How many breweries have you visited?

I don't have an exact count, but between those here in the States and those in Europe I'd say it's probably somewhere between 50-100.

 

51-100
Montana:
Ten Mile Creek
Snow Hop
Blackfoot River
Copper Furrow
Lewis and Clark
Carters
Überbrew
Thirsty Street
Angry Hanks
Yellowstone Valley
Montana Brewing co
Red Lodge
Canyon Creek
Smelter City
2 Basset
Big Spring
Ruby Valley
Bozeman Brewing
Bunkhouse
Madison River
Union Hall
406
MAP
Neptune
Katabatic
Bridger
Imagine Nation
Great Burn
Draught Works
Highlander
Kettlehouse
Bayern
Lone Peak
Canyon Ferry
Lolo Peak
Big Sky
Glacier brewing
Flathead Lake
Tamarack
Great Northern
Bonsai
Mountains Walking
Mighty Mo
Phillipsburg

Idaho:
Selkirk Abbey
Wallace

Washington:
Fremont
Reubens
Naked City
Cloudburst
Stoup
Ravenna
Burke Gilman
Urban Family
Old Stove
Pike
Holy Mountain

Hawaii:
Maui
Kohola

Might be missing a few others

 

I've got 61 listed here, but it's easily more than double that. I took my first brewery tour in 1969 (I would turn 10 later that year), and haven't stopped since.

 

I have visited scores of breweries, but without a doubt my visit to Heineken in 1970 was the best. They gave us drink and food and plenty of info about the area. They remain as a credit to my understanding of beer as a positive force to human concourse and endeavor. We were a group of people from the Americas, Asia, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and many others. It was completely oriented to those of us travelling the continent in a particular summer.

 

When they're open?
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Missed a few others by showing up at the wrong time/day. (Because I happened to be right there, for other reasons.)

 

I had you figured for an OCD kind of guy and that you'd have a list of them. (Like me.)

I'm closing in on 600, although my list here on BA doesn't reflect all of them because many predate my joining this club. I've visited breweries in all but 5-6 states, and I hope to finish them off in the next few years.

 

Can we have a top rated brewery list...

 

It’s not about how many brewerys you visit, its always going to come down to quality.....
A top rated brewery list would challenge us all to visit more

 

I wanna say over a hundred, look at my list. Tons in WA of course, plenty in the New England area as well. Trying to visit every state, and breweries seem to follow (imagine that ). Definitely some bars though too.

 

I'm not sure. Somewhere around 20, maybe 30. @Taphouse_Traveler, how many breweries have you been to, sir?

 

I've got to figure it's north of 100. Not really sure though, never actually tried to count them but I rarely leave my local area without stopping at a brewery and am always interested to visit new ones

 

Fifty Breweries:
United States

California
21st Amendment Brewery
Bartlett Hall
Magnolia Pub & Brewery
Mikkeller
Thirsty Bear Brewing Company

Connecticut
New England Brewing Co

Maine
Maine Beer Company
Sea Dog Brewing Company

Massachusetts
Boston Beer Works – Fenway
Jack’s Abby Brewing
Lord Hobo Brewing Company
Tree House Brewing Company
Trillium Brewing Company

Michigan
Arbor Brewing Company Microbrewery
Bell’s Brewery -Eccentric Café & General Store
Founders Brewing Company
Grizzley Peak Brewery Company
HOMES Brewery
Salt Springs Brewery
Wolverine State Brewing Company

New Hampshire
Stoneface Brewing Co.

New Jersey
Carton Brewing Company
Demented Brewing Company
Kane Brewing Company

New York
Big Ditch Brewing Company
Blue Point Brewing Company
Broken Bow Brewery
Captain Lawrence Brewing Co.Decadent Ales
Crooked Ladder Brewing Company
Eastern Front Brewing Company
Empire Brewing Company – Brewpub
Greenport Harbor Brewery
Grimm Artisanal Ales
Hudson Valley Brewery
Industrial Arts Brewing Company
Jamesport Farm Brewery
Kings County Brewers Collective (KCBC)
Long Ireland Beer CompanyMoustache Brewing Co.
North Fork Brewing Co.
Other Half Brewing Company - Brooklyn
Peekskilll Brewery
Sand City Brewing Co.
Southampton Publick House
Willow Rock Brewing Company
Wolf & Warrior Brewing Co.
Yonkers Brewing Co.

Rhode Island
Brutopia

Canada

Ontario
Amsterdam BrewHouse
Craft Heads Brewing
Labatt Brewing Company, Ltd.

Clearly a preponderance in the Northeast, New England, Michigan, and California. Got to some mighty cool places among them.

 

I have no idea how many I've visited - I try to get to one or two when I travel, and I tend to get around. Probably at least 50, maybe over 100, but I don't know for sure.
I don't keep lists, though usually if I run across a beer I remember if I've had it before (ones that I tried a couple hours deep in the BA fests tend to be fuzzy, though... )
The first one I went to was the Budweiser brewery in Merrimack NH, I must have been 3 or 4 years old. Obviously I didn't try any beer, but I remember seeing the Clydesdales (and Dalmatians) in the stables, I have flashes of the canning lines through a viewing window, and having soda, which at that age was a novelty.

 

This is a great question. I guessed 31-40, but I really have no idea. I've stopped in so many tiny breweries while traveling and when I lived in VA, I can't recall. I should be better about entering places on here. Is there a way to sort places by type? Maybe I'll go look.

 

I voted 100 plus... Got a list for them like my beer list. The pride of my list is the brewery on isla mujeres off Mexico.