Lynchburg's Underground Supper Club

Do you want a fun eating experience? Then, you should come and find out more about Lynchburg’s Underground Supper Club

. This is really unique because it is in non-restaurant locations with people you may not know. You will enjoy a 5-7 course meal at a place the chef will choose with people that you will meet that you might not have known before.

Chef Preston Cravey III makes all of his foods from locally and organically grown meats and vegetables. He’s from Charleston, SC. He has learned a lot from Chef McKee and has won the highest award for cooking from the Charleston Food and Wine Fest

as well as the James Beard House

. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of Charleston

.

He is a certified chef with the American Culinary Federation and has been a judge for two high school culinary programs, which are the VICA and FCCLA. He has also been a personal chef to Robert McNair who is the NFL owner of the Houston Texans, has worked with celebrity chefs, and local authors of different cookbooks.

After leaving Charleston, Chef Preston, was the Campus Ex Sous Chef for UNC Chapel Hill until arriving in Lynchburg to take over as Executive Chef at Liberty University. A knee surgery in 2009 ended what was to be his last stop before returning to North Carolina, as a Regionial Chef. He took a job as an Instructor at Culinas, and taught his way of cooking. In keeping with his Southern background,in 2010 started running his Famous Underground Supper Clubs.

The Supper Club announces its next meal online once a month a week ahead of the event. The next event is August 7^th Dancing Leaf Premier Dinner Party, welcoming the special guest, Mayor Joan Foster. You can purchase tickets online at http://lynchburgsupperclub.com/tickets/.

You can contact Chef Preston at pcravey1021@gmail.com. To learn more you can go to http://lynchburgsupperclub.com and by following Lynchburg’s Underground Supper Club on Twitter. It will be a fun experience with the most incredible food! You don’t want to miss out.

Pints O' Plenty

Are you interested in learning how to craft your own beer or wine? You can learn more by visiting Pints O’ Plenty in Forest. Pints O’ Plenty has over 30 craft beer kits and 8 fruit wine kits to make your favorite drinks.

The owner, Doug John, graduated from Lynchburg College with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Administration. In 1990, he began brewing and he became really passionate about it. In fact, he became the National champion in the American Homebrewers Contest in the Strong Ales subcategory in the year 1999.

Doug really cares about his customers and will help you craft your first beer or wine kit at your home. Some of the different beer kits are as follows: American Amber, Belgian Triple, Coopers Australian Pale Ale, Summer Ale that has a citrus type flavor, Vienna Lager with caramel malts, Irish Stout that is a creamy ale, and many other different kinds of beers. To see all the different beer packages you can go to http://pintsoplenty.com/home/category/beer-kits.

Pints O’ Plenty has different wine kits as well. The Vinters Reserve

, which comes from vineyards such as Nappa Valley, Sonoma Valley, or Columbia Valley, has different whites and reds. The whites do well from a month of aging after it has been bottled and the reds are still really good after 4-6 months of aging.

The World Wide Wine

kits come from vineyards around the world. Reds do well after four months of storage and whites after being bottled for one month. Island Mist

and Twisted Mist are very good if you are interested in fruit flavors. These are only some of the wine kits that Pints O’ Plenty

offers.

This is what one reviewer had to say about Pints O’ Plenty, “Located in an antique mall building, you would think that there would be a limited selection, but it has everything you would find at a larger store. The owner, Doug, keeps a great selection and is very helpful. They have all the supplies, can grind for you. They also have wine making supplies. The prices are very good, less than you can find on the net, and you do not pay shipping. Well worth stopping by.” This reviewer gave it an A+ and 5 stars.

Pints O’ Plenty also has different ingredients such as different types of hops, yeasts, malts, spices, adjuncts, and flavorings/sodas for you to use you in your beer/wine kit creation. Pints O’ Plenty also has different equipment and chemicals. Do you want to learn more on your own? Pints O’ Plenty sells books with different recipes that you can try on your own. They have fun Pints O’ Plenty

t-shirts as well.

Do you enjoy coffee? Well, then you’re in luck, because Pints O’ Plenty

sells coffee and has many different blends as well. If you like your coffee strong, blends like the kENYA AA would definitely be for you, and for those who do not like strong coffee, they have decaf as well, and they have blends in between.

Pints O’ Plenty

is located on 1165 Burnbridge Drive Forest, VA 24551 and their phone number is (434) 851-5646. They are opened everyday of the week, Monday 11am-6pm, Tuesday 11am-4pm, Wednesday Thursday, and Friday are from 11am -6pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, and Sunday 1pm-5pm. For more information you can go to http://pintsoplenty.com/home. So come out to Forest, and see it for yourself today!

We all know about local church food banks, Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center, and Good Will… but did you know that there is a nonprofit ministry called Angel Food that sells a month’s worth of fresh foods for $30? And how about the services offered by The Free Clinic downtown? 

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