Fiddlehead Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Shelburne, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Fiddlehead Brewing Company

Established in 2011

Contact
6305 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne, VT, 05482, United States
Description
Fiddlehead Brewing Company is located just outside of Burlington, VT in the scenic town of Shelburne. Our owner and Brewmaster Matt “Matty-O” Cohen opened the doors on New Year’s Eve of 2011 and since then we have gained worldwide acclaim with our lineup of approachable, multidimensional beers.
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.

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Tried on 28 May 2022 at 18:16


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Canned 5/19/22 drunk 5/26/22. Almost turbid, lemon-maize. Small, white head steadily fades to ring. Lemon, juicy tangerine, smartees, sour patch kids, lovely white wine and light passion fruit with unobtrusive, crackery malts, clean yeast and no alcohol, flaw or resin. Very malty, a bit sharp/boozey at points with strong honey-like malts and lingering alcohol and hop acidity. Tangerine, melon, heavy honey again and lingering spice and very light white wine. Kinda heavy-handed with the malt and booze here, crowding out some of the more interesting, delicate hop notes. Still pretty nice, though, and it is only 7 days old.

Tried from Can on 27 May 2022 at 00:57


8

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Tried from Draft on 19 May 2022 at 18:29


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

16 ounce can. Medium gold pour. Tight frothy white head. Nice lacing. Earth, bready malt aroma. Herbal hops. Bright citrus hop flavor upfront. Notes of lemon, lime and pine. Some bitter greens and herbal notes on backend. Quite bitter, yet complex.

Tried from Can on 06 Mar 2022 at 05:11



7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught at Covenhoven: pours gold with white head. Big noble hops and bready notes. Taste is bready, lightly bitter, floral. Solid.

Tried on 28 Dec 2021 at 22:02


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Aroma of hop oils, sweet papaya, guava, apple. Taste has mild resin, some pine, orange and other citrus. Palate has smooth hop oils, tropical fruit notes, more orange. Good.

Tried on 29 Nov 2021 at 05:30


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at Tip Taproom, 11/22/21. Clear, darker copper with a small, flimsy, white head. Grapefruit, pine and floral notes mostly obscure the specialty malts in the nose. It's soft and fruity with no alcohol noted. A bit more acidic than expected. Very, very light on the brown ale elements; mostly just a bitter DIPA. There is some light brown sugar, hints of roast and vanilla but it's still mostly a heavily hopped pale ale in my book.

Tried from Draft on 22 Nov 2021 at 21:51


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

16 oz mug draft at the Cityside Tavern in Brighton, Massachusetts. The pour is a hazed light yellow with a foamy one inch white head. The aroma is bright tropical fruit, mostly pineapple. The taste is bright pineapple and mango fruit with a bit of citrus bitter brightness, oat and some cereal malt. The palate is light bodied with an unfiltered mouthfeel and lower carbonation and the clean fruit, slightly bitter finish. Solid.

Tried from Draft on 10 Oct 2021 at 19:49


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Tried on 30 Sep 2021 at 00:04