Parkway Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Salem, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

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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6.3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
Draft at Moo & Brew. Murky purple. Mixed berry aroma. Taste is lacto smooth sour berries with seeds. Nice summer beer but the lactose reduces the fruitiness and the sourness
Tried from Draft on 01 Sep 2018 at 18:01

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Coriander nose. Cloudy golden, medium head. Lemon, then cracker. Full body, easy carbonation. Good.
Tried on 12 Aug 2018 at 11:15

6.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Feet and blueberry on the nose. Cloudy red, thick pink head. Tart grape, butter, plum skins. Light body, tannic, soft carbonation.
Tried on 01 Aug 2018 at 21:17

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft at Spacebar. Poured a very hazy ruby red color with a small off-white head. Lots of berry fruit character here. Juicy, fruity. Lots of blueberry notes. Decent. Very easy to drink.
Tried from Draft on 20 Jul 2018 at 05:56

5.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
Mild hay, bread crust aroma. Hazy golden, thin head. Grass. Mild biscuit finish. Light body, thin, moderate carbonation.
Tried on 30 Jun 2018 at 12:01

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 5
Some citrus and a little hibuscus like the flower just came out. Mash tang and not much else. Not a great thing. Tap at Galaxy Hut.
Tried from Draft on 24 Jun 2018 at 01:11

4.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 4
Sampled on draft at Whistle & Keg this beer poured a black color with a trace foamy tan head. The aroma was coffee, wood and chocolate. The flavor was bitter, roasty and dry with coffee and cocoa. Long finish. Medium body. No detectable orange.
Tried from Draft on 25 May 2018 at 22:45

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Draft: Orange nose. Clear amber, medium head. Mango, grass, orange. Medium body, moderate carbonation.
Tried from Draft on 11 May 2018 at 01:16

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar shared by radagast83, thanks Chris! Clear golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, floral notes, malt, wheat. Tastes of citrus, floral notes, malt. Medium-light body with a dry finish.
Tried from Draft on 01 May 2018 at 01:09

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Deep dark brown coloured body with a very thin, single centimetre tall rich brown head tha fades relatively quickly and doesn't leave anything on top. Aroma of oats, a ton of anise, licorice and grain with a big alcohol and pungent ouzo character along with a dose of light caster sugar and even some notes of lactose and milk sugars. Lightish to Medium-bodied; Mild and subdued mushroomy, meaty and grainy malts throughout with a roast quality, some raisins, figs, grapes, milk, alcohol with a peaty and even a bit of a lightly smoked profile with some meats and vanilla tucked away at the end with a bit of pungent grain and malt flavour with bitterness and little else at the tail end. Aftertaste shows more of the anise and peat than anything else - not many sugars here and not much pungency, which is in all honesty, a good thing, but slightly off to see it this thin and subdued, especially just after ~two years this tastes as mild as an Imperial Stout at ~5 years. A good offering, and aged nicely with a very subdued profile, as what I was hoping for, but a touch too thin and too mild and simplistic. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia on 24-March-2015 for US$9,99 when my second kid was just two months old, now I've got three kids with that one being more than 3, sampled at home in Washington on 07-April-2018.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Apr 2018 at 07:23