Style: Kölsch    
ABV: 4.2%    
IBU: ?    
Package: Draft & 500ml Bottles to-go!!

Virginia isn’t ideally suited for the cultivation of hops, so it is no small undertaking that we tend to a modest hop yard every year. Our climate, daylight hours, and soil aren’t quite right for them, but despite this we are able to get a reasonable harvest each season. This requires a significant investment of time and effort from many members of our team, and we are constantly learning and trying to improve our methods for cultivating them. On top of the difficulty of growing them, they also present a number of challenges to harvest and use. We pick them all by hand and work with them fresh from the field, meaning that we brew with them no more than 36 hours from when we pick them.    

Regardless of the work involved, we take pride in our hops, and the beers we brew with them. We feel that this process, like many of the ones we use in the production of our beers, helps to keep us firmly rooted in beer’s agricultural lineage, and it acts as a powerful reminder of the many hands that labor so that we are able to make beer. On top of all of this, we find that the Cascade that we grow has some unique nuances and is unlike Cascade grown anywhere else in the world.

This Kölsch was brewed as a celebration, and showcase, of these hops. We brewed it with Virginia grown 6-Row barley, malted by our friends at Murphy & Rude, in Charlottesville. It has a floral aroma, leading with red clover and grape blossoms, that is balanced against malt tones of sun-dried hay and water crackers. The flavor yields mild citrus, alongside straw, dried flowers and green tea. The body is creamy and round with a lively natural carbonation, and a pleasantly bitter finish.

Grains: Murphy & Rude 6-Row Pale
Hops: Fine Creek Grown Fresh Cascade
Yeast: House Ale 

Style: New Zealand Pilsner    
ABV: 4.8%    
IBU: 40    
Package: Draft & 32oz. Crowler Cans to-go!!

This year we decided to revisit this recipe and brew a Pilsner with New Zealand hops that is truer to the origins of the style, and allows for a harmonious blend of German Pilsen Malt and New Zealand grown hops. In years past our New Zealand Pilsners have tended toward an aggressive hop presence that didn’t reflect the delicate balance inherent to Pilsners, and our hope with this recipe is to rectify that. 

The aroma leads with fresh flowers and gentle notes of lemon and lime. On first sip this beer is round bodied with a bready sweetness, but a pronounced, and balanced, bitterness cuts the mouthfeel and allows for a crisp finish. The flavor is intermingled with malt tones of wheat cracker and fresh bread alongside hops tones of dried citrus peel and subtle pine and spice. 

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Chit Malt, Honey Malt, Acid Malt
Hops: Taiheke, Nelson Sauvin
Yeast: German Lager

Style: Belgian Style Single    
ABV: 5.0%    
IBU: 40     
Package: Draft & 500ml Bottles to-go!!

Belgian Singles are an often misunderstood style. They aren’t as sweet as a Belgian Blonde nor as hoppy as a Belgian Pale, instead they are more akin to a German Pilsner but fermented with expressive Abbey ale yeast. They strike a balance between a present and supportive malt profile and a spicy and floral hop profile. 

Built on a base of Murphy & Rude Virgina Pils, Avec Frère 5 is our attempt to highlight this balance. It is bitter and highly attenuated with aromas that are spicy, floral, and fruity. The flavor begins with bready malt tones but quickly moves toward pome fruit, citrus and spicy, yeast-driven phenolics. The finish is dry and bitter with hop notes of dried flowers and earthy herbs.

Grains: Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, Pilsner, Honey Malt, Acid Malt
Hops: Hallertauer Mittelfrüh
Yeast: Belgian Ale

Style: Belgian Style Dubbel    
ABV: 7.0%    
IBU: 20    
Package: Draft & 500ml Bottles to-go!!

Belgian Dubbel is a style that is meant to be a harmonious blend of fruity esters and rich malt. The nose of our Dubbel is an ample display of yeast driven esters, such as dried cherry and ripe plum. The flavor is a more complex blend of dates and raisins with caramelized sugar, and a subtle spicy yeast character that becomes more evident as the beer warms. While starting with a rich sweetness and roundness of body, Avec Frère 7 mellows into a drier mouthfeel that is balanced by a faint hint of warming alcohol.    

Grains: Pilsner, Red X, Murphy & Rude Malted Wheat, Murphy & Rude Belgian Amber, Special B, Acid Malt
Hops: Barbe Rouge
Yeast: Belgian Ale
Other: Belgian Extra Dark Candi Syrup

Style: American Stout    
ABV: 7.0%    
IBU: 50    
Package: Draft & 16oz 4-packs to-go!!

Our American stout is built on a base of English Pale malt from Murphy & Rude Malting Co. out of Charlottesville VA. That malt produces a nutty and sweet backbone that we combined with a blend of their Crystal malts, as well as their Chocolate Wheat, to build up sweeter tones of whole grain bread, graham cracker, mocha, and roasty black coffee. The end result is a smooth, dark, ale with a medium semi-sweet body that is balanced by a subtle hop flavor and a drying bitterness.

Grains: Murphy & Rude English Pale, Murphy & Rude Crystal Malt, Murphy & Rude Chocolate Wheat, Roasted Barley
Hops: Nugget
Yeast: House Ale

Style: Hazy Pale Ale    
ABV: 5.0%    
IBU: 32  
Draft & 32oz. Crowler Cans to-go!

Nelson Sauvin is one of the most unique and sought after hops to come out of New Zealand. It is known for its distinct fruity profile, and its ability to deliver a very pleasant, mild, bitterness. We combined it with our favorite base malt, Murphy & Rude’s 6-Row Pale, to produce a hazy, hop forward Pale Ale with a round mouthfeel and a refreshing, bitter accented, finish.

The aroma is a delightful blend of crushed white grapes, candied grapefruit, and fresh white pine, but it also has subtle hints of passion fruit and tropical spices. The flavor delivers the classic gooseberry forward profile that has made this hop famous, alongside notes of papaya, lime zest, and New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. Murphy & Rude’s 6-Row Pale provides a round easy drinking body but the beer still finishes crisply, with a welcomed dry, lime pith like bitterness.        

Grains: Murphy & Rude 6-Row Pale, Acid Malt
Hops: Nelson Sauvin
Yeast: Kveik

Style: Hazy IPA    
ABV: 6.8    
IBU: 13    
Package: Draft & 32oz. Crowler Cans to-go!!

Holtzman Effect was brewed with a combination of New Zealand Nelson Sauvin and Australian Vic Secret hops. Together they deliver striking and pronounced elements of passionfruit, pineapple, key lime, white peach, and red berries. This incredible aroma and flavor is paired with minimal bitterness and a soft full body, thanks to a generous addition of Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat.

Grains: Pilsner, Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat, Flaked Oats, Acid Malt
Hops: Nelson Sauvin, Vic Secret
Yeast: Kviek

Style: West Coast IPA    
ABV: 6.6%   
IBU: 45    
Package: Draft Only

Pouring a beautiful light copper hue, Richness of Martens is brewed to be a classic take on West Coast IPA. Hopped with a combination of Mosaic and Chinook, this IPA has an aroma that leads with notes of balsam pine, pomelo, and orange blossom. The flavor has some sweetness at first, but notes of candied orange peel and Asian pear soon give way to sappy mountain pine and a grapefruit-like bitterness that accents its dry finish. 

Grains: Pilsner, Flaked Wheat, Flaked Oats, Crystal, Acid Malt
Hops: Mosaic, Chinook 
Yeast: House Ale

…full notes coming soon…

Style: Bière de Printemps  
ABV: 7.5%   
IBU: 42     
Package: Draft & 750ml Bottles to-go!!!

Literally meaning “Spring Beer,” our Bière de Printemps is brewed as a celebration of the return of warmer weather. While every year’s version is different, they are always beers that are designed to be refreshing, highly drinkable, and brett forward. This year's version is a Farmhouse Ale, brewed with a base of Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils and Malted Spelt. It was fermented with our preferred Saison yeast strain before being packaged and allowed to naturally condition with Brettanomyces bruxellensis. 

The aroma is very floral and fruity, displaying notes of lychee and honeysuckle alongside dried pineapple and chamomile. The flavor retains a traditional Saison profile but combines it with funkier, fruity, Brett undertones, with specific notes of Tellicherry Peppercorn, citron, dried flowers, and lemon rind. This year’s version is very light bodied with a vigorous, and softly textured, natural carbonation and a dry finish that highlights a noticeable and refreshing bitterness.

Grains: Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, Murphy & Rude Malted Spelt, Murphy & Rude Belgian Amber
Hops: Southern Tropic, Southern Sublime, American Nobel Citra
Yeast House Saion, Brettanomyces bruxellensis
Other: Clear Belgian Candi Sugar

Style: Bière de Vin  
ABV: 6.8%   
IBU: 30     
Package: Draft & 750ml Bottles

This Bière de Vin is the culmination of conditioning our open fermented brett Saison on Albariño grape skins from Blenheim Vineyards. Prior to conditioning, this beer was a fruity and funky Saison with floral notes, and a crisp minerality. It had some mild yeast derived spice, alongside earthy malt tones of straw and dried grass from a grist of Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, and Malted Corn, as well as Deep Roots Milling Buckwheat Flour.

Conditioning on the Albariño grape skins transformed the beer, developing a gentle acidity, and a floral aroma of white grape, persevered lemon, and barnyard funk. The flavor is much fruitier with notes of dried grapefruit, white strawberry, and fresh grape skins. Natural carbonation adds a liveliness to the tart mouthfeel, and brings the floral and fruity elements to the forefront. Meanwhile, the finish highlights another addition from the grape skins: pleasant drying tannins that cut through the otherwise round body.

Grains: Murphy & Rude Virginia Pils, Murphy & Rude Malted Corn (blend of Bloody Butcher & Buena Vista), Deep Roots Milling Buckwheat Flour, Acid Malt
Hops: Greemont Mother, Greenmont Hopworks Chinook
Yeast: House Farmhouse Blend 
Other: Blenheim Vineyards Albariño Pomace

Style: Mixed Culture Farmhouse Ale 
ABV: 11.0%    
IBU: 20    
Package: Draft & 500ml Bottles to-go!!

This beer is a blend of a fresh, dark, Belgian inspired, Farmhouse Ale with a smaller portion of mature mixed culture beer that was aged in barrels for over two years. The fresher portion of the beer helps to temper the acidity and funkiness of the barrel aged portion, but still allows the complexity of the barrel aged portion to come through. The resulting beer is a varied blend of dark malt with mixed culture overtones and specific notes of tart cherry, dark chocolate, and baking spice.

Grains:Vienna, Pilsner, Red Malt, Special B, Murphy & Rude 6-Row Pale, Murphy & Rude Malted Spelt, Epiphany Malted Wheat, Greater Richmond Grains Organic Raw Wheat, Murphy & Rude Soft Red Wheat, Murphy & Rude Belgian Amber
Hops: Greenmont Mother, American Nobel Citra, American Nobel Simcoe, Nugget, House Aged Hersbrucker 
Yeast: “Resettle” Culture, “Slashes” Wild Culture, Brettanomyces bruxellensis, House Saison, Belgian Ale, Lactobacillus Blend
Other: Belgian Candi Syrup