Sunday, June 15, 2008
M States I'll never visit again
California
Wisconsin
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Pennsylvania
The Church Brew Works is probably my favorite microbrewery that I have ever visited. The food is great and the brewery is built inside a renovated church. It is in Pittsburgh, PA. We visited Barley Creek Brewing on a ski trip to the Poconos with some friends. It's located in Tannerville, PA. Otto's is in State College, PA where my husband went to college. The North Country Brewing Company is the best little brewery located in my husband's home town of Slippery Rock, PA. They have some very unique beers and the best black and blue burger on the planet. On July 5th 2008 we visited the Manayuck Brewery in the Manayuck neighborhood of Philadelphia. It's in a cute little downtown area right on the Schuylkill River. It has a huge outdoor porch overlooking the river. I had the beer taster and the Peach Wheat beer was yummy and the other table favorite was the Schuylkill Punch (Raspberry lager).
New Hampshire and Vermont
We visited Smuttynose Brewing company in Portsmouth, NH the day after we got engaged on Mt. Tom in the white mountains in Sept 2007. Milly's Tavern is a little hole in the wall brewery in Manchester NH that we visited the day after we saw Styx and Def Leppard in April 2008 (that was the only glass they had..) John visited Long Trail in Vermont without me, but he's says it's pretty cool and they have a collection of beer bottles from all over arranged by state. Neato. Portsmouth Brewery is a sister company to Smuttynose in New Hampshire. Labor Day weekend 2008 we made a trip up to Norwich VT to the Norwich Inn in which Jasper Murdock's Ale House is located. It's a small brewery that makes English style ales with hops from England and grown in their own hop garden and may be the smallest brewery in the US making less than 250 barrels a year. I had the Famous Sidekick which is a "session" beer which means it's low in alcohol content so you can enjoy more of it and was very tasty. John had the Whistling Pig Red Ale which was okay. The food was excellent. The Inn is adorable, though we didn't stay there we might consider it for a fun weekend away.