re: Beer travel advice

Hey LST, as of right now, the only beer The Alchemist regularly brews is Heady Topper, but I think they just got a label design for Focal Banger and might be regularly canning that by the time you visit. Check their website before you go for which stores sell Heady and when they get deliveries. You might luck up like me and pick a weekend when they are doing a truck/tent sale.

Hill Farmstead has a retail page on their website that they update daily which explains what they sell and how much it costs. I shipped an empty 12-bottle shipper to myself to handle my entire Hill Farmstead haul. It worked out nicely.

Along with The Alchemist and Hill Farmstead, I would definitely seek out beers from Lawson's Finest Liquids and Fiddlehead. Lawson's doesn't have a brewery open to the public, but they make weekly bottles/can deliveries in Burlington, Warren, and Montpelier, and you should be able to find them on tap in those areas as well. Fiddlehead is in Shelburne, just south of Burlington and I think they usually have a weekly canning. They had a great pizza place next door.

Be sure to check out the awesome pubs in Waterbury.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions, now or later.