"If you're looking to visit some of the best breweries in the country - or as many of them as possible in one trip - look no further than Vermont. According to the Brewers Association, the primary trade group for the American craft brewing industry, Vermont is the state with the most breweries per capita, clocking in at 15.4 breweries per 100,000 legal drinking-age adults."
"With such an embarrassment of brewery riches, the best Vermont craft beers represent a wealth of variety. Think stouts, pilsners, wild ales, and traditional German altbiers. But there's a particular style Vermont is especially known for: IPA. Vermont breweries helped shape what today's IPA is, and plenty of the nation's best examples continue to pour forth from brewhouses across the Green Mountain State, making it arguably one of the top destinations for any IPA enthusiast."
"To fully know the IPA, one must fully know the Heady Topper IPA from Vermont's The Alchemist. From West Coast to black to red to sour to cold, there are many different IPA substyles. But one of the best known and most widely consumed is the New England IPA, which all started with Heady Topper."
Vermont leads the United States in breweries per capita, registering 15.4 breweries per 100,000 legal drinking-age adults. The state hosts both longstanding and newer breweries, including The Alchemist, Lawson's Finest Liquids, Foam Brewers, von Trapp, Zero Gravity, Long Trail, and Fiddlehead. Vermont craft beer encompasses stouts, pilsners, wild ales, and traditional German altbiers, but the state is particularly renowned for IPA styles. Vermont breweries helped shape modern IPA characteristics. Heady Topper from The Alchemist pioneered an unfiltered, hop-forward IPA approach, and the New England IPA emerged from that lineage to become widely consumed.
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