Golden Swan

Pen Druid Fermentation is a 27-acre permaculture operation at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah National Park in Rappahannock County, VA. The three brothers Lain, Van and Jennings Carney started Pen Druid in 2015 with Jonathan Staples after the three brothers had been touring in the psych-rock band Pontiak in North America and Europe. Pen Druid focuses on native yeast and spontaneous fermentation of beer using traditional methods employed in Belgium and Germany with the utilization of a coolship and a wood-fired brewhouse. Pen Druid also makes spontaneously fermented natural cider from local apples grown on a ninth-generation-owned family farm in Rappahannock County.