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. Field Day

   Strawberry Cotton Candy SOUR – 6% ABV
   This sweet and tart sour will hit your glands in all the right places. Like a mouthful of cotton candy on a hot day at Elkton’s annual Field Day!
   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. Black Bear

   Blackberry Blonde Ale – 5.2% ABV
   Our popular ‘Blonde Bear’ recipe makes up the base for this one, which we fruited with a bunch of all natural blackberry puree! We’ve brewed ‘Blonde Bear,’ ‘Blue Bear,’ ‘Straw Bear,’ and now we’ve turned to the much more commonly known combo. Black Bear is a simple, tart and delicious, tribute to our native black bear population and the abundance of native blackberries scattered all over our mountains. Both are a beautiful sight to see when you’re in the mountains; however, less pleasant if you find yourself between the two.

   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $6.15

4. Uncommon Elk

   California Common – 5.5% ABV
   A beer style that is about as common around here as native Virginia Elk. Few things that are common in Cali’ are common in Elkton. Features notes of toasted caramel, graham crackers, and sweet maltiness, with a beautiful deep amber color.
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

5. Store of 1812

   English Bitter Ale - 4.0% ABV
   We’re pretty sure something else significant happened in 1812 – something to do with England – but all that matters is that “Conrad’s Store” was erected in 1812, which is what our town was known as for decades before being named “Elkton.” The store was built and run by George Conrad, the son of an American Revolution veteran… There seems to be a theme here. Twice we had to kick out the redcoats, but we’re always happy to keep their beer! This English Bitter Ale is smooth, malty, and nutty, with hints of spice and floral notes from East Kent Goldings hops. Don’t let the word “bitter” scare you away, as it is far from bitter, but rather smooth and refreshing.
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

6. Mercky Water

   Double IPA – 8.0% ABV
   Just the right balance of hops and restrained bitterness offers a tribute to the Shenandoah River’s murky history (especially the restrained bitterness part). Careful what you put in the water!
   8oz - $3.75
   16 oz - $6.50

7. Front Line Fuel

   IPA - 6.5% ABV
   This traditional IPA recipe’s origins reach way back to the beers England would brew to send on the long journey to the troops in India long ago. We took this traditional recipe and dry-hopped it, which mellows out the hops bitterness and boosts the hops flavor. In local history, the Shenandoah Valley was known as the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy.” It was the biggest source of fuel for the troops on the front lines. This is why it was such a significant target for the Union. Everyone is on the front lines somewhere, and this approachable IPA is fuel for everyone! It is very crushable, yet has a robust hops flavor with a touch of bitterness on the back end.
   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $6.15

8. Dubbel Trubbel

   Belgian Dubbel - 8.2% ABV
   Locals are familiar with the saying, “two F’s and two T’s means double fun and double trouble!” This delicious Belgian Dubbel is bursting with smooth and dark malt flavor. It goes down easy for an 8.2 percent beer. That’s the fun part. But if you aren’t careful with it, then the trouble comes. Here’s to all those locals who are branded by double fun and Dubbel Trubbel (and who fill more local phonebook pages than any other name)!
   8oz - $4.25
   12oz - $6.25

9. Sombeech

   Rauchbier (beechwood smoked malt) - 6% ABV
   This SomBeech is a smoky SomBeech! We used some beechwood-smoked barley to give this SomBeech a deliciously smooth smoke flavor. Grab yourself a SomBeech and get your combined smoke and beer fix! This beer is a tribute to our local dialects, which efficiently blend multiple words into single words. Aint nobody got time for all them words!

   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. BBA Bell-Door Barley

    Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine - 14.5% ABV
    We brewed our rich and delicious barleywine, “Bell-Door Barley,” and aged it in a Ragged Branch double-oaked, wheated, bourbon barrel for 8 months to bring you this special Fall treat! We couldn’t be happier with how this batch came out. The flavor is smooth, rich, and dynamic, with all kinds of booze and remnant deliciousness from the barrel’s history. We all know about the robust liquids that flow out of the hollers. This beer is a tribute to those that come through the “Bell Door!”
    5oz - $4.75
    8oz - $7.50

12. The Zetty

    American Strong Ale - 10.5% ABV
    Someone like local legend Herman Zetty, who lived here in Elkton in the early-mid 1900’s, deserves to have a beer named after him. What better beer to offer as a tribute than an American Strong Ale - with a strong, boozy, malt forward flavor, and fermented with rye whiskey soaked oak spirals! Herman was well known for riding his horse wherever he went (sometimes indoors) with a six-shooter on his hip and a cowboy hat resting on his head, like a gun-slinging cowboy of old. When Herman went to the Elkton Theatre to see his first ever motion picture (a Western/cowboy flick, of course) in the 1950’s, he was drawn into the movie magic a bit too much. When the bandits were about to ambush the good guys, Zetty came to the rescue and rose from his seat full of stoic heroism. Drawing his six-shooter in the middle of the theatre full of unsuspecting men, women, and children, he fired at the screen. A mother who was there with her young son simply shouted, “Damnit, Herman! Put your gun away!” And the show went on.
    5oz - $4.75
    8oz - $7.50

13. Old Spotswood

    English Old Ale - 8% ABV
    Some might fault him for being loyal to England, but times were different back then. And we’d like to think that he was always an American at heart (at least a Virginian!). This beer is a tribute to the olden days and to the heart of exploration which led Old Al to the valley! Loosely influenced by one of George Washington’s old beer recipes, with molasses for some unique sweetness and rich malty flavor.
    8oz - $4.25
    12oz - $6.25

14. ShenanDark

    Irish NITRO Stout – 4.7% ABV

    This stout spawned from our popular flagship oatmeal porter, “ShenandOats,” which is our oldest recipe - developed by brother August nearly two decades ago. For this beer, we traded the oats for extra roasted malt to give it a darker, deeper, roastier flavor profile. Then we hooked it up to our nitro tap to round it off with that smooth nitro texture, which is perfectly befitting of this beer. Here’s to Shenandoah Valley home-brews! You never know where they will end up - whether down the drain or becoming a menu item at a future craft brewery, keep on brewing!
    8oz - $3.25
    16oz - $5.50
    

NOW OFFERING HARD CIDER & Wine (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

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