Burlington, VT and the Magic Hat Brewery

Although we were sad to leave the Covilles, we were very excited about our next stops. We went to Burlington, VT to check out the town. It seems to be a really cool, artsy town. We toured the Magic Hat Brewery, widely known for the Circus Boy and #9 brews. The brewery was awesome. It has a sort of Halloween/Mardi Gras theme to it with dim lighting, masks, and skeletons everywhere. We watched a short video made by Alan, the founder, about the downfall of microbreweries after prohibition and the industrial revolution. The beer, like bread and other foods, became a “pale, tasteless resemblance” of what beer should be. In the last twenty years, microbrews have been resurrected with the growing public taste for the real stuff. After, a few tastes at the bar and touring the gift shop, we headed to St. Albans, Vt for biodiesel, and then to Montreal!