Blue Mountain Brewery

The Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, Virginia is a brewery that is part of Virginia's Brew Ridge Trail along with Devils Backbone Brewing Company, Starr Hill Brewery, and others in the area.^[1] Blue Mountain was the first microbrewery to open in Nelson County.^[2] They cultivate 1/3 acre of mainly Cascade-variety hops^[3] and have had a focus on the industry's agricultural traditions since they opened.^[4][5] One of their seasonal beers, 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.^[6][7]

Blue Mountain Brewery

The pils malt grain silo behind the brewery.
Industry	Alcoholic beverage
Founded	October 2007
Headquarters	Afton, Virginia, USA
Products	Beer
Production output	2012 capacity, 2,800 barrels/year
Owner	Taylor and Mandi Smack, Matt Nucci, 31 other shareholders