Hardywood Park Craft Brewery – West Creek of Short Pump

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery - West Creek of Short Pump is a brewery in Short Pump, Virginia, located at 820 Sanctuary Trail Dr. It is one of two Hardywood taprooms in the Richmond area, and the West Creek site pairs its taproom with a brewery. A food truck serves a locally sourced menu of burgers, brats, and shareables. The taproom hosts regular events, including live music, trivia every Tuesday, a run club every Wednesday, and Pints and Pilates. The brewery holds a rating of 4.60 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Hardywood was founded by Eric McKay and Patrick Murtaugh, whose friendship began in childhood through their parents and deepened over a shared interest in homebrewing and craft beer culture. A meeting at a sheep station in Australia called Hardywood Park, where they shared their first glass of home-brewed beer, set ten years of planning in motion, with McKay handling the business side and Murtaugh the brewing. Hardywood began brewing in late 2011, when Richmond had only two craft breweries. The brewery later hosted the signing of SB 604, the legislation that allowed craft breweries to sell beer from their taprooms directly to consumers. Hardywood brews with Virginia-grown ingredients and renewable energy.

The original brewhouse and taproom opened in a vacant warehouse in a long-forgotten Richmond neighborhood once known as the German Brewing District. Hardywood now operates a 20-barrel brewhouse and taproom at that original location, alongside a 60-barrel brewhouse.

For Short Pump and the surrounding Richmond area, the West Creek taproom brings a working brewery together with a taproom calendar of music, trivia, and community runs, backed by a 4.60 customer rating.