<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0GcAPs_1GpuZhal00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0GcAPs_1GpuZhal00" width="1200" height="900" ><figcaption>Basic City Brewing Co. bartenders Kelly Lewis and Natasha Olinger.</figcaption></figure>When the Lanman brothers founded Basic City Brewing Co. in Waynesboro ten years ago, Alana Hollister-Bates was there.A Waynesboro native, Hollister-Bates had already put a decade of service into building Crozet Pizza, then joined Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie as it navigated an expansion of its exceptionally busy North Garden restaurant.“We have come very far,” said Hollister-Bates at Basic City’s 10-year anniversary celebration October 24, featuring an artisan fair, a new beer, pumpkin cocktails, Skee-Ball competition and free concert. “There’s a place here for everybody.”She credited the brewery’s staying power to adaptation and its own expansion as the Virginia Metalcrafters Marketplace—along with Waynesboro itself—has grown around it.In the early pandemic months of 2020, Basic City kept its employees working by turning a 19th-century farmhouse into The Showroom, an old-world style tavern with fine cocktails.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=29qyvC_1GpuZhal00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=29qyvC_1GpuZhal00" width="1200" height="900" ><figcaption>Alana Hollister-Bates, who leads the artisan fair at Basic City</figcaption></figure>In early 2023, it opened what is now a 1,000-person music venue called The Foundry, which attracts larger acts like Umphrey’s McGee and G. Love &amp; Special Sauce, also experimenting with an Italian eatery called Patina, now closed.And last October, seeing a national dip in alcohol consumption and the rising popularity of “dirty sodas,” Basic City became home to Sip City Soda Shop, offering drinks like the O.G. Dirty Dr. Pepper, which adds coconut, half &amp; half and a lime wedge, and the Paradise Pop, a combination of Orange Fanta, amaretto, pineapple, whipped cream and vanilla.“There’s a little bit of fear in this industry, with folks not drinking as much,” Hollister-Bates said. A Gallup poll last year found a record-low 54 percent of Americans now drink, down from more than 70 percent in the early 1980s. “We’re doing a lot more for non-drinkers.”Bartenders Natasha Olinger and Kelly Lewis emphasized that Basic City has become a center of community in Waynesboro, an “extra space” where families and newcomers are welcome.They recommended two upcoming concerts, both free and all-ages: a Grateful Dead cover band called Nightfall of Diamonds at 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 7, as well as rock band Sun Dried Opossum with guest John Shenk at 8 p.m. on Black Friday, November 27.</div></body>

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When the Lanman brothers founded Basic City Brewing Co. in Waynesboro ten years ago, Alana Hollister-Bates was there. A Waynesboro native, Hollister-Bates had already put a decade of service into building Crozet Pizza, then joined Dr. Ho’s Humble Pie as it navigated an expansion of its exceptionally busy North Garden restaurant.

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When the Lanman brothers founded Basic City Brewing Co. in Waynesboro ten years ago, Alana Hollister-Bates was there. A Waynesboro native, Hollister-Bates 

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