The Alchemist

Microbrewery in Stowe, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 2003

Contact
100 Cottage Club Rd, Stowe, VT, 05672, United States
Description
The Alchemist is a family run brewery specializing in fresh, unfiltered IPA. John and Jen Kimmich originally opened The Alchemist as a 60 seat brew pub in the village of Waterbury in 2003. After eight years of success and growing popularity, they decided to open a small production brewery. Today The Alchemist currently operates two breweries in Vermont and distributes Heady Topper and Focal Banger throughout the state.

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sample at MBCC2024, Copenhagen. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, hops and malts.

Tried on 11 May 2024 at 09:18


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can shared with my familia. It pours cloudy golden - yellow with a medium, fluffy white head. The aroma is super fresh, sticky, sappy, resinous, juicy, bright orange creamsicle, tangerine, mango, pine needles, peach melba and freshly baked fruit pie. The taste is drying upfront, decent hit of bitterness, green, weedy, dank, bong rips, floury bread, lemon - lime, grapefruit, pithy, zesty, slightly soapy, waxy peel, pine needles, tropical fruit vibes, mango, peachy and a nip of booze with a drying finish. Medium+ body and moderate, carbonation. Super bright, green and fruity vibes. Lovely.

Tried from Can on 10 May 2024 at 16:41


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can. Gifted to me by Nice Kitchen Dan. He’s a fucking top man. Hazed gold. Tipped in the lumps accidentally but obvs it’s made no difference. Nose has super syrupy candied orange peel. Sappy resinous pine. Proper marmalade. Taste is super sticky sweet up front with plenty of sappy pithy ripe citrus bitterness. Drinks spot on at the ABV. Bonkers. Lovely.

Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2024 at 20:06


8.5

Tried on 07 Apr 2024 at 15:05


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Can at home from and J and B Craft Drinks, 30th March 24. Pours a hazy, cloudy yellow orange. Aroma is grapefruit, citrus pith, taste is bittersweet, pithy, grapefruit, beautifully made and balanced, malts are integrated and the bitterness is long lived. Delicious

Tried from Can on 30 Mar 2024 at 17:52


9.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Canned, 473 ml, shared with Luka, Max, kajser27 and MiroB. Cloudy golden orange, white head. Resinous, grapefruit, nice lasting bitter finish, crazy drinkable for abv.

Tried from Can on 28 Mar 2024 at 05:46


7

Dark pour. Thick tan foam. Sweet vanilla with coffee flavor. Oak flavor is on the palate. Nice oak finish.

Tried on 21 Mar 2024 at 01:41


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

Can at the brewery, 3/15/24. Moderately-to-heavily hazy, dull brass. Medium-sized, well-retained, white head. Coconut, unripe pineapple and light floral lemongrass. But mostly coconut. Scant malt, clean, no resin or alcohol. Good and malty, honey and biscuit with excellent attenuation. Heavy, heavy coconut, like obnoxiously so. Wow, what a hop. Butter (not Diacetyl), pineapple, bit of fruity citrus and pine. Really, really well-structured beer. Not enamoured with all this coconut spice from the hop but it is what it is.

Tried from Can on 15 Mar 2024 at 20:33


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Gifted from a good friend. Thanks Autumn! Licorice, charred oak nose. Black, viscous, medium brown head. Tar, licorice. Full body, easy carbonation. Rich, unadulterated.

Tried on 08 Mar 2024 at 23:06


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

Batch 9 fresh can drunk 9/21/17. Mosaic version. Thoroughly hazy, bronze-golden. Frothy white head shows moderate retention. Big bursts of juicy nectarine and mango showcase the best aspects of this hop while leaving out the worst, pine, grapefruit rind, heavy resin. Malt behind it is crackery, lightly honey-like, mostly sparse. No alcohol or flaw. Very fresh, green, spicy and aromatic. Malty, dry, juicy and lightly bitter, more yellow, tropical-tinged fruits leading to a leafty, vegetal, fairly lush, juicy finish that shows little/no pine/resin. Soft texture, low but engaging carbonation. No alcohol or flaw. Mosaic isn't often done well, and it's a shame because it's wonderful when it is.

Tried from Can on 16 Feb 2024 at 18:31