Bad blogger!

OK, you already know the bad news: I'm a bad blogger these days. A blog is only relevant if you update it regulary! Not to mention the 'bound-fo-fail' curse of a New Year's Resolution (to blog more often....)

Photo credit: (c) Megan Shultz

The good news is I've been a busy brewer, which means more people enjoying more Lawson's Finest ales than ever before! Plus a few very special projects are now in the works that have been taking up a great deal of my time.


So here's a glimpse of few exiting things at Lawson's Finest. I do indeed hope to get more complete details here in the near future.

ON DECK: Summer!

Festival Season is here. We poured the Brattleboro Brewers Festival and upcoming are The Vermont Brewer's Festival (wait till you see the line of LFL brews!) on July 16-17, The VT Cheesemakers Festival at Shelburne Farms (with bottle sales) on July 25, and Ommegang's "Belgium Comes to Cooperstown" festival on July 30-31.

Our barrel-aging project is underway. Holy oaked goodness brewman! More details to follow.

Our newest collaboration with Destiny at Zero Gravity Brewing of Flatbread Btown fame is "Local Potion," a localvore style Vermont maple ale, brewed with barley grown in Maine, 100% VT hops, syrup from Huntington, and a bit of wisdom from Paul Sayler. On top of that, we house-smoked some of the malted barely with Root Beer man and BBQ master Dave Rooke to lend a hint of smokiness to this beer. I'll have a cask "dry-tipped" with spruce sprigs at the VBFest (session 2) called Noonan's Tribute. Also, look for it on tap and cask at Flatbread Burlington Hearth starting the week of the festival.

A few other new beers are on the way for summer including an easy drinking Session in the Rye saison (4.5%) , a juicy hop forward pale ale called Liquid Sunshine, and the return of Karen's Kolsh redux for summer.

So many good beers to brew and to try. Cheers to you all and thanks for coming back to check us out!
Sean