{"id":61478,"date":"2025-02-01T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/bee-beer-virginia-craft-beer-magazine\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T05:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T05:17:15","slug":"bee-beer-virginia-craft-beer-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=61478","title":{"rendered":"Bee Beer | Virginia Craft Beer Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>(Revelers at Stable Craft Brewing\u2019s Renaissance Festival enjoy a special mead-inspired beer, partially fermented with honey.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jeff Maisey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hampton Roads Honey Festival will debut August 4 at The St. George Brewing Company with a little help from the Colonial Beekeepers and 1700 Brewing. The event will be educational, yet delicious with all things bee-made, including a variety of honey products, honey beer, and honey crafts. Attendees can even learn how to be a beekeeper and maintain a backyard beehive.<\/p>\n<p>The event is a natural for St. George as it maintains several honey bee hives and produces the multi-award-winning Honey Mead Lager.<\/p>\n<p>Honey, of course, is often associated with mead and its production during Medieval times, especially in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. And yet mead actually is thought to date to 6500 BC China, making it older than the wheel. Other research suggests it dates back to 20,000 BC when it was made by bush tribes in Africa.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mead \u2014 a sweet fermented liquid made with water, spices, and honey \u2014 was consumed in ancient times by everyone from the Vikings to Egyptians, Roman citizens to the Greeks and Mayans. It is confirmed as the oldest alcoholic drink in human history. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Inspired, perhaps, by this ancient drink, craft brewers today are integrating honey beers into their portfolio of releases.<\/p>\n<p>The National Honey Board has researched the applications of brewing beer with honey. These include adding honey to the boil, to primary fermentation, the high Krausen (to soften bitterness), and packaging.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Honey Board, \u201cThe strength of the honey flavor in honey beer depends upon four major factors: the stage of the brewing process at which the honey is added, the type of beer, the quantity of honey used, and the type of honey used.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And honey beers are trending up, say the folks at the NHB: \u201cOne of the main reasons craft brewers are drawn to honey is its ability to provide a variety of flavor profiles to match the type of beer being brewed. In the United States alone, there are more than 300 varieties of honey, all with unique flavor profiles, derived from floral sources such as alfalfa, wildflower, buckwheat, and tupelo.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the 2024 Global Honey Beer Market Research Report, sales of honey beers are projected to reach $1.85 billion by 2029.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s craft beer makers \u2014 in addition to St George Brewing \u2014 are expanding use of honey as an ingredient.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This past spring, Stable Craft Brewing held its Britchin\u2019 Brown Renaissance Fest where it debuted \u201cBrag About It\u201d Braggot Ale \u2014 a special mead-inspired beer, partially fermented with honey and conditioned on blueberry and chipotle peppers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stable Craft will double-down on renewed trend in late summer with Honey Lager, which they describe as a \u201ccarefully crafted lager infused with the richness of pure, locally-sourced honey, creating a golden-hued brew that perfectly balances the crispness of a lager with the delicate sweetness of honey.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bear Chase Brewing serves Honey Badger, an amber lager made with honey from the Quail and Hound farm in Middleburg. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Blue Mountain Brewery produces the seasonal Monticello Mountain Ale using honey produced at Monticello.<\/p>\n<p>Old Bust Head Brewing describes its crisp and refreshing Herb and Honey Ale as a \u201cunique brew inspired by the traditional Tej honey wine from Ethiopia. Herb &amp; Honey Ale was made from fermented honey and the twigs of the hop-like gesho tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mineral Brewing uses local honey from Hungry Hill Farm in its Hungry Hill Hazy NEIPA to add a noticeable sweetness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clover honey is added to 2 Silos Brewing\u2019s Cream Ale \u201cas a tribute to the brewery\u2019s past as a dairy\u201d along with the ingredients milk sugar, natural vanilla, and orange peel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other honey brews to try: Tradition Brewing Company\u2019s Honey Brown Ale, Strangeways Brewing\u2019s B-Sides Honey Bock, Brown Bear Honey Pot by Benchtop Brewing, and Hardywood\u2019s Hopkeeper Double IPA with Virginia Honey.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Revelers at Stable Craft Brewing\u2019s Renaissance Festival enjoy a special mead-inspired beer, partially fermented with honey.) 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