Estate Brewery.

Wheatland Spring is an estate brewery. This means 100% of our farming operations are dedicated to growing ingredients for our beer, focusing on acres of malting barley and other grains bred specifically for brewing.

Family owned and operated, we practice regenerative agriculture on our 30 acre farm. The majority of acreage is dedicated to new barley types bred for our region. In addition to growing acres of grain, we grow botanicals, capture native yeast, and draw water from a natural source below our fields to offer you the highest quality beer we’re capable of making.

Intention.

We’re small scale, small grain farming for the sole purpose of brewing — farming for fermentation.

We planted the first acres of malting grain for our beer in 2018 and every year since. Mother Nature permitting, we’ll harvest our fifth year of estate grain in the summer of 2023. We use nearly all of our available farmland to grow grains exclusively for our beer. 

Over the last years of operation, we’ve harvested tens of thousands of pounds of excellent quality grain (all lab tested and certified… can’t get to the malthouse without it). Many beers we’ve offered have been made with large proportions of estate grain and other ingredients we grow.

ESTATE LINE OF BEER.

We’ve been brewing with grain we grow for years. In 2021, we launched our Estate collection of beer, a focused expression of our estate grain. It’s the first line of beer built upon 100% estate grains from Wheatland Spring. For the Estate line, we farm all of the grain, as well as ferment, condition, and package each beer at Wheatland Spring.

GROWING MALTING GRAIN.

Through intentional agricultural operations, we farm to create the right conditions for increasingly healthy soil. We practice regenerative agriculture (land and human health is the priority, no chemicals and no sprays) and this is the basis for all of our farming. Looking to the future of grain, we’ve partnered with the malting grain breeding program at Virginia Tech (VT) to identify and access the next generation of malting barley and wheat bred for our climate. Our test plots with VT have had dozens of experimental types of barley. The idea is to create a model that can be used to speed up the process from seed breeding to enjoying unique beer made from new types of barley. We’re striving to innovate from the ground up.