When you find a beer in Virginia called Green Terrors Juicy IPA — complete with hops dressed as football players donning green and gold uniforms — it’s hard not to take notice and wonder what the connection to the Hill could be.
We reached out to Charlottesville’s Three Notch’d Brewing and got the story behind it. While the blurb on the can has no mention of our Green Terror, there’s more of a backstory than even the founding brewmaster, Dave Warwick, realized!
“Small world alert: I grew up in Maryland and my father, Earl G. Warwick Jr. ’69, went to McDaniel College, but back when it was called Western Maryland. He only attended the college for a year before joining the Army and going to Vietnam.
“But that has nothing to do with the beer name, just a big coincidence! I actually had no idea until this week that there existed another Green Terror team!
“I grew up in Salisbury, Maryland, and played for a peewee football league run by the Salvation Army. My team was the Green Terrors. The Terps and the Yellow Jackets are two other teams I recall in that league, so, I guess the teams were all named after collegiate teams.
“A teammate of mine and longtime friend, Andrew Fineran, ended up moving to Australia and started his own brewery. For years, we talked about doing a collaboration between Three Notch’d and his brewery, Batch Brewing.
“He had plans to come back to the states for his father’s 75th birthday, so the collaboration wheels were in motion! This was February of 2019. He brought some unique Australian-grown hops with him for us to make an Australian-inspired IPA. Hops are green, so I came up with the idea to name it Green Terrors after the team we played on together. That’s it!”