Zero Gravity Craft Brewery
- ★ 4.7
- $$
- South End / Pine Street
Zero Gravity opened in 2004 inside American Flatbread; the Pine Street brewery opened 2015 and absorbed the Great Northern as the current Beer Hall.
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Foam Brewers
- ★ 4.7
- $$
- Waterfront
Foam Brewers sits 100 feet from Lake Champlain's edge across from Waterfront Park with westward sunset views over the Adirondacks. New England hazies,
Switchback Brewing Co.
- ★ 4.5
- $$
- South End / Pine Street
Switchback opened in 2002 under master brewer Bill Cherry; the first 100 percent employee-owned brewery in New England. The Beer Garden and Smokehouse.
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Queen City Brewery
- ★ 4.4
- $$
- South End / Pine Street
Queen City has 16-plus taps that rotate through German lagers, English ales, monastic styles and Scottish winter warmers from the renovated South End.
Burlington Beer Company
- ★ 4.5
- $$
- South End / Pine Street
Burlington Beer Co. moved its taproom from Williston to a 14,000-square-foot former brick warehouse on Flynn Avenue in 2021. 48 taps and a 46-foot bar;
Vermont Pub and Brewery
- ★ 4.3
- $$
- Church Street Marketplace
Vermont's first brewpub and the longest-running brewery in the state. Greg Noonan lobbied Vermont to permit onsite brewing-and-consumption and opened Vermont.
Citizen Cider Press House
- ★ 4.4
- $$
- South End / Pine Street
Vermont's biggest cidery closed its Pine Street pub April 2025 and opened the Press House Pub at 180 Flynn Avenue October 2025, consolidating production.
Fiddlehead Brewing Company
- ★ 4.5
- $$
- Shelburne
Fiddlehead's original brewery and tasting room is in Shelburne, sharing a building with Folino's Pizza (BYO food encouraged across the hall).
Lawson's Finest Liquids
- ★ 4.7
- $$
- Waitsfield
Sean and Karen Lawson founded Lawson's in 2008; the Waitsfield destination brewery opened 2018 in the Mad River Valley (45 miles from Burlington).
The Alchemist Brewery and Visitor's Center
- ★ 4.8
- $$
- Stowe
John and Jen Kimmich founded The Alchemist in 2003; the Heady Topper IPA from this Stowe brewery (35 miles from Burlington) sparked the entire haze-IPA.
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Hill Farmstead Brewery
- ★ 4.9
- $$
- Greensboro
Shaun Hill founded the brewery in 2010 on family land in Greensboro Bend; the seventh-generation Hill descendant on a Northeast Kingdom plot held since 1788.
von Trapp Bierhall
- ★ 4.5
- $$
- Stowe
Johannes von Trapp opened the brewery at the Trapp Family Lodge in 2010; the Bierhall opened 2016, a mile from the lodge, serving Austrian-style food.
Stowe Cider
- ★ 4.4
- $$
- Stowe
Stowe Cider's Shakedown Street taproom serves dry preservative-free ciders alongside barrel-aged and fruit-forward releases. Barbecue and gluten-free menu;
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