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IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY

IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY, Stowe - Menu, Prices & Restaurant Reviews -  Tripadvisor

STOWE, VERMONT

Consuming an entire red clapboarded Colonial-styled Victorian grange, Stowe-based IDLETYME BREWING COMPANY maintains an exquisite downhome appeal from its sylvan wood-furnished pub room to its luxurious Old World dining sections. A large paver deck with metal furnishings sits alongside several ash trees.

Though the historic Shed Restaurant & Brewery closed in 2011, Idletyme began renovations a year after and quickly picked up the slack.  A founding brewer of New Hampshire’s Moat Mountain, Will Gilson has been Idletyme’s guiding light ‘concocting brews of all variety since 1995.’

While vacationing in Vermont, November ’22, discovered seven available brews – including two Bavarian pilsners, a Munich-styled lager, two pale ales, an IPA and porter. There were also two sours I missed out on, wild yeast cultured blueberry- Sour Blue and tart Lemondrop-hopped Sourtyme.

‘Mocktails,’ wines, ciders and mixed drinks were also available as were sandwiches, burgers and salads.

Dry Bohemia Pilsner lent wheat-chaffed barnyard acridity and rustic herbal spicing to fleeting powdered fruiting in light-bodied setting.

Musky raw graining and leathery hay dryness tempered the spritzy lemony hop of Munich Pilsner, a straightforward moderation.

Crisp helles lager, Helles Brook, brought sweet honeyed cereal graining to grassy Noble hop herbage, Seltzer-like lemon spritz and wispy sulfuric acidity.

A traditional American-styled pale ale, Pink n’ Pale, let zesty pink grapefruit juicing infiltrate piney hop briskness and a pink peppercorn prickle as ancillary pineapple and guava tropicalia glanced its spicily citric thrust.

Vibrant dry-hopped pale ale, Zog’s, splashed lemony grapefruit zest against pungent cannabis hop dankness and retained a mildly creamed vanilla froth.

Just as creamy on the surface, Imperial IPA, Ideltyme, worked zestful orange-peeled grapefruit bittering and spiced pineapple-peach tanginess into sugary pale malting (leaving vegetal cucumber crisping).

On the dark side, vanilla bean-embittered black chocolate malting, dark-roast hops and charred nuttiness saddled Vanilla Porter, a soft-tongued (nitrogenated?) delight.

THE SHED RESTAURANT & BREWERY

STOWE, VERMONT

In a Moroccan red barn-like lodge along the mountaintop of ski-bound haven Stowe, rustic green-walled hillside depot, THE SHED RESTAURANT & BREWERY, became a brewpub in 1994.

Visited November ’06, its right side bar area served brewer Jim Conroy’s swell tapped beer samplers (in old wooden ski trays) as well as frozen daiquiris, West Indian rum drinks, and sandwiches-burgers-appetizers. Exquisite left side Gardenroom Greenhouse dining area and huge back patio satisfied quieter patrons.

Quaffed dry white-breaded, maize-husked, spice-tingled, grapefruit-soured West Branch Golden Canadian Ale, green apple-tart, date-fig-soured, candi-sugared Belgian Wheat, woody Simcoe-Centennial hop-embittered, grapefruit-apricot-dried National IPA, and bitterer alcohol-doused, orange pith-dried, peach-pear-grapefruit-tinged Spawn Double IPA.

The Shed’s mainstay, Mountain Ale, brought fig-sugared prune-dried bruised orange prowess to morning dewed grape-tobacco moisture and whiskey-soured fruitcake finish.

Bought in growler, Scottish Porter had oily, coffee bean-embittered, chocolate-cappuccino-creamed, sour fig-laden propensity.

On a snowy afternoon, January ’09, fought icy roads to do revisit. Had tuna fish salad with peppery gin-soaked banana-bruised orange-sugared cotton-candied Tripple, a true fave.

Quaffed nitro-soft, mocha-fronted, ice coffee-backed, hazelnut-walnut-tinged Strongman Porter thereafter.

Dessert was dry burgundy-like Shady Monk Quadrupel, boasting stewed prune, raisin, and fig souring and Belgian-spirited dank basement mustiness.

Phone number: 802 253 4364