Smolder: Smoked Beer & Food Festival. Banner image featuring lit match

Smolder

Ardent CraFt Ales

Saturday, October 17, 2026

12 - 5 pm

Smolder: a smoked beer & food festival returns to Ardent on Saturday, October 17 from 12-5pm!

Featuring:

  • The release of Smolder, a smoked Helles lager

  • Bierstacheln (AKA beer spiking, beer sting, or beer poking) - we heat a metal rod in a fire pit and plunge it into your cold beer!

  • Delicious smoked foods from Belmont Butchery, On The Grill, and Eazzy Burger

  • Sweet treats from Sunday Picnic

4-pack of black cans of Smolder next to a stein of Beer with smoke billowing out t
Two people standing in front of a fire pit while spiking a glass of beer with a hot rod
Smoke rising out of a glass of beer as it is poked by a hot rod

Ardent Craft Ales: 3200 W. Leigh St, Richmond, VA 23230