Old Dominion Brewing Company

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Old Dominion Brewing Company
Location	Ashburn, Virginia United States
Year opened	1989
Active Beers
Dominion Ale	Amber ale
Dominion Black and Tan	Black and Tan
Dominion Lager	Lager
Dominion Millennium	Barley Wine
Dominion Oak Barrel Stout	Stout
Dominion Pale Ale	Pale Ale
New River Pale Ale	American Pale Ale
Tuppers Hop Pocket Pils	Pilsner
Tuppers Hop Pocket Ale	American Pale Ale

Old Dominion Brewing Company is an Ashburn, Virginia, brewery that produces a variety of beers. Their root beer is sweetened with a mixture of locally produced honey and sugar, rather than the corn syrup that is used for most United States soft drinks. Old Dominion Brewing Company was founded by Jerry Bailey in 1989. Before founding the brewery, Bailey was a federal government employee.

Old Dominion hosts an annual beer festival that showcases local brewers from the country. The festival features more than 50 breweries and live music. The three-day event is held each year on the last full weekend of June.

In 2006 the brewery sold the equivalent of 27,000 barrels of beer and 6,000 barrels of soft drink, making Old Dominion the 50th-largest brewery in the country. About half of Old Dominion's beer is sold on tap and the other half in bottles.

According to a recent Washington Post article a letter of intent has been signed to sell the brewery to an unnamed buyer. In the article, Old Dominion President Jerry Bailey said the sale could happen any day. He declined to identify the buyers, but people close to the microbrewery said the sale would involve Ram's Head Tavern, a Baltimore-based brewery chain, and beer giant Anheuser-Busch.