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

   POG (passion fruit + orange + guava) SOUR – 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!
   8oz - $3.75
   16oz - $6.50

2. Blonde Bear

   Honey Blonde Ale  – 5.6% ABV
   Using our popular “Blonde Bear” recipe as the base, we added honey to sweeten it and make it even more refreshing. If you enjoy our blonde bear, then you are sure to enjoy this version of it! Honey and bears just go hand in hand!
   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $6.15

3. Helles Or High Water

   Helles Lager – 5% ABV
   Originally tapped in during a hurricane, Helles Or High Water is ready for you to dive in (to drinking the beer, not hurricane flood water)! Elkton, being a river town, has seen its fair share of floods. Many locals especially recall the flooding of 1996, where the rising waters broke the banks of the Shenandoah and put much of the town under water. Come Helles or high water, you’ll have a friendlier liquid companion in here than out in the storm. This delicious and crushable German Lager has a solid malt backbone with a subtle hint of sweetness that is well balanced with hops!
   8oz - $3.50
   16oz - $5.75

4. Campin’ Curly

   TIPA (+Toasted Coconut +Vanilla +Marshmallow +Lemon) – 10.2% ABV
   This full-flavored TIPA packs a punch! Deliciously balanced with 100% Citra hops, with lemon, toasted coconut, vanilla, and marshmallow. This is a great campfire beer because A) it will help you to fall asleep on those roots and rocks that you call a bed, and B) because who doesn’t love marshmallows around a campfire?! There was a well-known character by the name of Curly years ago who used to set up camp anywhere and everywhere here in town (with or without permission). He spent a number of years living under a tarp down on the river on the edge of town. Wherever he went was his campsite.
   8oz - $5.00
   12oz - $6.75

5. Elk Tears

   Raspberry Gose - 5% ABV
   In 1855, Gos Tuley killed the last known native Virginia elk. Many an elk across the yet to be hunted frontier shed tears over the unrestricted slaughter of their native Virginia brethren. We caught some of those salty tears for this beer! This super light traditional session gose is a tribute to the majestic beasts that once called this place home, and from whom derived our town’s namesake. Let their tears not go to waste! Drink up! Brewed with sea salt, coriander, and a delicate dose of natural raspberry puree.
   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $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. Iti Pepi Wapiti

   New Zealand IPA - 5.5% ABV
   Another tasty IPA for our New Zealand collection! It is brewed with only one hops – Nelson Sauvin – which shares some aroma and flavor characteristics with Sauvignon Blanc wines. “It Pepi Wapiti,” translated to “little baby elk” in the native NZ Maori language, is a fitting name for a lighter NZ IPA than its previous version, “Pepi Wapiti.”
   8oz - $3.25
   16oz - $5.50

8. Huckle Bear

   Huckleberry Blonde Ale - 5.2% ABV
   Another variant to add to the “Bear” collection of fruited blonde ales! This refreshing and tasty, fruit-forward blonde fits right in with the rest of them! Huckleberry Road is one of many beautiful backroads just outside of town that runs into the mountains, where native huckleberries can be found. These berries are a common source of food for the local bear population, which will load up on all they can eat before going into hibernation. Likewise, get yourself some Huckle Bear before the winter cold settles in!
   8oz - $3.65
   16oz - $6.15

9. Schornstein

   Rauchbier - 6.5% 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

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. Bock On Course

    Eisbock - 12.8% 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 - $7.50

12. Schrotmühle

    Doppelbock - 8.1% ABV
    A strong, dark, malt-forward German beer. What else needs to be said? Well, perhaps we should say the name isn’t anything weird or inappropriate – it is German for “Grain Mill.” Given that this beer required the most grain-grinding of all our Elktoberfest beers, it is well suited to serve as a tribute to our building, which used to be a grain mill.
    8oz - $3.75
    16oz - $6.50

13. Bruin Mountain

    Port Barrel Aged Flanders Brown / Oud Bruin - 10.7% ABV
    We brewed an Oud Bruin (or Flanders Brown) a while back (“Bruin’s Gap,” named after Brown’s Gap just down the road from here), which was a beer that caught a lot of people off guard. Is it a sour? Is it a brown ale? What the heck is this thing?! The dark amber color might lead you to think it would be a traditional malt-forward old ale, but it has a delicious tartness, with hints of raisin and prune, followed by a smooth and subtly sweet malt flavor. This particular batch of the Oud Bruin was aged in a port barrel, which gives the flavor profile even more depth, like the difference between Brown’s Gap and Brown Mountain, which stands up above the gap!
    8oz - $5.50
    12oz - $7.50

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

15. N/A

    N/A - 0% ABV
    Coming soon!
    8oz - $
    16oz - $
    

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!! (Tapped in 11/1/2024)
“Wahdooleesee” - MEAD (honey wine) - 15% ABV -
6oz - $6.50

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