Hiking Madonna Mountain

Madonna is a double IPA that we’ve been brewing in small batches for the past few summers and this year we knew it was time to put this beauty into a can. The crew decided that the most appropriate place to crack open the very first cans was atop the beer’s namesake—Madonna Mountain, at the peak of Smuggler’s Notch Ski Resort.

Madonna Peak sits on the Long Trail—a 272-mile trail running over the spine of the Green Mountains from Massachusetts to Canada—and offers nearly 360 degree views of Mount Mansfield, Sterling Pond, and even Mount Washington in New Hampshire on a clear day. Our Sunday afternoon trek brought us up to Sterling Pond and then along the ridgeline to the summit of Madonna Mountain where we laid back and enjoyed some of the best views that the Green State has to offer.