first coastal brewing company bought old dominion and closed their brewpub. then they announced that they were closing VA operations entirely, and moving production to delaware.

granted, this is old news to those in the local beer know (the brewpub closed in ‘07 and the move was announced in october ‘08). i just found out about it this morning. it’s grumpifying (although not to the level of tuesday’s grump-inducing events).

i’m not a die-hard OD fan, but their beer (except for the burnt-tasting stout) is generally solid stuff. the founder of OD was a colleague of my parents’, and i went to a launch party of sorts for the beer in ‘89‘90, the summer before i started after my first year of college. (don’t do the math.¹ i was advised to keep my mouth shut about my age as i walked to the bar with several people from the office where i was interning.) it’s just a shame we’ll be losing our only local brewery.

obviously, there’s only one appropriate response to this: james, it’s time for you to get off your butt and make some more homebrew.

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saw rob riggle at the 6th & i synagogue last night. hilarity ensued.
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¹ my mother, of course, did the math and informed me i was off by a year. so i wasn’t quite as underage as i thought.