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.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Spacebar. Poured a very dark cola color with a small slightly off-white head. Aroma was roasted notes, lots of raspberry. Chocolate raspberry. Sweet, light syrup. Some chocolate roast. Wife liked this one.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Coal Miners Dodder from Parkway Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish light brown head, about three centimetres tall that dies down fairly quickly. Aroma of roasted malt, light anise, some licorice, a good deal of earth and nuts and finished with a good deal of lactose. Medium-bodied; Relatively mild roasted malt flavour that shows some lactose, grain, hazlenuts and a little bit of toffee and caramelised sugars noticeable. Aftertaste shows more of the malts than anything else, but definitely on the dry side of things and showing only a bit of the anise and licorice notes that ends with a little bit of peat and a lot of bitterness throughout. Overall, a pretty standard Irish Dry with some nice malty characteristics, but not enough depth, complexity or body to make this stand out. It's definitely not a bad beer and shows well, but isn't for people to go out and try to find, unless you absolutely love the style or want to drink it on Saint Patrick's Day! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Manassas, Virginia on 31-January-2018 for US$2,24 sampled in my hotel room here in Lexington Park, Maryland on 07-March-2018.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft: Charred oak, coffee, blackberry nose. Mahogany, thin tan head. Charred oak, raspberry, tree bark. Medium body, easy carbonation. Tastefully done.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Feety oak nose, earthy orange. Hazy copper, medium yellow head. Oak, moss, orange. Medium body, soft carbonation. Much less sharper hop bite than the non-wood conditioned.
cheap (9607) reviewed Raven's Roost from Parkway Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Dude, I love the name of this bottle, porter or not. Drank right ou tof the bottle, it is a pretty good example of a baltic but hey, made in america? Not quite as perfectly rude as the old country baltic but so be it. I would not have think it was 7%, heheh. Sneaks up on you in the end. Just, maybe, just maybe, I think I feel a feeling of elation on the finish? Could use a tiny more manners for a dark beer. I really do like to watch crows around my homestead!
cheap (9607) reviewed Save the Galaxy from Parkway Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Please let me start this rating by saying that this is terribly on style. So, if you like IPA, put this on your bucket list and ignore my numbers. The lower my numbers for an IPA the better it is for an IPA lover, heheeh. What a great name, like men in black, heheh. Bottle. In my steeler jack lambert glass it has a mild BO bitter nose aroma, like the smell of your favorite mate, after good sex. What else can be said? Just another microbrewer, late to the wave, making just another stupid ubiquitous, terribly bitter, terribly on style IPA? There have got to be a million of these out there and they pretty much all taste the same. A rototiller across the surface of yer taste buds, go figger. Who likes preservatives in their beer? Just asking. Can't be that enjoyable, I must be a minority. I want affirmative action on the numbers regarding my IPA ratings. Gimmie a cheap pale lager for a chaser, heheheh. No, seriously, any cheap pale lager is pretty much better than any IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
$1.95 Bottle from Wine Warehouse. Pours black with a frothy tan head. Aroma is cocoa. Flavor is cocoa, light coffee. Only a bit of flavor - really plain, but also drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Bottle. Pour is hazy pale IPA. Aroma is big dull IPA. Taste is big dull IPA. What else can be said except that it is terribly on style rude IPA, perhaps even treading into the double impy IPA territory. Taste has so strong of an impact, you never even know there is any carbonation in there. Big long bitter finish that never ends, whew. Too much and over the top for this lager lover, yew. Cannot tolerate.
cheap (9607) reviewed Majestic Mullet from Parkway Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
I presume its pale gold in color, drank right from the bottle, heheh. Its clean, its fresh, its not in yer face. Almost as peachy as a lager, no?
obguthr (12524) reviewed Reformator from Parkway Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Draft: Caramel, pecan, soil nose. Clear brown, medium yellow head. Nuttier on the palate, sweet caramel. Elderberry finish. Medium to full body, moderate carbonation. Sampled on the same day as Lagunitas' doppelbock, this one was better.