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Craft Beer • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Freefolk: metal, paint, music, beer

When good friends Jamie Lester and Jeff Edwards got together in 2012 to form a bronze casting company, they had no inkling that their business association would lead to them operating a craft brewery.

Birch IPA

Appalachia • Craft Beer • West Virginia • WV Barrel Trail

Foraged Birch IPA at Weathered Ground

What does your brewing friend who is coming up from North Carolina bring with him? Why a carload of birch tree branches, of course. How else can you make a Foraged Birch IPA?

Craft Beer • West Virginia

Greenbrier Valley new King of Black

While the rest of the beer world may seem to be steering away from black variants of traditionally pale beer styles, the folks at Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company are introducing new black beers faster than Trump posting tweets. Maybe they… Continue Reading…

hemp seeds for beer

Craft Beer • News • West Virginia

WV breweries join hemp beer promotion

Two of the first commercial West Virginia beers featuring hemp seeds among their ingredients have been brewed by state breweries. Bridge Brew Works introduced Doobie this past week, and Bad Shepherd Beer Company will introduce its The Allegheny Rocket on… Continue Reading…

Craft Beer • West Virginia

A woman’s place is in the brewhouse

When asked to talk about her favorite parts of the job she answered, “All of it. I love all of it — even the cleaning part.”