Road Trip to Micro Breweries

[Otis1031]

Headed off July 18th with the family from Indianapolis to Washington DC then up to NY to spend some time in Manhattan. Would like to visit some Micro Breweries on the way. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[agrazela]

I would think Flying Dog and Dogfish Head would be on that route.

 

[GHBWNY]

NYC area:

Finback
Sixpoint
Bronx
Other Half
Alphabet City
Brooklyn
Bridge & Tunnel
Flagship
Kelso
SingleCut
Chelsea

 

[Muckdog]

I'd stop at Ommegang if you're going up towards Syracuse.

 

[warriorcoach]

DFH is about 2 hours from DC. I think Flying Dog is in Fredrick, Md, about an hour from DC? Think DFH has a pub in DC though.

 

[user 205607]

I'm heading to Manhattan in August. We go up there often. Brooklyn is nice. Maybe not considered micro but you have to go by McSorleys in manhattan, East 7th lower East Side. They only sell two beers a dark and a light that's it. Very good beer, cheapest around and an atmosphere you will not forget. Great burgers also.

Cheers

 

[Tin4]

BrewTrail.com

That's my suggestion. Of course I'm the admin there too, but I don't like to be to pushy.

 

[jwelch1103]

Dogfish would not be very far out of the way between DC and NYC. They have their original brew pub in Rehoboth Beach and their new brewery about 15 miles north of the brew pub. DFH just received permission from the city to completely rebuild the brew pub so if you want to see the original brew pub (it is nothing to brag about BTW but is the humble beginnings of the DFH company) this would be a good time for you. Their new brewery is quite nice, if you make this detour you should definitely check that out too.

There are several respectable breweries in that area that have not yet quite broken out on the national stage including (in no particular order); Mispillion Brewery, 3rd Wave Brewery, 16 Mile Brewery, Fordham/Dominion Brewing, and Evolution Brewing. If you made the trip to Rehoboth you would pass within a few miles of the first three. The fourth one is in central Delaware so once you turned north for NYC you would pass just a couple miles by it.

Oh, and by the way, don't have too much fun at our Delaware beach areas-we already have too many out of staters bogging everything down. ��

That state on the east side of our river and bay has quite a few breweries too and you could take the ferry across the Delaware Bay to get there if you wanted to make a tour of that whole state. Though that would not be the quickest route from the Rehoboth area to NYC.