Parkway Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Salem, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Parkway Brewing

Established in 2012

Contact
739 Kessler Mill Rd, Salem, VA, 24153, United States
Description
We love our home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and we love the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469 mile scenic journey of mountainous wonder that showcases the natural beauty and unique heritage of our region. Beautiful vistas, distinctive music, oddball characters and fantastical folklore are just a few of the things that make our home a special place. It’s enough to make a person mighty thirsty.
The story of Parkway Brewing Company is a love story, a story that embodies the American Dream, a story of do-it-yourself determination, a story that continues on an exciting journey- much like the scenic highway for which Parkway Brewing is named. Two couples with a dream: a Master Brewer with a scientist’s brain and an artist’s palate, a visionary instigator with a dogged determination and their two creative and clever wives saw craft beer culture exploding across the nation and wanted to bring it home to the mountains of SW Virginia.
Since opening in 2013 on Kessler Mill Road in tiny Salem, Virginia, Parkway Brewing Company has not only created some of the state’s tastiest brews, but we’ve created a place that has brought together a community of like-minded, free-spirited beer lovers with a penchant for the great outdoors.

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6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bomber. Pours black with a large brown head. Smells of chocolates and coffee with a hint of fruit and smoke. Taste is heavy chocolate, some fruit, a good bit of smoky rubber. It's good but not my favorite. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried on 04 Sep 2015 at 19:19

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Pours black and thick, not much of a head.... but looks tasty. Aroma is slight smoke, chocolate, but it’s not very strong. Taste is smoked wood, chocolates, coffee. Yum
Tried from Bottle on 20 Aug 2015 at 17:37

6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Keg at Sedona Charlottesville. Hazy amber, medium sized creamy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of citrus, wood, bourbon, oak, vanilla. The taste is bitter citrus hops, bourbon, oak, vanilla. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness.
Tried on 02 Aug 2015 at 18:39

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Keg at World of Beer Charlottesville. Clear copper, thin fizzy white head, decent retention. Aroma of piney, resin, candied citrus hops, caramel malt. The taste is piney, citrus, tropical hops, pale malt. Medium bodied, strong lingering bitterness.
Tried from Can on 27 Jul 2015 at 18:27

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Light citrus but pretty boring. Golden pour with OK head. Light bitter finish. Bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jul 2015 at 15:32

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 2.5
On draft at blue 5 in Roanoke VA it is a clear light golden color with a slight head the aroma is hay and some hint of tin the taste is lemon with a strong flavor of metal
Tried from Draft on 16 Jul 2015 at 20:44

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
On draft at Blue Five Restaurant in Roanoke. Pours a hazy gold with a thin white head. Flavors of lemon and salt.
Tried from Draft on 16 Jul 2015 at 20:30

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Keg at Beer Run. Slightly hazy golden, large creamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of strong salt, pale malt, candied lemon, coriander. The taste is tart lemon, biscuit malt, coriander, mild salt.
Tried from Can on 09 Jul 2015 at 21:21

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Bottle share @ The Stein & Vine, Brandon. Thanks Ty! Orangé, col blanc. Arôme est houblonné, agrumes et agréablement citronné, notes vertes. Palais est malté tirant sur le pâle et caramel assez prenant et contrebalancé par un houblonné rappelant le Cascade et Amarillo. Retrouve un profil herbacé et agrumes fort plaisant, légère note épicée des houblons qui persistent en toute fin de bouche.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2015 at 14:06

8.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Briney malt, hay, funk, lemon nose. Cloudy amber, medium head. Malt and lemon, finishes with puffed wheat cereal. Light body easy carbonatoon, tart. Very wheaty, excellent!
Tried on 02 Jul 2015 at 18:13