I have a biology degree, so I was totally geeking out with pH paper in my kitchen,” owner Kim Baker said of developing the brownie. “It’s a lot of lentils that went into it and a lot of love.”
The cash haul comes as Phlow and other members of the regional Alliance for Building Better Medicine just received a $53 million federal pandemic recovery grant to build new labs in Richmond and Petersburg.
J.T. Spencer is now owned by Imperial and its parent company Paramount Apparel, in a deal that will maintain and expand the beltmaker’s West End operations.
Activation Capital will build a 100,000-square-foot lab in downtown Richmond, while Civica will construct a 60,000-square-foot lab in Meadowville Technology Park to support its drug manufacturing facility in Petersburg.
The cover band’s Steely Can Wine started as a joke but is now a full-on Steely Dan-inspired company that began selling its canned wines last week.
WayGone Brewery will open in the Canterbury Shopping Center next spring and will be the region’s 47th brewery.
A double scoop of news: Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches is adding production space in South Richmond, while Roanoke-based Blue Cow Ice Cream launched its first local store.
“For small brewers, this is a really, really big deal,” Brett Vassey, CEO of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, said of the group’s efforts to tweak the entrenched “three-tier system.”
“It’s just surprising, a lot of people that come to a brewery don’t necessarily want beer,” said Intermission Beer Co. owner Courtney White.
Newcomers like Crazy Rooster Brewing Co., Dancing Kilt Brewery and Three Leg Run each took home their first medals.
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