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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6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Spacebar, Falls Church tap: pours light orange with a small white head. Aroma is slight citrus and the mineral. Taste is a bit sweet, moderately salty, and somewhat sour. More bacbone than I would have liked.
Tried from Draft on 27 Jun 2015 at 20:56

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Slightly hazy golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of salt, citrus, light hay. Tastes of light salt, citrus, light herbs and funk. Light body with a dry finish. Solid gose.
Tried from Draft on 25 Jun 2015 at 18:38

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle. Wine Warehouse. Pours brown with about an inch of head. Smells of caramels. Taste is caramels, nuts, coffee, dark fruit, light chocolate. Decent.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2015 at 17:10

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run, 4/18/15. Clear medium brown, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of caramel and dark fruits. The taste is nuts, caramel, chocolate, dark fruits. Thin bodied.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2015 at 22:25

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Refrigerated 12oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Translucent tawny with small off-white head. Aroma is light herbal hops, medium body, low/medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops and slightly bitter finish.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jun 2015 at 18:41

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Some roast and a hint of dark chocolate. Pours Balbo with mocha head and pretty good lacing. Light sweet finish. Thick creamy consistency. Light caramelized malt aroma with hint of booze. Touch of acrid smoke. Pretty nice. Bottle from total wine.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2015 at 18:31

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
12oz bottle. Poured a hazy golden yellow color with a fluffy white head. Aroma was fruity, with nice sweet malts. Some balanced notes of bitterness and sweetness. Decent IPA, though I’d say more like an East Coast IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2015 at 03:16

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Pecan nose, subtle pine needle underneath. Hazy brown, medium yellow head. Pecan, sweet malt, pine needles and juniper berries. Medium body, soft carbonation. Very interesting. It’s definitely a hoppy brown as one would expect from an ABA, but the particular hop bill is quite unique. Hoppy and distinctive, but still quaffable. Nice work!
Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2015 at 18:48

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
22oz bottle pours an opaque, deep brown with some foamy, off white head. Nose has roasted malts, lots of dark bread, chocolate, quite nutty, a lot of almond, some dried fruit. Flavor has chocolate, toasted bread, roasted malts, some toffee sweetness, raisin. Finishes a bit thin, which was disappointing.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2015 at 16:31

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Growler during RBWG. Pours a cloudy gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is fruity malt, dough, clove. Medium mouth with doughy malt, strong Belgian yeast, light bitterness, good.
Tried from Growler on 09 Mar 2015 at 16:17