Holy Moly, the new Tasting Room is open!


Wowsers.  What a whirlwind.  What the heck just happened?

It seems all to familiar to wait and wait and wait and then bam! things get serious.  Thank you all for bearing with us as we struggled through a very strange construction environment, dealing with items not available, crazy cost increases, contractors who were torn between numerous jobs, etc, etc, etc....

But here we are.  OPEN for business in our new tasting room and SOON to be BREWERY.  That's right, at this current time we are still brewing ALL the beer in the little space at 1 Ferry Rd.  But we have food, we have beer (and other beverages), music and so much more.  Thank you all for your patience over the last few months as we worked hard to get this space open.

And what an outpouring it has been.  We are so humbled by the constant, consistent, dedicated and amazing support we have received since our soft opening in early July.  It has been awesome to see so many familiar faces popping in, bringing friends, enjoying what summer in VT has to offer.  There is no better scene than many people with mugs of beer sitting in Adirondack chairs!


We are excited to get our brewing operation, operational in the next few weeks.  We will move out of the 1 Ferry Rd. location, move the necessary tanks to 252 Rt. 2, and start brewing on our very long awaited IDD system.  We are so excited for its capacity, for its efficiency, and for the delicious suds it will provide for us (and for you).  We have some stellar installers working on our set up, and at this point we have our glycol system operational (albeit with no tanks connected, just our walk in cooler), plumbing for gas, air, and steam completed, our boiler set, and hot liquor and cold liquor lines connected.  

We are so grateful, so thankful for all the continued support, thoughts, recommendations, and feedback.  This has certainly been a labor of love and we are committed to sharing it with all of you.  Cheers!

Construction of our copper water tank lights!

The first light is up!
The final product, new bulbs coming!


Stage Complete

Who doesn't love a functional three bay sink

Hot and Cold Liquor awaiting plumbing

Daren's serving tank dream come true!

Snapshot of our smash burgers

Setting the tanks for plumbing!

The brew system finding its home!

A view of our taproom!

Daren getting used to his new brew system
Dan Nolan and Chris and his guys from CMC Mechanical installing all there is to install!

Luis and Jason, our musical gurus.


 

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