A Beer For Strange Climates

Tag: beer travel

  • Bottle & Can & BBQ, Salisbury, NC

    Bottle & Can & BBQ, Salisbury, NC

    What would a visit to the Salisbury/Spencer North Carolina area be without a trial of the local craft beer scene, and Lexington-style BBQ? And Cheerwine?

  • Hana Koa Brewery, Honolulu

    Hana Koa Brewery, Honolulu

    The Hana Koa Brewing Co. in Honolulu, Oahu in Hawaii offers tasty food and a broad range of beer styles brewed on site.

  • Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville

    Flying Ace Farm, Lovettsville

    Flying Ace Farm in Lovettsville, Virginia, beckons with Thursday burger and beer specials and a great outdoor BBQ atmosphere.

  • Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia

    Northern Neck Brewing Co., Montross, Virginia

    Fortunately, our trip down last weekend coincided with the grand opening of a new brewery in Montross, Virginia, the Northern Neck Brewing Co. With a resident chef and a full range of beer styles, the new project certainly looked promising.

  • Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Virginia

    Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, Virginia

    Highway 15 winds along the first gasp of the Appalachians as it travels southbound from Maryland into Virginia. In years of living northwest of DC, I can’t tell you how many times I driven around its curves and dips between Frederick and Warrenton. Rarely have I stopped along the way, unless it’s to fly out…

  • Tröegs Brewery, Hershey

    Tröegs Brewery, Hershey

    The aromas of chocolate filled the air, but we were there for the beer. My husband, as a Brit, takes Hershey’s chocolate as an affront to his senses, but we both remarked upon how well the company has apparently invested in the town as we drove through it on our way to find the Tröegs…

  • Antietam Brewery, Hagerstown

    Antietam Brewery, Hagerstown

    Well, it took us long enough to make it to our first local taproom–but I’d sampled the Hager-Weiss Hefeweissen from Antietam Brewery in Hagerstown, Maryland, in six-pack form in December, so I knew we had a winner on our doorstep. The brewery used to be in town, but grew beyond its meagre space a couple…

  • Four Peaks In PHX

    Four Peaks In PHX

    Strangers meet in airports—it’s such a cliché, yet it happens every day. Our intersections bring together disparate folks on a shared mission, Point A to Point B, sometimes on a journey extended by extenuating circumstances. The pair next to me chatted merrily—if at high volume— as I took a stool at Four Peaks Brewing in…

  • My Top 5 US Craft Beers, 2018

    My Top 5 US Craft Beers, 2018

    Happy New Year! Now that we’ve all celebrated with espumante on the beach, slept it off, and woken up to coffee & 2019… I’d like to run through my top 5 favorite US beers of 2018 before we launch into Tryanuary! First off, in calendar order, Damien, Child of Darkness Surly Brewing: Dry-hopped black ale;…

  • Taj in India Kitchen

    Taj in India Kitchen

    Returning home from travel, we come back mostly to things that we find comfortable and familiar. The foods, the scenery, the air, even the bed that we know best, to which our bodies have adapted, often over the course of years, if not decades–or a lifetime. What we call “exotic” is really the unfamiliar, the…