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By George Rowand
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Back up in the woods a little west of Amissville in Rappahannock County sits the Bardo Brewery, the only place nearby that brews beer. Owner Bill Stewart showed off the place last week, where upwards of 24 beers and ciders are brewed, depending on the season. Baldo is definitely a hands-on micro brewery.
“We use 50,000 pounds of grain at a time,” Stewart said. “We also mill it ourselves. It’s fresher that way.”
Home brew
Stewart said that he got his start at a fairly early age, and for a fairly simple reason: He liked beer, and he was intrigued with the idea of making his own.
“In the 1980s I started making beer on my own, and all my friends kept coming to my house and drinking the beer,” he said. “That got old, so I started charging them for it, and I was making more money than I was on my job, so I decided to make it legal in 1989.”
Stewart said that right now Baldo has 15 beers available, from Berlin Alexander Platz — a German-style tart and light beer that Stewart said was rare in this country — to Graceland Imperial Stout — a very black and highly hopped ale which was the winner of the Best Single Hop Beer in the 1998 Brickskeller biennial MidAtlantic contest.
“[Graceland] Imperial Stout is my favorite,” Stewart said, “but it’s not for the weak. It’s 11 percent alcohol, and it’s pretty dark, but lots of people
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