-OUR UPCOMING- -BEER TRAVELS- May 2008 Franconia & the Bergkirchweih
Beer Festival
Cologne, Munich & Vienna for Flogging Molly shows. June 2008 The Beerfest
in Santa Rosa
Summer Solstice
inIreland July 2008 Oregon Brewers Festival in
Portland, OR August 2008
Great British Beer Festival in London, England September 2008 Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany October 2008
Great American Beer Festival in Denver, CO November 2008 Strong Ale Festival in San Diego, CA December 2008
Kerstbierfestival in Essen, Belgium
Beer Travels
Recent Beer Finds
Brouwer's Cafe, Seattle, WA [April 2008, food & beer] After gazing at their beer menu, it is easy to see why Brouwer's is on many top beer bar lists. Better than the selection of Belgians is the extensive selection of Washington brews. And they even have one of those cool glass rinser thingys.
Bukowski Tavern, Boston, MA [March 2008, food & beer] We found about this place from either Paddy Keys of the Larkin Brigade or a Dropkick Murphys email but whoever we heard about Bukowski's from... it was a good recommendation. A dive bar in Back Bay with a great beer selection, Bukowski Tavern is our first new beer find in Boston in years.
Cape Ann Brewing, Gloucester, MA [March 2008, beer only] Those who have seen the movie American Beer would recognize brewer Jeremy Goldberg but Cape Ann has more to offer than a beer personality brewer; namely great beer. Only a short distance from Boston... if you don't have a car, take the commuter rail.
We like to use this anecdote when describing how easy it is to incorpororate beer destinations in your travels.
Every Munich guidebook has the Hofbrauhaus as a destination... which is fine; it's a fun place to go and the beer is good.
What these guidebooks don't tell you is that two of the best beer places in Munich are located seconds away: Wirtshaus Ayinger is almost directly across the street from the Hofbrauhaus in the Hotel Platzl. It serves the incredible Ayinger beers from the nearby town of Aying as well as having great German food. A little farther away - a block and a half - is the Schneider beer hall where the best hefe-weizen in Bavaria (plus the incredible Aventinus) can be drank; again accompanied by great German food.
With a little preparation, research and using this website - and sometimes just plain luck - you can beer travel too.
"The List"
The culmination of years of work. The list of breweries/brewpubs we have been to.
Beer Guides and Stories
Learn about places to go on your travels when your read about some of our beer adventures from the USA and Europe.
Travel Blog
Our trip blog plus our homefront beer times
Resources: Here is a list of web resources that we use in planning our travels.
Archives: The repository for information removed from other pages.
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