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Vermont Brewers Festival in Burlington
The Vermont Brewers Festival is an annual July craft beer festival held at Waterfront Park in Burlington, Vermont, along the Lake Champlain shoreline. Organized in partnership with the Vermont Brewers Association, the multi-session event brings together dozens of Vermont breweries for guided tastings, food vendors, and live music against a lakefront backdrop.
Vermont built a reputation over recent decades as one of the most concentrated craft brewing states in the country, with a large number of small, independently owned breweries operating relative to the state's modest population, a density that reflects both a strong homebrewing culture and a broader Vermont identity built around small-scale, locally produced goods.