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Taproom Update

Thursdays have been a difficult choice for us: open the taproom or continue production work. With the size of our space, its next to impossible to do both harmoniously. At the moment, we are limited to 3-1/2 days production because of our open taproom hours… and it’s really more important to make beer, so we are eliminating Thursday taproom hours, and we may be looking at opening later on Fridays as well. Thanks for understanding, sorry for any inconvenience. We are looking at other options as well, possibly moving the taproom to another location so both can operate 7 days/week.

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2nd Anniversary

Sorry for the delay providing details about our anniversary coming up this Saturday, March 19th.  We’ve had a long list of mechanical problems that have delayed everything, and have prevented us from confirming many of the details.  Below is our tentative schedule, we will make sure we post the final confirmed scheduled by Friday night.

The brewery will be open Saturday from 12-10PM – we will have flights, full pours, and crowler fills.  Please see below the schedule for the full tap list.

SATURDAY MARCH 19th
8AM – Sneakers – French Toast Bear cask – Great Bear with cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, conditioned with maple syrup.
10AM – Beverage Warehouse (tentative) – beer TBA
12PM – Can/Bottle Release – 70 Main Street parking lot (tentative based on weather)
2PM – Scout Coffee Company – Coffee Bear w/ Vivid coffee
4PM – Mule Bar – TomCat barrel-aged Moscow Mule saison
5PM – Waterworks – Whitewater – witbier fermented with Brettanomyces, dry-hopped with Chinook.
6PM – Monkey House – Funky Monkey – Hoppy wheat beer with Citra and bananas.
*Our friends Thunder Kittens will be playing from 6-7:30 as part of the anniversary celebrations!
7PM – CK’s – Pickle Back – Opus Humulus aged in bourbon barrels, conditioned on cucumbers, honeydew, and fresh dill.
8PM – Four Quarters Brewery – we will be open all day, but will be tapping all of the Winooski beers as well as plenty of others at 8PM.

Bottle/Can Releases:
Misery Sour 16 oz cans
Great Bear 16 oz cans
Fleur de Lis 750 mL bottles
Dreams 750 mL bottles
Batch 13 500 mL bottles (wheat saison aged for nearly two years in red wine barrels)
Marquette Saison 500 mL bottles – Batch 13 blended with Marquette red grape must
Sour 47 – Saison aged in oak. 500mL bottles
*Limits will be determined based on the number of people present at 12 noon Saturday.

Four Quarters draft list
Opus Dei
Opus Humulus
Great Bear
Coffee Bear w/ Vivid coffee
Love & Lust
Fleur de Lis
Nelson Sauvin Fleur de Lis
TomCat barrel-aged Moscow Mule
Funky Monkey
Whitewater
Bevie beer (TBA)
Casks:
DDH Sundog
Imperial Smores Stout – Dark is Night w/ vanilla beans, cocoa nibs, graham cracker, & marshmallow.
Oud Bruin on sour cherries
Nutella & Jelly Bear – Great Bear conditioned on fruit, cocoa nibs, and hazelnut extract.

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Christollen Release

Christollen (Christo-len) is our take on a delicious German Christmas bread that uses rum-candied currants, raisins, and citrus zest baked into a cake-like loaf that often included almonds, cinnamon, and topped with powdered sugar.

We took our Belgian Patersbier, Opus Dei, aged in Mad River Maple Rum Barrels, then conditioned it on black and red currants, golden raisins, and orange/lemon zests, and finally conditioned in 500mL bottles.

This beer is meant to be drank fresh! It’s a better-late-than-never holiday beer… we will release a new batch December 2016, don’t save this one until then!

Saturday we will release our Christollen bottles at noon.
100 bottles… 500 mL, $15, 2 bottle limit.

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Waking Windows

Really happy to be a part of this year’s Waking Windows festival in Winooski.  Three solid days full of music with (fingers crossed) an outdoor stage, outdoor seating, food by Southern Smoke VT​ and we’ll have FULL POURS on ALL weekend! Please note, we will require a festival button or $5 to enter the outdoor music area. The tasting room will be open to the public as usual, via garage door entrance.

FRIDAY
5:00-5:30 – Near North
5:50-6:20 – Phil Yates & The Affiliates
6:40-7:10 – Osage Orange
7:30-8:00 – Eastern Mountain Time
8:20-9:00 – Great Western
SATURDAY
12:50-1:30 – Red Admiral
1:45-2:25 – PoolooP
2:40-3:20 – Lake Milk
3:35-4:15 – Black Rabbit
4:30-5:15 – Vedora
5:30-6:15 – The Mountain Says No
6:30-7:15 – Barbacoa
SUNDAY
2:00-2:45 – Villanelles
3:00-3:45 – The Sun Lions
4:00-4:45 – Dino Bravo VT
5:00-5:45 – The Whiskey Dicks
6:00-6:45 – Savage Hen
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VT Firkin Festival

Saturday November 8th, we will be hosting the Vermont Firkin Festival.  Great exclusive cask conditioned beers from over a dozen regional breweries and cideries from VT, Quebec, NH, MA, ME, and NY., delectable food from Misery Loves Co., Southern Smoke, and Worthy Burger… and great live music to round out the 1st annual Vermont Firkin Festival.

Saturday November 8th, 1:00-5:00PM, last call 4:30.

Tickets are on sale now: https://www.freshtix.com/events/vt-firkin-festival

Attending Breweries:
Brasserie Dunham
Brasseurs du Monde
Burlington Beer
Cape Ann Brewing
Earth Eagle Brewings
Four Quarters Brewing
Le Trou du Diable
Lost Nation
Mystic Brewing
Smuttynose
Switchback
Urban Farm Fermentory
Zero Gravity
more to come…

Food:
Misery Loves Co.
Southern Smoke
Worthy Burger

Music:
TBA