Northwinds Brewpub

The Big Loop lager braised into the greens under a chili-crusted ribeye at Northwinds Brewpub is the same one pouring at the bar. Foggy Shores, the kitchen's New England IPA, goes into the cream sauce on the summer sausage ravioli; the Hacky Sack mimosa sour is reduced into a mango gel for the citrus sesame tuna bowl. This is a working brewery in Blue Mountain Village that cooks with its own tap list, so the menu reads as one idea rather than two — a brewhouse and a kitchen sharing a single pantry. The Jozo Weider Boulevard address puts it in the middle of the resort village, where it takes ski-day crowds, patio weekends, and takeout orders in stride.

The tap list is deep and current. A flight is four five-ounce pours; the Skate Flight stretches that to fourteen, enough to walk a table through most of what is on — the Hilltop light lager and Shoreline pilsner, the Rainmaker West Coast IPA, the nitro-poured Monkey Suit stout, the Crazy Horse hazy IPA, and the Storm Chaser double IPA. The food is built to sit next to all of it. Soft beer pretzels come with cheddar lager cheese sauce and honey Dijon; the beef tallow chicken wings arrive by the pound, fried in tallow and tossed in a choice of beer BBQ, hot honey, Korean BBQ, or pineapple habanero citrus. From there the menu opens wide: wagyu smash burgers, fish and chips with beef tallow fries, wagyu dumplings in crispy chili oil, adobo chicken tacos, and the lighter tuna bowl for whoever at the table wants to step off the comfort-food track.