The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG) announced the 2023 Virginia Craft Beer Cup winners, with 125 breweries competing. Lost Barrel in Middleburg won four awards—a gold for its 2023 Stratazacca DIPA, a gold for its 2021 pale ale, a silver for its 2023 Hazy IPA and a bronze for its 2022 Tangerine Imperial IPA. Celebrating the good news were Tap Room Manager Bobby Martz, Brewmaster Dan Sickmen and General Manager Patrick Steffans.
Blair Howard, Allison Tripp and Dieter Rausch, owner of the German-inspired Christmas Sleigh emporium, with his daughter and granddaughter.Photo by Donna Strama
Natalie H. Ngounou was part of a packed house (estimated at 300-plus) in the Middleburg Ballroom at Salamander Resort & Spa for a chat and book signing with America’s first black female billionaire, Salamander founder and Middleburg resident Sheila Johnson. Her book, “Walk Through Fire,” is a “memoir of love, loss and triumph.”Photo by Donna Strama
Roger Beavers spoke at the Piedmont Heritage second annual History in Agriculture Concert celebrating farming heritage at the Fauquier Livestock Exchange. He’s a longtime former board member and cattleman. The evening included burgers (of course) and music from the Blue Mountain Songbird and Friends.Photo by Leonard Shapiro
The Land Trust of Virginia’s (LTV) Art of Conservation took place at Dot Shetterly’s Silverbrook Farm in Hillsboro. The program brings the Loudoun Sketch Club of Virginia to properties in easement with the LTV. Steffanie Burgevin, Kevin Ramundo, Dot Shetterly (LTV easement/landowner), Debra Bourget (Loudoun Sketch Club), Lilla Ohrstrom, Ashton Cole (LTV executive director) and Childs Burden.
