Nelson County, Virginia
Two days, then summer 2010 is over. Officially, fall begins Wednesday night at 11:09 PM EDT. But you won’t know it from the temperatures. Though we will be mainly in the 80’s on Tuesday, 90’s are back in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday. There’s a slight chance of rain Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, but not much. Most people will see nothing. A slight better chance of showers enters the forecast by the weekend, with much cooler weather by the start of next week!
Come out and enjoy the sounds of Matt Horn and Friends as they perform on Saturday, October 2nd from 6:30 to 8:30 pm as part of our Oktoberfest events.
Event Date: Saturday 2nd of October 2010 06:30 PM
Location/Address: Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Road, Afton, VA 22920
Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information
Come join us and participate in our Oktoberfest Corn Hole Tournament on Monday, September 27th from 5 to 7 pm. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams.
Event Date: Monday 27th of September 2010 05:00 PM
Location/Address: Blue Mountain Brewery, 9519 Critzers Shop Road, Afton, VA 22920
Contact Telephone Please call 540-456-8020 for more information
Afton
Nelson County, Virginia
Barbara and Ed Funke, owners of MountainSide Petting Farm in Afton, have created a truly unique place. The farm is very kid friendly and allows the little ones to see all kinds of animals from the common ones to the not so common ones.
A father and son check out the camel at MountainSide Petting Farm this past weekend. The youngsters hold up different animals as Jimbo and Kim sing about them.
On Saturday MountainSide held a Hoe Down for kids and parents to come out and enjoy a day at the farm and meet all of the animals. Kim and Jimbo Cary were on hand to sing some of their favorite animal tunes for the kids. They sang all about snakes, and frogs, and turtles and bats and more! If you haven’t heard their CD about all of the animals, be sure to grab a copy, it’s one of the cutest things we’ve ever heard!
Junior Publisher, Adam Stafford, got the chance to run a foul at the Hoe Down this past Saturday!
Both Nelson Breweries took home gold at this years Great American Beer Festival in Colorado.
Denver, Colorado
Nelson County’s breweries have taken wins during The Great American Beer Festival held this past weekend in Denver Colorado. Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton won a gold for their Sandy Bottom in the American-Style Wheat Beer category. 22 other entries were in the category with BMB. “We won the Gold in the very first category (American-style wheat) of the competition. The premier of this beer at the pub will be this Thursday, so it’s a cool way to roll it out. And Kolsch 151 got a bronze in the German-style Kolsch category! Funny that all those folks in the audience had no idea what the “151” meant,” laughs Taylor Smack, head brewmaster and co-owner of Blue Mountain.
Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Roseland (Beech Grove) walked away a big winner for the 2nd year since opening. DBBC took home two gold medals and two bronze medals. In the gold categories their Baltic Coffee won in the Coffee Flavored Beer (52 Entries). Their Gold Leaf Lager won gold in the American-Style or International-Style Pilsener (27 Entries). In the bronze category their Ale of Fergus English-Style Mild Ale (27 Entries) along with their Wintergreen Weiss South German-Style Hefeweizen (65 Entries).
Nelson’s breweries (part of the larger Brew Ridge Trail) went home as two of the three winners in Virginia this year. The only other Virginia brewery winning this year was Great American Restaurant (Sweetwater Tavern) in Centerville, Virginia. The won a gold for their GAR Pale Ale.
