What brewery are you visiting?

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Go up stairs.

Stopped in at 5 Churches Brewing, for one before moving on to dinner in Polish town section of New Britain. Large space with a few menu options. I had the Pilsner hubby had a Marzen, okay as in no off flavors but not at all impressive. It seems pretty popular no matter what I think. Good atmosphere.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Two Roads Stratford CT just 15 minutes from the ferry we take back home to avoid a mood crushing traffic jam around NYC. Had a small pizza to share. I didn’t need to see Area 2, this time around, and the pub with all the grub already appeared to be busy at a quarter after noon. All the beers we had were solid, and I brought a few things from the merch room.

 

[Rish]

Neighbors Brewing, Leeds, AL, hometown of Sir Charles Barkley.

 

[Spartan1979]

We visited Wellspent Brewing in St. Louis yesterday. They're closing on June 29. It's a bit sad, I've always enjoyed their beers and they usually have a wider variety of styles that you don't see in a lot of places. But they're not in the best location, and it was rarely busy when we stopped by. They don't have a kitchen so there are better options for meeting up with friends. It ended up being somewhere we'd stop after going someplace else.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

The production site for St. James Brewery. They have a beautiful tasting room in St James NY and have bottles and cans to go at the brewery in Holbrook. The tour and talk was open to the 3 area HBCs. There usual styles are Belgian and English ales and they’ve been gradually adding other styles such as this Alt I enjoyed.

 

[Rish]

Fairhope Brewing, Fairhope, AL.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Lost Shoe, Marlborough MA.

Nice collection of wins.

Most customers were in the beer garden.

Server accidentally poured one I hadn’t ordered, and said I might as well have it. Never complain about free beer!

Pilsner.

They have a small menu of breakfast type foods including liege waffles.

Hotel coffee wasn’t good so I got this to go for the next morning.

 

[T Murph]

Visting Lost Coast Brewery in Mexico Beach, Florida. I'm sampling their HWY 98 Lager, a nice clean straw colored lager.

Next I tried the Kolsch, one of the better craft brewery examples of the style. They used an interesting hop that I was unable to identify. Possibly Centenial dominating the flavor profile. None the less it is a good drinkable beer.

Then on to two IPAs. One Williamette IPA, another good drinkable brew that is an easy drinking IPA with noticable hop flavor but lacks hop aroma.

Last but not least I tried their Centenial IPA. A better example of the style with mild aroma but a nice hoppy flavor.

They had several others but IMO the HWY 98 was the best one sampled today. Their brewery is an automated system that produces good drinkable beers but they lack hand crafted personal artistry expected from a craft brewery.

 

[day_trippr]

Been a long minute since the Spousal Unit and I visited the Harpoon brewery but it was going to be a lovely day around Boston hahbah so we ventured into the city and found our way to their lot. Like most brewery tap rooms they have a bunch of beers that don't see the light of day anywhere else, and we had a tender who was willing to let us try sips of anything we fancied a taste.

We both liked their Day Drifter the best and had full pours of that even though that brew can be had at retail if one is lucky to come across them. Settled in with a pretzel and watched the hahbah traffic and folks playing on Harpoons pickle ball courts and the Red Sox game on TV (they won).

Nice day to be in Beantown...

Cheers!

 

[WesBrew]

During my travels in Michigan…
I missed the exterior on the last one but it’s Copper Hop in St Clair Shores near Baffin Brewery. Witches Hat in South Lyon. Starr Craft in Richmond, Tombstone in New Baltimore.
A stout for my dog at Witches Hat

 

[Broothru]

In Hershey, PA, for “the World’s Largest RV Show.” It’s a fantastic industry show with an insane number of manufacturers and vendors.

As luck would have it, Tröegs Independent Brewing is 2.1 miles from the venue. Did I mention, I really like their beer?

Anyway, after a very tiring day of traipsing through untold varieties of Recreational Vehicles and fending off sales personnel keen on making a sale, we left the site in our Class B motorhome for dinner and libations at Troeg’s.

True to form, SWMBO’s passed on the cereal malt beverages (aka, ‘Beer’) and ordered Pinot Noir, whereas I took a more suitable (for the venue) approach and ordered a Flight of four: Sunshine Light Lager, Perpetual IPA, Leaf Seeker IPA, and as homage to Mad King Ludwig’s wedding, a delightful Oktoberfest.

Not too bad for a wonderful mid-September afternoon.

 

[BrewMan13]

Just got back from Delaware. Don't have pics to show off, but hit: Dogfish head (Milton and Rehoboth locations), Brimminghorn meadery, Iron Hill brewing, Lewes Brewing, Crooked Hammock, Big Oyster, Thompson Island, Revelation, & Dewey brewing. Brimminghorn was by far my favorite overall, with Dewey being the best actual brewery. Lewes was pretty good too. But most places seemed very impersonal, or downright terrible (ie, Iron Hill; I know it's a chain so expectations were low but still).