Alright Beer peeps need suggestions

Allagash, Oxbow, Cambridge Brewing, Idle Hands, Foam

 

Fiddlehead, Burlington beer company, Frost, jacks abby, Springdale, Foam, zero gravity, Trapps, Lost Nation and tons more

 

CW, NEBCO and Fox Farm are all spectacular and worth going to if you're passing through. What are your travel plans?

 

While heading East from VT I suggest hitting Schilling in Littleton NH, great beer and great scenery/location/food.
Then you can stop at Kettlehead in Tilton, NH. Stoneface is also an easy stop depending on your route East.
In Portland (additional to those listed above) you should check out Austin St, Bunker, Mast Landing and the bar Novare Res.

 

Based on "adding many beers to untappd" it sounds like variety may go a longer way than quantity. Also I assume money is an object, and you are on social media. If this is the case, I would recommend stocking up in VT and then join the Bissell Brothers in person trade group to trade any VT stock greater than you need for a larger variety of Maine hops. May save you from hoofing it around to all the individual breweries.

You need some Goodfire from Portland as well as the others above. I've really been enjoying whatever Deciduous IPAs are released lately, you should watch out for that brewery in NH.

 

-Foam
-River Roost
-Fox Farm (if you can handle the extra drive to the bottom of CT)

 

Notch if you’re into lagers.

How are you driving to VT from NC? If you have the ability to drive through the Hudson Valley I’d maybe add Industrial Arts, Equilibrium, Hudson Valley, and most importantly Suarez. If you could pick one is just go Suarez. That’s a top 5 brewery in the US to visit for me.

 

Bier Cellar and RSVP are the 2 better shops in Portland for picking up cans, with Oak Hill Beverage in Scarborough and Spruce Creek Provisions in Kittery to the south deserving mention. Julio's in Westborough is the store you want in Mass.

 

Odd as it sounds, it helps to know what days of the week you're traveling on. Coming up 91, once you get to the New Haven area, and all the way up to Hill Farmstead, there are dozens of worthy stops, and the same coming back down 95 out of Portland. But different brewers are open, or not open, on different days. You get really different answers depending, for example, on whether you're passing through on a Tuesday or a Thursday.

 

The way things looks, I don't know that 2 coolers will be enough...
That's a great thing about New England, (and the rest of the country, for that matter) is that there's new breweries popping up all the time, and there'll likely be even more in the next month that you get there.
Can't argue with the ones you've mentioned, though in Maine I would also add Industrial Way in Portland - there's 4 breweries on that street alone now, all worthy of visits.
A bunch in Portsmouth NH, North Shore MA.
Definitely recommend Jack's Abby / Springdale in Framingham, MA, with Exhibit A a stones throw away. (plus others you've mentioned) Julio's in Westboro for a bottle shop.
OEC in Connecticut is worth a stop.

 

An additional note about Bier Cellar in ME. You can pre-buy online and pick it up when you are there. They get limited local (and non-local) releases and offer a lot of them by online purchase for in store pick up. Some of the most limited will be in person only.
If you sign up for their twitter (or probably other social media) they send messages with the options. You could maximize the amount of options available to you if you keep an eye on their options for a week or two prior to your arrival.

 

5 (or kind of 6) at Industial way. Austin, Battery, Definitive, Allagash, Foundation and then Geary's is like 1/2 mile up the road.

 

Just north of Boston you've got a decent area with a bunch of breweries relatively close. Mystic, Lamplighter, Nightshift (both their main brewery and new Lovejoy restaurant/brewery), Bone Up (can skip but its right next to Nightshift), Down the Road, Idle Hands, Aeronaut, etc..

Vermont is great but its a lot of traveling, I usually steer people away from Vermont unless they've got the time. I usually say go to Armsby Abbey and you can get Hill Farmstead on tap there, that's in Worcester MA and you should stop there on the way to Tree House IMHO. One of the best tap lists and the food is great too.

 

You have to stop at Troeggs if you’re passing Harrisburg/Hershey.