Blue Mountain Brewery
The Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, Virginia is a brewery which forms, along with Starr Hill Brewery, South Street Brewery, Wild Wolf Brewing Company, and Devils Backbone Brewing Company, an integral part of the Brew Ridge Trail.[1] Blue Mountain was the first brewery to open in Nelson County. They cultivate 1/3 acre of mainly Cascade-variety hops. One of their seasonal beers, Blue Reserve, took home the first-ever medal (Silver) for a beer hopped solely with Virginia hops at the world's largest beer competition, the Great American Beer Festival, in 2011 for the American-Belgo Ale category. Blue Mountain is also the only Virginia brewery to hold back-to-back Gold medals at the 2010 and 2011 Great American Beer Festival. In 2012, a new sister brewery, Blue Mountain Barrel House, was opened by two of the founders of the original Blue Mountain Brewery.
The pils malt grain silo behind the brewery. | |
Industry | Alcoholic beverage |
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Founded | October 2007 |
Headquarters | Afton, Virginia, USA |
Products | Beer |
Production output | 2012 capacity, 2,800 barrels/year |
Owner | Taylor and Mandi Smack, Matt Nucci, 31 other shareholders |
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. Retrieved 2009-12-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)