With plenty of daylight left we headed just a little ways out of town to Burlington Beer based on a whim. We arrived to find what was the stereotypical brewery in the middle of an industrial warehouse area. What we found there was a quirky brewery with some fantastic hazy
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Zero Gravity
Across the street at Zero Gravity we had what were some of the best beers of the day to this point. All of their beers were solid and great drinking beers. Plus, they had endless bowls of popcorn!
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Back in Burlington we stopped at Queen City for some beer tasters. The Helles and the ESB were pretty tasty but the other beers were just ok. While there we were mildly accosted by an overly eager guy who wanted to talk to us about beer. Perhaps he was drawn
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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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At the suggestion of SeƱor 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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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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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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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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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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It’s been a long time but we made our return to Fenway park to watch the Sox lose to Toronto but at least the beer was good!
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