PHOTOS: Dancing Kilt Brewery celebrates Saint Patrick’s Day

by Alexa Welch Edlund

Dancing Kilt Brewery, which opened last summer, released Clurichaun’s Clover SMASH Ale with Honey for Saint Patrick’s Day, Wed., March 17, 2021.

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Ann Wills laughs as her husband Charlie Wills shows his “Irish drinking gloves” to friends Liz and Tom Wright. They celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with beer at Dancing Kilt Brewery and eating Irish nachos supplied by the Right on Time Mobile Diner food truck outside Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

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(L-R) Talia Nicolella and Tori Pakurar pour beer at the Dancing Kilt Brewery on St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

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People celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the Dancing Kilt Brewery Wednesday, March 17, 2021.

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Allen Gatewood, who wore his Douglas kilt in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, has a beer at the Dancing Kilt Brewery Wednesday, March 17, 2021. Although his Douglas ancestors came from Scotland, he said he has Irish ancestors too.

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LEFT: Tori Pakurar poured a Clurichaun’s Clover SMASH Ale with Honey, a new beer on tap for St. Patrick’s Day at the Dancing Kilt Brewery in Chester, on Wednesday. A Clurichaun is a cousin to the leprechaun. RIGHT: Sisters Dee Stevens (left) and Sandy McCall wore green to mark the day at O’Toole’s Restaurant and Pub in South Richmond.

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Tori Pakurar poured a Clurichaun’s Clover SMASH Ale with Honey, a new beer released at the Dancing Kilt Brewery for St. Patrick’s Day, Wednesday, March 17, 2021. A clurichaun is a cousin to the leprechaun.

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