Lost Rhino Native Son Virginia

Our first beer brewed in our Genius Loci series. This beer is groundbreaking, brewed with only local ingredients! We used local water, hand-crafted malt from the Copperfox Distillery in Sperryville, a little bit of unmalted wheat from Billy Dawson’s Bays Best Feed (the malted barley was grown by Billy too), and locally harvested Ashburn yeast isolated and tested by Jasper Akerboom. This beer was an adventure to brew, because we used all new ingredients. The resulting beer is amazing; the maltiness from the grain and the prolonged boil to get the nice color, blend perfectly with the yeast aromatics and flavors. We fermented this beer at 85 degrees Fahrenheit to push the yeast to the limit, and we are definitely rewarded. A first for Virginia!