1st Republic Brewing – Essex, VT

So this whole blog is dedicated to telling the stories about our travels to breweries & NASCAR races and we have never posted a blog about a brewery at a race. The New Hampshire Motor Speedway provided us with fun and craft beers. We met the brew-master Casey who told us all about the brewery located about 160 miles from the track. He brought with him a bounty of crafts beers to give away to folks like us who have a passion and appreciation for great beer. Casey was kind enough to give us a couple of four-packs of various beers including Winchester’s Dream Ale, Diverse Parts kolsch, Moocho Mango IPA, Chasing Asteroids DIPA, Dawn’s Early Light blonde ale, Everything But The Thorns blackberry wheat and his namesake Casey’s Winter Beard imperial chocolate raspberry porter. OMG – it took us a couple of days but we drank them all and they were some of the best craft beers we have ever drank. If you ever make it up to norther NH or see it on the shelf at your favorite craft beer store, you MUST try it!