New England Trip

Off the top of my head and what I'd look for if I had a bunch of time kicking around NE:

Beers to look for that are local: Jack's Abby, Slumbrew, Notch, Maine Beer Company, Allagash (great on draft without the hefty bottle price), Berkshire Beer, Brash, Clown Shoes, Element, Enlightenment Ales, Mystic, Night Shift, Pretty Things, Wormtown, Baxter, Rising Tide, White Birch, and VT Brews listed below.

Boston/Cambridge: Kendel Square area (Lord Hobo, Cambridge Brewing Company, Meadhall), Allston/Brighton/Brookline (Deep Ellum/Lone Star Taco, Publick House, Sunset Grill), Fenway/Back Bay/Downtown area (Bukowski's, Lower Depths, Jacob Wirth's)

NH: Portsmouth Brewery Pub

Maine: Portland area (Novare Res, Great Lost Bear, Maine Beer Company brewery tour, Allagash Brewery Tour), Bar Harbor/MDI area (Atlantic Brewing Company and BBQ place attached to it, Liquor Locker), Lovell (Ebenezer's)

VT: Hill Farmstead, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Alchemist, Prohibition Pig

 

Start with the 'places' key here on BA. IMO, the must stops are Allagash in ME, Portsmouth in NH and Hill Farmstead, Lawson's and Alchemist in VT.

For pubs, I recommend Blackback in Waterbury, VT, Moat Mtn. in N. Conway, NH. I'l leave the MA bars to the locals but there are many great ones.

 

Vermont is pretty big from North to South and two different beer worlds of have's and have nots. Are you going N or S?

 

Can you post some cities or routes/interstates you'll be taking? There's a bunch of places, but some could be 2-4hrs out of your driving route depending on which parts of which states you're going through.

 

I dont know if youre driving, but if you are you have to pass through CT i assume and if you do you need to swing by NEBCO in woodbrige CT right on the New Haven line....CHEERS

 

What Soze said. Exactly.