The Blue Mountain Brewery in
Afton, Virginia
Afton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Albemarle and Nelson counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is newly listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 313.
Geography
It is located in the foothill ...
is a
brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of be ...
that is part of Virginia's Brew Ridge Trail along with
Devils Backbone Brewing Company,
Starr Hill Brewery
Starr Hill Brewery was founded in 1999 in the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, by Mark Thompson and Kristin Dolan. The brewery takes its name from the neighborhood where it was originally located. In 2005, the brewery moved to nearby Crozet, Vi ...
, and others in the area.
Blue Mountain was the first microbrewery to open in
Nelson County.
They cultivate 1/3 acre of mainly Cascade-variety hops
and have had a focus on the industry's agricultural traditions since they opened.
One of their
seasonal beer A seasonal beer is a beer that is typically brewed during or for a particular season, holiday or festival period. Many breweries and microbreweries produce seasonal beers. Seasonal beers may be produced when fresh ingredients are available during ...
s, 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.
References
External links
Blue Mountain Brewery
Beer brewing companies based in Virginia
Nelson County, Virginia
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