Local fans of Heady Topper, the infinitesimally popular double IPA by Vermont’s Alchemist Brewery were making three hour-long cannonball run drives to the Green Mountain state to stock up long before BeerAdvocate.com branded it the best beer in the world.
Chances are it won’t be long until beer fans here start embracing another New England craft brewery, Maine’s Bissell Brothers, in a similar fashion. By taking a (much shorter) drive to Portland this weekend, hop heads can secure cans of the brewery’s first beer, an aromatic India pale ale known as The Substance. More