Bucket list breweries

Russian River, Bells, Odell, Cigar City, Founders, Three Floyds, Alpine, Flying Dog, Oskar Blues, and of course Dogfish Head.

 

Founders
Guinness
TreeHouse
Yuengling
Toppling Goliath

 

Cologne

 

Are there any in Tahiti?

Seriously though, Smuttynose,
Founders, Palmetto, New Glarus, Weihenstefener, Guinness....

 

Sierra Nevada (California)
Cantillon
Smuttynose
New Glarus
Ballast Point.

 

Sierra Nevada & Ballast Point for sure, don't now how I forgot them.

 

Not a lot to see at Chimay because they don't allow public tours and very few industry/private tours of the brewery itself. The abbey grounds are open to tour. Good photo ops and maybe take in a prayer service in the chapel and listen to some Gregarian chanting. Their tap room about a mile away offers meals, their beers, souvenirs and a few rooms for overnight guests. Very rural and charming area.

 

I knocked out Sint-Sixtusabdji (no tour but neat tap room and visitor center on the grounds), Orval (some limited tours of the grounds and a brewery tour if you know the right people. Great abbey restaurant for food and beer), Koningshoeven (of all the Trappist monasteries, they are the best for visitors, tours, food, beer and shopping), and all the other Trappist breweries on one tour/trip. If you had a couple of more days, you could see Hoegaarden (great restaurant) and Phantome in a day or so.

 

Russian River
Cantillon
Westvleteren
Stoudts
Ayinger

 

new glarus
surly
toppling goliath

 

Russian River
Firestone Walker
Any of the Stone Breweries
The Bruery

I Just need to visit California

 

Weihenstephan
Schneider
Aying
Paulaner
Hofbrau
Sierra Nevada
Schnell
Augustiner

 

Drinking a pint at the Gravity Bar at St. James's Gate is pretty damn cool.

 

Cool post!

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Side Project
3. Sierra
4. Stone
5. Modern Times
6. Alchemist

 

Guinness
Firestone Walker
Jester King
Cigar City
Darkhorse
Samuel Smith

 

This isn't really an answer....in my experience the breweries with the best beer aren't necessarily the best visits. Hill Farmstead is cool because you're finally there and it's remote and pretty but the experience is all about buying the beer, not the hang. I haven't been since they've opened the new building where you can buy a full pour or a on-premise bottle but still, I am always psyched to buy the beer and get it in my car then go home and drink it.

 

Harpoon
Stone
Ballast Point
Firestone Walker
Troegs
Sam Adams
Great Lakes
Breckinridge
Victory
Rogue

 

Cantillon
Brasserie d'Orval SA
Sierra Nevada
Weihenstephan
Russian River

 

I've only been to Dogfish

Hoping to hit the Vermont spots and Tree House in 2018