When in the USA last week we visited Lake Champlain which straddles the boarders between the states of Vermont and New York to the East and West and Canada to the North. The largest place in those parts is a small city called Burlington and that's where we landed. Now, Burlington is home to one of the best craft breweries in the US and somewhere I'd been keen to visit for a while now. Called "Foam Brewers" (as per the sign on the door above!), it's a funky little place, set in a nice colonial style building it's very arts and crafts (Wife friendly) and the beer was splendid too.
The tap room was full of pieces of art, paintings and sculptures (see picture above) and the view from the deck over the lake provided a superb sunset framed backdrop to the New York State mountains across the water, a fine place to sit of an evening and mull over the meaning of life with good company and a fine looking foamy brew in front of you (especially after a 15k cycle ride along the lake shore cycle path!).
Most of their beers were in the hazy, modern IPA/Pale Ale style (which was fine by me) as seen on the left of this shot, but my Wife isn't too keen on the massively hoppy taste of these kinds of beers. However, they also had a couple of fruited sour beers on tap too (right hand side), they were perfect, light, crisp and fruity very quaffable in the warm evening sunshine, bit like a Margarita but at only 4% ABV obviously without the high alcohol hit!
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