How do you get into Hired Hand Brewing Co.?
We have not confirmed it. Hired Hand Brewing Co. is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hired Hand Brewing Co. sits
Hired Hand Brewing Co. is in Vergennes, Vermont, in Addison County, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Vergennes. If you know another, tell us.
Vermont holds three listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Vermont speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Vermont
Vermont came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Vermont.
What the newspapers recorded in Vermont
Searching the Library of Congress run of Vermont newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Vermont:
- The Brattleboro daily reformer, January 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Barre daily times, July 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Orleans County monitor, August 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Brattleboro daily reformer, January 19, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Tuesday to Saturday, 4pm to 7.30pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
The address is 35 Green Street, Vergennes, VT 05491. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hired Hand Brewing Co. we hold street address and opening hours. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a pub.