Lawson's Finest Liquids

Lawson's Finest LiquidsLawson's Finest Liquids
Lawson's Finest LiquidsLawson's Finest Liquids
Brewery, Bar, Eatery

155 Carroll Rd
Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
United States

(802) 496-4677 | map
lawsonsfinest.com
BEER STATS
Average:
4.07
Beers:
105
Ratings:
19,701
PLACE STATS
Average:
4.53
Reviews:
26
Ratings:
84
pDev:
5.74%
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Ratings by Lone_Freighter:
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

4.4/5  rDev -2.9%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.25
Finally getting to check this place out!

Wow, what a great vibe - clean, low key instrumental music, couches off in the corner, tables over to the right allowing people to get food. Nice to see kids allowed in the place. Service was really nice. Glassware was all tulips, so I stuck to their saison, smoked porter and imperial stout.

Went home with a six pack of their pilsner. I was thoroughly pleased and can't wait to go back.
Feb 18, 2019
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Reviewed by NCSapiens from Indiana

4.43/5  rDev -2.2%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4.25
Brews incredible IPAs. The inside has a nice vibe, the vaulted wood ceiling is gorgeous. There are picnic tables inside and lots of nice seating outdoors. The scenic location is great. I found some goodies at the gift shop, which had some unique stuff. There is a place to order cans from the fridge and to get to go beer. The food is cafeteria style but ok. There are a variety of styles to choose from, but the IPAs really stood out as top notch, world class even. A memorable stop worth seeking out.
Dec 31, 2023
 
Rated: 4.36 by not2quick from Missouri

Oct 20, 2023
 
Rated: 4.5 by craigbelly from Iowa

Sep 26, 2023
 
Rated: 4.07 by Gobzilla from California

Aug 26, 2023
 
Rated: 4.65 by emptyglassagain from Massachusetts

Aug 06, 2023
 
Rated: 4.64 by swierczt from Connecticut

Jul 12, 2023
 
Rated: 4.5 by Lobina from Arizona

Jun 24, 2023
 
Rated: 4.6 by DudMan from New Jersey

Jan 13, 2023
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

4.28/5  rDev -5.5%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.25 | food: 4
Hit this spot on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. Looks like a ski lodge. Big u- shaped bar, tables inside and on patio. Large merch area with product to go Good service. Food limited to "starters". Great views and the beer was top notch
Nov 29, 2022
 
Rated: 4.48 by lakewy17 from New Hampshire

Oct 17, 2022
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Reviewed by jmdrpi from Pennsylvania

4.46/5  rDev -1.5%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4
stopped by for lunch and some beers. beautiful space, lots of exposed wood beams and high ceiling, ski lodge kind of feel. large bar inside (where we sat), and some tables in the rest of the space. there is a space off to the back with a lot of merchandise and to-go beers. great selection of draft beer, about 15 beers on tap, wide selection of styles. The beers we drank were great, and I took home a mixed case of beer. the bartender was friendly and attentive, and the snacks we ate for lunch were good.
Sep 30, 2022
 
Rated: 4.6 by mattmarka1 from Minnesota

Aug 03, 2022
 
Rated: 4.97 by BeerMe8 from Florida

Jun 08, 2022
 
Rated: 4.78 by MJSFS from Florida

Jun 08, 2022
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Rated by brewme from Massachusetts

4.5/5  rDev -0.7%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5
Visited earlier this week. Very impressive space, which looks new. All of their brews available, nice retail space, friendly staff.
Feb 25, 2022
 
Rated: 4.83 by jcoleMA66 from Massachusetts

Feb 23, 2022
 
Rated: 5 by atlbravsrno1 from Maine

Nov 24, 2021
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Reviewed by Pivopijak from Washington

4.53/5  rDev 0%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5
This is an ideal place to showcase a New England brewery's beers, in the green hills, between forested areas. A big, shaved and lacquered log, ski lodge type building, which has lots of space inside, with a tall ceiling and windows all around. The kitchen has a small selection of well executed plates and the beer starts at real good and goes up from there, 'nough said!
Nov 10, 2021
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Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts

4.21/5  rDev -7.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4 | food: 3.5
This place did not disappoint -- with all of the hype, i expected a let down. Today there were 16 beers on tap. The five I tried were amongst the best I've had. Rather than emphasize the extreme aspects of any category, the obvious goal is to put their energy into the ingredients and the brewing process.

The food is relatively limited -- counter service only throughout.

I would categorize this as a place to make side trip to try. The building is spacious with an outdoor
Oct 20, 2021
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Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio

4.65/5  rDev +2.6%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4
Plopping down with a couple of brews at a picnic table outside of this ski lodge-like brewery on a perfect fall day felt too good to be true. What an amazingly invigorating first stop after our long drive in to Vermont. Their building is beautiful, and its surroundings only help to make it more so, especially in the autumn.

High walled, wood centric and spacious--if the leaves weren't calling us, we would have only been too happy to spend our session indoors. Ordering at the bar is smooth and simple, and adding food to your order gets you a little buzzer to notify you to come back in when your food is ready to grab at the kitchen window, keeping the staff as safe as possible given the times. The to-go area is accessible from the bar and dining room, while also separate, operating like a well-oiled machine, only outdone by The Alchemist, whose hospitality is otherwise nonexistent relative to Lawson's.

Anyway, you came here for the beer, and while I probably don't have to tell you this, believe me, it's well worth it. I've never had anything by Lawson's on draft before, so what was super impressive to me was that literally every beer I had on tap was markedly different than any version I'd ever had from a can or bottle. The bodies were fuller, fluffier, and more satisfyingly yet subtly expressive than I can explain. Everything was just top notch and then some. The charcuterie and cheese board we had was also wonderful, with more attractive cheese options than were available at Hill.

This was probably my favorite brewery stop in Vermont, even despite Hill offering so many "rare" beers on-site. Lawson's was just a total stunner.
Oct 19, 2021
 
Rated: 4.32 by Gkruszewski from New York

Jul 24, 2021
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Reviewed by erosier from Connecticut

4.43/5  rDev -2.2%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.25
Awesome spot to go have a beer or a few. The taproom is pretty big with tables for larger groups. There is a limited menu for food on site that is pretty good. The beer is excellent, good selection of their offerings. they don't do flights unfortunately but they do half pours so it's easy enough to try a few different varieties. Outdoor area weather permitting is really nice, good relaxing view. The vibe is laid back with a focus on their excellent beers. The service is excellent on both the food and the drink. Loved this place, can't wait to go back!
Jul 13, 2021
 
Rated: 4.61 by Best_Enjoyed_In_Texas from Texas

Jul 09, 2021
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Reviewed by npolachek from New York

4.43/5  rDev -2.2%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.25
One of the nicest out door brewery experience with ample room and nice tables. Good selection of beer as well as food. I wish Lawson's themselves had a bit more variety, but they do great IPAs. I really like that they charge reasonable prices for those that come to the brewery, and they create a great overall experience.
Jul 06, 2021
 
Rated: 4.83 by cd34 from Illinois

Jun 24, 2021
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Reviewed by Bierman9 from New Hampshire

4.57/5  rDev +0.9%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.25
Had never visited, old or new locations, until July of 2020. Since then, Alewife and I have had about 5 visits over 3 VT vacations, the most recent being last week.

Place is a lovely, spanking new edifice. Due to Covid we didn't get inside at all, save for the WCs.... Place looks awesome, though, from what I could gather. Outside they have numerous tables accommodating from 2 to 6, at small units or around firepits. Some are under the building overhang, others with umbrellas, and on cement or out on the grass... Soooo relaxing, as the location is quite idyllic, save for the small lumber yard across the street! They usually have about 10+ biers, though they are heavy on IPAs, with not enough malty biers to choose from. Service has been top-shelf throughout.... friendly and quite efficient. Special kudos to Gretchen and Jack.... We love swinging by here when nearby. Prosit!!


4.57/5 rDev +1.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.25 | $$

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May 25, 2021
 
Rated: 5 by Twoeggsncheese from Vermont

Mar 07, 2021
 
Rated: 4.65 by Unitspin from Massachusetts

Dec 28, 2020
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Reviewed by ANIMOUL from Vermont

4.75/5  rDev +4.9%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
Definitely worth seeking out; when in VT be sure to add this location to your brewery stop. Located in Waitsfield (duh) it has a very homey vibe - clean, spacious with both indoor and outdoor seating. The beer selection is plentiful and well crafted - can't go wrong with any of their offerings. The kitchen is small but, in my opinion, is the way it should be... food highlights (showcases?) the beer. Great place to visit, have a beer (or three), and buy some cases for the road.
Sep 20, 2020
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Reviewed by slander from New York

4.55/5  rDev +0.4%
vibe: 4.25 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
What am I doing here? Well, if you really must know, as my old college friends’ party in northern Connecticut is this weekend, I’m taking today and tomorrow to bum around Vermont some first and run down 91 the long way around. Let’s just say that 17 over the mountain by way of Bristol was a less than desirable run and leave it at that, okay? Side bar: Bobcat is still open? I did not know that. Are they still brewing? Focus, focus. So, Lawson’s on 100, it’s got to be around here somewhere. Find the Shawshank, it’s nearby…

Oh, there it is. That fancy new vaulted A-frame rafters and a lot of window sugar shack. It’s very Vermonty. Enter in from the parking lot as one does when they, you know, park. Sizable swag & beer-to-go room off to the left. Racked and wooden box shelved shirts, sweatshirts, hats, and more, and a rainbow of colored cans behind the counter coolered for their easy grab (Let us not kid ourselves here, there will be cans to go). And off to the right, a giant double-sided stone fireplace running up to the sky with cushy chair seating on one side and shorty ottomans on the other side. Foosball and a pair of multicade machines in the corner.

Past there, a spacious light wood topped ‘U’ shaped bar, with a dark wood vertical wide plank base & a piping foot rail; seating for a dozen and a half on light brown leather stools 3 sides around. Large center island piece with glassware atop and 8 non-descript handles from both sides + 2 panels of 12 taps on the wall on massive slate panels. I will set up here and beer as I do.

Plank wood floors. White walls with light wood trimmed and windows paneled. Phat wood uprights on the walls, with beams extending up and intersecting at the arch, and horizontal rafters on the angles all the way up. A pair of spins and drop cheese wheel lamps in 2 rows, plus some wall mounted pan lamps and some cool alt height filament bulb glass ball lamps over them tables there (me, pointing). A few black & white landscape pieces and a porch scene mural.

4 shorty roundy hightops adjacent to the bar and a dark wood divider behind me separating the bar side here from the seating side there. 2 rows of three dark wood picnics for the share and a baker’s dozen alt striped squares pushed together for doubles or more along the perimeter. Order & pickup food area along the back wall there. Yes, they’ve got light foodings, but did I mention Worthy Too is (like) a quarter mile from here?

11 beers up, I got to 9 of ‘em through shorty or canIgetjustapinchofthat (Scrag Mountain Pils, 4.8%, Czech Pils, love; App Gap Saison, 4.5%, dry, Belgian fruity esters, sure; The Space in Between, 5%, a dry hopped hazy ale with a little tartness like it says; Rooski Black IPA, 7%, Rooski Black IPA, and there’s the sweet spot between roast & hop, the style lives!, and thank you; Chinooker’d IPA, 6.5%, Boom! that’s pine fine, I guess this must be the place; Homestead Haze IPA, 6.9%, an all VT brew, no haze at all, psych; Double Sunshine IPA, 8%, I remember this beer now, dank as actual fuck, lush fruit, juicy mofo; Triple Sunshine IPA, 10.5%, that’s a big beer, pineapple, citrus; Maple Nipple, 8%, holy shit is that mapley goodness, a sticky sweety in just a real pleasant way), but didn’t get to the Stratford 2 (Super Session #8, 4.8%; Sip of Sunshine IPA, 8%). Scrag Mountain Pils, Rooski Black IPA, Chinooker’d IPA, Double Sunshine IPA, & Maple Nipple for the wins!

With beer in hand, I went on walkabout. Assessed the beer-to-go situation and had a look outside; a dozen picnics and chair/fire pit set ups along the wraparound brick porch area. I could do time in one such chair there.

Good crowd and building more so, this afternoon. Talking first to a kid who showed up telling me I should be drinking the Saison, then a couple of folks up from Boston, and finally a father/son combo out from Oregon on a beer tour (Treehouse & Alchemist this morning, and now Lawsons. They’re kind of badass, I want them to adopt me).

Beers are really damn good. Not really surprised by that at all as, well, yeah. And the place is really clean, neat, warm, & inviting. I guess from now on I’m running to or from points north of here via this stretch of 100. Lest I mention I got to share a table with Sean a few months ago at Paulie Gee’s slice shop in Brooklyn and just shot the shit over slices of Hellboy & Freddy Prince. He’s a good cat, makes a good beers. What? That was a stupid question; of course I got cans to go. I mean, duh.
Jun 12, 2020
 
Rated: 4.5 by Handz from Rhode Island

Apr 17, 2020
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Reviewed by rbowser from New Hampshire

4.73/5  rDev +4.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5
Open, airy, lots of wood and stone, lawson’s tap room is inviting and cozy. Plenty of seating around the bar area or at tables, or choose to sit in living room style chairs around the fireplace. I sat around the fireplace and had a couple of fresh double and triple sunshine’s.

The food was good (I got a cheese plate) but nothing super special. They had stuff like grilled cheese sandwiches and chili on the menu. Service was top notch but casual.

The tap room is connected to the beer to go counter which has all the expected basics with occasional specials. I didn’t visit the brewery, but it is a quick walk across from the taproom.

Thoroughly enjoyed it, just wish I could have stayed longer.
Feb 14, 2020
 
Rated: 4.2 by benjaminsa from Vermont

Jan 26, 2020
 
Rated: 4.67 by DuncanBishop24 from Vermont

Dec 24, 2019
 
Rated: 4.39 by grahuba from Connecticut

Dec 14, 2019
 
Rated: 4.47 by neliam24 from New York

Dec 02, 2019
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Reviewed by Gatch from Massachusetts

5/5  rDev +10.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
On my favorite road in Vermont, Route 100, and in the quaint town of Waitsfield, this is a must-visit for any craft beer fan. Beautiful facility with plenty of room even on a busy day. Always a great can and draft beer selection, friendly staff, and a nice outdoor patio area with proper views.
Nov 03, 2019
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Reviewed by hozersr from Pennsylvania

4.9/5  rDev +8.2%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 5
Visited this world class brewery in the fall of 2019 with my wife. This is a MUST see brewery. The tap room is amazing complete with fireplaces. Service was excellent. Their carry out selection amazed me that they had a plentiful supply of the Double and Triple Sunshine. The only downside for my wife and I was that it is not dog friendly,yet. I talked to one of the brewmasters and he said they are hoping by next year the township will allow them to. So dog lovers stay posted to their website.
Nov 01, 2019
 
Rated: 4.58 by jheimbigner from Washington

Oct 24, 2019
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