After a long ski on crusty snow - for some of us there was as much falling as skiing - we headed to Brattleboro and McNeill's brewery and bar. We had been forewarned that we were in for something of a local experience, but none of us guessed quite what an experience.
McNeill's is a true bar: it hasn't been prettied up, with just plain tables and chairs, and rough wooden floors, while it was a little lacking in the heat department (we were all wearing our coats!). While we expected a quiet Saturday afternoon crowd, since the place had just opened for the day, it turned out that they were hosting part of the Northern Roots music festival, so there was a session already in progress when we arrived.
We got our beers and settled down to listen, though the music ended pretty quickly, and a solo performer took over; as he was getting ready to take the "stage", I realized that I knew who he was (he's a professor at BU), so we listened to him sing and recite for a while and I introduced myself afterwards.
McNeill's brew their own beers, and we sampled virtually everything on offer, including two cask offerings. There were three different IPAs available - one on cask, another brewed with the roots festival in mind - and several more unusual styles, like an unfiltered Kölsch, with a general high quality of beer on offer.
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