Make the Cut Homebrew Finalists

February 26, 2016 Jason | Kraken

The Make the Cut homebrew competition has produced two finalists that will brew and compete head to head!

~ Roland Maheaux ~

At 70 Years young, this Man offered us an German Alt Inspired Beer that was passed around by the Judges on Day 1 with a Cheer!
From Jericho, Meet Roland Maheaux!

“I have always enjoyed a great beer and first dabbled in home brewing back in 1992 when my daughter gave me a home brew kit for Christmas. The batch was horrible. I wanted to brew again and do it better. After many trips to the home brew supply store gathering a multitude of grains and hops I made a few prized recipes including Verkaufen pronounced (fer-ko-fin) which I named my German Alt Beer. I live in Jericho with my wife, Carole. We have three grown children and five grandchildren. My hobbies include brewing, playing drums, and summers at Lake Eden with myfamily. I am the president of Maheux Heating and Refrigeration”

~ Casey Leahy ~

Bravo to Finalist Casey Leahy !
Casey who is 28 from Chester, he blew the Judges away with his Baltic Porter

“Beer has been a passion of mine for some time. I began homebrewing a decade ago and don’t intend to stop. I was introduced to brewing and appreciation for great beer by my father. He was an avid homebrewer and taught me how to brew when I was in college. At the same time he taught me to revere beer as a cultural element. Craft beer became something I not only enjoyed but could participate in. I started brewing with my father’s old brewing equipment and with some of his old recipes. I quickly fell in love with the creative control and freedom that brewing gave me and was hooked.
Being ambitious and bold I quickly jumped to all grain brewing and began upgrading my equipment. The more I brewed the more I enjoyed the process and the results.
I am continually learning and expanding my knowledge of brewing. I love the great expansion of the craft beer industry and am thrilled to be involved in it. Beer is a great artistic outlet for me and I enjoy sharing it with others. Great beer has been a great joy for me and I am excited to be given the opportunity to share my beer with a broad audience, I hope you love it as much as I do!”

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Stay tuned to cast your vote and weigh in on the overall winner when you see their beer in the next couple of months on tap in bars, restaurants, and growler bars!

Growler Bar Location:

Beverage Warehouse

On Tap:

14th Star Brewery
Mule Bar
Doc Ponds
Three Penny Taproom
Farmhouse Tap & Grill
Prohibition Pig
Worthy Burger
Worthy Kitchen
The Reservoir
The Bench

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Lawson’s Delivery 26-Feb-2016

February 26, 2016 Jason | Kraken

Lawson’s is here!

(no special bottles this week)

Sip of Sunshine IPA Cans
2 packs per person | $13.79/4pk

Super Session Cans
$21.99/12pk | $10.99/6pk

Limits are per person of consumption age,
prices do not include VT tax/deposit.

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Meet & Greet Wine Tasting w/ Field Recordings Winemaker Andrew Jones

February 24, 2016 Jason | Kraken

Come to the Beverage Warehouse for an extraordinary treat – meet winemaker Andrew Jones and taste wine with him, discuss natural wine making, and enjoy the crushed-and-fermented-fruit-of-his-labor!

Thursday, February 25th, 4-6p

Free event and open to the public!

About The Producer –

Field Recordings is 35-year old winemaker Andrew Jones’ personal catalog of the people and places he values most. Spending his days as a vine nursery fieldman planning and planting vineyards for farmers all over California, Andrew is sometimes offered small lots of their best fruit on the side. Having stood in just about every vineyard on the Central Coast, he has a keen eye for diamonds in the rough: sites that are unknown or under-appreciated but hold enormous untapped potential. As friendships are made and opportunities are embraced, Andrew produces small quantities of soulful wine from these unusual, quiet vineyards.

The Field Recordings wines are a catalog of single vineyard sites that produces wines with a sense of place and personality. In addition to the single vineyard wines, multi-vineyard blends are put together under the Alloy Wine Works and FICTION labels.

Alloy Wine Works is a collection of varietal wines packaged only in tallboy 500 ml cans. The perfect balance of inventive spirit and rural charm. Each can is pure craft wine, not to be “hip” or “relevant”, but because we want to.

FICTION, the original spin-off label, is a white and red wine produced from multiple vineyards and multiple varieties. Taking what the season gives us and creating a blend made for every occasion. Ready for tonight, tomorrow or this weekend.

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Make The Cut Top 10!

February 23, 2016 Jason | Kraken

Below are the Make The Cut Homebrew Top 50 results in alphabetical order with a ‘Top 10’ indicator – thank you again to everyone and good luck!

Top 10	ID	Last	First
	534	Ackley	Lorcan
	424	Alberico	Steven
	382	Balistreri	Bill
	393	Barratt	Brad
	547	Barriws	Seth
Y	432	Barrows	Seth
	574	Brankman	Matthew
	496	Brese	Daniel
Y	439	Casey	James
	443	Cotter	Madeline
	529	Donovan	Christopher
	451	Duval	Jim
Y	495	Fearn	Todd
	520	Foss	Kevin
Y	400	Gregg	Josh
	517	Groff	Matt
	460	Guertin	Nick
	551	Halley	John
	514	Hill	Eric
	503	Holland	Michael
Y	455	Landerman	Bryan
Y	391	Lanning	Spencer
	431	Largent	Nicholas
Y	491	Leahy	Casey
	421	Leamy	Ryan
	509	Lemire	Eric
Y	473	Maheux	Roland
	468	Mailhiot	Jared
	474	McClallen	Matthew
	435	Merrill	Steven
	423	Mulhall	Brian
	544	Nagle	Joe
	444	Nelson	Steven
	418	Noonan	Joe
	536	Norton	Charles
	493	O’Leary	Tim
Y	450	Ortiz y Pino	Ted
	485	Owens	Guy
	486	Quint	Jeff
	512	Racette	Shane
	375	Ritchie	Aaron
	537	Sears	Andrew
Y	370	Snelling	Matt
	589	Spence	Matt
	510	Stoner	Jeff
	558	Stoner	Jeff
	388	Stuffle	Jason
	479	Swisher	Brian
	488	Vacarr	Evan
	470	Wilson	Hal

(click here to view full results from round one)

There is no #11 to #50 ranking at this time nor will there be. The judges painstakingly picked the top ten beers out all 50, then kicked beers out one at a time during deliberation. There is no way to translate their careful consideration into a #11 to #50 ranking.

There will be a #3 to #10 order and the top 2 outside of that ranking will be brewed and go head to head for you to weigh in!

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Gluten Free Beer

February 22, 2016 Jason | Kraken

Gluten Free Beer –

We have more beer than anyone in Vermont which translates into more gluten free beer than anyone else as well!

We are committed to literally keeping in stock every single drop of gluten free beer available to us. If there is any special request you have, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

Click here to go to our gluten free beer page and view everything in stock!

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Make The Cut Ranking

February 21, 2016 Jason | Kraken

Yep, it’s 4a, we stayed up all night (sober, too!) and it took us about 9 hours of careful, double triple checked work to process over 1,500 pages of homebrew scores!

We have TONS of data but we promised we’d drop the first round ranking ASAP so here you are… we have to be back at the brewery in 4 hours for round two!

Top 50 Moving On To Round 2!
1.)	26.250	370
2.)	26.219	473
3.)	25.966	486
4.)	25.688	495
5.)	25.313	520
6.)	25.281	496
7.)	25.094	514
8.)	25.000	491
9.)	24.809	574
10.)	24.781	375
11.)	24.781	536
12.)	24.643	534
13.)	24.563	493
14.)	24.536	421
15.)	24.469	455
16.)	24.438	382
17.)	24.143	470
18.)	24.094	551
19.)	24.000	474
20.)	23.969	479
21.)	23.969	529
22.)	23.813	400
23.)	23.714	503
24.)	23.393	558
25.)	23.375	460
26.)	23.313	450
27.)	23.286	431
28.)	23.250	432
29.)	23.250	517
30.)	23.188	544
31.)	23.179	393
32.)	23.094	468
33.)	23.083	423
34.)	23.071	424
35.)	23.071	488
36.)	23.071	512
37.)	23.063	509
38.)	22.964	589
39.)	22.906	435
40.)	22.821	543
41.)	22.813	439
42.)	22.750	451
43.)	22.594	388
44.)	22.500	547
45.)	22.313	485
46.)	22.250	391
47.)	22.188	444
48.)	22.188	537
49.)	22.156	418
50.)	22.083	510
Thank You Homebrewers!!!
51.)	22.042	454
52.)	22.031	453
53.)	22.031	530
54.)	21.964	475
55.)	21.938	467
56.)	21.844	471
57.)	21.750	464
58.)	21.719	577
59.)	21.594	407
60.)	21.583	390
61.)	21.438	433
62.)	21.438	568
63.)	21.344	532
64.)	21.281	585
65.)	21.250	368
66.)	21.250	378
67.)	21.094	478
68.)	21.000	438
69.)	20.906	361
70.)	20.857	490
71.)	20.857	511
72.)	20.813	540
73.)	20.781	555
74.)	20.750	365
75.)	20.750	462
76.)	20.750	549
77.)	20.719	404
78.)	20.679	440
79.)	20.625	550
80.)	20.594	430
81.)	20.406	571
82.)	20.344	516
83.)	20.344	570
84.)	20.313	413
85.)	20.219	372
86.)	20.219	386
87.)	20.216	525
88.)	20.188	507
89.)	20.125	401
90.)	20.094	518
91.)	20.031	539
92.)	20.000	409
93.)	19.917	411
94.)	19.906	373
95.)	19.844	535
96.)	19.813	602
97.)	19.583	592
98.)	19.563	389
99.)	19.500	422
100.)	19.500	513
101.)	19.430	591
102.)	19.429	524
103.)	19.321	394
104.)	19.281	402
105.)	19.219	499
106.)	19.107	566
107.)	19.071	508
108.)	19.063	521
109.)	19.063	531
110.)	19.031	552
111.)	19.000	456
112.)	19.000	599
113.)	18.938	364
114.)	18.906	406
115.)	18.688	601
116.)	18.667	434
117.)	18.625	412
118.)	18.594	522
119.)	18.464	556
120.)	18.250	505
121.)	18.156	561
122.)	18.063	515
123.)	17.969	573
124.)	17.906	420
125.)	17.857	586
126.)	17.750	484
127.)	17.719	449
128.)	17.469	528
129.)	17.438	563
130.)	17.250	527
131.)	17.094	410
132.)	16.969	383
133.)	16.875	482
134.)	16.781	578
135.)	16.438	553
136.)	16.357	448
137.)	16.313	376
138.)	16.250	548
139.)	16.219	463
140.)	16.083	533
141.)	16.071	565
142.)	16.063	395
143.)	16.063	603
144.)	15.969	374
145.)	15.750	442
146.)	15.494	403
147.)	15.469	405
148.)	15.393	399
149.)	15.375	481
150.)	15.357	398
151.)	15.286	497
152.)	15.250	575
153.)	14.875	562
154.)	14.781	564
155.)	14.500	408
156.)	14.417	414
157.)	14.281	452
158.)	14.219	437
159.)	14.219	554
160.)	14.214	569
161.)	13.964	590
162.)	13.958	469
163.)	13.906	480
164.)	13.821	396
165.)	13.500	541
166.)	13.156	576
167.)	12.875	526
168.)	12.667	487
169.)	12.594	538
170.)	12.357	436
171.)	12.250	466
172.)	12.094	425
173.)	12.031	542
174.)	11.875	416
175.)	11.833	523
176.)	11.786	502
177.)	10.500	397
178.)	9.875	381
179.)	9.781	443
180.)	8.844	483
181.)	8.000	387
182.)	7.688	417
183.)	7.094	559

The Make the Cut homebrew competition has produced two finalists that will brew and compete head to head!

~ Roland Maheaux ~

~ Casey Leahy ~

– – – – – – – – – –

Stay tuned to cast your vote and weigh in on the overall winner when you see their beer in the next couple of months on tap in bars, restaurants, and growler bars!

Lawson’s is here!

Sip of Sunshine IPA Cans 2 packs per person | $13.79/4pk

Super Session Cans $21.99/12pk | $10.99/6pk

Thursday, February 25th, 4-6p

Free event and open to the public!

Below are the Make The Cut Homebrew Top 50 results in alphabetical order with a ‘Top 10’ indicator – thank you again to everyone and good luck!

Click here to go to our gluten free beer page and view everything in stock!

Vermont's Largest Craft Beer, Wine, & Liquor Store

Sip of Sunshine IPA Cans
2 packs per person | $13.79/4pk

Super Session Cans
$21.99/12pk | $10.99/6pk