On Friday, Goochland’s Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery announced it will expand its operations with a new production brewery in Lynchburg.
The brewery will invest more than $14 million and create 59 new jobs over the next three years for this facility as well as expanding their current facility, which will undergo a major expansion complete with a 50,000-square-foot production brewery that will house a state-of-the-art brewing system and packaging line according to the news release.
Lickinghole Creek’s Goochland brewery, located on a 290-acre farm on Knolls Point Drive, opened in 2013 and made a name for itself in the local and regional beer scene with their barrel aged beers, unique recipes like the Heir Apparent, and taking home nine awards from various brewing publications and festivals.
The Lynchburg facility will focus on sour and barrel-aged brews and owners Lisa and Sean-Thomas Pumphrey will increase production at the Goochland facility, introduce a lager beer program and a large taproom and event space. .
“Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery is proud to be Virginia’s first farm brewery. The brewery has set a new Virginia agribusiness model with great success. This would not have been possible without the incredible support of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Goochland County and the city of Lynchburg,” said Lisa Pumphrey, CEO, Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery in a statement. “We are excited to expand, and getting ready to share our world-class products—grown, crafted and brewed with love, right here in the heart of the Commonwealth—with the rest of the country.”
According to the news release, The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) worked with Goochland County, the City of Lynchburg, and the company to secure these projects for Virginia. Governor McAuliffe approved a $250,000 grant from the Governor’s Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development (AFID) Fund for the expansion in Goochland, and a $50,000 AFID grant for the new facility in Lynchburg.
