Lawson's Finest Liquids

Microbrewery in Waitsfield, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Lawson's Finest Liquids

Established in 2008

Contact
155 Carroll Rd, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Description
Lawson’s Finest Liquids produces beer of the highest quality with outstanding freshness. We emulate the best of widely appreciated styles of beer, featuring world class IPAs and unique maple brews, while quenching the thirst of beer lovers from near and far.

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7.3/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Murky gold with a large fluffy head that lingered and left great lacing. Tangy, sweetish and lightly boozy with strong tropical fruit. Long finish. Moderately full bodied
Tried from Draft at Tapped Brick Oven & Pour House on 17 May 2026 at 21:17

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Pours dark gold into a snifter. White head with medium retention recedes to mottle surface. Caramel and pine aromas. Thick with sweet caramel and pine front to back. Lasting warm pine finish.
Tried on 16 May 2026 at 23:22

5.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Dark gold with a large foamy head that lingered and left good lacing. Grainy with cracker, perfume and faint fruity hops. Medium finish and body.
Tried from Draft at Hugo’s Taproom on 15 May 2026 at 22:54

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
On tap at river road tavern
Mostly clear light gold color with a descent sized bubbly white head that persists. Crackery bready maltiness with a pleasant spicy peppery floral hoppiness.
Tried from Draft on 03 May 2026 at 19:33

7/10
Tried on 26 Apr 2026 at 23:58

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pint can. pours a clear gold with a smallish white head that soon fades into a fine scum. The aroma is mildly spicy with hops, corn and straw. The taste, like the aroma, is corn, hay, and mild noble hops. The palate seemed a bit thin and the carbonation was lively. Finished very short and dry. Overall: I really did not expect much, and so I was not disappointed.
Tried from Can on 11 Apr 2026 at 18:39

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
4 oz draft. Aroma of mild cracker malt, soft yeast. Flavor Shows a good malt background with a light body. Finish is crisp with a mild hop balance. Standard macro lager. The price of a pint is not bad. Have no idea what a four pack would cost. Not sure how much this makes sense. Financially speaking
Tried from Draft on 11 Apr 2026 at 01:36

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
19.2 Fl. Oz. can purchased on my 2026 Vermont Easter trip. Clean, golden with a warm off-white frothy head, good retention and creamyish lacing streaks. Big citrus aromas with oranges, some tropical-stone fruit notes and a tad herbaceous hoppiness. Again, full-on oranges in the taste, with a nice balanced between the juice and zest. A wet mouthfeel with a touch of hop bitterness, going into some soft dryness. The alcohol is fairly well-hidden. Not hazy, full-juicy like NEIPA, not overly grassy like West Coast IPAs, but a nice in between that is quite easy to drink for 9.5% ABV.
Tried from Can on 05 Apr 2026 at 23:26

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Lawson's mostly top shelf for IPAs with me. This stovepipe can was acquired from Half Time some months ago, time to have a sampling. A basic beer glass is in place and I pour. The arrival is a clear orange-amber body completed by a full head of off-white foam. The smell is obvious at opening of the can, I get sweet tropical, citrus and a promise of hops. The taste is, well, it is good, strikes me as a hybrid IPA, a little of this, a bit of that. There is orange juice, grapefruit, plenty of hops and an accompanying bitterness, malt, crackers, caramel and a touch of mangoes. I will say IPAs are a distance from my favorite styles but this is one fine IPA. WC or NE style, you take your choice.
Tried from Can on 01 Apr 2026 at 00:51

7.6/10
Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2026 at 22:33