Currently In Hibernation

Iced Tea Lemonade Shandy with grapefruit.

Relaxing in the underground…chilling in the shadows, human creatures live beyond the glaring stress of everyday life. Their anxiety has mutated into something easy, something mellow, yet stimulating and…hoppy. No longer confined by pain, nerves, or difficulty sleeping, the Cannabinoid Human Underground Dwellers (C.H.U.D.) have begun to emerge and brew beer among us. Not satisfied with the mere mists of copacetic airs, they have developed a thirst for slack and hops. And so…they have brewed a soothing Imperial Red Ale with a monstrous amount of Mosaic, Sorachi Ace, Simcoe, Mandarina Bavaria, Citra, and Amarillo hops. From out of the depths, C.H.U.D. has come to massacre your mania…slaughter your work-a-day woes…and exterminate your  thirst!

Dweller of the forest, he emerges out of the muck and foliage.  Tender of the beasts, Radagast is one with the wildlife and the forest.  Uprooting the vines of the hops and roots of the trees, nothing but the best Citra and Amarillo hops were used.  Aging was best on the planks of cedar trees, giving it the smells of sweet bark.  Radagast, the most crafty wizard across all of middle-earth.

This concoction is very fitting of the Strangeways name… We crafted up a sour beer with your not so average ingredient, Black Hawaiian sea salt. This gose is salted with this gruff, onyx-colored salt that is formed after sea water is evaporated over lava rock. This beer is black in color from both the salt and a plethora of chocolate wheat used to give it a subtle roastiness. Hopped with Pacifica in the kettle and dosed with a ton of orange peel at whirlpool. Notes of chocolate oranges, tart lemons, and candied fruit.

Brewed with English Pale malt and some light amounts of specialty malt, this beer is an expression of a perfectly balanced beer style. Americanized because of our house yeast, this ESB has a light fruit character with caramel/biscuit malt notes in the body. Hopped with Brambling Cross and a touch of Polaris. Named in honor of our local Fredericksburg river, the Rappahannock.

Our next iteration in our Directional Pale Ale series is Everything Changes, a 6.5% juicy Pale Ale. We brewed this beer with pale malt and a touch of Vienna for a sweet malty mouth-feel. Double dry hopped with tons of Green Bullet and Pacifica hops for flavors of ripe mango, orange marmalade and pineapple juice. Everything changes… for the better.

Traditional Leipziger Style Gose utilizing locally grown Murphy and Rude malts, coriander & sea salt.  The pleasure, the privilege is mine.

Our Oak Aged Belgian Golden Ale with hints of cherry and orange peel.

Taxi! Get me a beer! Blasting to the moon with flavors of lime, passion fruit and mango, this IPA is double dry-hopped with heavy doses of Galaxy and Wakatu hops to take you on the trip of a lifetime. We brew this with heavy amounts of oats and oat malt for a nice, juicy mouth-feel. Perfect citrus juice for the summer.

We soured up some wort with our house lacto strain and then boiled this beer with some fresh lemongrass and apricots. Fermented hot with our house kveik yeast strain, the result is wine-like, with notes of white grapes, apricots, sour warheads and lemon zest.

If you’re feeling down, Comfortably Plum might just ease your pain and get you on your feet again. Hundreds of pounds of local plums were pureed and added to this lactobacillus sour beer, giving this libation a tart and refreshing taste that’s perfect for these warmer days.

Orange Cream Hefeweizen

Key Lime Dark Ale

Reaching into the unknown, Cantilever is a hybrid of a few beer styles we classify simply as a Dark Ale. With the malty backbone of a brown ale, hop character of a black IPA, and the crispness of a blonde ale, we’ve mixed in all but the kitchen sink.

Brewed with pale, wheat, oats and a bunch of specialty malts, we fermented this warm with our house Kveik yeast and dry hopped it with Green Bullet and Mosaic hops to add some fruit aromas. Extend your arm and grab a glass of Cantilever.

This beer explores the curiosity of a new yeast with IPA hopping techniques. We used 100 percent German Polaris hops and fermented it hot with our house Kveik yeast strain. This IPA is crisp in taste, with dank aroma notes of pineapple, mint and mango. Named in honor of all those guys out there, strutting their stuff, in the most manly getup ever: Jorts.

Aerodynamic Flash Mob is the forth iteration of our rotating IPA series, AFM. AFM #4 is a tropical IPA that we conditioned on Pineapple, Guava, Pomegranate and Coconut to create the perfect summer IPA.

As elegant as an African elephant. Banana Clipper is a classic German style hefeweizen brewed with Pale and Wheat Malt, that we dry-hopped with Galaxy, Boadicea and Mandarina Bavaria hops for a modern twist. Subtle notes banana & clove with aromas of ripe fruit, papaya and musky passionfruit.

Forest Gnomes are small, reclusive, and have a keen knack for stealth and illusion.  Hailing from the planet Toril, they gather in hidden forest communities made illustrious in the magical world of Dungeons and Dragons.  Adept at obscuring their presence and slipping into places unseen, Forest Gnomes befriend local animals in the woods as pets, and have the supernatural ability to speak their language.  Like these gnomes of the forest, our Belgian Golden Ale blissfully lived for months in wooden oak barrels, gallivanting with tiny creatures who were continually fermenting away, and awaiting a cordial visit from hop varietals including Centennial, Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, and Mandarina Bavaria.  Oh yeah, and it was fermented with La Chouffe® yeast, we love their little Gnome too.  The result is a golden, Belgian-style ale possessing a hint of sweetness, spicy esters, with a fruity, citrusy finish.

Black rice, known as the “Emperor’s” or “Forbidden” rice, has a rich cultural history dating to ancient times, although its exact date of origin is shrouded in secrecy. It was originally reserved exclusively for the Emperor in Ancient China and used as a tribute food.

But more recently it has become prized for its high levels of antioxidants — hence our Asian-inspired lager packs more then 230 pounds of black rice. It also showcases ginger and Sorachi Ace hops. To take it one step further, it was specially finished with a Sake yeast.

Dark as night, this session-able sweet stout has depths of flavor. Brewed with oats, lactose and coconut in every part of the process, we bring forth layers of coffee, roasted malt, shredded coconut and chocolate.

This version of Midnight in Her Eyes was conditioned on gobs of chocolate cookies and vanilla icing.

This version of Midnight in Her Eyes was conditioned on a mixture of toasted marshmallows, graham crackers and chocolate bars.

Midnight S’mores is a dark, session-able sweet stout with depths of flavor. Brewed with oats, lactose and coconut in every part of the process, we bring forth flavors of coffee, roasted malt, shredded coconut and chocolate.

OUR TRIBUTE to American Craft Beer Week is Not So Common Kentucky Common Cream Ale. We’ve re-created a pre-prohibition style beer that has its roots in early craft beer. Using a pilsner/flaked corn base, a touch of roasted barley and our house ale yeast, this beer was fermented quick to be enjoyed super fresh.

In the early 1900s, this beer style was made by 80% of the local breweries in Kentucky. We raise a glass to you, the early brewing pioneers, for our ability to do what we do. Cheers!

We teamed up with our friend Emmett of Snead’s Farm in Fredericksburg to make a beer with some of his locally grown fruit. We used over 50 percent wheat malt and 155 pounds of raspberries from Snead’s farm to make this soft, fruity spring beer. Super refreshing and super crush-able.

Today’s sunrise in the land of milk and honey yields this specially crafted lager. Carefully aged with Brett Claussenii in oak barrels for more than a year, it’s finally coming out of the dark and into the light to present to you a funky, slightly tart, and most important refreshing libation. Hey Brett, you know what time it is…

Watermelon Sour IPA

Passionfruit Sour IPA

Lemon Berry SMASH Pale Ale

Kickin’ it old school and bringing beer styles back to their roots, Smashburg is the quintessential beer focusing on two of the main ingredients in beer. This SMASH beer features a single malt and single hop. It’s a pale ale with Golden Promise pale malt and the single hop Centennial. Enjoy this session-able beer at 5.3% with malt sweetness and lemon and resinous aromas.

Dark as night, this session-able sweet stout has depths of flavor. Brewed with oats, lactose and coconut in every part of the process, you’ll enjoy layers of flavors of coffee, roasted malt, shredded coconut and chocolate.

Sparked by the pursuit of fresh, resinous, tropical, and dank, hoppy India Pale Ales, the Legalize It IPA series was cultivated to relax your body and open your mind.  Scarce hop varietals are specially sourced from choice growers around the globe.  Our newest strain, Doc’s Choice, was brewed to acknowledge the recent and unanimous 40-0 passage of Virginia’s SB726, which will allow doctors in the Commonwealth to prescribe cannabis oil to help treat diagnosed conditions and diseases, such as cancer, Crohn’s disease, and PTSD.  This New England style IPA highlights a quintuple of aromatic hop varietals including Mosaic, Calypso, Galaxy, and Huell Melon, conscientiously administered to heighten your senses.  Come…sit…and inhale earthy scents of grass and rose blossoms, as pungent, tropical fruit flavors of passionfruit, ripe honeydew, pear, and papaya lend to the bright, citrus flavor of tangerine.  Make Doc’s Choice your choice.

Belgian Bomber is an 8.4% belgian tripel, dropping bombs of fruity esters and sweet tea aromas. Brewed with pilsner malt and fermented warm with the classic Belgian Ardennes strain, this beer produces wonderful fruity phenolics with notes of lemon pepper and green tea.

Go Go Juice is zippy Sour IPA that gets you off your feet. Brewed with pilsner and wheat malts, this kettle soured IPA is dry hopped with Galena, Calypso and Centennial hops for notes of black currant, sour warheads, and tropical fruit.

You don’t need to be an astronaut or travel in space to enjoy this citrusy delight.  Count down has begun and we look forward to a smooth mouth landing.

Everybody loves when Nana brings her best homemade meal to family gatherings. We tried to bring a little home-cooking into this beer to remind us of those delectable desserts. Fermented warm with a traditional Belgian ale strain, we brewed this beer with a ton of specialty malts, oats, cinnamon and nutmeg. We then conditioned this beer on 180 pounds of peach puree to round out and recreate this homemade dish. Notes of fruity cinnamon, caramel and spiced peaches.

We turned one of America’s favorite desserts into liquid beer form. With the help of a local downtown Fredericksburg baker, Eileen’s Bakery, we used 100 pounds of pound cake in the mash to get a soft, sweet mouth feel. In the boil we used 50 pounds of cool whip for sweet, marshmallow aromas. During fermentation, we conditioned this beer on 220 pounds of Strawberries and dry-hopped this IPA with Nugget and El dorado hops for notes of stone fruit, pineapple, strawberry fields and marshmallow fluff.

This smoked peach sour is our collaboration beer with our friends from Pennsylvania, Lost Tavern Brewing Company. This sour ale is used with a touch of Virginia Copper Fox Applewood/Cherrywood smoked malt and conditioned on 144 pounds of peach puree. Notes of stone fruit, grilled peaches, smoked bark and sour tropical fruit.

In collaboration with the iconic folks from Mamma ‘Zu, edo’s squid, Dinamo & 8 1/2, we sought to sanctify the religious experience of their world class tiramisu as a brew. This luscious porter underwent months of rum barrel aging with cocoa nibs, vanilla beans, and coffee from local roaster Black Hand. Find out for yourself why the Italian word tiramisù means pick-me-up.

Featuring Virginia wildflower honey, we aged this ale in A. Smith Bowman barrels that held bourbon and port. Notes of caramel, raisins, sweet bourbon and a touch of smoke from Copper Fox Distillery’s applewood smoked malt.

Unknown Brother was brewed with wheat and a ton of malted oats. Double dry-hopped with Citra, Pacifica and Centennial hops for notes of pear, lemon rind, resin and passion fruit juice.

The third iteration of our AFM series has been conditioned for two weeks on craft coffee from Dier House Coffee Roasters. We used a Burundi Blend — a juicy roast with notes of raspberry and cherry limeade.

Honeydew Melon Gose

Mango Gose

A Double IPA brewed with pale, wheat and a touch of honey malt. We double dry hopped this beer with one of our brewer Matty’s favorite hops, Galaxy, and some Green Bullet for a gigantic tropical fruit nose and a touch of pine.

Mango Magma is a milkshake inspired IPA brewed with copious amounts of oats, lactose and conditioned on Madagascar vanilla beans. Double dry-hopped with Mosaic and Citra hops for pungent tropical fruit, guava juice, and peach trees. Lucious mouthfeel and soft sweetness make this beer super drinkable.

Magma is a milkshake inspired IPA brewed with copious amounts of oats, lactose and conditioned on Madagascar vanilla beans. Double dry-hopped with Mosaic and Citra hops for pungent tropical fruit, guava juice, and peach trees. Lucious mouthfeel and soft sweetness make this beer super drinkable.

Key Lime Palooza IPA

Guava Palooza IPA

Calypsopalooza is a single-hop variation of our house IPA here in Fredericksburg. Palooza. Solely and intensely dry-hopped with Calypso hops, this IPA has a pilsner/wheat base, with loads of oats to soften the mouthfeel. Very low bitterness with flavors and aromas of tropical fruit, pears and grapefruit rind.

This session IPA was brewed with pale and wheat malt and hopped in the kettle with Nelson and Pacific Gem. We shuffled a truckload of Nelson, Pacific Gem and El Dorado hops in the tank for dry hopping a total of three times. You’ll pick up on huge aromas of grape must, stone fruit and pear — and think of the warm days ahead.