After months of having our beer brewed at the now defunct General Lafayette Inn & Brewery, we finished installation of a brewery which is our very own in October of 2010. Our 20 Barrel (BBL) brewhouse comes from the Virginia Brewing Company. Sadly, they never even had a chance to brew on it before going out of business. Both the Mash/lauter tun and brew kettle/whirlpool of the DME brewhouse are steam jacketed for heating which provides us with the ability to do step infusions for particular styles of beer. Going from 5 gallons at home, to 210 gallons (7 BBL) at the General Lafayette, to 620 gallons (20 BBL) gives use room to make plenty of beer to keep up with demand.
We are starting with just three fermenters which limits us to brewing just 1.5 times a week, but such a large batch size still allows us to achieve 1500 BBL's per year at capacity. We expect to add more fermentation and brite tanks well before reaching this limit.
In the Spring of 2011 we purchased a bottling line and expect to have bottled product available in the late summer.
We recently completed construction of our own taproom at the brewery as well so you can now join us Tuesdays - Saturdays from 4 - midnight for pints of our beer, PA made wine, and gourmet hot dogs!