The Roanoke Times First Bite crew tries sippin for a change, with the new, Luke Bryan-branded beer that is brewed at Constellation Brands Daleville plant. Tad Dickens / The Roanoke Times
Huntinâ, fishinâ, lovinâ â and drinkinâ Luke Bryan-branded lagers and hard seltzers â every day. That doesnât quite have a commercial jingle ring to it. But it fits with some of the product coming out of Constellation Brandsâ Botetourt County brewery.
The Daleville plant, opened in 2017 to house San Diego-based Ballast Point Brewing Co.âs eastward operations, featured a restaurant and tasting room. That made the countyâs Botetourt Center at Greenfield industrial park a bit of a social hot spot for a couple of years. Beer and spirits giant Constellation Brands (Corona, Modelo) bought Ballast Point for $1 billion in 2015, then sold it in December 2019 to Kings & Convicts Brewing.