Fiddlehead Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Shelburne,
Vermont,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Fiddlehead Brewing Company
Established in 2011
When we first opened in 2011, we did so with a completely manual 15 barrel system and just 30 barrels of capacity. Within the first month Fiddlehead IPA, the flagship ale, was on tap with at over 50 bars and restaurants in Vermont.
With the immediate success, we quickly outgrew the 3,000 sq foot space that was split between retail and production. After the last fermenter was added in 2015, we knew we needed a bigger boat.
In January of 2017, our brand new 10,000 sq foot brewery opened for production just behind the tasting room. The added space meant room for more fermenters as well as some much needed upgrades like a laboratory, grain silo, office space, and our own canning line. This expansion has allowed us to increase distribution of kegs and cans within our home state, branch into New York and Massachusetts, and renovate our tasting room (coming soon!).
While we do not currently offer tours of our production facility, our knowledgeable tasting room staff is always happy to chat about our beers and the brewing process. Our beer can be found on draft or in cans at over 650 Vermont establishments as well as an increasing number of locations around Massachusetts and New York State.
The tasting room remains at the original Shelburne Rd. location, as do countless memories of where it all began.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
A light haze from the tiny, transparent particles floating around. The head is white, frothy with decent stay, and leaving small spots of soapy lacing. Grassy hop aromas with a straw malt base and a touch of caramel, citrus notes. The taste shows a nice balance of grassiness with a blend of citrusy hops, over the maltiness. Some nice mild bitterness and dryness occurs in the end. An easy-drinking Double IPA with nicely balanced grassy hops and a tad citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours hazy light gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Mango and passion fruit aromas. Thick with hot caramel and mango front to back. Medium length dusty tropical fruit skin and hot bitter apple finish.
jgb9348 (11997) reviewed Second Fiddle from Fiddlehead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Slightly hazy deep copper and light bronze coloured body with a nice two to three centimetre tall off-white head that caps the beer nicely for a long time and covers up the zillions of small bubbles rising from the bottom and sides. Aroma of grassy, herbal, floral hop notes and showing a dash of lemon and grapefruit zest, but the crispness is very strong in the nose. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and herbal hops show at first with a lot of bitterness from the alpha acids of the hops, with a light touch of sweetness and fruit notes and a touch of alcohol at the end. Aftertaste is very crisp, with the grassy and herbal notes dominate along with a nice apricot, lemony and grapefruity bite and enjoyable soft sweetness with a supportive, but pretty light malt backbone that's very grassy, too. Overall, a nice, dry-ish, West Coasty-ish IPA that doesn't quite reach Imperial Status at all, but is nice throughout, especially with the dry, grassy and herbal hops showing strong with a very mild sweetness just enough malts to support the bitter hops. Good to sample, especially VERY Fresh, and while I usually can't stand BIG cans like this, it just about works as an 8,2 per center, still strong, but I think I can get it down...once! I sampled this 19,2 ounce tall can, purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 26-November-2022, canned on 28-September-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 23-January-2023.
CoccoBill (10277) ticked Second Fiddle from Fiddlehead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Hoppy and fruity, citrus, tropical fruit and florals. Fairly light, a bit bitter, smooth. Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tapster Philly: pours light yellow with white head. Aroma is coriander, yeast, citrus and wheat. Taste is sweet and spicy. Solid.
Maakun (16718) reviewed Mastermind from Fiddlehead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can shared in the train thanks to Maurice. No glass. Soft pine, sweet malts, oats, citrus zest, dried stone fruits, orange, caramel. Solid medium sweet and bitter. Oily over medium bodied. Not really a NEIPA. Solid stuff.
Reubs (35701) reviewed Mastermind from Fiddlehead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can sourced from J&B Craft Drinks and drunk at home (08/11/2023) - New 🇺🇸 VT brewery ✅ pineapple prominence on the nose upon open and taste follows, sweet shop pineapple cubes, some grapefruit, satsuma and lemony citrus coming in, nice juiciness, sweet malty backbone, solid hoppy finish. Great, nice first impression.
tfontana (7512) reviewed Mastermind from Fiddlehead Brewing Company 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can (8/3/23) pour from The Beer Store, Salem. A cloudy orange-yellow with nice sparkle, finger-plus width head with good retention and nice lacing. Aroma is orange marmalade, citrus, stone fruit, grass. Taste is initial nonspecific fruit followed by later citrus, cereal. A bit to the lighter, thinner side for style and ABV, frothy, smooth texture, soft carbonation and dry finish with light bitterness. Aroma bests taste and on the thin side.