Category: Beer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jun 5, 2023 SILVER BRANCH BREWING COMPANY ANNOUNCES SECOND TAPROOM AND BIERGARTEN IN WARRENTON, VIRGINIA WARRENTON, VA – Silver Branch Brewing Company announced today they will open…

At Silver Branch, we pride ourselves in bringing to the community a blend of traditional and contemporary styles. Sometimes, the style itself is a blend of something old and something…

HAPPY YEAST, HAPPY BREWER, HAPPY DRINKER For the purists, beer consists of four ingredients: water, malt, hops, and yeast. While many breweries these days have deviated from the strict measures…

My brewery and I have been together for over a year now. It’s been an intense 16 months. We’ve had a few fights full of cursing and recrimination, but all…

The re-release of Sisyphus this week made me realize just how appropriate the myth of Sisyphus as a metaphor for opening and running a business is. In fact, it feels…

Finally, Slowly, Kinda-Sorta, we get to OPEN OUR DOORS AGAIN! Recent trends and policy changes are building optimism that we will—eventually—emerge from this shadow existence imposed on us by COVID-19….

Written by James Shellhammer, Quality Control Program Manager The Importance of Quality Control Behind great beer lies a great brewer. While that is true, it’s only part of the story….

Making a divine barrel-aged stout is my holy grail. It seems like alchemy—combining a beer with a spirits barrel and time to transform the beer into something recognizable, yet also…

Hazy IPA defies what I used to say about brewing: there is nothing truly new under the sun. There are only so many ways to combine beer ingredients. No matter…

One of the very best parts of opening a brewery is letting your imagination run wild. Early in the conceptual stages of Silver Branch Christian and I were discussing our…