“I sell more Folklore than I do Bud Light,” Eubank said. “When I tell them it’s a beer from Alabama, they want to try it.”

Folklore’s beers have an alcohol content of 5.8 percent in its wheat beer to 7.9 percent in its full-bodied Shadowcaster Porter. Pate ─ who gets his hops from Yakima, Wash., as well as New Zealand and Germany ─ is prepared to go up to 12 percent in a future beer. With the equipment at Folklore, Pate can brew up to 2,000 gallons of beer a month.

Despite the fact that Folklore’s brewery is a little off the beaten path on Pate’s family’s homestead, people are seeking it out, he said. Pate hosts tasting parties each Friday from 3-9 p.m. to allow people to sample the flavors.

“I’ve just come to realize that Dothan is and has been ready for a craft brewery to come to town,” Pate said. “Unfortunately, you’ve got to go just slightly out of town, but you can go all over town and get the beer.”

The tasting parties seem to appeal to beer lovers who want to try knew flavors, so they get to sample recipes that Pate is still experimenting with, including Folklore’s standard beers infused with new flavors.