Brewery Tour Vacation

Definitely hit up McGaughs Smoke & Bottle in Flagstaff, great bottle shop and great people.

 

We are doing a 7 day CO trip at the end of August. Here are the breweries we are going to hit:

Coors
Strange Brewing
Denver Beer Co.
Breckenridge
Great Divide
Wynkoop
Left Hand
Oskar Blues
Odell
Equinox
New Belgium
Funkwerks
Grimm Brothers
Loveland Ale Works
Avery
Boulder Beer Co
Crooked Stave


Hope that helps. I've been reseraching the trip for a while and these seem to all be solid selections.

 

Make sure you hit Falling Rock Tap House in Denver and Mayor of Oldtown in Fort Collins. There's an awesome bar in Boulder but I can recall the name. They have alot of high ABV stuff on tap. I had Parabola and Black Butte 24 among other things last time I was there.

Also consider Dry Dock and Upslope. I want to hit TRVE in Denver as well.

 

fyi, if you show up at NB, you can get on stand-by for a tour. they'll fill the no-show slots with stand-by people. and since its free to sign up online, they tend to have a decent number of no-shows.

 

I actually got online yesterday and got a spot for us. Got the 1st tour at 11 on the day we were planning, we are lucky that is still a month a half out, all the other days that week were pretty full.

Mayof of Oldtown is on the bar list, I hadn't heard about Falling Rock, I'll have to check them out. Thanks for the suggestions!

 

The Boulder bar possibly could be The Sink or The West End Tavern but really hitting Avery should be enough to satisfy anyone.

 

Should be an awesome trip...

I'm not going on a brewery vacation per se.. but on our upcoming family vacation, I've managed to make it where we will hit Victory, DogFishHead and Hardywood which is in Richmond, Va.

I'll hit as many restaurants with craft beer as possible.

 

West End Tavern is it. I highly recommend this place.

 

When in Flagstaff, AZ the breweries you should not miss are Mother Road Brewing - Wanderlust Brewing & Lumberyard Brewing. Wanderlust just hosted the Brewers Guild meeting. Lumberyard and Mother Road hosted Guild parties after the meeting. Zero complaints from anyone. Every Brewery in Flag is within walking distance sans Wanderlust (free tastings) but well worth the short trip (check hours) You might want to check out the Flagstaff Ale Trail for discounts and suggestions. The AZGPO selected the above mentioned breweries for their June 20th trip with Arizona Brewery Tours.

and..
Funkwerks, New Belgium and Odell Brewing Company in Ft Collins, CO