Stowe Cider is a brewery in Stowe, Burlington.
Stowe Cider's Shakedown Street taproom serves dry preservative-free ciders alongside barrel-aged and fruit-forward releases. Barbecue and gluten-free menu;
Tip: Closed Mon-Tue; verify Friday music lineup on the operator site. The Tips Up dry cider is the gateway pour into the cellar series.
Address: 17 Town Farm Ln, Stowe, VT 05672, Burlington
Zero Gravity opened in 2004 inside American Flatbread; the Pine Street brewery opened 2015 and absorbed the Great Northern as the current Beer Hall.
Tip: Beer hall seating is first-come, first-served. Covered outdoor patio in season.
Foam Brewers sits 100 feet from Lake Champlain's edge across from Waterfront Park with westward sunset views over the Adirondacks. New England hazies,
Tip: Sunset patio fills fast in summer; weekday afternoons are easier.
Switchback opened in 2002 under master brewer Bill Cherry; the first 100 percent employee-owned brewery in New England. The Beer Garden and Smokehouse runs.
Tip: Closed Monday and the dog-friendly patio is the seat; the Beer Garden Smokehouse kitchen closes at 20:00 even when the bar runs to 21:00.
Queen City has 16-plus taps that rotate through German lagers, English ales, monastic styles and Scottish winter warmers from the renovated South End.
Tip: BYO food or order delivery as there is no kitchen onsite; the beech-smoked lager pours faster than the South End helles.
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;
Tip: Full kitchen; one of the few breweries in town that takes reservations.
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.
Tip: The cask hand-pull is the bartender pick most evenings; the kitchen runs full menu until close every night.
