Thanks for Supporting Vermont Beer this Weekend!

My wife and I were in the area for the weekend celebrating our first wedding anniversary (and buying far too much beer!). We had a fantastic time as always. Our only complaint was all that chilly rain on Saturday morning but I don't think you can do much about that.

We weren't prepared to stand out in the rain for the Alchemist truck sale, but found some friendly folks in the Lawson's line in Waitsfield that hooked us up with some Holy Cow and Focal Banger in exchange for some Michigan beers we brought along with us. Thanks to all those guys if you're out there somewhere!

 

Thanks to Sean, Karen, Joe, Meg, The Grift, the crew at Mad Taco, all of the great vendors and volunteers for all of their hard work and great brews at beer breakfast, the market, and the party last night.

 

Both of the lawson's events were awesome, the breakfast was fun, and the cask was excellent. The only complaint on the lawson's was the small venue, it was a little hectic when it first opened, but we had already talked to you about the venue prior lol.
And the place next door selling the $20/bottle KBS, that was nuts!
The alchemist event was also great again, i've been to all 3, and they have all been pretty much the easiest beer releases that i've been to. Free heady from John doesn't hurt the case either.
For all the talk of this weekend being "Vermontageddon" it went extremely smoothly.

 

We thought everything ran rather smooth at the truckload sale and Lawson's afternoon beer fest. Nobody trying to cut the line this year, plenty of beer and sounds like they raised a bunch of $$$.

 

My wife and I travelled from L.I. and our first stop was at HF. The wait of 1 hour and 1/2 was way to long for the amount of people on line. Despite everyone raving about the experience it was probably the worst brewery experience I've had. get your growler fill and leave. The Alchemist release was run well despite the freezing rain. John was nice enough to make his way around and give out fills of Heady. The Lawson's was by far the best run. Everything went smooth and I got all of what I wanted. The staff and people running it were the best. Thanks for the hospitality.

 

The Lawson's market from 2-6 was extremely smoother and more efficient than last year...wow. We showed up at 2pm without even getting tickets (they were on about 270 at that time) thinking we'd just hang out, have some drafts and socialize because we had Hen reservations at 5:30. However, the line went so quick we were able to get bottles around 4pm. Great event! And I got my bottles of pickled beets from the older couple set up out front....they're canning some great stuff.

The Alchemist pop-up sale was great too...I've never had so much fun waiting in the cold and rain for an hour and a half. The DJ was very key to that...spinnin some solid tunes.

Great weekend! Can't wait to pop open E. tonight.