Need a break from beer? Not interested in alcoholic beverages made from grapes or others called “spirits”? Maybe this weekend you should go with some of Vermont’s fine hard ciders. Stowe Cider, on Maintain Road in Stowe, Vermont, has been crafting their ciders for more than five years, and they […]
The weather gods and goddesses looked down upon the 2018 Stowe Brewers Festival on August 3rd/4th and liked what they saw. Stowe was beset by much needed rain, but somehow (see divine intervention above) the deluges occurred before, in between and after each of the three 4-hour festival sessions (Friday […]
Situated on Cottage Club Road in Stowe, Vermont is The Alchemist. Rising out of lush Vermont lawns, this behemoth of a brewery almost looks out of place, but the owners and architects did a tremendous job in creating a modern, yet quirky-looking structure that could pass as an art museum. […]
Is there a better way to finish a morning bike ride on the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail other than by stopping in at Lost Nation Brewing in Morrisville, Vermont for lunch and a brew? (feel free to submit your suggestions!). Well, that’s what we did, and we also managed to […]
With the full-on arrival of Spring, I decided to make a return visit to the von Trapp Bierhall in Stowe, Vermont. It was a late afternoon, and my partner and I managed to get some seats at the bar before the expected rush of drinkers and diners. Our seats still […]
Twenty years … twenty years! That’s eons in the Vermont brewing scene, and that is how long Rock Art Brewery has been crafting its brews in the town of Morrisville, Vermont. I’ve stopped by this brewery more than a few times (always easy to spot the trailer with the iconic […]
For a change of pace, I decided to spend a weekend focused on apples … in this case, the sweet tastes of hard cider from Stowe’s own Stowe Cider. Stowe Cider recently moved from their location further up Mountain Road to the building they now share with West Branch Gallery. […]
In Part 2 of my “staying close to home” series, I finally gave in and visited The Alchemist Brewery, on Cottage Club Road, off of Mountain Road, in Stowe, Vermont. The directions are general enough because you can’t miss this goliath of a brewery which sprouted up in July 2016. […]
Staying closer to home, I visited Idletyme Brewing Company on Mountain Road in Stowe, Vermont. Idletyme Brewing has a fascinating lineage: it is located on the site of the old Shed Restaurant, which sadly was destroyed by fire in 1994. The Shed Restaurant was renowned for the “Shed Burger”, a beer-marinated, […]
Ahhhh, a sunny Fall afternoon … the hills were alive with the sweet aroma of barley and hops … and of course the fumes of tourist-laden buses trekking to this newest mecca of the Stowe beer scene, the von Trapp Bierhall (located at the von Trapp Brewery off Luce Hill […]
