How Many Breweries Have You Visited?

About 20 some of which are GWTW (rip Heavyweight). The best one by far was Sierra Nevada. In fact it was the best factory tour of any kind I have ever taken.

 

Only ever been to Cantillon. Cool experience.

 

Right around 55.

 

When I travel on business I try to plan my overnight somewhere within reasonable driving distance of a brewpub so that I can have dinner and a couple of good beers. Also, when my wife and I go on vacation our itinerary is planned for lunch and/or dinner where ever there is a brewery. My current total of visits 188. The faves (in no particular order) are New Glarus (it seemed like beer nirvana when we were there on a nice Fall day and sitting outside while drinking our beer), Three Floyds, Founders, Bell's and Shorts. The last three are on the list because they have great ambiance and great beer.

 

I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and I'm leaving out brewpubs for the most part, but 19 listed below. The first 3 I've been to many, many times each. The most memorable are Ommegang, which was probably my personal favorite visit... just a beautiful setting and a great tour... Allagash, nice people, lots of beer provided... The Alchemist for being so shiny and new and sort of a mecca for beer lovers picking up cases... Trapp Family Lodge is a beautiful place... Saranac was surprisingly cool too, a nice retro tour.

Blue Hills Brewery
Jack's Abby
Harpoon
Sam Adams
Allagash
Ommegang
Newport Storm
Portsmouth Brewery
Smuttynose
The Alchemist
Saranac
Longtrail
Throwback
Rock Art Brewery
Budweiser (New Hampshire)
Magic Hat
Trapp Family Lodge
Switchback
Woodstock

 

Russian River
Bear Republic
3rd St Aleworks
Lagunitas
Ruth McGowans
North Coast
Anderson Valley
Magnolia
Marin Brewing
21st Amendment
Sierra Nevada
Deschutes
Bend Brewing
Good Life
10 Barrel
McMenimens
Pizza Port San Clemente
The Bruery
Tustin Brewing
New Belgium

 

Anyone have the skills to put together a google map type website where you can put in the breweries you visited and it would put a pin in them? That's be a pretty cool way to track what breweries you have been to.

 

Definitely New Belgium. Just a really fun place.

 

After making a quick list it looks like I'm around 40+

Some favorites:
Upright
Stone
HotD
Cascade
FFF
Tired Hands
Troegs
Spring House

 

Not sure but the first brewery I visited was North Coast while going to see the red woods with my dad when I was 5, it was 5 years after they opened. And there is pics of me as a child in an old Rasputin shirt. I had no clue they existed until my dad saw me drinking an old rasputin and said he thought we had gone there once, and sure enough I apparently used to have the shirt.

 

11. Karbach, Saint Arnold, Southern Star, Abita, Buffalo Bayou, Brooklyn Brewery, Coors, Golden City Brewery, Estes Park, No Label, going to Jester King this weekend.

 

Bells, FFF, Abita, Off Color, Revolution, Goose Island.

 

I've been to around 20. Out of the ones I've been to Yazoo, SweetWater, and Deep Ellum are probably my favorite. Mainly because of the atmosphere.

 

42 according to my bio, but I'm sure there are a few pre-BA, and a couple production breweries without reviews.

Short's - favorite brewpub. Laid back, up-north atmosphere. Good food and wide range of beers.
New Belgium - 1st visit was months after moving into their current facility. Last visit was a couple years ago. Amazing to watch the growth.
Great Lakes - visited the Brewpub a few times and did the brewery tour once.

I could go on, but that's a good list of highlights.

 

beermapping.com has a tool like that.

 

Ommegang, Magic Hat, Brooklyn, Sam Adams, Cambridge Brewing, The Alchemist, Hill Farmstead...

 

AB (when I was a kid, all I remember was the smell of beer and horses)
DogFish (my 21st birthday)
Yards in philly
Lost Rhino in ashburn
Corcoran in purcelville

Thats why I'm hitting up more of them when I go cross country

 

Many, but my top two are probably Jackie O's and Perrin, in terms of great food, beer, service, etc. A combination of all factors.

 

This might induce some eye-rolling, but not being a homebrewer I generally zone out during the how-we-make-it phase of brew tours. So my favorites, in no particular order, are Heineken/Amstel in Amsterdam, Leinenkugel's in Chippewa Falls, and Metropolitan in Chicago.All told, I've probably seen a dozen breweries, and recommend doing Budweiser in St. Louis just to get a glimpse of their operation's scale.

I did Heineken a dozen years ago so I don't know how it is today, but they breezed us through the fermentation part and brought us to "product confrontation," where they sit you in a beerhall and serve you as many 7oz glasses as you can handle for 45 minutes. They also found a coed on their birthday and made them drink out of a fancy stein while wearing a ridiculous hat. I was 22, and it was perfect.

Leine's beer I have grown less fond of over the years, but there's something they've aced about their aesthetic -- even if it has gotten a smidge Parrotthead over time.

And Metropolitan, I imagine, is like a lot of small brewers: you stand in the warehouse and turn in a circle to see the different apparatuses as you sip on session beers. Simple, unpretentious. Oh, and doom metal cranks at a slightly less deafening level than at 3 Floyds (or Kuma's).

 

Let me think-
The Alchemist
Hill Farmstead
Southern Tier
Genesee Brewing Company
Finger Lakes Brewing Company
War Horse
Horseheads Brewing
Naked Dove

I'm planning on going to Great Lakes, Dogfish Head, and Ommegang this summer, however.