CURRENTLY ON TAP

As a small batch brewery, our taps rotate regularly. We do our best to keep this menu up to date, but occasionally we have beers rotate off/on before we’re able to update here.

1. Fruit Farm

   P.O.G. Sour (passion fruit + orange + guava) – 6% ABV
   Why settle for one fruit when you can have three! Orange, Guava, and Passion Fruit combine to form the perfect medley for this sour. This beer is a tribute to the many small farmers around the valley who appreciate variety. Not to mention it is a great source of refreshment after a long day under the sun! Fruit Farm also happens to be the name of a road in the area where berries are grown! This beer is tart and crisp with a delicious fruit-forward flavor!
   8oz - $3.75
   16oz - $6.50

2. Blonde Bear

   Blonde Ale  – 5.2% ABV
   We’ve got plenty of black bears, the West has plenty of brown bears, but one rarely sees the elusive blonde bear dancing about in our blue mountains. This Blonde is smooth and easy to drink, and tends to be a great fit for someone who wants the closest thing to a light, domestic style ale. This flagship recipe is a tribute to our local friend, known as the “Blonde Bear” (also known as the “Dancing Bear”). He is who originally taught August, our head brewer, how to brew many years ago - ultimately leading to the quality craftsmanship we have in our brew cellar today! Cheers to the Blonde Bear!
   8oz - $3.25
   16oz - $5.50

3. Lawn Party Hill

   Pumpkin Pie Cream Ale – 5.6% ABV
   This beer is special for a number of reasons. Let’s go through the layers, shall we?… First off, it is appropriately being tapped in just in time for Elkton’s Autumn Days festival, which takes place right on and along what used to be known as “Lawn Party Hill.” This hill also happens to be the building site for the town’s new proposed pavilion/farmers market/amphitheater/etc.. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this beer go to the town as a contribution towards that goal! Help us help the town to build this great community space! Additionally, the base recipe for this beer is our delicious and popular “Hobby Robby” cream ale, named after Hobby Robinson. Ironically, Lawn Party Hill was once the site of a WWII watch tower, where community members rotated shifts day and night during the war to watch for enemy planes, while Hobby himself was an aviation photographer in the Navy during the war. Lastly, who isn’t in the mood for pumpkin beer this time of year?? This is smooth, crisp, and delicious - full of seasonal flavor! Come get some!
   8oz - $3.75
   16oz - $6.50

4. Schornstein - (Elktoberfest!)

   Rauchbier (German smoked malt beer) – 6.9% ABV
   ”Schornstein” is German for “Chimney.” Not only is that an appropriate name for a German smoked beer, but also to tie it into some local history. Fall season is one of the most popular times for locals and tourists alike to go up into mountains. The crisp and cool mountain air is refreshing, and the changing leaves can be spectacularly beautiful to behold! As the leaves fall and it becomes easier to gaze into the depths of the woods, mountain visitors might catch a glimpse of old chimneys here and there, which tell a darker story about the origins of the national park. They tried to keep the story hidden, but every year the mountain reminds us not to forget!.. This particular rauchbier was brewed with 100% imported and authentic German malts, hops, and yeast! The smoked malt gives the beer a unique bacon-like flavor!
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

5. Hop to the Front

   Local Wet-Hop IPA - 6.3% ABV
   We took our delicious “Front Line Fuel” IPA recipe and used it as the base for this one, but then we did something a little different. Instead of using dried hops or pelletized hops, we used 100% wet hops cones straight off the vines from local Running Cedar Hopyard. Because of this change, this one comes out as super mellow on the hops flavor, much more malt-forward, and very smooth with a low IBU rating. This beer offers tribute to the Shenandoah Valley’s history as being the “breadbasket of the Confederacy” during the Civil War, where local crops were a primary source of food for those on the front lines. Additionally, this is a tribute to the local growers who have been producing rich crops for hundreds of years, which fuel those on the front lines both near and far.
   5oz - $3.65
   8oz - $6.15

6. Mercky Water

   DIPA (Double IPA) – 8.0% ABV
   Our flagship DIPA, which has been rebrewed repeatedly since we tapped it in for the first time when we opened in February, 2020. Just the right balance of hops and restrained bitterness offers a tribute to the Shenandoah River’s murky history (especially the restrained bitterness part). We are all about using clean, natural spring water and only putting the best ingredients in that water for our beers. Not everyone has the same standards. Which brings us to the “Mercky” beers. Did we spell “mercky” properly? Oh well… Careful what you put in the water!
   8oz - $3.75
   16 oz - $6.50

7. Settlement - (Elktoberfest!)

   Bohemian Lager - 4.8% ABV
   The first permanent settlement of the Shenandoah Valley was right here in Elkton! Of course, it wasn’t called Elkton back then. Adam Müller (who later changed to the more American “Miller”) settled next to the same spring we use today to brew all our beers. He was born in Germany around 1700, and immigrated to America. He originally settled around Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but heard that Virginia was better (well, duh!) so he went down to give it a look-see. He met some members of the Spotswood expedition in Williamsburg who told him of the beautiful valley hiding over the Blue Ridge Mountains, so he went to see for himself, and sure enough he fell in love with what he found. How could he not?! He followed Spotswood’s original route and found a permanent home right here, in what would someday become home to many.
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

8. Odell’s Tiger

   Blood Orange Blonde Ale - 5.2% ABV
   We don’t need to get into his complex local notoriety, but Odell had tigers. This exotic beer will be short lived, much like Odell’s tigers. It is a refreshing tribute to the beautiful beasts that lived in captivity here in Elkton some years ago. Toast to those tigers, whose fate is unknown! This delicious, crushable, flagship recipe is a crowd pleaser! It is refreshing and bursting with orange flavor! Catch Odell’s Tiger by the tail, we guarantee you it will be an exciting experience!
   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $6.15

9. Nekid Crik - (Elktoberfest!)

   Kölsch - 5.3% ABV
   Known as “Naked Creek” to non-locals, this smooth and malty beer is hazy and rich in flavor. It is refreshing and light, like the color of the unclothed regions of backwoods folks skinny dipping in Naked Creek!
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

10. Red Brush

    Red Ale - 5% ABV
    This beer is the only beer we’ve been able to brew with 100% Virginia grown malt! Combine that with our local Bear Lithia Springs water, with a low ABV, and you have a pretty hard to beat session beer! Crisp and malt-forward, with hints of smoky roasted malt, and a beautiful dark red/amber color. Red Brush starts at Bear Lithia Springs, and winds its way all the way to our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Cruising down that road gives you a proper taste of Virginia’s beauty. Drink up Red Brush, and taste Virginia!
    8oz - $3.50
    16oz - $5.75

11. Weizen Bär - (Elktoberfest!)

    Bavarian Wheat Ale - 4.8% ABV
    You’ve had our Blonde Bear. You’ve had our Blue Bear. And now you can have our Weizen Bär, or “Wheat Bear.” Just picture the Blonde Bear in a lederhosen! Deliciously crushable, nutty, wheaty/bready, with notes of banana. If you enjoy a good hefeweizen, then you’ll love this one. It is like a lighter hefe! Crisp and refreshing!
    8oz - $3.25
    16oz - $5.50

12. Bock On Course - (Elktoberfest!)

    Eisbock - 12.7% ABV
    The Eisbock style was the strong German result of a cold accident at a big Bavarian brewery in the 1800’s. On its way to becoming a traditional Bock, it froze overnight and became an Eisbock - stronger with a more densely packed malt flavor profile due to the water freezing out of it. Likewise, in the early 1700’s a group of 100 German immigrants traveling across the ocean to Pennsylvania got off course in a storm and accidentally ended up in Virginia, where they were sold into indentured servitude to our own Alexander Spotswood. They meant to be Pennsylvanians, but as fortune would have it they became something far better: Virginians! (For more information about this story, see the description for another one of our German beers: “Wort 100”)
    8oz - $5.50
    12oz - $7.25

13. Heritage - (Elktoberfest!)

    Vienna Lager - 5% ABV

    This Vienna Lager is smooth, crisp, malt-balanced, and delicious. It is everything we hoped it would be. Much like Elkton and the Shenandoah Valley was to our family when they decided to settle here. Our family origins go back to Austria, home of the Vienna Lager. The first batch of our family came across the ocean in the early 1900’s, and our grandfather was born shortly after that arrival - becoming the first American-born of our family. To celebrate their new citizenship in this country, our ancestors brewed their own beers and enjoyed them together. This brewery is a continuation of that heritage, and this particular beer is a celebration of that heritage. Here’s to the immigrant heritage that we all share, which ultimately led us to this slice of paradise known as the Shenandoah Valley.
    8oz - $3.50
    16oz - $5.75

14. ShenandOats

    NITRO Oatmeal Stout - 5.5% ABV
    Strong will. Strong flavor. Don’t tell a Shenandoan what to do! This stout goes down smooth, with deliciously smooth and robust roasted malt flavor. This is our oldest beer recipe - developed by our head brewer August, part of the Elkton Brewing founding family, many years before we started up here!
    8oz - $3.25
    16oz - $5.50

NOW OFFERING HARD CIDER & Wine + Mead (GF)!

A1. Hard Apple Cider - “Betwixt”
Dry Cider - 7.0% ABV - $6.75 / 12oz

A2. Hard Apple Cider - “Off the Press”
Sweet Cider - 5.5% ABV - $6.25 / 12oz

Sangue Di Alce
Sangiovese (Italian Red) - 14.3% ABV
Delicious grape-forward new wine crafted in our brew cellar with imported Italian grapes!
6oz - $6.50

NEW!!
“Wahdooleesee” - MEAD (honey wine) - 15% ABV

“Wahdooleesee” is Cherokee for “honey,” which is obviously a fitting name for this tasty beverage. Harvesting honey was very common among the tribes that used to roam this area until the European honey bees took over (which native locals referred to as “white man’s flies”). Here’s to the folks that called this beautiful place home long before we showed up! Drink some Wah-doo-lee-see in remembrance!
6oz - $6.50

FLIGHTS - four 5 oz pours of your choice (wine not included in flights)
$10/regular flight
$12/high ABV flight

*(up-charge on flights that include barrel aged beers)