Sip & Stroll

Skeleton Fest Sip & Stroll

Sip & Stroll is an element of our events that replaces the usual beer garden. Adults aged 21+ can purchase a beer, wine, or cocktails at a participating brewery, cidery, or restaurant and enjoy it while strolling downtown.

This activity will create more space for people to spread out, enjoy the entertainment available downtown, and support local businesses that suffered a difficult financial year in 2020.

HDR is collaborating closely with the Harrisonburg Police Department and ABC to develop Sip & Stoll zones and a security plan to introduce this new activity to the community safely.

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS:

Show your ID and purchase a $3 wristband from the HDR info booth or a participating establishment.

Proceeds from wristband sales benefit Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance and offset the cost of large community events like Skeleton Festival.

Sip & Stroll drinks are served at each establishment in cups with their logo on them. You may not bring your own alcohol into the event.

While you may purchase alcohol in bottles, cans, or growlers downtown, they must remain sealed and cannot be used to refill Sip & Stroll cups or be consumed during the event.

Enjoy your drink within the event zone. You must finish your drink before leaving the event.

Enjoy festival music, food, and activities but do not overindulge. Arrange for a designated driver.

Last call will be at 4:30 PM. Drinks must be finished and cups discarded by 5:00 PM.

PARTICIPATING SIP & STROLL ESTABLISHMENTS

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

  1. Rootstock Wine Bar*
  2. Sage Bird Ciderworks*
  3. Restless Moons*
  4. The Golden Pony*
  5. Mashita*
  6. Capital Ale House
  7. Broad Porch Coffee*
  8. Jack Brown’s*
  9. The Friendly Fermenter*
  10. Three Notch’d Valley Collab House*
  11. Capitol Waffle Shop*
  12. Bella Luna
  13. Cuban Burger*
  14. Beyond*
  15. Finnigan’s (opening at 2pm)
  16. Billy Jack’s Shack*
  17. Magnolia’s Tacos & Tequila Bar
  18. Jimmy Madison’s*
  19. Urgie’s Cheesesteaks
  20. Pulp
  21. Clementine Cafe*
  22. Ruby’s Arcade*
  23. Pale Fire*
  24. Joshua Wilton House*

*selling wristbands

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SEASONAL SIP & STROLL DRINK SPECIALS

  • Capital Ale House: Fall-inspired Cocktails and Pumpkin Beers
  • Mashita: Two featured beverages: The Spider Bite and Witch’s Brew cocktails
  • Ruby’s Arcade: Autumn Apple Soju (Buttershots & Apple Soju) and Poison Apple (vodka, apple, sours)
  • Sage Bird Ciderworks: Special Poison Apple Cider Slush Skeleton Festival weekend only. An Apple Pie Cider Slush with a twist
  • Pale Fire Brewing Co.: Oktoberfest festbier, glittery Candy Apple cocktail, drinks from their new fall cocktail menu
  • Broad Porch Coffee: Seasonal toasted orange syrup to go in drinks for sip & stroll. Cocktail, beer, wine, and cider menu will be available.
  • Magnolia’s Taco and Tequila Bar: Red Bull Margarita, Apple Cider Mimosa
  • Jimmy Madison’s: Witch’s Brew ($10): pear vodka, black raspberry, lime juice, ginger beer, simple syrup; Blood moon: lemon bourbon, mixed berry simple syrup, blood OJ ($10)
  • The Friendly Fermenter: Something wonderful to be announced
  • The Golden Pony: $5 Mulled wine blood bags (Food Grade Fake “Blood Bags” filled with mulled red wine, mulled with holiday spices and citrus peel), $5 El Fusilado (Habenero grenadine, lunazul blanco tequila, lime juice, angostura bitters), $5 hot buttered rum (brown butter infused 5 year aged rum with rich simple syrup and hot water, taste like butter beer), $5 Hocus Pocus Margaritas (melon margaritas with black licorice and black lava salt garnish.
  • Billy Jack’s: seasonal fall cocktail- TBD
  • Jack Brown’s: TBD
  • Three Notch’d Brewing Company: Duke of Clouds
  • Finnigan’s Cove: “The Wondering Eye” – cherry vodka, lime juice, grenadine, and sprite for $5.33
  • Joshua Wilton House: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (midori, vodka, lemon, simple w/ chambord float), and blueberry elderflower Kentucky mule
  • Beyond: Walnut Maple Old Fashioned, Apple Cider Cocktail, S’mores Espresso Martini
  • Bella Luna: “A Howlin Good Time” – Chai spice infused vodka, ginger beer, fresh lime juice
  • Cuban Burger: Cider (alcoholic and NA)
  • Rootstock Wine Bar: “Bone Chiller”—a refreshing blend of white port, tonic, mint, and lime. 

NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINK SPECIALS

(Sip & Stroll wristband NOT required)

  • Drifter’s Cafe: 4 drink specials: Pumpkin Spice, Almond Praline Latte, Creamy Pumpkin Freddo. Available as individual servings or in their coffee flights
  • Christ Presbyterian Church: Cider
  • Aristocat Cafe: Fundraising (non-alcoholic, hot or iced) drink (Apple Blossom) for the local Cancer Society
  • Coffee Hound: $1.50 hot chocolates for kids!
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