INSIDE By Jack Kenny - Brewing News

32 Yankee Brew News December 2012/January 2013
Years ago, while performing quality
control work at a small Vermont micro, this
writer found his taste buds and olfactory
abilities to be most sensitive in late morning
and late afternoon, when senses are
sharpened in anticipation of the next meal.
Hence, the best times to taste and evaluate
beer are arguably 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Outdoor activity in Vermont’s winter environment
only seems to heighten that sensory
acuity. Whether you’re coming in from
boarding, alpine or cross-country skiing,
snowmobiling or just stacking wood, with
the bold beers of Vermont’s winter, 11 a.m.
and 4 p.m. never tasted so good! And hey!
How about all of these new breweries?!! Go
beer!
New Brewery
in Brattleboro
With a spectacular view of the
Connecticut River, Whetstone Station
GREENFLASHBREW.COM
By Paul Kowalski
Restaurant & Brewery in Brattleboro
enchants visitors with its vista of the mighty
river and hills that rise above it. Beginning
in January, the restaurant at the site of the
former Riverview Café hopes to entice visitors
with house-brewed beers. The business
is the collaboration of local beer people Tim
and Amy Brady and David Hiler. Current
plans are for their 3.5-barrel brewhouse to
produce beers that will compliment what is
already an extensive beer offering on draft
and in bottles, with house-beers taking only
a few of the 15 lines of the draft system.
Tim Brady will serve as brewmaster.
New Brewery in Stowe
The beers and flavors of The Shed live
on, but the landmark Stowe pub and restaurant
from which they sprang closed its
doors in 2011. A new brewpub has cropped
up in its place, though. The owners of Crop
Bistro & Brewery are betting that there’s
still some magic left in that special spot on
Mountain Road. Head Brewer Will Gilson
presides over a new Bavarian-built 8.5-barrel
system and hopes to be serving his beers
to customers at Crop by late December.
Gilson has more than 20 years of brewing
experience, most recently at Moat Mountain
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The playful spirit of VPB founder
Greg Noonan is believed to be
behind a spirited overflow of
fermenting Black Watch Black IPA.
Smokehouse & Brewing Co. in New
Hampshire. He expects to offer six types of
beer made on premises. Crop opened as a
bistro in last January and serves daily seasonal
and local fare.
New Brewery
in Rutland County
The craft brewing movement has reached
the Marble Valley. Killington and other
Rutland County towns were early adopters
in their consumption of craft beers, and
thanks to brothers Patrick and Daniel Foley,
the county is now on the map as a source of
handcrafted beer. Foley Brothers Brewery
in Brandon is an expansion to the Neshobe
River Winery that the Foley family started
in 2008, and is the first brewery in Rutland
County. Initial plans call for two styles
of beer to be produced: a ginger wheat
beer and a brown ale. Both will be sold in
22-ounce bottles.
Holiday Hat
December marks the annual release of
Feast of Fools from Magic Hat Brewing
in South Burlington. This holiday raspberry
stout is considered a post-dinner dessert
beer and features a deep, dark body of
pale, carafa, Munich and chocolate malts
and roasted barley along with Columbus
hops. Feast of Fools will be available in
22-ounce bottles and 32-ounce growlers
only at The Artifactory at the brewery and
only for a limited time into the holidays.
Gift sets including special Lake Champlain
Chocolates and 12-ounce Feast of Fools
snifter glasses will also be available.
Magic Hat’s winter seasonal stout, Heart
of Darkness, is fairly smooth on the palate
and roasty with an undercurrent of chocolate.
It’s brewed with pale crystal, chocolate
and Munich malts, roasted barley and
hopped with Apollo and Goldings hops. The
new installment in the Humdinger series
is a winter wheat wine, Graupel (10.8%
ABV), and features Apollo and Simcoe
hops. Graupel is packaged in 750-ml
bottles and will be on tap until mid-January.
Magic Hat’s IPA On Tour beer is Encore, a
hybrid-style of IPA and an American wheat
ale. Simcoe, Cascade and Apollo hops are
utilized, as are pale, wheat and cara Vienna
malts.
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