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Brewski Rides Contest

Posted on March 27, 2025

Coming Soon!

Pollinator Festival

Posted on March 21, 2025

Join us for Pollinator Fest again this year!

Enjoy delicious beverages, great food, live music, & awesome vendors!

Vendors:
-Twin Hickory Honey
-Kristi Noel Art
-More Trees Together
-Cutting Garden Nursery

Food Truck:
-Flavor Chariot

Live Music:
-Brett Baboorian

Satellite Club 2025/2026

Posted on March 12, 2025

Satellites Club
2025/2026

On Sale to Current Eligible Satellites: April 1, 2025
General On-Sale Date: May 1, 2025
2025/2026 Program Dates: May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026
Cost: $40 + tax*
*Official 2025/2026 Satellite T-Shirt’s can be ordered for $15 each at the time of signup. These will no go on sale to the public and will be unavailable for purchase starting June 1, 2025.

Green Membership Includes:
• 19oz Nonic pint pours all day everyday
• 2 Exclusive Satellite 4-packs (1 Summer and 1 Winter) – Not available on draft or for sale to the public
• Thursdays (Satellite Night) $1 off pours all day
• Exclusive Numbered Membership Card
• 10% off merchandise and to-go beer
• 1 complimentary birthday beer

Gold Membership – Gold Membership is achieved after 10 visits to the taproom, or if you are a pre-qualified current Satellite club member. Mini stickers will be given at the bar for each visit. Once you collect 10 stickers, your card will be exchanged for a gold card.

Gold Card Membership Include:
• Reserved seating for larger outdoor events
• Invitation to the Satellite Holiday Party
• Exclusive pop-up events TBD
• Early renewal eligibility the next year

Satellite point check-ins will end permanently on March 15th. Final Satellite points accrued over the last 2+ years will be tabulated and available by April 1st and will expire on May 1st. Satellite points can be redeemed for swag, gift cards, etc, or could also be used towards your 2025/2026 registration.

Hair Today: Balderino’s

Posted on February 28, 2025

Join us as we kick off the Balderinos fundraising season for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation by hosting a day full of live music, drinks, food, and raffles. The event is free to attend and open to all ages.

🎸 Band Lineup
1:00pm – 3:00pm: The Crawford Family Band
3:30pm – 5:30pm: Flashlight Tag
6:00pm – 8:00pm: Something Shiny

🌮 Food – Flavor Chariot

🍺 Drink – Beer, Wine, Cider, and Non-Alcoholic Options

& a special appearance from Nutzy & Nutasha from The Flying Squirrels from 3-4pm!

🍀 About St. Baldrick’s Foundation: The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.

COTU Irish Festival

Posted on February 7, 2025

Let the countdown to the COTU Irish Festival on March 15 from 12-6pm begin!🍀

Live Music:
-Albafeire @ 2pm

Beer on tap:
-Irish Lager
-Bald Irishman
-Dry Irish Stout on Nitro

Irish Fare:
Indulge in traditional Irish delights from EAT Catering and Kitchen!

Mark your calendar, dust off your dancing shoes, and come join the craic at the COTU Irish Festival!
Open to all ages and admission is free.

Fowl & Foam

Posted on January 24, 2025

Join us for a cluckin’ good time at our Fowl & Foam festival featuring delicious beer, chicken, and live music!

Live Music:
Chad’s Fault: 2:30-5:30pm

Food Trucks:
Flavor Chariot: 2-6pm
Cluck N Roll: 2-6pm
1115 Mobile Kitchen: 2-6pm

Beer:
Brewksi Lime Release
Limited Release of Brewski Variants

All ages are welcome and free to attend!

Pi-Day Pizza Party

Posted on January 10, 2025

Join us for a Pi-Day Pizza Party!
Enjoy delicious pizza, live music, and a new beer release!

Food Trucks: 4-8pm
-Happy Place Mobile Pizza

Live Music: 5-8pm
-Paulo Franco

Sax and the Beach

Posted on January 10, 2025

**Food truck update: due to circumstances out of our control, we will no longer have Cousin’s Maine Lobster joining us tomorrow. We will have another amazing food truck for you all though, Flavor Chariot, who will be serving up tasty dishes like fish and chips, coconut shrimp, and wings!**

Celebrate Valentine’s Day here with us at COTU!

Treat your special someone to yummy food, live music, and a delicious selection of beer, wine, cider, and N/A beverages!

Food Truck: Flavor Chariot – 4-8pm
Live Music: Aaron Holloway – 6-8pm

Chocolate Fest

Posted on December 20, 2024

Calling all Chocolate Lovers!
Join us at the brewery for our 5th annual Chocolate Fest! Enjoy a limited selection of 8 different chocolate beers while shopping for your Valentine in our vendor area!

Vendors:
Handmade Greeting Card Factory
Boozy Bundt Cakes
Food Truck – Moniques Crepes

Chocolate beer flight:
-Chocolate
-Bavarian Cream
-Peanut Butter
-Strawberry
-Cake Batter
-S’mores
-Coconut Cream
-Mexican Hot Chocolate

Admission to this event is free and open to all ages! Come bring your Valentine or just your fellow chocolate lovers!

Double Dragons Anniversary Weekend

Posted on October 18, 2024

Join us this weekend to celebrate our 12th anniversary!
We will have special beer releases, live music, food trucks, and giveaways during this fun weekend event!

Friday, Nov 15:
-Beer Release: Decadent Duderino
-Food Truck: Cousins Maine Lobster, 4-8pm
-Live Music: The Boss of Me, 5:30-8pm

Saturday, Nov 16:
-Beer Release: Jeffrey
-Food Truck: El Guapo Taco and Beer Pairing, 2-6pm
-Live Music: Aaron Holloway, 2-4:30pm

Sunday, Nov 17:
-Food Truck: Flavor Chariot Wing and Beer Pairing, 2-6pm
-Bingo

CJ’s Thumbstock Music Fest

Posted on October 18, 2024

Join CSTUF for our 2nd Annual Thumbstock Music Fest! Come enjoy great music and bands, fun, drinks and help us fundraise for CJSTUF!

Food Truck:
-Flavor Chariot: 1-7pm

Music Line-up:
1:00 – Clay Mottley
2:00 – Coleman, Fuller & Tucker
3:00 – Roger Reynolds & Friends
4:00 – The Wrong Worshipers
5:00 – Whiskey Banjo Foxtrot
6:00 – Open Bluegrass Jam

Asian Food Festival

Posted on September 27, 2024

October 19th
2pm – 5pm

Join us for an Asian Food Festival here at COTU!

We will have delicious food trucks, live music, and a special beer release!

Food Trucks: 2-5pm
-Hibachi Mobile
-Real Ginger
-KASE Sushi
-Flavor Chariot

Live Music: 2-5pm
-The Boss of Me

Special Beer Release:
-Lychee Wheat Beer

This event is free to attend, open to all ages, and leashed dogs are welcome on our patio!

Twilight Farmer’s Market

Posted on September 9, 2024

Join us for the Twilight Farmer’s Market from 4-8pm on Friday, September 13th!

We will have some amazing vendors for you to check out!

Vendors:
-Twin Hickory Honey
-Meredith Farms CSA
-Always Flavored Sauces

Enjoy beer, wine, or an N/A beverage while you shop!

Taco & Beer Pairing

Posted on September 6, 2024

Come hang with us and our friends at El Guapo Food Truck for a taco and beer pairing! Enjoy 4 4-ounce brews paired perfectly with 4 incredible mini tacos – from 4pm until we run out!

Flights of beer can be purchased at the bar, then head out to El Guapo to grab your flight of mini tacos!
Pricing:
Flight of beer at the bar(4 x 4oz samples): $8 – 🍺
Flight of tacos at the food truck (4 mini tacos): $13.75 – 🌮

🍺 Redrum: IIPA
🌮 Steak and Chorizo Taco

🍺 Brewski Lime : Brewski Lager infused with real lime!
🌮 Cochinita Pibil Taco

🍺 Dry Hopped Brewski: Brewski with a dose of fresh hops
🌮 Grilled Chicken Taco

🍺 Oktoberfest: German-Style Märzen
🌮 Carne AsadaTaco

Growl-O-Ween

Posted on August 30, 2024

Get Rover ready to show off his best tricks and his cutest costume, Growl-O-Ween is back!
Join us at Center of the Universe Brewing Co. as we hold our favorite dog-themed event.
We’re teaming up with the Hanover Humane society to raise money to fund their mission of educating the people of Hanover County about the proper treatment of animals and rescuing animals and caring for them until they find their forever home.
We’ve got a ton going on for this event, Anderson Highway will be rocking out live on the beer garden stage, and Flavor Chariot is going to be serving up some delicious eats. We’ll also have a ton of dog themed events going on including a costume competition and trick competitions!

Live Music: Anderson Highway – 2-6pm
Food Truck: Flavor Chariot – 4-8pm

*This event is free to attend and open to all ages. For the safety of all dogs and humans present, please keep your dog on a leash for the duration of the event*

Now Hiring: Production Team Member

Posted on August 19, 2024

Center of the Universe Brewing Company (COTU), a production brewery located in Ashland, VA (Metro Richmond Area), is seeking a full-time production member to add to our team. We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled brewer/cellar person to continue our 11 years of crafting award winning and exceptionally consistent beer in central Virginia. In addition to being an all around awesome person, the ideal candidate will possess the following skills:

If you are interested in working with us at the Center of the Universe, please send your resume to careers@cotubrewing.com.

Previous commercial brewing experience a plus
Commitment to quality and consistency
Ability and willingness to diligently follow recipes and procedures
Attention to detail and documentation
Ability to lift 55lbs and move 160lbs when necessary
Excellent sensory analysis
Have at least as much passion for producing great beer as we do

Duties:

Operating and maintaining a 15bbl brewhouse
Cellar duties from CIP to fermentation monitoring
Operation and cleaning/sanitizing packaging and kegging equipment
Cleaning and sanitation of the brewhouse and cellar
Work with partner(s) to perfect recipes and processes
Basic maintenance and repairs
Quality Control
Produce amazing beer

Days/Hours:

Monday – Friday
Daytime hours

Benefits:
Competitive Salary BOE, Health Care, Paid Vacation/Sick Time, Trips, Annual Bonus, New Friends

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 – $22.00 per hour BOE

Benefits:

401(k)
Employee discounts
Health insurance
Paid time off
Schedule:

8 hour shift
Morning/Day shift
Monday to Friday
No nights
No weekends
Work Location: In person

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $17.00 – $22.00 per hour BOE

Expected hours: 40 per week

If you are interested in working with us at the Center of the Universe, please send your resume to careers@cotubrewing.com.

Open Mic Night

Posted on August 1, 2024

Open Mic Night, First Tuesday of every month at 6pm

What to Expect:
🎤 Open Mic Session: Sing your heart out or enjoy the talent, host provides PA with two microphones on boom stands, two DI boxes, two guitar cables, and a Bluetooth receiver.
What do you need to bring? You, an instrument or backing tracks on a Bluetooth compatible device if you need it.
🍻 Drinks: Choose from craft beer, cider, or wine.
🤝 Friends and Fun: Connect with others and have a great time.

SIGN UP HERE:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n2oso_-rFamlTtV8yDk9oRzM5m_8xTWGHxAJfyo7Ufg/edit?fbclid=IwY2xjawEY0LdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfK–GwTuyCoPiLIMWYPm-l6JMmParQxKYtragI9rEllxFj3tLLVaBEqag_aem_uEWfoC_PK4dblkX4sfwqqQ&gid=0#gid=0

Rocktoberfest 2024

Posted on July 16, 2024

Rocktoberfest 2024
September 28th
12pm – 7pm

Come rock with us German-style at ROCKtoberfest! We’re hosting 2 awesome bands here for a day full of rockin’ music, beer, food trucks, stein hoisting, arcade, and more! Free to attend and open to all ages. Dogs on leashes welcome in the Beer Garden.

Band Lineup:
12:00pm – 3:00pm Back Sydney Band
4:00pm – 7:00pm School of Rock House and Adult Bands

Food Truck:
Flavor Chariot

German Beers:
Oktoberfest Märzen
Kölsch
Black Lager
Brewski Dortmunder

Wine, cider and N/A beverages also available.

6th Annual Circle-Up BBQ Festival

Posted on July 16, 2024

6th Annual Circle-Up BBQ Festival
August 24th
1pm – 6pm

Round up your friends, family, and neighbors for the 6th Annual Circle-Up BBQ Throwdown benefiting Circles Ashland. Enjoy 3 BBQ vendors, live music, beer/wine/cider, and more! Free to attend and open to all ages!

🍖 BBQ Competitors
Jakes Place
Redemption BBQ
Stag Creek Catering

🎸 Live Music (2pm – 5pm)
Room for Improvement

🕹️ Other Activities
50/50 Raffle
Indoor Arcade
Corn Hole

🍺 Beverages
Beer
Wine
Cider
N/A Drinks

Private Events @ Center of the Universe

Posted on July 15, 2024

Choose Center of the Universe Brewing Company for your next party, meeting, or event!  Situated right next to the main taproom, our private events area is available to reserve for private functions of all kind.   Check out below for details.

CLICK HERE for a facility tour

Email: Info@cotubrewing.com for details and bookings.

Parties w/over 25 Adults – No room rental fee or minimum purchase requirements.

Private Events Room Capacity

Beverage tickets can be purchased in advance or guests can use our cash bar.

Full audio/video hookups with ceiling mounted projected and dropdown screen.

Arcade located in the private event space.

Private restroom located inside the space.

Parties greater than 60 guests can reserve the event space for food setup and then access the public areas of the brewery as well to spread out.

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