Crooked Run Brewing

➡️ Friends, we will be entering Phase 2 at both locations this Friday! We'll continue to have patio seating (it's supposed to be a beautiful weekend) but we will also have indoor seating in Sterling for Crooked Run, Daybreak and Nectar, with patio seating in Leesburg. We'll be strictly adhering to all state issued guidelines. Hours: Fri-Sat 12-7, Sun 12-5.
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🚘 If you're not quite ready to venture out yet, we'll still be offering curbside to-go, local delivery and shipping throughout Virginia and DC. See website for details.
Note: we are discontinuing Arlington pickup.

💧Releasing this Friday: Waterfall gose and Storm west coast IPA! If you enjoyed Viva, Waterfall is our latest easy drinking gose made with peaches, plums, riesling juice, and sea salt! Lightly tart, super crushable, with a touch of salt. Our favorite west coast IPA, Storm, is back, featuring citrusy and dank 100% Simcoe hop flavor.
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🚘 Open for curbside at 2. Stay tuned for expanded patio seating hours!

Sterling outdoor seating opens at 12! Friday release: Razzz overfruited sour IPA w/raspberries and Gilt helles lager. Razzz is a super thick, super fruited version of Raspberry Empress, featuring huge jammy raspberry and Mosaic hop flavor. These cans have some stability but are best stored cold to prevent refermentation. Limit one four pack PP. Gilt is our helles lager, a simple but nuanced beer with a touch of dry, biscuity flavor and pleasant lemony hop flavor.

🌷 FRIDAY: Sterling outdoor seating will be open for on-premise consumption this weekend during our curbside hours, at max capacity of 35 with additional seating for @daybreakbiscuit. BRING A MASK it's required by law to have one to use our indoor bathrooms. We're strictly adhering to Phase I guidelines and want to make sure this runs as smoothly as possible. Guests will have a 2 hour time limit per table. No cash.
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👉 If you're not ready to venture out yet, we've still got curbside, local delivery, and statewide/DC shipping. Razzz sour IPA and Gilt helles releasing tomorrow!
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🌷 6/2: Good news! This Friday at 12, we'll be opening our Sterling outdoor seating at limited capacity. *You must bring a mask since our bathrooms are located indoors.* Parties of 6 or less can enjoy spaced tables and chairs outside with beer and food from @daybreakbiscuit available (no tacos yet unfortunately.) Seating is capped at 35 and is on a first come first seated basis. Again, *you must bring a mask. You do not have to wear it at your table, but legally you need one to use our bathroom, so you will not be admitted without one.* No cash, electronic payment only.
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Let's work together to make this work!
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Friday double release!
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🍇 First up is Razzz! Razzz is an overfruited version of Raspberry Empress featuring an absurd amount of raspberries and Mosaic hops. This mega fruited sour IPA is incredibly thick, tart, jammy, and sweet. We have taken steps to stabilize these cans but they should still be stored cold otherwise some refermentation could occur. Limit 1 four pack PP. No shipping or delivery on this beer.
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👑 Next is Gilt. Gilt is a helles lager made with premium pilsner malt, a very small amount of biscuit malt, and hopped with German Lemon Candy hops (hands down our favorite hop for lagers.) It features natural carbonation and uses our second house lager yeast, creating a drier finish. This represents our continual quest to elevate our lagers and we're very happy with this second iteration.
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New blog post is up, taking an in-depth look at saisons! If saisons aren't your favorite style, it might be just because you haven't found the right one. We may be able to help. https://www.crookedrunbrewing.com/blog
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☀️ Plenty of Saving Light and Harmonic Convergence available at both locations as well as Heart and Soul, Raspberry Empress, Coast, and So Close/So Far.
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🌷 A reminder: we are not open for on premise consumption yet. Looking to have limited outdoor seating next weekend. Stay tuned.
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Between Two Beers Episode 4

Crooked Run is launching a weekly talk show hosted by our very own Zak Cannon.

Zak will have a new guest on each week to discuss life, love, & beer over the course of.... two beers!

The tough questions will be asked, the guests will be not famous, and the jokes will be terrible.

Episode 4 features owner of For Goodness Sake Natural Foods, Ally Blaine

🌄 Two new beers available today: Harmonic Convergence IPA and Saving Light saison.
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🌌 Harmonic Convergence features some of the choicest newschool hops (Galaxy, Sabro, and Zappa) for a huge burst of tropical flavor. Featuring our April label design contest winner @janey.green!
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☀️ Saving Light is our latest Native Culture beer, a saison utilizing a yeast strain cultured from elderflowers in Leesburg, slowly fermented, and then bottle conditioned and lagered. It features restrained esters, zippy hop flavor and aroma, light candy notes, and a super dry finish.
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📦 Shipping throughout VA and DC, with curbside pickup and local delivery. See website for ordering.
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📺 Between Two Beers airing tonight at 7. Our guest will be our friend and neighbor Ally Blaine, owner of @fgs_leesburg!
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🍾 Bottling a new mixed ferm sour we made with some Georgia friends...it's been crazy to see how quickly you all went after all our sour bottles. These beers don't adhere to any timetable for when they're ready to release, but we're always working on more.
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⛔ Just a reminder, we are not ready to open our taproom tomorrow. Hang tight, when we are ready we will have the best system possible in place when we do open our taproom for phase I.
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Hopefully you all have kinder friends than this guy and are able to share a 750 of saving light this weekend. See you all then

🌷 Hey folks, with the prospective Phase I reopening this Friday, we wanted to let you all know that while we are working on reopening our outdoor seating, we are not ready to this weekend. After talking to some of our friends in other parts of the state, we really want to be fully prepared before we give this a go. Our goal is to have the best system in place possible when we do, so stay tuned for more info.
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🚘 Open for curbside today! Coming this Friday (online sales begin Wednesday):
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🪐 First up is Harmonic Convergence, our label contest beer. We had an open competition to design a beer label back in April, and here's the winning design by @janey.green! Congrats, Janey, you're a natural! Harmonic Convergence is an IPA with Galaxy, Sabro, and Zappa hops. This beer has got huge tropical flavors from some of the most aromatic hops out there.
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☀️ Second is our latest Native Culture beer, Saving Light. Saving Light is our first 100% saccharomyces-fermented saison we've brewed in quite some time. We first brewed this beer at the start of Daylight Savings Time in 2017. We revisited this beer using our elderflower-cultured saison strain, using a fermentation regimen which focuses on dryness, low esters, lager-like crispness, earthiness, and slight candy sweetness, finished with a good amount of Hallertauer Blanc and Centennial dry hops. This beer is bottle conditioned at a very high carbonation level, and was lagered for over a month after conditioning. It also features 100% Virginia grown pilsner and wheat malt. We're extremely proud of this beer and hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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👨‍🍳 Been creating anything cool during the past couple months? Tag us in your photo for a chance to win a $25 gift card! One interesting thing about brewers is that they also like to make a lot of other things than just beer. Pictured: sourdough from Garrett Pierce of @blackhoofbeer , kimchi from Austen Conn of @wheatlandspring , and pasta from @jakeendres of uhhh some dumb brewery.
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📊 Case count:
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Melt: Sterling 29 Leesburg 6
So Close/So Far: Sterling 35 Leesburg 5
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Reminder: We will be open for curbside Memorial Day.
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Between Two Beers Episode 3

Crooked Run is launching a weekly talk show hosted by our very own Zak Cannon.

Zak will have a new guest on each week to discuss life, love, & beer over the course of.... two beers!

The tough questions will be asked, the guests will be not famous, and the jokes will be terrible.

Episode 3 features cidermaker & tasting room manager at Wild Hare Cider, Stephen Kelly

Torrey B.

Tonight at 5pm!

Start your perfect Friday happy hour with a live stream of Torrey B.!

Then at 7pm its time for episode 3 of "Between two Beers" featuring Cidermaker and Tasting Room Manager of Wild Hare Hard Cider, Stephen Kelly!

🖤 Friday release: Melt imperial milk stout w/peanut butter, marshmallows, and cacao nibs plus So Close/So Far IPA collab with @wheatlandspring w/Julius, Denali, and Mosaic hops! Melt, our rich, thick imperial milk stout absolutely packed with fluffernutter flavor, is back for all of you with an incurable sweet tooth. So Close/So Far is our latest collab with our western Loudoun friends, made with estate grown wheat and an aromatic blend of hops. 🌾
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🌓 Open for curbside and local delivery starting at noon today, shipping throughout VA and DC (see website)
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📺 Between Two Beers airs tonight at 7, link posted on FB. Zak will be interviewing Steven from @wildharecider in what Zak referred to as a "tour de force."
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🔥🔥🔥 Dayummm, look what we just got! @daybreakbiscuit blueberry habanero hot sauce! We naturally fermented fresh habaneros and blueberries using our house sour culture and whipped up this spicy sauce. Bottles available now at Daybreak in Sterling, visit daybreakbiscuit.com for ordering. This is unpasteurized, minimally processed goodness with lots of antioxidants and probiotics. Also, it's effin tasty (and hot)! Open for curbside at 2 with Viva, Heart and Soul, Empress, Coast, Verdant, and more!
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📺 New episode of Between Two Beers airs tomorrow at 7. Our guest will be Steven Kelly of @wildharecider !
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🌻 Reminder: Now open 7 days a week. Thanks to y'all's wonderful generosity, we raised over $500 for our beers for essential workers fund. We originally started the fund at $1000, which means collectively together we've bought over a hundred essential works beer! 🙏❤🤗
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🌞 Good news! First, we're now open Monday and Tuesday for curbside from 2-7! Second, we've got two exciting releases scheduled for Friday:
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👉 👈 First up is So Close/So Far, a collab with our good friends at @wheatlandspring. This crisp, lightly hazy IPA is made with a large portion of estate-grown wheat, with a heavy addition of Julius, Denali, and Mosaic hops. Light bitterness, slight pineapple, fresh cut grass, and a drier finish from our second house yeast strain create a very crushable IPA.
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🍫🍫🍫 Second is Melt! One of our favorite milk stouts returns, overloaded with peanut butter, cacao nibs, and marshmallows. This is the most pastry-forward stout we make, with a super-thick body and massive amount of peanut butter and marshmallow flavor.
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🛵 Beer available for local delivery Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. 📦 Beer shipping throughout VA and DC every Monday and Thursday. 🚘 Open for curbside in Leesburg and Sterling 7 days a week. Arlington pickup available Friday!
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Hey folks, sold out of Sticky Rice. Plenty of our core beers available plus a small quantity of Supernatural, Viva, Verdant, and Pyramid Scheme. Hope you're enjoying your weekend! 🐟🐟🐟
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Tasting Supernatural & Saving Light with Brad & McKinnen

Supernatural is one of our favorite beers so in honor of it's release our Head Brewer, McKinnen and our Head of Sour production, Brad sat down to open a bottle of our recent release and discuss the history of the beer and discuss a little bit about what makes it so special.

This slightly out of focus video is very informative and we open a bottle of Saving Light, our barrel-fermented Saison that will be released later this month as well!

Cheers!

Our Head Brewer, McKinnen & Head of Sour Production, Brad talk about two of our favorite beers to release. Supernatural is an Imperial Saison with Hibiscus t...

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16 cases remaining of Sticky Rice in Sterling and 3 in Leesburg. Enjoy the sunshine!
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Between 2 Beers episode 2: Chris Banich, Fairwinds Brewing Co.

Crooked Run is launching a weekly talk show hosted by our very own Zak Cannon.

Zak will have a new guest on each week to discuss life, love, & beer over the course of.... two beers!

The tough questions will be asked, the guests will be not famous, and the jokes will be terrible.

Episode 2 features Director of Sales at Fairwinds Brewing Co., Chris Banich

Episodes will be uploaded every Friday at 7 with a live watch party immediately after upload

🍚🍊🥥 Friday triple beer release: Sticky Rice Berliner w/mangoes, coconut, and rice milk, Supernatural saison w/hibiscus and Nelson hops, and Pyramid Scheme IPA. We're stoked to bring back three of our most popular beers for this release. We've also got Carrera Mexican-style lager, Verdant Force DIPA, plus Coast, Heart and Soul, and Raspberry Empress. Come on by from 12-7 today, 12-7 Saturday, and 12-5 Sunday. Local delivery and shipping also available, see website for details.
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📺 This evening at 7, we'll be airing a new episode of Between Two Beers, our ten minute talk show. We've got our old friend Chris Banich on to talk about his quarantine-related activities (read: drinking), why none of those banish Banich stickers worked, and how things are going with our pals over in Lorton.
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❤ Heart and Soul is back! We've got all three cores available, plus Viva and Verdant Force!
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🐔 Don't forget you can pick up chicken and biscuits plus cocktails, mimosas, and sangria to-go in Sterling! Next door at Daybreak we've got the flakiest buttermilk biscuits baked fresh daily, plus super crispy beer-brined and buttermilk fried chicken, house-made jams, and more. At Nectar we're offering $7 16 ounce mimosas to-go (meal must be purchased per ABC rules) made with fresh-squeezed OJ and our house Prosecco.
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🍺 🍺 Tomorrow, we're airing the next episode of Between Two Beers, our weekly short talk show with our GM Zak, a new guest, and a couple of beers. Our next guest is none other than Chris Banich of @fairwindsbrew.

Some of you who have been with us since the early days might remember Jake used to write a little blog for the brewery...well, it's back! New article is up about the past two months during this pandemic. Crookedrunbrewing.com/blog
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The brewery blog started back in 2011 as a way to talk about the process of opening, the challenges and opportunities of being a small brewery, and our evolution over the years. These past months have given us all plenty of time for introspection, and we feel that the blog was a good way to be closer to our customers and helps maintain transparency and openness. Anyways, check it out if you have some free time. Link in bio.
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🥭🥥🥭🥥 Guess what? This Friday, Sticky Rice, Pyramid Scheme and Supernatural are back! Sticky Rice is our Thai dessert-inspired Berliner with mangoes, rice milk, and coconut. Thick, lightly tart, with pleasant coconut and ripe mango aroma.
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🔼 Pyramid Scheme is our 100% Mosaic DDH IPA, with a smooth, low bitterness and full of juice.
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🌺 Supernatural is a strong, dry saison made with organic hibiscus flowers and Nelson Sauvin hops. The result is a beer reminiscent of a dry blush wine, with a brilliant magenta hue and light tropical hop notes.
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↪ We're back open for curbside and delivery this Wednesday along with Daybreak and Nectar, with shipping throughout VA and DC. Flat $15 ship rate! See website for menu and ordering.

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Happy Mother's Day! If you're keeping distant with your mom right now, we've got delivery and shipping available. We've also got delivery and curbside brunch from @daybreakbiscuit plus cocktails, wine, and mimosas from @nectarcocktailbar.
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