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Philly, Philly Bo Billy

Our time spent in Philadelphia proved to be full of brewery visits, two Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches, new friends and some of the best egg rolls I’ve ever had – yes, egg rolls, read on to see what I mean. We spent most of our time outside of the city exploring smaller towns like Manayunk, West [...]

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How we stayed in DC for less than $25/day

Before I started researching what it would be like to bring our RV up to the northeast, I was terrified of this over-populated, tiny-street, low bridge clearance having section of our country, or at least that’s what I envisioned. In the West, it’s really not a problem RVing around. It is much more spread out [...]

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Savor 2012

Brian and Maria on the red carpet at Savor.

Our first visit to Washington DC and SAVOR: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience was a complete success. We were able to snag a sweet camping spot at Greenbelt Park, only 1.5 miles from the College Park Metro and about a 30 minute train ride into the city. Luckily, the early summer heat decided [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: Caroline in the City

Q. Tell us about yourself in 140 characters or less. OR in a haiku A. Travel blogger from Atlanta, GA obsessed with visiting breweries in every country I visit. I spent the last year working and traveling in Australia, missing American beer. Q. What are your three favorite things? A. books, beer, grilled cheese Q. [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: Brad from Hop Cast

Q. Tell us about yourself in 140 characters or less. OR in a haiku By day I’m a motion graphics artist in Chicago and owner of LooseKeys. Then by night I co-host the video beer series with Ken Hunnemeder called The Hop Cast. Q. What are your three favorite things? My soon to be wife [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: Win Bassett

We are very happy to introduce to you this week’s Featured Beer Traveler, Win Bassett. Win has been one of the most socially active members of the craft beer community, especially in North Carolina, and has been seeking out craft beer since his epiphany in 2007. We are honored that Win took the time to [...]

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Omaha Beer Fest 2012

Today marks the first day of a long week packed full of craft beer events, quite possibly the best week of the year for craft beer, next to Craft Brewers Conference and Great American Beer Festival weeks, American Craft Beer week. There are events going on all over the US with Craftbeer.com doing an excellent [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: Julie Wartell from PubQuest

Q. Tell us about yourself in 140 characters or less. OR in a rhyme A. Raised in Michigan, drinking Stroh’s out of a can Moved to Cali in ’86, to get my sun fix Love to surf and bike, drink good beer and hike Traveling is high on my list, and hanging with friends can’t [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: The Beer Wench

Q. Tell us about yourself in 140 characters or less. OR in a haiku A. Craft beer evangelist & social media puppeteer on a mission to revolutionize the beer industry through education, innovation & advocacy. Q. What are your three favorite things? A. Assuming that this does not include people: craft beer, boutique wine and [...]

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Brewery Visits Ups and Downs

Sampler Tray at New Glarus

What do you do when you visit a brewery that doesn’t have a beer you like? After visiting nearly 200 all over the country, we’ve run into breweries of all shapes and sizes from a 1.6 barrel system at Hess Brewery in San Diego to New Belgium, who produces over 600,000 barrels a year (that’s [...]

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Serendipitous Occasions

When we decided to start this website nearly 1 year ago we thought, we are given so many great travel suggestions it would be a shame to keep these to ourselves. We were finding some of the best breweries around the nation all thanks to the people we’ve met and suggestions we have received along [...]

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Meet the Beer Traveler: Dan from Beer Trip

Q. Tell us about yourself in 140 characters or less. OR in a rhyme A. I was born in a crossfire hurricane. I like cold beverages. Other song lyrics. I’m just a 37 year old father of 2 from the Kansas City area. Q. What are your three favorite things? A. I don’t want to [...]

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