[quickdraw]

Originally Posted by joe moving

i had no idea they bottled, that is pretty cool.

Bristol's Bobcat brews a Vermont beer for flood relief | Addison County Independent

[harpoonalt]

Ok...our friends hit Rockart (smoked porter was smooth) and headed to HF. What's the secret on the weekends to avoiding a 2 hour wait? They waited an hour and had to leave for a prior engagement. No beer

We are limited to Saturdays but said we'd give it a try this weekend. Tips?

[Logs and Dogs]

Later in the 12-5 sometimes is better.....maybe 3pm or something, by then they have hit their groove, the inital line is probably gone and they can handle a steady flow.....

Hit there on a Friday and was there with only a couple other people.

I like his policy on Ephraim......time to take a stand against some BS.

[quickdraw]

Originally Posted by harpoonalt

Ok...our friends hit Rockart (smoked porter was smooth) and headed to HF. What's the secret on the weekends to avoiding a 2 hour wait? They waited an hour and had to leave for a prior engagement. No beer

We are limited to Saturdays but said we'd give it a try this weekend. Tips?

whoa! talk about bad timing. Saturday was a special event - releasing some of his limited edition bottles.
There were several hundred people there. He does four or five of these a year. Most Saturdays you only have to wait fifteen minutes tops.

what a bummer

[pauldorell]

Originally Posted by quickdraw

Bristol's Bobcat brews a Vermont beer for flood relief | Addison County Independent

Has anyone tried Flood Suds? I can actually buy it at the co-op without a long drive.

[harpoonalt]

LOL.....thanks! I was the one to convince him to go Saturday since he was so close at Rockart. Hopefully, we'll make it this weekend. He would have waited except for a previous obligation even at 2 hours. I owe him a growler at least for the effort.

[Logs and Dogs]

Drinking Hill Farmstead Everett right now............

Good evening to me......

I stood in the February bottle release line with friends for a while........good time even in the cold.....still have a couple bottles of Damon in the cellar....

[pauldorell]

Originally Posted by quickdraw

Bristol's Bobcat brews a Vermont beer for flood relief | Addison County Independent

OK, I bought a couple of bottles and tried it today at lunch. Flood Suds is supposed to be a "Belgian-inspired Wit Beer." I don't know which Belgium they're referring to: Belgium, Wisconsin? It's a very light beer with little taste, and it isn't going to win any awards. At $12 for 750 ml, I hope at least $11 is going to aid Vermont farmers affected by Hurricane Irene. But then who would expect a UVM agronomist to know anything about beer-making. Sometimes I get the impression that microbreweries are a fad supported by trust fund kids who compete with each other to have bragging rights to drinking obscure beers that their friends haven't tried yet.

[quickdraw]

Originally Posted by harpoonalt

LOL.....thanks! I was the one to convince him to go Saturday since he was so close at Rockart. Hopefully, we'll make it this weekend. He would have waited except for a previous obligation even at 2 hours. I owe him a growler at least for the effort.

the Burlington brewfest is going on so the brewery will be more crowded this week than usual too.

[harpoonalt]

We're heading up anyway as it's our last free weekend for awhile. Hopefully the Brewfesters will be headed away from HF Bringing plenty of cash and a cooler.

Maybe hit Rockart on the way home. Any good lunch spots near HF or other sights in the area? 2 hour drive for us, so we may as well check it out while we're there.