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.

 

Mayflower and Harpoon

 

Ive been to a handful of breweries but I honestly don't think I've ever done a tour.

 

List includes brewery tours/taproom visits/brewpubs...but not chain brewpubs like Rock Bottom, etc. Thankfully, dear girlfriend is a beer fan and supportive of at least one brewery visit on every trip. Sometimes, like our trip to Maine last week, we hit several. I love looking at the different styles of tasting room/brewpubs, to see how they integrate into the community, what experience they offer beyond beer.

DC Brau*
Flying Dog*
Dogfish Head
Ithaca
Oxbow*
Allagash
Maine Beer Co
Rising Tide
Lake Placid
Wedge*
Asheville Brewing
Nantahala*
Pisgah
Odell
Backpocket
Hops n Grain
Half Acre*
Revolution
Confluence*
Goose Island
Mad Fox*
3 Stars
Eastern Shore
One Barrel*
Capital Brewing*
New Glarus
Volcano Brewing (costa rica)*
Westbrook*
Big Sky

*favorites, based on beer + overall vibe/experience

On the list for this summer based on already planned trips: Evolution, Tired Hands, Troegs

 

Sam Adam
Goose Island
Avery
Half Acre
3Floyds
Pipeworks
Revolution

 

27 total

Favorites are FFF, Bell's, Founders, Perrin, Odd Side, Dark Horse, Jolly Pumpkin, Kuhnhenn, Cascade, and Deschutes

 

I think right now I'm at 66. But next weekend I've got a brewery trip to San Diego, so that will go up a bit.

 

Couldn't find that tool but a cool site nonetheless.

 

A-B brewery in St. Louis before I deployed to Iraq.. besides that none.

 

It's been a while, but it's a good site to use as a tool for trip planning.

 

Not Many as of yet
Surly (twice)
Lucette
Schell's
Fitger's
Flat Earth
Lift Bridge

 

I tried to count quickly and came up with 12 breweries and a couple dozen brewpubs. I am missing several. Not sure why I segregated the two groups.

Favorites
Stone: I like to visit my rock on the stone wall.
La Jolla Karl Strauss: my wife and I would go there a lot when we started dating, and we ate there right after I proposed.

 

I have only been to maybe 10 - 12 breweries

My favorites are

Russian River
HOTD
Cascade

But seriously, I need to get out more...

 

Smuttynose
Portsmouth
White Birch
Throwback
Blue Lobster
Budweiser
Sam Adams
Jack's Abby
Mystic
Nightshift
Hill Farmstead
Alchemist
Rock Art
Brooklyn

Looking to add a few more in Belgium this fall.

 

AleSmith (San Diego, CA)
Anaheim Brewery (Anaheim, CA)
Beaver Street Brewery (Flagstaff, AZ)
Beachwood BBQ (Long Beach, CA)
The Brewer's Art (Baltimore, MD)
The Bruery (Placentia, CA)
DuClaw (Bel Air, MD)
Fate Brewing Company (Scottsdale, AZ)
Four Peaks (Tempe, AZ)
Heavy Seas (Baltimore, MD)
Lost Abbey/Port Brewing (San Marcos, CA)
Mad Fox Brewpub (Arlington, VA)
North Mountain Brewing (Phoenix, AZ)
Oak Creek Brewing (Sedona, AZ)
Old Dominion (when it existed in Ashburn, VA)
O.H.S.O (Phoenix, AZ)
Papago Brewing (Scottsdale, AZ)
Phoenix Ale Brewing (Scottsdale, AZ)
Pratt Street Alehouse (Baltimore, MD)
Stone Brewing (Escondido, CA)

I'm planning on hitting many, many more this summer.

 

Thanks for your service!!

Now get out into that craft beer world and enjoy the variety of it all.

 

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to mention Ommegang. Beautiful brewery, knowledgeable and friendly staff, great beer, awesome cafe.

 

I have been to around 20 at least maybe more. Favorites include:

Russian River
Lagunitas
Alpine

 

Counted 60 in Michigan and there are some long closed ones not in that number.

It would be over 200 if I counted them all up.

 

Well I compiled my list and it goes:

Ballast Point
Stone Brewing
Green Flash Brewing
Pizza Port (Carlsbad)
Alpine Beer Company
Black Market Brerwing
Bootlegger's Brewing
The Bruery
Noble Ale Works
Hangar 24
I & I Brewing
Chino Valley Brewing
Claremont Craft Ale's
Ladyface Ale Companie
Hollister
Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co
Solvang Brewing Company
Creekside Brewing
SLO Brewing Company
Lagunitas
Bear Republic
Third Street Aleworks
Russian River
Moylan's
Cucamongo Brewing Company
Sin City Brewing (not sure this one counts)

...... and I think that is it.

 

Counted up 53. Still a handful of local spots that are missing I should be visiting this summer. Here goes for anyone interested:


Kane
NJ Beer Co.
Tired Hands
Victory
The Shed
Otter Creek/Wolaver’s
The Alchemist
Bobcat
Fiddleheads
Magic Hat
Switchback
Vermont Pub and Brewery
Three Needs
Zero Gravity
Stone
Alpine
Green Flash
Hess
Ballast Point
Alesmith
Coronado
Mission
508
Bethlehem Brew Works
Forest and Main
Iron Hill (multiple)
Greenport Harbor
Long Ireland
Saratoga/Mendocino
Great Adirondack
Lake Placid Pub and Brewery
Captain Lawrence
Dock Street
Drop-In
Gilded Otter
Newburgh
Rushing Duck
Harpoon
Long Trail
Keegan Ales
Long Valley
Mckenzie Brewhaus
Morgan Street Brewery
Neshaminy Creek
Nodding Head
Pizza Port
Rock Art
Round Guys
Sly Fox
Southampton
Defiant
Trapp
Yards