It has 52 employees who enjoy great benefits. The Alchemist has its own distribution company with three refrigerated trucks. The company has two bottling plants: One, in Waterbury, is devoted to Heady Topper the second is a spacious, light-filled brewery in Stowe, which also has a visitor’s center, a store, a tasting bar and a lawn for parties. Heady Topper is one of several popular brews made by The Alchemist, a $26 million-a-year operation founded, privately owned and run by brewer John Kimmich, 47, and his wife, businesswoman Jennifer (Jen) Kimmich, 46, who serves as the company's CEO. There’s beer, and then there’s Vermont beer
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It's the rarity plus the taste that makes Heady Topper a unicorn.Īlchemist, Hill Farmstead earn national recognition Yes, it's a fresh, fizzy, hoppy, citrus-y, lovely beer, but it's coveted status - its unicorn status -comes partly from the fact that it's made in limited quantities and sold - also in limited quantities - only within a 25-mile radius of where it's produced. Men's Journal calls Heady Topper, “America's most coveted beer.” names it one of the 100 best beers in the world. (It has a sister IPA named Focal Banger that tastes like the whole marching band went through your mouth. Perhaps the best-known is Vermont's own The Alchemist, which makes Heady Topper, an unfiltered double India pale ale (IPA) with an 8 percent alcoholic kick and enough hops to make the inside of your mouth feel like someone's been playing a bass drum back there. Less well known are unicorn breweries - they make the unicorn beers.
Photos by Randolph T Holhutīy Joyce Marcel ( This article first appeared in the July issue of Vermont Business Magazine) There are beers.
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