9/23/2011







We got up to a sunny morning and drove around on the island we are on and stopped at a couple of antique stores. It started to cloud up after we had lunch so we drove into Burlington and went to Magic Hat Brewing. We had tasters of eight of their beers on tap and got a couple of t-shirts. We then drove to Switchback Brewing. They didn’t have tours today but we got one anyway. Yesterday we met a lady who works there when we were at Zero Gravity Brewpub. She told us to come today and she would show us around. We sampled two of their beers and Jim got a t-shirt.
On the way to the breweries we passed two more bridges. The Shelburne covered bridge was built in 1845 and is a two lane bridge. The Spade Farm covered bridge was built in 1824 and is the second oldest covered bridge in Vermont. We went to two more breweries that we had to drive about 45 minutes to reach. We drove through some really pretty countryside. We went to Otter Creek/Wolaver Brewing in Middlebury and to Bob Cat Café and Brewing in Bristol. It was getting late and rather than cook dinner we stopped at the VFW Hall in Winooski -- they were having a hamburger and hot dog cookout. We ate there and then returned to the Casita. It started to sprinkle a little and is supposed to be rainy for the next several days.

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