Monticello, Blue Mountain Brewery partner on an ale marking America’s 250th

Monticello, Blue Mountain Brewery partner on an ale marking America’s 250th

Thomas Jefferson’s attempts to yield wine from his Monticello vineyards may have proven unfruitful, but he was much more successful at brewing beer, a “table liquor” he served at dinners at his Albemarle County estate. Nearly 250 years after he and others wrote the Declaration of Independence, setting in motion an American revolution, a nearby brewery and the nonprofit that owns and operates Monticello have worked together to concoct an ale that…