Best Craft Breweries and Beer Bars in Lynchburg
Lynchburg, Virginia — updated August 22, 2026
Lynchburg's beer scene is small enough to cover in an afternoon: two downtown taprooms within a block of each other, plus a Wards Road bottle shop and a Hexham Drive beer bar with long hours and a divided crowd.
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Craft beer in Lynchburg concentrates in two places: the downtown blocks around Court and Main, where the taprooms sit within easy walking distance of each other, and the Wards Road corridor south of town, where the retail-and-draft hybrids are. There are not many options, so this list ranks the genuine brewing operations first and then the beer-focused bars and shops that fill in the rest of a night. Ratings below come with their review counts, because a 4.8 from under 100 people is a different kind of evidence than a 4.7 from more than 250.
1. Three Roads Brewing
The clearest answer to the question, since it is a brewery in Lynchburg proper rather than a taproom for beer made elsewhere. It sits at 1300 Court St, downtown, which makes it walkable from the Main Street blocks if you are stringing together more than one stop. Reviewers give it 4.7 across 107 reviews, a strong score on a sample that is still modest by city standards, so treat it as well-liked rather than statistically settled. Worth checking current hours before you go, as downtown Lynchburg taprooms tend to keep shorter weekday schedules.
2. Starr Hill On Main
A block over at 1300 Main St, and the highest-rated stop on this list at 4.8, though that comes from 88 reviews, the smallest sample here. That is a promising number rather than a proven one. What it offers practically is a second downtown pour within a two-minute walk of Three Roads, which is the entire case for doing a downtown beer walk in Lynchburg at all. Pair the two on a weekend afternoon and you have covered the city's central taproom scene without moving your car.
3. Lynchburg Beer Cellar
Not a brewery, but the most reliable place in town to drink and buy craft beer, and the best-supported rating on this list among the local entries: 4.7 from 252 reviews. It operates as a bottle shop, restaurant and growler fill station at 3813 Wards Rd, and it also handles online orders for delivery or curbside pickup. Hours are unusually generous for beer retail, opening at 10:00 AM Monday through Saturday and at noon on Sunday, so it works as a mid-morning stop for stocking up as well as an evening one.
4. Beer 88
Included because it is a long-running, high-volume beer destination on Hexham Drive, but the rating deserves a plain statement: 3.6 from 992 reviews. That is a settled figure, not a fluke of a few bad nights, and it is well below everything else here. What the volume does tell you is that a lot of people in Lynchburg pass through. Go for the selection and the room rather than expecting the consistency of the downtown taprooms, and consider it a backup once the Court and Main stops have closed.
What we left off
Big Lick Brewing Company appeared on the previous version of this guide, but its taproom is at 409 Salem Ave SW in Roanoke, roughly an hour from Lynchburg. It is a solid brewery, rated 4.7 across 463 reviews, with happy hour from 4 to 6 PM Monday through Friday and a weekly lineup that includes an Irish music session on Mondays and music bingo on Tuesdays. It is worth a trip, but it does not belong on a Lynchburg list.