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Budweiser campaign highlights rift between ‘big beer,’ craft beer

RICHMOND, Va. – Attention, die-hard craft beer drinkers: This Bud’s not for you. After several years of losing ground to craft brewers, Anheuser-Busch, the country’s biggest brewe...

DATE: Feb 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Virginia brewery taps 300-year-old beer recipe

RICHMOND, Va. – What do you get when you combine water, American persimmons and hops and ferment it with yeast? A beer based on a 300-year-old recipe scribbled in a cookbook kept by Virginia...

DATE: Dec 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Army: Barricaded in office, soldier shot herself

FORT LEE, Va. – An enraged soldier with a gun barricaded herself in an office inside a major command’s headquarters, throwing objects and then shooting herself in the head as law enforcemen...

DATE: Aug 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Gay marriages could begin by next week in Virgina

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to delay its ruling striking down Virginia’s gay-marriage ban, which means that same-sex couples could begin marrying in the state a...

DATE: Aug 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. craft brews gain popularity overseas

RICHMOND, Va. – Helping to quench a growing thirst for American craft beer overseas, some of the United States’ largest craft breweries are setting up shop in Europe, challenging the very be...

DATE: Jul 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Craft brews are mixing it up on the summer cocktail scene

Cocktail connoisseurs are falling for craft beers in a new way – as a mixer. Bars around the country are tapping into the trend of mixing artisanal brews with hard liquor to creat...

DATE: Jul 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Craft beer reaches for skies

Trend reflects customers’ preference for specialty brews

DATE: Apr 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

GWAR frontman Brockie found dead in Virginia home

RICHMOND, Va. – Dave Brockie, who as “Oderus Urungus” fronted the alien-costumed heavy metal band GWAR during graphic and fake-blood-soaked stage shows for more than three decades, has died....

DATE: Mar 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Filming Kennedy’s last moments sobering for Lowe

RICHMOND, Va. – On his first day on the set of “Killing Kennedy,” Rob Lowe saw Ginnifer Goodwin donning a replica of the pink suit worn by first lady Jacqueline Kennedy when President John F...

DATE: Nov 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Early pumpkin beers brew dismay among drinkers

RICHMOND, Va. – It’s bad enough that back-to-school comes in June, and Halloween arrives in July. And, of course, we all know Christmas begins in September. But now even the craft-beer indus...

DATE: Sep 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food

Soldiers to suds

Iraq veterans join craft beer biz craze

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business

With some tweaks, cans make comeback in craft beer

RICHMOND, Va. – Nearly 80 years ago, Richmond revolutionized the beer world. For it was in this Southern city in 1935 that canned beer – complete with how-to instructions – was first sold. ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food