USA, MD: Waredaca Brewing Company ready to open on December 11

Montgomery County will welcome another brewery this month when Waredaca Brewing Company, housed on a farm in Laytonsville, opens Dec. 11, BethesdaMagazine.com reported.

The business announced the opening on December 1, writing in a statement it will offer “independent, local and fresh beer brewed on the farm that has been in the founder’s family for three generations.”

Jessica Snyder, a member of the extended Butts family that has owned the horse farm since the 1930s, said the family decided to open a brewery to repurpose an underutilized building on the farm. One of the partners in the brewery, Keith Kohr, was brewing for Flying Dog in Frederick before joining Waredaca, Snyder said.

The brewery has a 10-barrel system and it uses hops and other ingredients such as herbs and honey that are grown or produced at the farm to make its beers. Snyder said the brewery will offer a lemon verbena IPA, honey wheat, coffee stout and farmhouse saison when it opens next week.

The taproom can seat about 100 customers and offers views of the horse pastures. The brewery is at 4017 Damascus Road, about a 40-minute drive from Bethesda.

04 December, 2015