Magic Hat

In need of a brewery tour we arrived at Magic Hat for the 2pm tour. The tour and the beer was “meh”, except for the how the beer is made video which had Malty and Hoppy as characters in the video.

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Fiddlehead

At the suggestion of Señor Paul we went to Fiddlehead Brewing which was a little way down the road from Burlington. The standouts were their Regular IPA, Mastermind IPA and Locating Satellites. Jeff approves despite his facial expression.

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Switchback

Up to this point we have been lax in our usual pattern of drinking beer before noon on these trips, but today that changed! We started our day at Switchback. They had some pretty solid beers with their amber and pale ale but the rest of their beers were smoked

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Farm House

Wanting to end our night with some rocking food we went to this place that Paul had been to before. We had a cheese platter and some Hill Farmstead beers. Jeff has mussels, Nick had chicken and biscuits and Paul had the Baller burger with foie gras on it. We

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Foam

After leaving our stuff at our ghetto Air B&B in Burlington, we made our way to Foam Brewers. A small place with a 7 barrel brew system and 7 fermenters they had several really tasty hazy IPAs and a really nice sour.

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The Alchemist

After a longish drive from Boston we arrived in Stowe, VT at The Alchemist brewery. We thought only Texas had weird beer laws but because they don’t sell food at this brewery we can only sample beer and buy beer to go but could not buy a pint or can

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Publick House

Always a place for great beer and great beer we closed today out at The Publick House. Starting with Allagash White we also had some Toppling Giant, Fiddlehead and some tasty Belgian beers to accompany a huge plate of pulled duck poutine and Mac n cheese with spinach, mushroom and

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Island Creek Oyster House

It has been over 24 hours since our last meal of oysters so we headed to the Island Creek Oyster House for dinner. We all started with the True North Ale IPA which was a nice solid drinker. After 2 dozen oysters we each had a small entree and called

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