In 2012 we passed the bill that allowed the brewery Renaissance that we are currently in. Previously breweries could not sell beer without food and also could not directly sell beer. Legend had to sell their beer to Brown distributing and then buy it back. That's how we went from 2 breweries to dozens.

https://m.styleweekly.com/richmond/bill-allows-brewers-to-skirt-abc-food-laws/Content?oid=1688886

Trail out past the slave walk on the land in between the river and the water treatment plant. Hence the name. It's basically across the river from rocketts landing. A pretty fun trail to bike or run.

They passed special laws recently for breweries, which i believe Hardywood's founders were involved with, to put them on par with wineries. Because it's good for Virginia and nobody gets their knickers in a bunch about people drinking beer until 10 or 11.

There are some agricultural loopholes wineries can take advantage of. Something about actually using the land of the establishment to grow crops allows them to operate differently. It was explained to me once but I can’t remember much of the details.

HBD to Oma!

What is your all-time favorite travel destination? And then what’s the top place on your bucket list?

So the simple answer is you have to sell at least as much food as liquor in VA so everything is going to be a restaurant. There are some new hotels/hotel bars that might be doing cool things but I haven’t been to any so not sure if they tried to do a club vibe.

That's insane. I wasn't aware of the bar laws. So how do wineries get away with it? I've been to a couple in the area and I don't even remember seeing food on the menu.

What's the poop loop? I'd Google it but...

code enforcement would be the usual, is that what you meant?

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The main issue is Virginia has really archaic bar laws. Tobacco Company is probably best you can get here.

LOL Hilarious

Yay I’m glad you went! I wonder if we interacted and just didn’t know it!

Yeah, it's not marked really at all. Cross Government and stay left of the tracks. Cross over Gillies Creek on the RR bridge and immediately the trail descends off to the left. Follow that for roughly half a mile and you'll come to an intersection marked by three tires. Go right there to come up to Jennie Scher. You can go straight, but it's basically just a half mile loop that runs back on itself.

Cross Jennie Scher and follow the RR tracks maybe 200 yards and off to the right there'll be a trail that ascends the hill. If you bear left at the fork and then cross the stream, there's a couple of miles of trail that serve as a loop. If you go right, there's an out and back trail that I've never run to the end of. It's at least more than a mile, and like I said, technical but very fun. The whole area has sharp turns, steep climbs, bridges and creek crossings. It's quite a find if you're an offroader.

not a strength of the city.

They're lesser known for a reason ;)

Locker Room RVA

This is good information! I've tried to take that trail before but was the signage isn't very clear on where the trail picks up after that first road crossing.

I like to go for a nice walk on the trail behind Pine Camp art center in north side. There’s an “art loop” which is silly but there is a nice walking trail that extends behind it all. I’m not sure how far it goes, I’ve never walked the whole thing.

My question is whether your power is also out.

Hours has come in and out all morning, with the latest outage lasting for the last hour or so.

We're in north chesterfield, and I can't find any sort of explanation from dominion's website. Happy birthday to your Oma!

Literally from an accounting standpoint this cannot happen unless the business wants to be audited and shut down.

Even the sketchiest businesses that I've seen the books around here don't fuck with that.

dope! I'll PM you so you can have my # when u make it in town. welcome to RVA :)

Just switched over to the Baltimore venue! I got an even better seat, in row A! Anybody else going to that show?

Wow, and Allen Weisselberg only got 5 months

I didn't know either of my grandmothers. One died when I was ten, the other when I was twelve. I mean I knew them but I didn't really know them if you know what I mean. Same with my grandfathers, only they both died before I was born.

I do have a set of grandparents who were my mom's foster parents when she was a teenager in the foster care system. That grandfather, before he passed away, gave me a love of foreign languages, playing instruments, and being a life long learner in general.