This Celebration of American Beer will feature more than 60 of the America's best breweries, plenty of food to complement the craft beers, outstanding local and regional bands providing entertainment and a wide array of artists, crafters, local businesses and commercial exhibitors.
The festival will be held at Morven Park, found just north of Leesburg, on Route 15, at Tutt Lane, Saturday, 11:00 AM – 9:00 PM, and Sunday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM. Taps close an hour before the festival ends.
Here's the list of 59 breweries, plus one (Virginia) cidery, and two international conglomerates: Anheuser-Busch InBev and SAB/Miller, who'll be participating this weekend. I've 'bolded' the local (Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland) breweries. (My thoughts on that after the jump.)
- Abita Brewery
- Allagash Brewing
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Apocalypse Brew Works
- Baltimore-Washington Beer Works (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Bell’s Brewery
- Blue & Gray Brewing (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
- Blue Point Brewery
- Boston Beer Co.
- Bold Rock Cider (Nellysford, Virginia)
- Brewery Ommegang
- Capitol City Brewing (Arlington, Virginia)
- Corcoran Brewing (Waterford, Virginia)
- Crispin Cider
- DC Brau Brewing (Washington, D.C.)
- Devils Backbone Brewing (Roseland, Virginia)
- Dominion Brewery
- DuClaw Brewing (Hanover, Maryland)
- Evolution Craft Brewing (Salisbury, Maryland)
- Firestone Walker Brewery
- Flying Dog Brewery (Frederick, Maryland)
- Fordham Brewing
- Gordon Biersch Brewery (Tysons Corner, Virginia)
- Goose Island Brewing
- Great Lakes Brewing
- Green Flash Brewing
- Harpoon Brewery
- Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Highland Brewing
- Kona Brewing
- Lagunitas Brewery
- Lancaster Brewing
- Laughing Dog Brewing
- Left Hand Brewing
- Legend Brewery (Richmond, Virginia)
- Long Trail Brewing
- Lost Rhino Brewing (Ashburn, Virginia)
- Mad Fox Brewing (Falls Church, Virginia)
- Magic Hat Brewing
- SAB/Miller Brewing
- New Belgium Brewing
- New Holland Brewing
- Peak Organic Brewing
- Port City Brewing (Alexandria, Virginia)
- Redhook Ale Brewery
- RJ Rockers Brewing
- Schlafly Beer
- Sixpoint Brewery
- Smuttynose Brewing
- Somerville Brewing
- St. George Brewery (Hampton, Virginia)
- Starr Hill Brewery (Crozet, Virginia)
- Stone Brewing
- Stoudt's Brewery
- Terrapin Beer Co.
- Three Brothers Brewing (Harrisonburg, VA)
- Three Heads Brewing
- Troegs Brewing
- Vintage 50 Restaurant & Brew Lounge (Leesburg, Virginia)
- Widmer Brothers Brewing
- Wild Wolf Brewing (Nellysford, Virginia)
- Williamsburg Alewerks (Williamsburg, Virginia)
- Sixty breweries are listed as participating. Of those, I counted twenty-one as being local breweries: sixteen from Virginia, four from Maryland, and one from the District of Columbia. According to the Brewers Association, there are forty-eight breweries in Virginia (forty-nine if you include Anheuser-Busch-InBev), thirty in Maryland, and six in D.C. Doing the math, only 34% of all Virginia breweries are participating, and only 23% of all the craft breweries in the tri-state area (a few more if Pennsylvania and Delaware are tossed into the mix). Surely some sort of one or two-day importer's license could arranged through legislative lobbying to allow festivals to bring in local breweries who do not have a wholesaler contract in the area. Hello, Virginia Craft Brewers Guild and festival organizer The High Road?
- UPDATE: Photos from the fest: here.
- Caveat lector: As a representative for Select Wines, Inc. —a wine and beer wholesaler in northern Virginia— I sell the beers of Abita, Allagash, Baltimore-Washington Beer Works (Raven), Heavy Seas, Lancaster, and Stoudt's (not listed on the festival website), all of whose beers were poured. Stop by our tent and say hello! (I'll be bringing cask ale.)
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