Line Dancing

We had an awesome, awesome day!!! Almost as fun as this day, same brew location! All that was missing was the funk music ; )

We drove out to Devil’s Backbone Brewery, apparently winner of the 2010 Champion Brewery and Brewmaster of a Small Pub!

I was invited as a member of the Cville press to attend the event, although all the brew+oyster purchases were our own.

The landscape in central Virginia is unbelievable

Gorgeous mountains in all directions and lots of people, food, beer and music

This was our second DBB event but we had yet to taste all of the beers, so we went inside first to give them whirl

I had the Maibock and Matt had the Rye Ale – both were excellent! Both half pints as well, we were saving up!

Back outside, the sun was out, the beer was flowing

And the lines were SUPER long!!

We waited about 20 minutes in line for this Star Hill Festie

And a DBB WINTERGREEN WEISS

The star of the event were the oysters, though, and we bought some tickets to get both beer + oysters. The Oyster Fest was a great initiative to support the Chesapeake Bay, which Nelson County waterstreams feed into. Read more about the awesome sustainable oyster and recycling here.

Matt and I also waited in a super long line to get some steamed oysters –

We found a CRAB in them!

And enjoy a few in cocktail sauce

After more music, we ended up going back inside for another sample of a different DBB beer. Turns out the beer was cheaper in the brewery than in the festival – more variety too! I tried the stout – another half pint.

Once back outside (hours are passing here!) we enjoyed more music and a local hot dog – with all the fixins – with our last ticket

Lines for the bathrooms!

We eventually made our way back home (a long drive) and over to Faith + Tate’s for a cookout!

Biker’s rights!

They were cooking up a storm of veggies and tofu

We brought a big bunch of local Virginia asparagus to donate to the potluck [plus bread + beer!]

Per usual, lots of wine was flowing, and we got to meet a lot of cool new guys in their neighborhood

For dinner I had veg, tofu and red wine

And for dessert, we celebrated Gavin’s birthday! {Tate’s brother!}

Small piece of chocolate flour cake for moi!

We biked home, huffing and puffing, and are ready for night #2 of a late bedtime! Last night I stayed up until midnight reading my awesome book, Resistance by Anita Shreve. She sure knows how to write a good book!