The phrase, “Eight and Sand,” was used to wish train crews a quick and safe journey. Eight comes from Notch-8 which is the quickest setting on certain trains and sand was spread on tracks to prevent slippages.

AMAZING BEER

We feature hand crafted ales and lagers with a focus on our local community. The Eight & Sand tasting room offers rails (flights), pints and growlers of all our beers including special limited releases. Our tasting room comfortably seats 80 guests and our beer garden, 70.

We at Eight & Sand have made a commitment to our community and ourselves to build a more sustainable brewery. Though small, we’ve opted to use environmentally friendly steam rather than direct fire burners to heat our 10-barrel brewhouse. We’re using high-efficiency cleaning devices and a system that can recover and reuse our cleaning and sanitizing solutions. This will save about 16,000 therms of natural gas and 170,000 gallons of water in our first five years. In addition, we’ve installed a 26-kW solar panel array, which generates about 35,000 kWh of clean electricity every year. Over the life of our solar array we will eliminate more than 700 tons of carbon dioxide which is equivalent to planting over 17,000 trees! Our sustainability plan also includes sending our spent grain to local farmers instead of the landfill.

BREWERY HOURS