I'm going to switch this to include brewpubs and breweries and add the Prohibition Pig in Waterbury, VT.

This area is home to many things, such as the Ben & Jerry's Factory, Stowe Mountain Resort (if you like icecream and great skiing) and of course, The Cannery, which is where the Alchemist makes the famed and hard to obtain hoppy Heady Topper IPA. This canned sensation is only available in select regions and most stores have very limited quantities. Even the tiny brewery itself has limits on how many of the nearly $4 a can beers you can purchase.

And then, 45 mins north through windy dirt roads of rural VT, one can discover Hill Farmstead, which, according to http://www.ratebeer.com/ and http://beeradvocate.com/, has been named one of the best breweries in the world.

ProPig has em all - including other local brews such as Lawsons and Maine's Alligash, another New England favorite. There are other area pubs which I recommend but I'll list em some other time or something.

In fact I am attending the FTU Do in DC on 26-28 April (this coming weekend) and I plan to put 3-4 4packs of Heady Topper in my luggage. I would LOVE to find someone from the west coast who is attending that event and can bring me an equal amount of Pliny The Elder. PM me if interested cuz just like with the VT beers being not available in the West, I cant get that one in the East.

MM