New Belgium Brewing's Daleville "Liquid Center" is set to open to the public on November 6, 2026. It's the first public hospitality at the Botetourt Center at Greenfield brewery since the Ballast Point taproom and restaurant closed in 2019. The doors and the building are the same. The setup inside is different. The new space is a tasting room with tours, events and visiting food trucks, and it has no kitchen. That one detail changes how an afternoon there will come together.
Here's how the space got from busy to dark and back again:
- June 2017. Ballast Point officially opens its Daleville restaurant and production facility after setting up in Botetourt County in 2016.
- September 29, 2019. The restaurant and front-end services close while brewing keeps going. WDBJ7 reported that 25 full- and part-time positions and 16 temporary employees were affected.
- March 2023. New Belgium announces it will buy the 259,000-square-foot brewery from Constellation Brands. The deal covers the facility only, not the Ballast Point brand. At the time the company said it had no current plans for a Daleville taproom.
- April 2026. Roanoke Growth & Development reports that permits and county records point toward a possible reopening.
- September 2026. Job postings, Brewbound and WSLS confirm the plan, and November 6 becomes the announced date.
That's nearly seven years between public pours. Production never stopped in that time. Since the 2023 sale, New Belgium has brewed Voodoo Ranger Juice Force and Fruit Force at the plant, so the beer never left Daleville. Only the public space did.
What the Space Will Be This Time
WSLS confirmed on September 30 that the tasting room will reopen in the same space Ballast Point used. Employees told the station it will carry the "Liquid Center" name to match New Belgium's other locations. The new taproom won't serve food. Food trucks will come in instead.
Under Ballast Point, the public side had both a taproom and a full-service restaurant. A Hospitality Supervisor listing that Roanoke Growth wrote about on September 8 described a different operation. That job covered opening and closing the tasting room, staffing, beer inventory, events, tours, and lining up food trucks and other vendors. It didn't mention an in-house kitchen. American Craft Beer reported the same model on September 25: local food trucks and outside vendors, with no permanent kitchen.
That leaves a room built around three things: beer sales, public brewery tours, and events. A second listing for a Daleville Hospitality Representative, posted September 11, describes leading tours, teaching guests about beer, and handling retail. Its shifts run Wednesday through Sunday, somewhere between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m. Those are staff shift windows, not public hours. They do suggest a schedule that leans toward the back half of the week.
The address is easy to find. Older local coverage lists the Ballast Point brewery at 555 International Parkway in the Greenfield park, and WSLS has confirmed the new taproom uses that same space.
What Hasn't Been Published Yet
With about a month until opening, these details haven't shown up in New Belgium announcements or local coverage:
- Public hours for Daleville
- An opening-day program or events
- A tap list, or whether any beers will be Daleville-only or small-batch
- Names of the food trucks
- Tour times and prices
- Seating, plus rules for kids and dogs
New Belgium's "Experience New Belgium" visitor page still lists only Fort Collins and Asheville, so the official Daleville details will probably land there or on the company's social channels.
The two existing Liquid Centers do show how New Belgium usually runs these rooms. In Fort Collins, the tasting room is open daily from noon to 8 p.m. It has indoor and outdoor seating with no reservations and rotating food trucks in place of a restaurant. All ages are welcome. Well-behaved dogs are allowed on a six-foot handheld leash, but not on tours. Asheville's FAQ describes nearly the same setup: daily hours, open seating inside and out, all ages, leashed pets in the tasting room only, and rotating local food trucks. Those are the rules for those two sites. Daleville hasn't announced its own, so check the policies before you bring the dog or plan a group visit around one of them.
The Campus Around the Taproom
The brewery sits on the same 600-acre Botetourt Center at Greenfield campus as about seven miles of trails, according to Roanoke Valley Greenways. Under Ballast Point, a visit could start and end at a dinner table. Without a kitchen, the trails are the obvious way to build out the rest of a visit.
| Trail | Length (Greenways) | Surface | Open to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Blossom Trail | About 0.88 mile, 8 feet wide | ADA-accessible stone | Walkers and bicyclists |
| Boyer Holiday Trail | About 0.86 mile | Natural grass | Foot traffic only |
| Colonial William Preston Trail | About 2.4 miles | Natural grass | Foot traffic |
| Greenfield Recreation Trail | About 3.1 miles | Natural grass | Walkers, mountain bikes, horseback riders |
The pieces connect. Colonial William Preston loops around Greenfield Lake and links the Cherry Blossom Trail to the Greenfield Recreation Trail, which circles the 125-acre Recreation Park. Boyer Holiday is the short history walk. It connects the historic Holiday/Boyer home and the family cemeteries. The county's own trail table uses a different spelling, "Bowyer-Holladay," at 0.81 mile, and lists Cherry Blossom at 1.17 miles. Expect the posted signs and the online maps to disagree a little.
For Cherry Blossom, the easiest start is off International Parkway, the same road as the brewery. Head toward the Greenfield Education and Training Center and park in the second lot on the right.
Two trail rules shape the order of the day. Botetourt County trails are open dawn to dusk, and alcohol isn't allowed on them. Pets must be leashed, and owners have to clean up after them. So walk first and visit the tasting room after, and you can't carry a beer out onto the lake loop. In November, dusk arrives early. A Saturday that starts on Colonial William Preston in early afternoon ends at the Liquid Center as the trails close.
Greenfield Already Has a Fall Weekend Calendar
The tasting room is joining a campus that already fills up on weekends. The Botetourt Sports Complex inside Greenfield Recreation Park has four lighted 300-foot fields, concessions, a playground and a half-mile paved track. In the weeks before the taproom opens, the county calendar lists:
- October 10–11: USSSA Girls Fast Pitch Softball
- October 17–18: USSSA Baseball Halloween Havoc, with games from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
- October 24–25: Diamond Classic Halloween Howl, with pumpkin carving, tent decorating and team costumes
- November 1, 2 p.m.: the Company Cup cornhole tournament for local business teams. Registration was listed as ending October 2.
All of these happen before November 6, so this fall's tournaments won't overlap with the tasting room. After that, tournament weekends will put families, teams and taproom visitors on the same campus roads and in the same lots. That's worth knowing when you pick a Saturday.
Where Dinner Happens Now
Ballast Point's kitchen used to do two jobs: you could have a beer and a meal under one roof. Since the Liquid Center plans to rely on food trucks, a sit-down dinner in Daleville means a short drive to Daleville Town Center. Tizzone Wood-Fired Kitchen & Wine Bar has rebranded as Unwined and moved to 32 Town Center St. Cardinal News reported that the new location adds menu items, a bigger wine list, cocktails and more room. The Botetourt County Chamber held its ribbon-cutting there on September 18.
Put together, a full day at Greenfield runs in a fixed order: trails while it's light, the tasting room and whichever food truck is parked outside, then Town Center if you want a table and a menu. Hours for the middle stop are still the missing piece. Until New Belgium posts them, plan around what you can confirm: November 6, 555 International Parkway, food trucks, and trails that close at dusk.
New things at Greenfield matter to Botetourt residents because they shape how people use the area every week, and that's something we pay close attention to. If you're wondering how projects like the Liquid Center fit into the bigger picture in Daleville, Alexandra Taylor is happy to talk it through over a free consultation, with no pressure and plenty of local detail.
