Taft’s Brewpourium, Columbus OH
4 November 2023 As with Schmidt’s two days ago, Taft’s is a place I’ve been to multiple times before so I’m not including photos of the place itself. However, it’s in an interesting little neighborhood in what was probably an …
Columbus Brewing Company, Columbus OH
3 November 2023 As many times as I’ve been to Columbus, this is my first visit to CBC. They’re out of the way in an industrial park and they have a large building with a sizable taproom that is very …
Schmidt’s Sausage Haus, Columbus OH
2 November 2023 Ever since I discovered Schmidt’s in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, I have to come here for a good German meal on every visit. After the annoyance of Wilkes-Barre the previous evening, I made this my …
Breaker Brewing Company, Wilkes-Barre PA
1 November 2023 Breaker Brewing is in an old neighborhood of Wilkes-Barre and it would be really interesting to visit in the winter due to the hill it’s on — it’s a steep drive to get there! You can get …
Final Tally from the Summer 2023 Trip
In the 27 days of this trip, I tasted 183 different beers from 33 different breweries. What an adventure! Although I didn’t track this, my guess is that approximately 80% of those beers were sampler sizes in flights with the …
Antimony Brewing, Lenox MA
12 July 2023 Antimony opened in 2022 and I didn’t even know they existed until I was searching for places to stop on my last day’s drive home! They’re definitely going on my list of places to revisit. To start …
Revelry Yards, Ithaca NY
11 July 2023 Revelry Yards is in a vibrant part of downtown dubbed “Restaurant Row,” and there certainly were a lot of places with seating on the sidewalk! It took a couple of tries to figure out exactly which one …
Southern Tier Brewing Company, Lakewood NY
10 July 2023 What a fabulous experience this was! I’ve wanted to stop here ever since they opened but my travel plans and their hours never coincided. Now that they’re open seven days a week, I had no excuse so …
Maumee Bay Brewing Company, Toledo OH
I’ve been to Maumee Bay a couple of times, several years ago, so I knew what I was getting in for. The surprise on this visit was that I think they were short several waitstaff – there were lots of …
Ernest Brew Works, Toledo OH
9 July 2023 I’d decided to stop at one of the Ernest Brew Works locations that was both open on a Sunday afternoon and had a food truck scheduled. At least they were open … It’s an unassuming little location …