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Geeks Who Drink trivia

Get a team together for weekly pub trivia from Geeks Who Drink every week from 8-10pm at Pale Fire! Free to play and winning teams get cool prizes.

Each quiz consists of seven rounds of eight questions each, in a variety of formats, including audio and visual rounds. Bonus questions sprinkled throughout the quiz will net you additional goodies.

Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies) — or come solo.

Answer all the questions on your phone, so make sure someone comes arrives with a full charge.
We often have a full taproom for dinner AND trivia so please wait until 7pm or later to arrive. You can talk to a bartender or server if you need help getting a table!

Want to Try Something Different?

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We get it. Sometimes you need something different. With options ranging from wine to cider to delicious (and non-alcoholic) “dirty soda,” breweries along the Beerwerks Trail have beer alternatives for every taste.

Here are some alternatives Beerwerks breweries are serving:

  • Start with Basic City’s Sip City Soda Shop, which is a family-friendly “dirty soda” counter with a menu of delicious concoctions that start with soda or seltzer bases and incorporate syrups, fruits, creams, and other add-ins.
  • Stable Craft has wine, gluten-free ciders, and hand-crafted sodas.
  • Along with their beer, Heliotrope serves hard cider, wine, frozen cocktails like the new Strawberry Balsamic Daiquiri, Wild Bill’s old fashioned craft soda, and house-made mineral water.
  • Great Valley produces wine as well as craft beer. They have a non-alcoholic Kölsch, a non-alcoholic West Coast IPA, and non-alcoholic Electro-Lime Sea Salt Lager. They also sell select soft drinks, juice, and sparkling water.
  • Redbeard Brewing serves Granny Ray’s Hard Lemonade, a shandy, which mixes hard lemonade with a beer of your choice, a selection of non-alcoholic beers, and several types of Boylan sodas.
  • Devils Backbone produces Smash cocktails and Tide Line vodka iced teas.
  • PRO RE NATA+ carries Blue Toad hard cider along with wine and cocktails.
  • Queen City Brewing serves fruit beers and sangria.
  • Seven Arrows stocks rotating bottles of Blue Ridge Bucha, a regional favorite for kombucha lovers. 
  • Alpine Goat has Prickly Pear Seltzer.
  • Pale Fire sells Pure Shenandoah Hydrate, a CBD-infused sparkling water with tropical vibes.
  • Feel the Rain Brothers House sells soda along with Pure Shenandoah’s Hydrate CBD Seltzers, Liquid Death Sparkling Water and Tea. 
  • Cave Hill serves Skyline Seltzer.
  • Elkton Brewing is now offering hard cider, wine, and mead.
  • Rockbridge Winery and Brewery sells wine and hard cider.
  • White Oak Lavender Farm sells wine, hard seltzer, wine slushies, and lemonade slushies.