Here’s another entry in my occasional series of posts about visits to local brewpubs and breweries in the DMV…

Black Walnut Brewery, Leesburg, Virginia

When Visited: Late September 2016

Occasion: The best thing about biking on the W&OD Trail in Virginia isn’t the beautiful scenery and the peaceful surrounds. And as much as I love a heart-pumping bike ride, it isn’t the hearty exercise either.  No, it’s the beer. Definitely the beer.

I was towards the end of a 40-mile ride on the W&OD Trail with my biking buddy Al when we veered off into downtown Leesburg to the oasis that is Black Walnut Brewery.

Beers Sampled:
Black Walnut serves flights of their beers, and there were six on tap on my visit.

The beer menu and the flights:

Favorite Beer: The Yellow Lab IPA was a solid IPA, and strong at 6.9%…so good that after the flight I had a pint.

I was most impressed with: The quality of the beer coming out of this nano-brewery, which has an on-site one-barrel brewing capacity.