Four Quarters Brewing, founded in March 2014, is a 10 barrel brewery located in Winooski VT specializing in sours, stouts, and hoppy beers.
Four Quarters embodies the cycle of life that each ingredient makes on its way to your glass. A seed is carefully planted and nurtured, growing with the energy of the sun, Earth, wind, and rain. Its fruits are harvested, later the seeds, and the cycle of life starts again. Our logo, the moon phases, encapsulates this cycle, present in every living thing. When we create, we are celebrating the Earth and everything that grows within.
It is our hope, that by thoughtfully crafting each and every beer with this cycle in mind, we can pass to our drinker, not just a glass of delicious brew, but our passion, our love, and our thankfulness, for all things in our natural world. If you’re ever in Vermont, we’d love to have you come visit our taproom.
We also distribute our beer throughout Vermont, Maine, and eastern Massachusetts.
Brewery draught, 7/5/24. Pink, clear, small head. The adjuncts with the lactic acidity gives corn. In the mouth there's bitter lemongrass. Hint of blueberry skin. Decent maltiness, attenuated well. Not punchy. But that corniness is weird.
Brewery draught, 7/5/24. Heavily hazy, bronze-peach. Small, off-white head to ring. Bit of burnt rubber, lime and dragon fruit. Biscuity, crackery malts. Clean, not too aromatic, though. Pine, lime ,heavy pink guava lingering. Not overly acidic. Excellent maltiness and attenuation. Juice, white wine, tangy tropical fruit.
Brewery draught, 7/5/24. Lightly cloudy golden-brass. Small, white ring of head. Clovey, lightly bubble gum tinged. Crusty wheat. Clean, but very clovey. Good wheat softness/slickness. Clove and banana with nuttiness and banana. Quite balanced in the mouth. Malty and wheaty but dry and acidic balancing.
Brewery draught, 7/5/24. Clear, bright brass-golden. Small, white head, steadily to ring. Strawberry crème, strawberry-tinge hops, light citrus and vanilla. Clean. Not too lactosey. Light lactose up front, leading to juicy and lightly acidic strawberry. Creamy, lightly sweet, but drying out. Juicy, good bitterness. Could be a bit happier but barbe rouge aren't really an intense hop.
Brewery side pull, 7/5/24. Bronze-brass, clear. Small, white head, moderate retention. Dainty, honey-like malt and mild herb. Clean with light wax and mineral on the finish. Malty, quite a bit so with sweet honey, cake and dough. Hops nor yeast clear the rather syrupy, sweet, under attenuated character. Good flavors, not over-hopped, some mineral but yeah...gotta have a crisp, snappy finish. This has a sweet, doughy one.