Beginning on Weds., 16 Sept, we will release three additional bottles in our Bottle Shop, each selected to highlight both the season and our guests.

Works of Love: In Between Dreams

To mark our hosting of Cory King of Side Project Brewing for our Harvest Festival, we will officially debut a beer nearly a decade in the making. 

During the 2017 Festival of Farmhouse Ales, a few of our guests joined us in a creative collaboration: Sante Adairius Rustic Ales, Side Project, and Tired Hands. Together, a Farmstead® ale was crafted with organic flaked corn, organic spelt, and Vermont knotweed honey, and then rested in wine barrels for ten months. Packaged in 2018, this bottling has been part of our ongoing extended bottle-conditioning experiment; a draft version debuted during the 2024 Festival of Farmhouse Ales. 

Barrel-Aged Earl

This Bourbon barrel-aged version of Earl, our coffee stout, features custom-roasted coffee from Owen Miller of East Alstead Roasting in East Alstead, N.H., who will join us Fri., Sat., and Sun. to share his coffees. Owen interned here at the brewery in 2010, so his return and collaboration on this beer bring his journey full circle. 

For Earl’s namesake beer, we brewed a richer, more complex version of the beer and aged it in select Bourbon barrels for nearly two years. The harmonization of intentional coffee character and careful barrel selection yields a rich but balanced experience worthy of both the beer and 

Pear: 2024 Harvest

Each harvest season, we select barrels of our Farmstead® ales that we feel exhibit sympathetic characteristics for pairing with local fruit varieties. This curation was a blend of Farmstead® ales aged between 12 and 18 months in wine barrels and then conditioned further on a blend of Siberian pears and local varieties of dessert pears—Stacy, Luscious, Summercrisp, and Nova—all organically grown by Elmore Roots Nursery in nearby Elmore, Vt. The result is an aromatic, delicate representation of the fruit in season.