How many breweries have you been to?

[Xpertskir]

ballpark obviously, including brew pubs. After a lot of thinking...Im close to 40.

 

[tally350z]

5 or 6.

need to go to more..

 

[Mojzis]

2!

 

[Subsailor]

Including Brewpubs - 13!

 

[chalkboardbrewer]

I have been to 8. *sigh*.

 

[Yooper]

I have no idea! More than 30? 50 maybe? Maybe quite a bit more. I never thought about it before, but whenever we travel we choose a brewpub/microbrewery everywhere we go.

 

[Xpertskir]

I have no idea! More than 30? 50 maybe? Maybe quite a bit more. I never thought about it before, but whenever we travel we choose a brewpub/microbrewery everywhere we go.

Same here. Plus I had a mid twenties crisis, quit my job after I saved up enough money to travel for a year. Did a lot of roadtripping in the US, much of it solo, which meant I got to do whatever I wanted, drink beer, camp, and hike...lol.


BTW Yopper, I hit the UP this spring and went to The Vierling in marquette(great old bar, so so beer). It was more about camping and hiking, the porkies among other places...AWESOME. Also, marquette was the first place I could find Shorts(I was moving back from CO so entered from the west after Minneapolis)....mmmm huma lupa.

 

[Yooper]

Same here. Plus I had a mid twenties crisis, quit my job after I saved up enough money to travel for a year. Did a lot of roadtripping in the US, much of it solo, which meant I got to do whatever I wanted, drink beer, camp, and hike...lol.


BTW Yopper, I hit the UP this spring and went to The Vierling in marquette(great old bar, so so beer). It was more about camping and hiking, the porkies among other places...AWESOME. Also, marquette was the first place I could find Shorts(I was moving back from CO so entered from the west after Minneapolis)....mmmm huma lupa.

Oh, I love the beer at the Vierling! The brewer there is a premium member here on this forum, and he's always up for a tour and chat. He's a great guy, and very homebrewer friendly. He makes a few beers that I'm not crazy about, but others are (blueberry wheat), but he's an awesome brewer and can make a great APA as well.

I love Short's, of course. That's one of my favorite Michigan breweries. Their brewpub is outstanding, and probably my favorite of them all. They have really special brews on tap, and it's like being a little kid in a candy store.

There are three breweries in Marquette- did you hit them all? I don't love Ore Dock, but they have a decent centennial APA. BlackRocks is pretty good, but nothing that I think is awesome. The brewpub in Ishpeming (about 15 miles from the other 3) is "meh" and I don't go there.

When I lived in Germany, all of the gasthauses had the local beer on tap, and some were "brewpubs" before such things actually existed the way they are now. The German gasthaus set up is what made me love beer! When I came here (in late 1983), I couldn't believe that there wasn't great beer everywhere!

 

[jwalk4]

Hmmm Creemore, Guiness, Adnams, Labatts, Railway City, Walkerville, Steamwhistle, Mill St.... I guess that's it. Feels like more.

 

[ArrogantDusty]

I'm at 53 I think. I actually went over some notes. This, however, counts doubles and so on too. Example, Schlafly here is St Louis has two locations were they brew and have bars ("Bottleworks" and "Taproom"). BBC in Louisville have multiple locations too. I'm still over forty if I don't count those It's the one thing I reserch before going to a new city and I tend to travel 6 or 7 times a year. My girlfriend always complains that going to brewpubs and breweries are my only ideas.

 

[Xpertskir]

I didnt, I was passing through and grabbed lunch and some beer, so I picked what was the best as per my research. I spent 5 days in the UP and will be back, lake superior is easily my favorite lake. Eventually I'll hit up Mt. Bohemia, I drove out to copper harbor and had to check it out even without snow, heard very good things from serious skiers.

To be fair to The Vierling was sandwiched between Surly, Shorts, and 3Floyds. Not really a place most breweries would fair well. For Michigan breweries Id prolly go Shorts, Founders, then Jolly pumpkin/north peak.

Ahh...The gasthaus. My favorite memory from my travels in Germany(near Rotenburg I think) is a gasthaus breakfast spread(cured meats, bread, jam, ect) with a bug zapper above it going nuts and dropping all sorts of insects on said breakfast spread. Back then, my tastes have changed, I was 18. The most important thing to know how to say was Haben Sie weisbeer vom fass? I also learned about Apfelwein the very hard way...switching between it, dunkelweiss, and tequila.

 

[mytommygundont]

I just counted on my Beer Drinker's Guide to Colorado Map and I have been to 63. It's 3 years old so i have added 12 that I know that I've been to that have opened since then. so I'm at 75 in Colorado. When we were in Texas this summer we hit 5 breweries. Utah-4. Kansas-2. Other states: North Carolina, Nevada, etc-8. Maybe 95 breweries or so. My wife and I don't travel much, but we do collect growlers. We're right at 70 or so. My bar is bulging with those little half gallon jugs.

 

[Beer_is_good_for_you]

20, that I can remember.

 

[pdxbg]

About 50 myself. I collect growlers from every new brewpub I go to. Or most at least. I've got roughly 40 sitting on the ledge surrounding my living room/ kitchen.