“This whole connection that they have here to Virginia … resonates anywhere in the world,” Szpigel said.

Crandall said that they don’t plan on changing much, but they plan on adding new beers, similar to the Cran-Gose and others that they haven’t had the capacity or opportunity to make in the past.

“But as far as changing ingredients, that wouldn’t make sense for us to do anything like that,” he said. “If anything, what we’re going to see is the quality of our beers improve. We’re going to have greater access to hops and malts with [Anheuser-Busch]; they have their own hop yards up in Idaho. That’s an exciting thing because it’s been challenging to get some of the aromatic-type hops that we’ve been playing around with.”

He said there are other beers in their second, third and fourth batches that they are planning on bringing out in 2017.

In terms of physical additions, the brewery plans to add 50,000 square feet of space and a barrel-aging program in Lexington. In Nelson, they want to expand the experience by adding activities and more camping with RV hook-ups.

Crandall said they don’t want to move too quickly with national distribution.