Below is a map of all the local watering holes, not just those in Scott’s Addition. Isley Brewing had opened the previous fall and was making beers such as Choosy Mother Peanut Butter Oatmeal Stout a five-minute walk away, but Sullivan remembers “empty city buildings with grass three feet high on the sidewalk.” The neighborhood remains a mix of anonymous low-slung industrial buildings, parking lots and new construction but this year has seen a steady stream of restaurant openings, including Peter Chang Cafe and Boulevard Burger & Brew, as well as announcements about condos and CrossFit studios.įour stops were recommended by the WaPo: Ardent Craft Ales, Blue Bee Cider, Three Notch’d Collab House, and The Veil. WaPo writer Fritz Kahn interviewed Ardent Co-founder Tom Sullivan on what the area was like in the 90s, and what it was like just ahead of the beer boom – or “malt-rush.”Īt first, “it was a bit of a zombie wasteland, to be honest with you,” Sullivan says. The Veil co-founder Dustin Durrance says it’s not a one-way street: “Ardent’s anniversary party was one of our biggest days,” he said, fueled by out-of-towners who came for the second annual event. “With the Veil, you can literally look down the street and see people walking up the street from their direction.” “Our business is bumping up every time someone opens,” says Ardent co-founder Tom Sullivan. The tasting rooms in Scott’s Addition share what Mailey calls “a strong sense of independence,” but they’ve also developed an interesting symbiotic relationship. The WaPo honed in on that in their article. Though many changes have occurred relatively quickly in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood, collaboration has been a consistent ingredient shared amongst many of the local makers taking roost, which we wrote about here, last week. In fact, within a two-mile radius, there are 11 breweries. ***Īs the WaPo pointed out, the entire Richmond scene is booming - you can find all the local breweries below, on a map we created earlier this year – but Scott’s Addition is one of the few places where you could spend the day walking from spot to spot. Within Richmond’s 60 square miles, there is one brewery per 10,000 adults, based on 2010 Census data that excludes people under the age of 20. Almost a third of all the beers or ciders produced in the Richmond-metro area (city, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Goochland) are made in Scott’s Addition. Reservoir Distillery was truly the first to hunker down in the industrial area, in 2009, though they only recently opened a tasting room on Summit Avenue.īy our calculations, there is a craft beverage maker for approximately every 437 residents in Scott’s Addition. and Three Notch’d RVA Collab House followed over the next three years - the latter four all opened in 2016. Ardent Craft Ales, Black Heath Meadery, Buskey Cider, Blue Bee Cider, Veil Brewing Co. In February, we wrote about the breweries that have flocked to the area since Isley Brewing Co. That’s right Richmond, there are now so many craft beverage makers in the historic Scott’s Addition area that the Washington Post ran a lifestyles featureon the “cutting-edge craft beers, Virginia ciders, even mead and whiskey” that can be found within the tiny beverage paradise.
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