An evolving craft beer community with Southern charm.
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Beer Travel
Atlanta, Georgia
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CHARM CITY 101
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You have never seen as many purple-painted SUVs as you will see cruising down the streets of Charm City. Ravens pride looms large in town. And beer is tailgating not far behind. Baltimore’s brewing history rivals Philadelphia right down to their own designated area, Brewer’s Hill, where pre-prohibition breweries were on every block.
A Surging Beer Community
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There’s a lot in common between Philadelphia and Denver when it comes to beer. Both are home to great beer cultures, but there is one resemblance that really stands out: growth. An annual visit to Denver is almost like visiting a new city with a beer culture that is twice as advanced as the year prior. Similarly, you’d have to imagine that is how Philadelphia would feel to those who only frequent about once a year. New bars, new breweries, and just an overall advanced recognition of beer by the community. Yes, craft beer is growing everywhere in this country, but these two cities seem to have something special.
Southern Maine Coast
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In the summer of 2012, Maine lobster prices plummeted but the Maine craft beer scene clearly started hitting its peak. Craft breweries and beer bars seem to be everywhere in Vacationland.
Welcome to Hops Country
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Exploring the craft beer scene of San Diego, California.
If you ever get the chance to visit the West Coast, be prepared for hops! It’s a well-known fact that California loves their IPAs and there’s definitely a wide-variety tapped and brewed throughout the San Diego County. This isn’t to say it’s all about the hops, but it will be a big part of your trip.
Finding Chicha: A Peruvian beer experience.
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As Philadelphians accustomed to one of the best beer scenes in the country, most of our vacations over the past few years have been “beercentric.” When a few family members decided that we were going to Peru, hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu and see ruins from the 1400s, beer, for once, wasn’t going to be the focus of our trip. Still, we were looking.
Microbrew Mecca: Portland, OR
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Take a trip to the Pacific Northwest’s “Brewtopia.”
It’s raining right now, hard. The sun is hidden behind sheets of clouds that make guessing the time of day impossible. It’s bleak, it could be anywhere from noon to nine at night. It could also be somewhere smack dab in the middle of the day, a time when nine to fivers meet over amber lagers and those who are unemployed continue to drink. During this time of day, it doesn’t matter about the rain or the cold or the fact that you’ve yet to see a ray of sunshine this week.
Brewing in Hippie Country
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Touring through the brewery-filled state of Vermont.
Vermont has quite the impressive beer scene, in fact, it actually has the most breweries per capita in the country. Even little towns seem to have a local brewpub. But, in a land that puts a lot of pride into Ben and Jerry’s and maple syrup, there is nothing little about their presence in the beer world. The largest city in the state, Burlington (the population wouldn’t even fill every seat of Citizens Bank Park) is a great central location to cover some of the best that Vermont has to offer. Within 2 hours, you can hit just about every beer destination worth visiting. (Harpoon is the one brewery that is a bit further out.) Downtown, you have a vast selection of bars and breweries including the Vermont Pub & Brewery. Opened by Greg Noonan in 1988, it was the first brewery in the state and one of the first on the East Coast. Most Vermont breweries credit Greg for paving the way, making Vermont the beer state it is. Read more…
More Than History and Politics
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Beer is quickly becoming another reason to be a tourist in DC.
In an area filled with politics, history, and one tourist attraction after another, great beer and quality bars may not be something that comes to mind. As big as craft beer culture has become, it’s still hard to picture a bunch of Senators meeting and discussing the future of our country while enjoying a round of local IPAs; but that might not be so accurate anymore. Thanks to a few exceptional bars and a new brewery,Washington, DC is turning into a bit of a beer destination. Read more…
