Events and Specials
This page lets you know what's happening at Gravity BrewWorks - specials, events, advisories, alerts, updates - and things related to beer and brewing. Check back often!
Gravity Open Under COVID-19 Directives
With COVID-19 firmly established in Arkansas, all businesses find themselves in some confusion. Some businesses have opened on a limited or COVID-compliant basis, and brewpubs and breweries are currently part of that plan. The governor issued a statewide mandate for mask wearing, beginning on July 20. Gravity BrewWorks is open for on-site and to-go beer under statewide COVID-19 directives. This means wearing a mask over your nose and mouth until your beer is served, wearing your mask if you're moving around, social distancing, smaller groups, and not entering if you've been exposed to COVID-19 in the last 14 days or are showing COVID-19 symptoms. Please understand that this is subject to change as the situation demands. If you're unsure or have any questions, please call ahead of your visit. This goes for any attraction, or restaurant, or brewery. None of us want this to go on, but neither do any of us want to endanger our customers. Oh, and wash your hands!
With COVID-19 firmly established in Arkansas, all businesses find themselves in some confusion. Some businesses have opened on a limited or COVID-compliant basis, and brewpubs and breweries are currently part of that plan. The governor issued a statewide mandate for mask wearing, beginning on July 20. Gravity BrewWorks is open for on-site and to-go beer under statewide COVID-19 directives. This means wearing a mask over your nose and mouth until your beer is served, wearing your mask if you're moving around, social distancing, smaller groups, and not entering if you've been exposed to COVID-19 in the last 14 days or are showing COVID-19 symptoms. Please understand that this is subject to change as the situation demands. If you're unsure or have any questions, please call ahead of your visit. This goes for any attraction, or restaurant, or brewery. None of us want this to go on, but neither do any of us want to endanger our customers. Oh, and wash your hands!
A Letter from Brewmaster Bill
It’s crunch time! And we need your help. If you want us to be able to stay open, we need your help to abide by the restrictions placed upon us. We don’t like them either, it sucks. But we have to follow the COVID restrictions or the state can shut us down. Alcohol businesses are under the most scrutiny of all, and the easiest for the state to close. We’ve already been inspected once, and will be repeatedly, without notice and at any time.
The other reason we need your help is that we have three key people in the high-risk category – myself, Tony, and Mary. I’m doubly high-risk because I’ve had asthma my whole life. If I get sick or worse, we’ll have to close. As a matter of fact, if anyone that works at the brewery gets COVID, we’ll have to close for at least two weeks.
So please wear a mask -
We care very much for all of you,
On behalf of the Gravity staff,
Bill Riffle
It’s crunch time! And we need your help. If you want us to be able to stay open, we need your help to abide by the restrictions placed upon us. We don’t like them either, it sucks. But we have to follow the COVID restrictions or the state can shut us down. Alcohol businesses are under the most scrutiny of all, and the easiest for the state to close. We’ve already been inspected once, and will be repeatedly, without notice and at any time.
The other reason we need your help is that we have three key people in the high-risk category – myself, Tony, and Mary. I’m doubly high-risk because I’ve had asthma my whole life. If I get sick or worse, we’ll have to close. As a matter of fact, if anyone that works at the brewery gets COVID, we’ll have to close for at least two weeks.
So please wear a mask -
- until your drink is served;
- unless you’re seated at a table with a drink;
- try to social distance (we know it’s hard and it sucks but it’s not forever);
- and wash your hands.
We care very much for all of you,
On behalf of the Gravity staff,
Bill Riffle
Support your local breweries!
Here in Arkansas, the Arkansas Brewers Guild represents the state's breweries through legislation, events, fundraisers, and media. Because of COVID-19, our Guild cannot hold the usual tap takeovers, Oktoberfest, festivals, etc. We need your help in fundraising to keep Arkansas beer-friendly. We've created a video at https://youtu.be/CuFGl4-50H8 and media events on the ABG website and Facebook, as well as a donation site at https://arkansas-brewers-guild.square.site/. Take a look and please help out if you can!
Here in Arkansas, the Arkansas Brewers Guild represents the state's breweries through legislation, events, fundraisers, and media. Because of COVID-19, our Guild cannot hold the usual tap takeovers, Oktoberfest, festivals, etc. We need your help in fundraising to keep Arkansas beer-friendly. We've created a video at https://youtu.be/CuFGl4-50H8 and media events on the ABG website and Facebook, as well as a donation site at https://arkansas-brewers-guild.square.site/. Take a look and please help out if you can!
A Bit of Appreciation
A huge THANK YOU to all of the people still working so that most of us can stay at home - truck drivers, IT people, utility workers, healthcare workers, pharmacists, police and fire, grocery workers...the list goes on. We surely appreciate you!
Sourflower Sour IPA on tap
After a September trip to Colorado last year, we noted that everyone was doing sour IPAs. We were impressed with the brews, especially since we were burnt out on fruity tropical IPAs. So of course we had to try our hand at one. Our second attempt at a sour beer turned out light in color and clocks in at 5.4% ABV, It's definitely an IPA with lots of hop bitterness and flavor, and definitely a juicy sour. It took us a while to come up with the name - thanks, Bill! - but it describes the brew very well.
After a September trip to Colorado last year, we noted that everyone was doing sour IPAs. We were impressed with the brews, especially since we were burnt out on fruity tropical IPAs. So of course we had to try our hand at one. Our second attempt at a sour beer turned out light in color and clocks in at 5.4% ABV, It's definitely an IPA with lots of hop bitterness and flavor, and definitely a juicy sour. It took us a while to come up with the name - thanks, Bill! - but it describes the brew very well.
More Changes Coming To Gravity
in a year that's seen a LOT of changes, we've been making a few changes to the tasting room. We've done a little expanding inside, but now we've begun some on the outside. Bill has been planning a pavilion for a little while now, and he and Kevin used cedar posts (made from trees on the brewery property) to put up the pavilion. Lately, they've been putting up gutters and stringing lights on it. The concrete crew finished the slab on the east side of the brewery, and Bill, Kevin, et al., have been putting up the wall and roof panels! The new addition will give us a bigger grain room, another walk-in, keg cleaning space, packaging space, and a dock for truck deliveries.
in a year that's seen a LOT of changes, we've been making a few changes to the tasting room. We've done a little expanding inside, but now we've begun some on the outside. Bill has been planning a pavilion for a little while now, and he and Kevin used cedar posts (made from trees on the brewery property) to put up the pavilion. Lately, they've been putting up gutters and stringing lights on it. The concrete crew finished the slab on the east side of the brewery, and Bill, Kevin, et al., have been putting up the wall and roof panels! The new addition will give us a bigger grain room, another walk-in, keg cleaning space, packaging space, and a dock for truck deliveries.
Gravity Beers and Whiskey Barrels
After the success of our Abbey Normal Belgian Stout and our Humble Beginnings Porter aged in Heaven Hill and Jim Beam barrels, we got more local with the barrels. Recently Billy got some homegrown kegs from Rock Town Distillery, and we put our Kilt Me Softly Scottish Ale, Blacker 'n Ale, and Blacker Shade of Ale into some of those barrels. We tapped the last of the bourbon barrel Blacker'n Ale for our anniversary this year. We put our Abbey Normal Belgian Stout into two Rocktown 15 gallon barrels, as well as some of our Oat of Sight Oat of Mind Scottish Ale into two 25 gallon barrels. Look for more of these barrel aged beers to come on tap.
Gravity 1/6 Barrel Kegs Now Available
If you've got a kegerator, you can now get a 1/6 barrel keg - 5 gallons - of Gravity beer. Since we put in the bigger system, we can supply those much requested kegs. Of course it's limited to the beers we have available. Customers will need to supply their own tapping equipment. Any questions, give us a call at 870-448-2077, or ask about it the next time you're at Gravity.
If you've got a kegerator, you can now get a 1/6 barrel keg - 5 gallons - of Gravity beer. Since we put in the bigger system, we can supply those much requested kegs. Of course it's limited to the beers we have available. Customers will need to supply their own tapping equipment. Any questions, give us a call at 870-448-2077, or ask about it the next time you're at Gravity.
Twelve Taps and Stopping
We got all our taps through the wall late last year, so now there is space for twelve Gravity beers - yippee!! This means we'll have space for guest taps when we want them, and we still intend to have guest beers - usually in a style that we don't currently make or have in kegs.
In the photo, you can see how the beer lineup looks on the menu board as well as all of our taps. We offer flights of four 4-oz. beers now that we have a bigger selection. So next time you come in, check out the beer menu. Yes, we know it was easier back when we had four Gravity brews on tap. Your choice just got a lot harder!
Hop Drop Series
The Hop Drop brews are a planned series of single-hopped beers. Each beer is an IPA, brewed with less caramel in the west coast style. We use only a single hop or proprietary hop blend in all the hop additions. This really allows you to experience all the bittering, flavor, and aromatic qualities of that particular hop. When you visit the tasting room, try the beer and give us your feedback!
So far we've tried Zythos, then Falconers Flight, both hop blends. Next came Ahtanum, then 5256, an experimental hop. Then we used 7 C's blend, Calypso, Sorachi Ace, Bravo, Mosaic, Simcoe, El Dorado, Summit, Citra, experimental 07270, Denali, Ekuanot, Azacca, Comet, and Sabro.
The Hop Drop brews are a planned series of single-hopped beers. Each beer is an IPA, brewed with less caramel in the west coast style. We use only a single hop or proprietary hop blend in all the hop additions. This really allows you to experience all the bittering, flavor, and aromatic qualities of that particular hop. When you visit the tasting room, try the beer and give us your feedback!
So far we've tried Zythos, then Falconers Flight, both hop blends. Next came Ahtanum, then 5256, an experimental hop. Then we used 7 C's blend, Calypso, Sorachi Ace, Bravo, Mosaic, Simcoe, El Dorado, Summit, Citra, experimental 07270, Denali, Ekuanot, Azacca, Comet, and Sabro.
Gravity is on Facebook
At long last, we have a Facebook page...to all those folks that asked for it. Of course, we kept it simple - look us up at http://www.facebook.com/gravitybrewworks. Note that our name has no spaces; there's another site but it's not our page. So be sure you're on the right page!
Gravity is on Untappd!
We've got a page on Untappd, the social beer site. You can go online and tell everyone about our beers...or anyone else's, for that matter. Look us up at untappd.com, and say something good about us!
We've got a page on Untappd, the social beer site. You can go online and tell everyone about our beers...or anyone else's, for that matter. Look us up at untappd.com, and say something good about us!
Guest Beers
We decided early on to get a few "guest beers" - brews that we don't make ourselves and that many people may not have tried. We had been offering these every week (pretty much); like most things at Gravity, the offerings changed. We've tried beers from Green Flash, Moylan's, and Left Coast, all from California; Prairie, from Oklahoma; Carson Brewing, from Indiana; Horny Goat from Wisconsin; Mother's from Missouri; Moody Brews, Stone's Throw Brewing, and Lost Forty from here in the state, Victory from Pennsylvania, Bell's from Michigan, and Dogfish Head from Delaware. Now that we have more of our own beers on tap, we still plan on having guest beers, but in addition to our beers, not in place of them.
We decided early on to get a few "guest beers" - brews that we don't make ourselves and that many people may not have tried. We had been offering these every week (pretty much); like most things at Gravity, the offerings changed. We've tried beers from Green Flash, Moylan's, and Left Coast, all from California; Prairie, from Oklahoma; Carson Brewing, from Indiana; Horny Goat from Wisconsin; Mother's from Missouri; Moody Brews, Stone's Throw Brewing, and Lost Forty from here in the state, Victory from Pennsylvania, Bell's from Michigan, and Dogfish Head from Delaware. Now that we have more of our own beers on tap, we still plan on having guest beers, but in addition to our beers, not in place of them.
