐌𝐎𝐍:
❓𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐀 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 7PM
🏅1st & 2nd place prizes
🍲Food: 757 Laos Street Food @757laosstreetfood
👩🏻‍⚕️ Medical & Military folks earn 10% off

𝐓𝐔𝐄𝐒*:
😁 Happy Hour 3-6pm

𝐖𝐄𝐃*:
💥F͙͛L͙͛A͙͛S͙͛H͙͛ S͙͛A͙͛L͙͛E͙͛! Discounts on Full Pours of 🧪 Proven Theory 🧪

𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐑*:
📺🎶 MUSIC VIDEO BINGO NIGHT 6:30PM
☸️ winner's get to spin a prize wheel & win Benchtop goodies!

🍻𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑦!
⏱️ Anytime Pivo - Double decocted Czech Pale Lager
🍺 Crispy Whip Pilsner

𝐅𝐑𝐈:
🎶Live Music: @matt_holloman 6-9pm
🍕Food Truck: @jmtveganeats
💸15% discount on cases of new releases!

𝐒𝐀𝐓:
🎶Live Music: @sammyleemusic 6-9pm
🍜 Food Truck: @gavinsdishes

𝐒𝐔𝐍:
🍕 @sourstreetpizza

*on days we don't have food trucks, our neighbors @chelseabakehouse will deliver pizza to you right here at the brewery via QR code on your table! 🍕😍

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Coming up this week in #ManchesterRVA!

#rva #rvabeer #virginiaisforbeerlovers #vacraftbeer #drinklocal #rvaadventures #exploreyourneighborhood

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Helloooo Sunday! Hopefully 🤞you know the drill. We’ve got kick the can/draft specials today starting at $3. We’ll have #marchmadness and footy on the telly.

We’ll be here from 12-7. Let’s get it team! 💃

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Norfolk Tasting Room

1129 Boissevain Ave
Norfolk, VA 23507

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3pm – 9pm

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3pm – 9pm

Wednesday

3pm – 9pm

Thursday

3pm – 9pm

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12pm – 10pm

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12pm – 10pm

Sunday

12pm – 7pm

Richmond Tasting Room

434 Hull Street
Richmond , VA 23224

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4pm – 9pm

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12pm – 10pm

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12pm – 7pm

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