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.
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 - $4.00
16oz - $6.75Blonde 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 - $5.50Mercky Mollusk
Oyster Stout – 4.4% ABV
Since we can’t eat anything from our local Shenandoah River - because of the “Mercky” water - we have to go a little further away to get our mollusks. This delicious and mild oyster stout was brewed with same-day fresh oysters from the Chesapeake Bay! We went a little light on the roasted malt to let the sweet oyster liquor come through. This made for a deliciously smooth, well rounded and well balanced stout!
8oz - $3.50
16oz - $5.75Gos in the Graveyard
Rum Barrel Aged Imperial Gose (+Strawberry +Lime) - 12.3% ABV
This special release is beyond unique! We procured a George Bowman rum barrel from A. Smith Bowman Distillery, and we filled it with our imperial gose (which was fruited with strawberry and lime), and we aged it for 7 months. Both buttery smooth AND tart, this drink is sure to explosively hit all your taste buds in ways you might not have experienced before. A rare find, much like the native Virginia Elk that used to call this place home. The last of which was shot and killed by Colonel Gos Tuley not far North of here in 1855. Drink to the memory of those poor majestic creatures that went extinct as a result of unregulated hunting. Just like you should moderate your drinking with this heavy hitter, you should also hunt in moderation. This is a deliciously sour beer for a tragically sour memory!
5oz - $4.25
8oz - $7.00Shenanbasa
Grodziskie (smoked wheat ale) - 3.5% ABV
This Polish beer style is quite unique and has a distinct, yet approachable, smoky flavor. At a very sessionable ABV of only 3.5%, this is a very light smoke beer for drinkers who are curious but timid about smoke beers. It is like drinking a light wheat beer while simultaneously eating a delicious kielbasa! Crazy, right?! And who doesn’t love light beer and sausage in the summer time? Brewed with hops imported from Poland (Lubelski hops) and traditional yeast from the same region, combined with oak-smoked wheat, this is a special treat for any adventurous craft beer drinker!
8oz - $3.00
16oz - $5.00Mercky 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 - $6.50Hidden Chimneys
Smoked Helles Lager - 6.5% ABV
Have you ever gone up into Shenandoah National Park and noticed random chimneys out in the middle of the woods? True locals know and retell the story behind those chimneys, but the government would probably rather we forget. This smooth beer was brewed with a light and balanced dose of beechwood smoked malt to give it a subtle smoke aroma and finish on the flavor profile to serve as a subtle reminder of this story. Many families were chased out of their mountain homes, which the feds burned to the ground (along with churches and schoolhouses) to prevent the people from coming back. After the smoke cleared and the ash settled, all that remained were the stone chimneys. That smoke may have blown away long ago, but if you get close enough to those chimneys, you might still smell the lingering smoke of tyranny. As you sip this uniquely refreshing beer, take in the smoke and take in this story and raise a glass to the resilience of the local folks!
8oz - $3.50
16oz - $5.75Odell’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 - $4.00
16oz - $6.75Pepi Wapiti 2.0
New Zealand IPA - 7.5% ABV
Another NZ IPA, but unlike its predecessors, this SINGLE IPA is not fruited and is brewed with only one hops – Nelson Sauvin – which shares some aroma and flavor characteristics with Sauvignon Blanc wines. “Pepi Wapiti,” translated to “baby elk” in the native NZ Maori language, is a fitting name for a lighter NZ IPA than our previous version, “Wapiti Kakano,” which means “elk seed.” You can’t get a baby elk without the elk seed…
8oz - $3.65
16oz - $6.15Red 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 - $5.75Blackbeard’s Revenge (2025)
Rum Barrel Aged English Old Ale - 13.7% ABV
Early this year, we took a dark rum barrel and filled it with our popular English Old Ale, “Old Spotswood,” and we let it soak up that sweet and boozy dark rum flavor for 7 months! 1718 Brewing, on Ocracoke Island, is named after the year that Blackbeard the pirate was beheaded there on the island. Who had Blackbeard killed, you ask? None other than our own Alexander Spotswood, the namesake for our beer! ‘Twas on the 22nd of November, 1718, that Blackbeard lost his head. Now, just over 300 years later, Blackbeard is getting his revenge by having Old Spotswood shoved into a pirate rum barrel - just in time to observe the anniversary of the beheading! A perfect beer for all you modern day pirates!.. We shared our “Old Spotswood” recipe with 1718 Brewing, who brewed the same beer and also aged it in rum barrels. 1718 always has an excellent selection of beers on tap! If you’re ever down in their NECK of the woods, they are well worth a visit!
5oz - $4.75
8oz - $7.50Tiger Treat
Chocolate Orange Imperial Stout - 10% ABV
This special, Christmas season, limited release is rich and delicious! Bursting with classic strong roasted malt, and tastefully balanced with chocolate and orange for some subtle sweetness. It gets better with every sip! But be careful! Don’t let the welcoming appearance of this stout catch you off guard, as the 10% ABV will quickly bite you if you’re not careful. Likewise it was always prudent to avoid getting too close to the fence that separated you from Odell’s tigers, otherwise you would become a tiger treat! Be brave, but approach with caution!
8oz - $5.50
12oz - $7.25Bock On Course
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 - $7.25ShenandOats
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)
