8 April 2024 My original plan had been to head to the main Ellicottville Brewing Company pub in Ellicottville NY, but because of lost time getting the car charged, I decided to check out EBC West. The building is quite …

7 April 2024 Fat Head’s — this location, at least — is located in a strip mall and they were doing a HUGE business at 2:30 on a Sunday afternoon! The place is big, far bigger than it appears in …

6 April 2024 I’ve also been to Derive before, so didn’t take new photos of the place. Here’s the flight I had on this visit, and these are described right-to-left: Temporarily Human – West Coast IPA, 6.8% – This is …

5 April 2024 I’ve been here before and decided to come here again vs. Schmidt’s (which in many ways has better food and beer). They had two special beers on draft so I started with a liter of the Märzen …

4 April 2024 Forbidden Root had their roots in Chicago in 2016 when they started a brewery focusing on beer with unusual ingredients including botanicals.. Based on this visit to their third location, I’d say they’ve been very successful The …

3 April 2024 Yellow Springs started out in Yellow Springs OH and within the last year they opened this new location in the Clintonville area of Columbus. They were doing a decent business when I arrived a bit after 4:30 …

2 April 2024 I decided it was time to try somewhere new on this trip through Syracuse so I tried out Middle Ages Brewing. They’re located in an old building in a mildly sketchy neighborhood, but the space itself was …

2 March 2024 I’ve wanted to visit Kinsmen for a few years as I’d enjoyed one of their beers somewhere and you don’t see them often; in fact, I can’t remember seeing any of their beers on tap in the …

20 February 2024 I only wish this post weren’t so long after the visit because I can’t give good reviews of the individual beers themselves at this point, just the general impression overall. I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a …

25 November 2023 This was my second visit to Timberyard but the first where it wasn’t so crowded that I could barely get in the door! Still, it was certainly full; Ron and I were lucky to get seats at …