Viscaya Wagner art element for Foam Brewers For You Pale Ale.

Introducing “For You,” a new Pale Ale from Foam Brewers that utilizes 100% local ingredients.

Honoring Our Community by Brewing For You:

Here in Vermont, there isn’t just one thing that makes our community special. It’s the unique combination of passion, vision, collaboration, and opportunity that result in an amazing culture centered around our shared values. Our local community is a camradery, consisting of individuals coming together and working towards common objectives. Eager to be stewards of our community, Foam Brewers has long supported our local farms, consciously and intentionally sourcing locally grown and processed ingredients for use in our brewing process.

It’s something we’ve always done here at Foam, not as a marketing effort, but simply because it’s in our nature. Since the establishment of our Vermont Brewery, each of our uniquely crafted beers have been mindfully brewed using local ingredients derived from our neighboring farms whenever possible. Through this symbiotic relationship, our connection to local agriculture has grown beyond simple monetary support and into supporting a movement focused on developing long term goals and systems around consistently sourcing high quality grain and hops, grown right here.

With that said, we’re excited to announce the launch of For You, a Pale Ale showcasing 100% locally sourced grains and hops. Every ingredient in this beer has been sourced within a 100-mile radius from where we brew and serve it, making For You a particularly exciting reflection of the collaborative efforts amongst the individuals and organizations within our region. We consider the suppliers of ingredients within this release some of our closest partners with whom we take great pride in working with.

Photograph by Montgomery Sheridan of For You Pale Ale 4pack.

For You cans at VT Malthouse - Photographer: Montgomery Sheridan

For You - A Juicy, Truly Vermont, Pale Ale:

When it comes to beer, it’s never about just one ingredient, but rather a complex blend of water, hops, grains and yeast, interwoven to bring to you a finished product that speaks for itself. We are lucky to have some incredible suppliers here in Vermont, allowing us to produce world class beer from a small footprint. With For You, we’ve curated a blend of ingredients from some of the farms and suppliers that we’ve worked with most consistently over the years to create an approachable, 5.2% pale ale. On the nose, you will find notes of fresh hop oil and citrus forward flavors of Orangina and pomelo on the palate. On the finish, we perceive a variety of stone fruit and a slight dankness. Subtle honeydew melon persist throughout the entire drinking experience, a characteristic we find specific to locally grown hops, our Vermont terroir.

Brewed Exclusively with Local Ingredients:

For You is brewed with a fusion of Pilsen malt, flaked wheat, flaked maize, a favorite classic “C” hop from Whitefield Hop Yard, and a proprietary hop blend designed specifically for Foam with Champlain Valley Hops.

Local Beer Deserves Local Art

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- Meet Viscaya Wagner

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Of course, if you know Foam, you know we also honor and celebrate creativity and individuality through art. Integrating art forms through various avenues in our everyday lives invigorates inspiration and creates a sense of connection to the local community. As part of our vision to embody authenticity while upholding Vermont’s creative economy, each one of Foam’s beers feature a local artist and their work. With For You, we’ve teamed up with longtime friend and local artist Viscaya Wagner for her first ever Foam can.

Born and raised in Vermont, Viscaya comes from a family of artists, designers, and creatives. Manifesting the bequeathed, generational passion, she pursued a BFA in Studio Art with a focus on Graphic Design at the University of Vermont. Following her studies, she spent time in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Brooklyn, New York building on her talent by working as a curator and designer for various galleries including WeWork. Feeling the pull back to Vermont, Viscaya now lives in Burlington where she continues to create objects, artwork and spaces that prompt people to consider our own inhabitation of the world. Viscaya’s work ranges from bespoke furniture, functional objects, and spatial design, to custom artwork, illustration, and graphic design. Through her work, she hopes to bring depth, form, and humanity to our surroundings and incorporate art forms into our day-to-day spaces and rituals. As an artist, she hopes that behind each of her pieces, a genuine sentiment for joy, comfort, inspiration and motivation to participate in the world in a meaningful way transpires naturally.

The opportunity to showcase Viscaya's work on this can was an amazing honor, as her approach to art resonates powerfully with Foam's values. Approaching each unique can in this production as a symbol of the fluctuation in seasons, Viscaya utilized varying color waves while mindfully maintaining a level of cohesiveness. To assimilate the feel of the different seasons in Vermont, she focused on individual shapes, forms and characters that are emblematic of constant change. Just as every shift in season consists of differing behaviors, cycles, and experiences, For You will evolve and change with the ingredients and land that produces them. The hope remains that through each can, a distinct connection is made between our highly esteemed and local collaborators.

A New Beer for an Old Philosophy

As part of our ongoing commitment to our community, Foam Brewers stands firmly behind honoring our local growers, artists, and creators. Our passion for creating good beer through the use of sustainable, locally grown ingredients speaks not only to our approach to beer making, but to our brand ethos as well. What makes Vermont such a vibrant and special place is the integration between business and community, bringing people together to support the ongoing progression of our culture.

We like to think of For You as one of our greatest accomplishments yet. While we think you’ll love the beer itself, what we’re most proud about is what it represents: a culmination of past and future promises towards great, local beer. While it wouldn’t have been possible when we opened in 2016, the beer-centric agriculture scene has continued to grow here in Vermont, and we like to think maybe we played a small part in making that happen.

If the story behind this beer resonates with you, consider buying a 4-pack to go, or a market tote bag featuring the artwork of Viscaya Wagner.

Introducing “For You,” a new Pale Ale from Foam Brewers that utilizes 100% local ingredients.

Honoring Our Community by Brewing For You:

For You - A Juicy, Truly Vermont, Pale Ale:

Brewed Exclusively with Local Ingredients:

VT Malthouse

NEK Grains

Nitty Gritty Grain

Champlain Valley Hops

Whitefield Hops‍

Local Beer Deserves Local Art

- Meet Viscaya Wagner

A New Beer for an Old Philosophy

If the story behind this beer resonates with you, consider buying a 4-pack to go, or a market tote bag featuring the artwork of Viscaya Wagner.