Vermont

TAP Beer of the Week: King Titus Porter

[Nov. 16, 2012]–The first Peeper Ale from the Maine Beer Company rolled out of the brewery in the summer of… Read more »

TAP Beer of the Week: Geary’s London Porter

Tom Bedell

[July 30, 2023–David Geary died Wednesday at age 78, closing an early chapter in the U.S. craft brewing book–or micro-brewing,… Read more »

Beer FAQ

Tom Bedell

In the sudsy realm of my life, the question I hear most often, and quite often, is the impossible-to-answer, “What’s your favorite beer?” The second most frequently asked question I hear comes when I pull out some beer not hitherto known to the questioner, who asks in near-wonderment, “Where did you get that?” It’s as if I’d traveled to some distant locale and cut through jungle brush to bring this exotic beer back alive.

TAP Beer(s) of the Week: Saranac White IPA and Ubu Ale

Tom Bedell

I’m recently back from the Turning Stone Resort Casino in central New York about midway between Utica and Syracuse. I’ll… Read more »

After the Floods, Beer Rises

Tom Bedell

[This piece first appeared, in somewhat different form, in the April 4, 2012 issue of The Commons, an independent non-profit… Read more »

What Golf Ball Through Yonder Window Breaks?

Tom Bedell

I belong to a Shakespeare group. Not a troupe, a group, which meets now and again to read through the… Read more »

Birdies and Brews Part 4: Orlando, Florida

Tom Bedell

< Previous: Birdies and Brews Part 3: Vermont Next: Birdies and Brews Part 5: Kohler, WI and Bandon Dunes, OR>… Read more »

Birdies and Brews Part 3: Vermont

Tom Bedell

Okay, but where in Vermont? No, all of Vermont. The latest Brewers Association stats put Vermont at the head of the list–the state with the most breweries per capita–and all of them are craft breweries.

Vermont is not a huge state–slightly more than 600,000 souls call it home, and there are more senators in the U.S. Congress than the lone congressman. A head to foot (or vice versa) traversal is doable in about two and a half hours, and one is never too far away from the next good beer or golf course.