From revolutionary taverns to modern taprooms, experience Virginia’s brewing journey—one stop at a time.
The Revolutionary Brews™ Beer Trail is a statewide experience from the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, featured as part of our VA250 commemorative partnership celebrating Virginia’s brewing heritage during the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.
Revolutionary Brews™ connects past and present through beers inspired by colonial taverns and early American brewing traditions, reimagined by today’s craft brewers. As you explore VA250 sites across the Commonwealth, pair your visit with a stop at a nearby brewery and experience that history in a whole new way. Across the Commonwealth, participating locations are crafting and serving beers inspired by Virginia’s rich brewing traditions—from colonial taverns and household brewing to today’s thriving craft beer scene.
Interested in joining the Revolutionary Brews™ program? Learn how your brewery can participate and be part of Virginia’s 250th celebration.
Find a Revolutionary Brew Near You
Discover historically inspired beers across Virginia—drawing on traditional styles, stories, and ingredients to bring Virginia’s revolutionary past to life. Explore participating locations across Virginia and try a revolutionary beer near you!
Participating Locations
Click each location below to view the featured beer, address, and website.
Blue Mountain Brewery — Afton, VA
Beer: Liberty Hollow | American Dark Ale
Description: Nelson County collaboration brew to celebrate America’s 250th! Brewed from a recipe created for the National Brewers Association in 2006 to honor Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday, this beer blends history with bold flavor. A hearty portion of corn lends a smooth body and subtle sweetness, while blackstrap molasses adds rich notes of dark caramel and bittersweet cocoa. Balanced and full-flavored, it’s a colonial-inspired ale with a distinctly American character. ABV: 6.5%
Collaboration with Blue Mountain Brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, Outback Brew House, Three Notch’d Brewing Co., and WildManDan Brewery
Address: 9519 Critzer Shop Rd, Afton, VA 22920
Website: bluemountainbrewery.com
Blue Mountain Barrel House — Arrington, VA
Beer: Liberty Hollow | American Dark Ale
Description: Nelson County collaboration brew to celebrate America’s 250th! Brewed from a recipe created for the National Brewers Association in 2006 to honor Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday, this beer blends history with bold flavor. A hearty portion of corn lends a smooth body and subtle sweetness, while blackstrap molasses adds rich notes of dark caramel and bittersweet cocoa. Balanced and full-flavored, it’s a colonial-inspired ale with a distinctly American character. ABV: 6.5%
Collaboration with Blue Mountain Brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, Outback Brew House, Three Notch’d Brewing Co., and WildManDan Brewery
Address: 495 Cooperative Way, Arrington, VA 22922
Website: bluemountainbarrel.com
Chilly Hollow Brewing Company — Berryville, VA
Beer: Common Country Pale Ale
Description: Common Country is a historically inspired pale ale rooted in 18th-century Virginia brewing traditions. Developed in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon and beer historians Lost Lagers, the recipe draws from a “middling beer” found in The Art of Cookery, a cookbook once owned by Martha Washington. Crafted with predominantly Virginia-grown ingredients and adapted from colonial-era brewing methods, this unique collaboration offers a taste of the past while showcasing the Commonwealth’s modern brewing craftsmanship. Raise a glass and experience a beer that connects today’s Virginia beer lovers with the traditions enjoyed by generations of Americans before them. “Common Country” will be available at Chilly Hollow Brewing, Dynasty Brewing, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon in limited-edition cans designed by Mount Vernon beginning Thursday, June 11, to kick off a summer’s worth of revolutionary enjoyment and celebration of Virginia’s 250th birthday.
Collaboration with Chilly Hollow Brewing Company, Dynasty Brewing Company, Lost Lagers, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Address: 669 Chilly Hollow Road, Berryville, VA 22611
Website: chillyhollowbrewingco.com
Crazy Rooster Brewing Company — Powhatan, VA
Beer: Monticello Strong Ale
Description: A historically inspired beer based on brewing records from Monticello. Brewed with Virginia grown barley, hops, and yeast. This beer was brewed in collaboration with Fine Creek Brewing Co., and will be available at both Crazy Rooster & Fine Creek when it is released.
Virginia Ingredients: 6-Row Barley, Soft Red Wheat, Buena Vista Yellow Corn, & Specialty Malts (Murphy & Rude Malting Co.); Crystal Hops (Greenmont Hopworks); Yeast (RVA Yeast Labs)
Address: 1560 Oakbridge Drive, Powhatan, VA 23139
Website: crazyroosterbrewing.com
Dynasty Brewing Co. — Leesburg, VA
Beer: Common Country Pale Ale
Description: Common Country is a historically inspired pale ale rooted in 18th-century Virginia brewing traditions. Developed in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon and beer historians Lost Lagers, the recipe draws from a “middling beer” found in The Art of Cookery, a cookbook once owned by Martha Washington. Crafted with predominantly Virginia-grown ingredients and adapted from colonial-era brewing methods, this unique collaboration offers a taste of the past while showcasing the Commonwealth’s modern brewing craftsmanship. Raise a glass and experience a beer that connects today’s Virginia beer lovers with the traditions enjoyed by generations of Americans before them. “Common Country” will be available at Chilly Hollow Brewing, Dynasty Brewing, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon in limited-edition cans designed by Mount Vernon beginning Thursday, June 11, to kick off a summer’s worth of revolutionary enjoyment and celebration of Virginia’s 250th birthday.
Collaboration with Chilly Hollow Brewing Company, Dynasty Brewing Company, Lost Lagers, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Address: 101 Loudoun St SE, Leesburg, VA 20175
Fine Creek Brewing Co. — Powhatan, VA
Beer: Virginia Small Beer
Description:
Inspired by George Washington’s 1757 recipe for “small beer,” this historically inspired ale reimagines one of colonial Virginia’s everyday beverages. Brewed with Virginia-grown barley, hops, and sorghum molasses, it honors the resourcefulness of early American brewing while showcasing the Commonwealth’s modern agricultural producers. Light-bodied and exceptionally refreshing, it offers aromas of crushed red apple, toasted multigrain bread, and buckwheat honey, followed by flavors of toasted biscuit, sun-dried straw, and a subtle cider-like fruitiness that finishes crisp and dry.
Virginia Ingredients: 6-Row Pale, Brown Malt, and Melanoidin (Murphy & Rude Malting Co.); Crystal Hops (Greenmont Hopworks); Sorghum Molasses (Bear Bottom Farms)
Beer: Monticello Strong Ale
Description:
A historically inspired beer based on brewing records from Monticello. Brewed with Virginia-grown barley, hops, and yeast. This beer was brewed in collaboration with Crazy Rooster Brewing Company and is available at both Fine Creek and Crazy Rooster.
Virginia Ingredients: 6-Row Barley, Soft Red Wheat, Buena Vista Yellow Corn, & Specialty Malts (Murphy & Rude Malting Co.); Crystal Hops (Greenmont Hopworks); Yeast (RVA Yeast Labs)
Address: 2425 Robert E Lee Rd, Powhatan, VA 23139
Website: finecreekbrewing.com
Iron Pipe Alewerks — Orange, VA
Beer: The Great Corndealio | Pre Prohibition/Historic Lager (4.7 ABV)
Description: Classic Virginia lager with Virginia grown 6 row barley malted by Murphy and Rude, Virginia grown and malted corn by Murphy and Rude, hops are Comet and Contessa American hops. Making it an easy drinkable American made light lager.
Address: 323 N Madison Road Orange, VA 22960
Website: ironpipealewerks.com
LoCo Lion Brewery — Purcellville, VA
Beer: Colonial Cheer Black Lager (ABV: 5.2% I IBU 12)
Description: Representing America in LoCo Lion Brewery’s “Battle of the Brews: The 1776 Face-Off,” Colonial Cheer Black Lager is enriched with authentic molasses, a key ingredient in George Washington’s “small beer” recipe. With notes of toasted bread, plum, and caramel, this 5.2% ABV black lager finishes crisp and dry. While most dark beers are heavy ales, Colonial Cheer is fermented cool and long for a clean, sophisticated finish. Created as part of a friendly rivalry with the brewery’s British Retreat Honey Wheat Ale, Colonial Cheer invites drinkers to experience a clash of historic flavors inspired by the semiquincentennial and decide which side claims victory.
Address:36577 Heskett Lane, Purcellville, VA 20132
Website: locolion.com
Lost Barrel Brewing — Middleburg, VA
Beer: Revolution Ale | Table Ale
Description: Honoring the hearty ales of our nation’s founding era. This golden Revolutionary Ale blends malted wheat, corn, and molasses for creamy body and gentle sweetness, finished with delicate noble hops.
Historically Inspired Ingredients: Corn, wheat, and molassas
Address: 36138 Little River Tpke, Middleburg, VA 20117
Website: lostbarrel.com
Outback Brewhouse — Lovingston, VA
Beer: Liberty Hollow | American Dark Ale
Description: Nelson County collaboration brew to celebrate America’s 250th! Brewed from a recipe created for the National Brewers Association in 2006 to honor Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday, this beer blends history with bold flavor. A hearty portion of corn lends a smooth body and subtle sweetness, while blackstrap molasses adds rich notes of dark caramel and bittersweet cocoa. Balanced and full-flavored, it’s a colonial-inspired ale with a distinctly American character. ABV: 6.5%
Collaboration with Blue Mountain Brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, Outback Brew House, Three Notch’d Brewing Co., and WildManDan Brewery
Address: 7995 Thomas Nelson Hwy, Lovingston, VA 22949
Website: outbackbrewhouse.com
Stable Craft Brewing — Waynesboro, VA
Beer: Wagon Road Draft | Brown Pub Ale (5.5% ABV)
Description: Wagon Road Draught is inspired by the ales once enjoyed along the Great Wagon Road that carried settlers, teamsters, and traders through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during the colonial era. Brewed with Virginia beech-smoked malt, farm-grown hops, local honey, molasses, and angelica root, it reflects ingredients and brewing traditions common to 18th-century America. Rich notes of toasted bread, gentle smoke, caramel, and earthy spice create a brown ale worthy of a tavern stop after a long day’s journey.
Historical/heritage ingredients: Molasses, Local Honey, Angelica Root, our own Farm grown Mackinac hops, and Beech smoked Barley malt
Address: 375 Madrid Rd, Waynesboro, VA 22980
Website: stablecraftbrewing.com
St. George Brewing Company — Hampton, VA
Beer: VA250 Celebration Series
Description: The VA250 Celebration Series by St. George Brewing Co. commemorates the 250th anniversary of the United States, with each beer in the series representing one point in the “Historic Triangle” of Jamestown (London Porter), Williamsburg (English IPA), and Yorktown (Nut Brown Ale). The packaging for each can features images from historic moments in the founding of the United States, specific to each town represented, and each label highlights a bit of history about the area and its respective beer.
Address: 204 Challenger Way, Hampton, VA 23666
Website: stgbeer.com
Three Notch’d Brewery, Distillery, & Craft Kitchen – Nelson County — Nellysford, VA
Beer: Liberty Hollow | American Dark Ale
Description: Nelson County collaboration brew to celebrate America’s 250th! Brewed from a recipe created for the National Brewers Association in 2006 to honor Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday, this beer blends history with bold flavor. A hearty portion of corn lends a smooth body and subtle sweetness, while blackstrap molasses adds rich notes of dark caramel and bittersweet cocoa. Balanced and full-flavored, it’s a colonial-inspired ale with a distinctly American character. ABV: 6.5%
Collaboration with Blue Mountain Brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, Outback Brew House, Three Notch’d Brewing Co., and WildManDan Brewery
Address: 2461 Rockfish Valley Hwy, Nellysford, VA 22958
Website: threenotchdbrewing.com
WildManDan Brewery — Afton, VA
Beer: Liberty Hollow | American Dark Ale
Description: Nelson County collaboration brew to celebrate America’s 250th! Brewed from a recipe created for the National Brewers Association in 2006 to honor Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday, this beer blends history with bold flavor. A hearty portion of corn lends a smooth body and subtle sweetness, while blackstrap molasses adds rich notes of dark caramel and bittersweet cocoa. Balanced and full-flavored, it’s a colonial-inspired ale with a distinctly American character. ABV: 6.5%
Collaboration with Blue Mountain Brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, Outback Brew House, Three Notch’d Brewing Co., and WildManDan Brewery
Address: 279 Avon Rd, Afton, VA 22920
Website: wmdb3.com
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