Tree House (2025)

Yeah these bad boys are dusty af. Luckily growler fills will be back at TH “soon” hahahhaha. First and only time at Monson, two mins in and my friend whips out his Kindle to literally read some part of War and Peace in/on line. Bottled Sap, and I think a growler of Doppleganger? Good times.

 

I never felt comfortable when we would drive down to the Warren Store to wait for the delivery guy at like 7:30 am. Just for him to put the Lawson’s Double Sunshine/Triple play ipa bottles in the back cooler. Usually when we were up there in Waitsfield. I remember pulling them out as he was placing them. The people in there for breakfast sandwiches or coffee who didn’t care about beer just looked disappointed in us. But at least we’d grab some food there and thank them each time. maybe 2010/11?

Another sick memory was driving to Winooski Beverage to get in a line for a heady case drop around 7 am or so. My old co worker really wanted to go and I didn’t have to drive. You waited in line to then file in like sick addicts and grab your “half case” walk back around like a water slide line and if enough was left you got your second half. Then it hits that there’s nothing to fng do that early. So you just waste time or drive to somewhere else.

 

Troon be like, New England give me all of your line creatures. Or maybe 220 of them.

 

My favorite memory from the crazy long line/lower parking lot days at Charlton is seeing a Father pushing 3 or 4 cases of beer down the hill in a stroller, with Mom a few yards behind him carrying the baby. Wish I had thought of that!

 

lol, I may have brought my daughter when she was little in the stroller for a few can grabs. But never was someone else carrying the burden to fill the stroller ha! Luckily it had a nice spot underneath it that could carry plenty of beer. But, I’ll point out that that was minimal and most of the time it was used as storage for beach stuff, baby stuff and food lol.

That’s next level 3rd parking lot lore up there. I can picture mom’s angry face as she carried said child mule and diaper backpack while dad made sure to alert passerby’s “Yeah, she mule’d this extra case, what a woman huh!” Cahgo shorts and all.

 

I was talking with someone last night and realized that since I was never really big on mainstream music and wasn’t into camping out for sports tickets. Beer lines were kind of the first real lines I ever waited in. That weren’t like a theme park immediate payoff after.

Maybe would get to a HC/punk show early and have to wait in a line for the venue to open but even that was minimal over the many years and short.

I gotta give it to my friends who used to camp out for sports tickets or concert tickets. Obviously, before online sales. No phones, social media, bottle shares, or anything remotely interesting to do besides chat with people. Your watch hand moving or a book were the most entertaining things. I distinctly remember my friends camping out to get tickets to opening night of Star Wars Episode 1 in 1999. Their picture and interview was in the paper.

Disney and theme park lines don’t count. I was young and didn’t give AF. Water parks didn’t even require clothes so that had its perks as a teenager ha.

I remember first learning the chair and cooler rule.

 

I used to work 10 minutes from Troon, it really was never a line life thing, more like ‘can I drop what I am doing immediately to breakneck speed over then and just hope’. I moved before they went to doing online, I think thats what they do now. The lines at Troon were nothing compared to old school Monson. You knew at Troon if you weren’t in the parking lot 15 minutes after Alex posted, you were out of luck.

 

Keg stands were better in Monson.

 

Was thinking of popping up to Charlton to grab a few four-packs this (Sunday) afternoon. Mostly a stout/barleywine guy, but I like to grab one or two new-to-me IPAs when I go. Any recommendations from the current offerings? And do Sundays tend to be busy?

 

Green Machine. You'll be happy

 

Kind of weird move on the ordering page. Putting the liquor, canned cocktails and coffee before the beer. It's already confusing enough to look at if you were a new customer, and then they bury their main product selection half way down this monstrosity of list

 

I go back to the days of The Alchemist in downtown Waterbury Vt. We vacationed in Smugglers Notch every summer and talked my wife into a leaving the kids at our unit and going down to try what everyone was talking about. Heady Topper on tap.
The best two beers I ever had in my (up to that point).
After that later vacations always included one morning to chase the truck around Waitsfield, Waterbury, etc trying to snag a few four packs to take back home.

 

I said the exact same thing when Trillium did something similar. I believe it was the online(and paper) menus at one point changed and the beer was not the first thing you saw for on premise menu options. It’s a small and trivial thing, but sometimes small details add up.

 

Trillium still has food up top, for whatever reason.

 

I am definitely not a fan.

 

Curiosity 11

 

If C11 can hold even a fraction of C10…

 

I'm not saying it's better, but you should probably get some IMO.

 

Jealous of your 2:30 pm Tuesday beer.