Any must go to breweries and beer bars near Charlottesville?

Hoping you all could help me. I am planning on doing a overnight stay to brewery hop in Leesburg area. I know there are a handful of breweries in downtown Leesburg and several outside of town in the surrounding area. Ideally I would like to check out some breweries outside of town during the day, stay in Leesburg (or another town if there is a better option) so we can easily walk/Uber to a couple more in the evening.

Can anyone advise me as to:

1. What area/hotel would be best to stay at? I'm not seeing anything in downtown Leesburg and only a couple near the outlets, which may be my best bet. Curious if there is a better option.
2. Do you recommend starting and ending at particular breweries and/or which breweries should we try not to miss? We would be coming in from the north likely down 15 if that helps.
3. Lastly if what I am thinking of doing is difficult or not really possible, what else do you recommend?

Thanks for the help!

SEPT 14th

Here's the current brewery list: 18th Street Brewery

3 Sons

450 North

Aardwolf Brewing Company

Alvarado Street Brewery

Ardent Craft Ales

Austin Street Brewery

B.Nektar

Barrel Culture Brewing and Blending

Barreled Souls

Barrier brewing co

Bearded Iris

Birds Fly South Ale Project

Black Project Spontaneous and Wild Ales

Bluejacket

Bottle Logic Brewing

Brewing Költur

Brewski AB

Bullfrog Brewery

Burgeon Beer Company

Burial Beer Co.

Calusa Brewing

Carton Brewing

Casa Agria Specialty Ales

Casita Cerveceria

Cellador Ales

Cerebral Brewing

Charles Towne Fermentory

Cinderlands Beer Co

Civil Society Brewing co

Collective Arts

Commonwealth Brewing Co

Counterweight Brewing Co

Crooked Run

Cushwa Brewing Company

Dancing Gnome Brewery

DC Brau Brewing

Deciduous Brewing Company

Diamondback Brewing Co.

Drekker Brewing Company

Equilibrium Brewery

Evil Genius Beer Co

Finback

Folksbier

Foundation Brewing Company

Funk Factory

Good Beer

Good Word Brewing & Public House

Graft Cider, LLC

Great Notion Brewing

Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Heist Brewery

Hidden Springs Ale Works

Homage Brewinf

HOMES Brewery

Hoof Hearted Brewing

Hop Butcher For The World

Horus Aged Ales

Interboro Spirits and Ales

Inu Island Ales

Jackie O's Brewery

Kane Brewing Co.

Kex Brewing

Kings County Brewers Collective

Lamplighter Brewing Co.

Late Start Brewing

Levante Brewing

Magnify

Marz Community brewing

Mast Landing

MERIT Brewing

Mikerphone Brewing

Mikkeller

Modern Times Beer

MORE Brewing Company

Narrow Gauge Brewing Company

Neon Raptor Brewing Co

Nómada Brewing

Ocelot Brewing Company

Odd Breed Wild Ales

Old Westminster Winery

Outer Range

Pen Druid

People Like Us

Perennial Artisan Ales

Port City Brewing Company

Potter's Craft Cider

Prairie Artisan Ales

Proclamation Ale Company

Proof Brewing Co.

Pure Project

Red Dragon Brewery

Resident Culture Brewing

Right Proper Brewing Company

Salud Cerveceria

Sapwood Cellars

Scofflaw Brewing

Separatist Beer Project

SingleCut Beersmiths

Solace Brewing

Southern Grist Brewing Company

SPYBREW

Stillwater Artisanal

Superstition Meadery

Temescal Brewing

The Bruery | The Offshoot Beer Co.

The Courtyard Brewery

The Rare Barrel

The Virginia Beer Company

Thin Man Brewery

Three Chiefs brewing

Threes Brewing

To Ol Beer

Tombstone Brewing

Torch & Crown Brewing Company

Triple Crossing

Troon Brewing

Union Craft

Unseen creatures brewing & blending

Untitled Art

Urban South Brewery

Väsen Brewing Company

Vitamin Sea Brewing

Voodoo Brewery

WeldWerks Brewing

Yeast of Eden

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Recommend them all!

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https://www.facebook.com/events/252686038743242/

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• Ardent Craft Ales
• STRANGEWAYS BREWING
• Väsen Brewing Company
• Right Proper Brewing Company
• Mustang Sally Brewing Company
• Alesatian Brewing Co./Mustang Sally Brewing Company Collaboration
• Ocelot Brewing Company
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Thanks!

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