Craft Beer, Farm-Grown
Over 25 rotating recipes, with multiple award winners among them. Hops and herbs grown right here, fermented in our on-site brewery. You're drinking the valley's terroir, one sip at a time.
Our Story
We didn't set out to open
a brewery.
It started with herbs. Sunflower Cottage was a working herb farm long before a single hop was harvested, long before anyone thought to hang a fermentation tank in the barn. The land came first.
In 2012 we planted our first hops on these ten Shenandoah Valley acres. By 2013 we were brewing with them — rinsed in the same spring water, dried in the same mountain air. What began as curiosity became obsession, and by 2016 Backroom Brewery opened its doors as Virginia's first farm brewery.
The farmhouse, the barn, the fields — none of it has changed. The beer just got better. Three Gold Medals later, we're still growing, still pouring, still convinced that the best pint is the one that knows exactly where it came from.
2012
Hops in the ground
First hop yard planted on the farm. The Shenandoah Valley's climate turned out to be perfect.
2013
First batches brewed
Home-grown hops, estate water, recipes born from experimentation and stubbornness in equal measure.
2016
Backroom Brewery opens
Virginia's first farm brewery. Main Taproom and Big Barn throw open their doors to the valley.
Now
25+ award-winning recipes
Three Gold Medals, hundreds of weddings, and a taproom that feels like a Saturday afternoon should feel.
