The Funky Buddha Lounge
TRP post courtesy of our East Coast, Nick: The Funky Buddha Lounge is located next to a dry cleaners in a strip mall right off of a major road in Boca Raton, Florida. It’s the kind of place that you could easily drive past. I know from experience. I only missed it once, but keep [...]
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Austin Beerworks
TRP visited Austin Beerworks in January 2012 just months after Austin Beerworks first opened for business in 2011. The four founders Michael, Will, Adam and Mike set out to make a beer that Austin could be proud of. I have to say that they have succeeded in this effort as you can see ABW beer [...]
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Swamp Head Brewery
TRP visited Swamp Head Brewery in Gainesville, FL in March of 2012. Gainesville is the home of the University of Florida Gators and you will find the brewery on the outskirts of town, located in a small warehouse park. SHB is a craft brewery with a moderately sized tasting room that flows over into the brew house. Swamp Head Brewery started in August of 2008 with [...]
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Pensacola Bay Brewery
TRP visited the Pensacola Bay Brewery in March of 2012. PBBrewery is located in the Historic Pensacola Village. The location makes for a good scenic walk before or after a couple beers at the brewery. It also makes it harder to run a tasting room. The Historic Pensacola Village is not allowed to have “bars” which essentially menas that PBB can’t sell beer. So [...]
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Southern Star Brewing Co.
TRP visited Southern Star Brewing in February of 2012. We made our way to Conroe, TX after receiving several recommendations from Austin brewers. Conroe is close enough to Houston that many consider it suburb of the big city. The brewery was started in 2008 by avid frisbee golf enthusiasts Brian Hutchins and Dave Fougeron. Southern Star is probably best known for their Bombshell Blonde Ale, [...]
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Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co.
TRP visited Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co in February of 2012 on our way from New Orleans to Pensacola. LMC is known as “Mississippi’s brewery ” for two reasons 1) they make really good beer and 2) there are no other other micro breweries in Mississippi, although there is a brewpub in Hattiesburg. Lazy Magnolia is located [...]
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NOLA Brewery
TRP first visited NOLA Brewery in February 2012. NOLA Brewing was founded in 2008 by Kirk Coco & Peter Caddoo (former Dixie Brewing brewmaster) with a goal of bringing a once proud brewing tradition back to New Orleans. They have four flagship beers, NOLA Blonde, NOLA Brown Ale, Hopitoulas, their IPA, and 7th Street Wheat, [...]
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Brooklyn Brewery
TRP post courtesy of our East Coast Affiliate, Nick: So I finally made it to the Brooklyn Brewery. I’ve been going to New York City once or twice a year for the last few years, and I have even stayed in Brooklyn a few times. But my weekends there are always jam packed. It’s hard [...]
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Independence Brewery
TRP first visited Independence Brewery in February 2012. We actually had very lucky timing, the night before a friend from Lawrence put us in touch with a local friend who let us know that they are only open the first Saturday of the month, which just happened to be the following day… score! Sometimes beer [...]
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Yards Brewing Company
TRP post courtesy of our East Coast Affiliate, Nick: Yards Brewery is located close to the Delaware River slightly Northeast of Center City Philadelphia. However, if history is a predictor of things to come, they may not be there all that long. Consistently increasing demand has forced them to re-locate three times, so they have [...]
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Cape May Brewing Company
TRP post courtesy of our East Coast Affiliate, Nick: I first visited Cape May Brewing Company in September of 2011. It is located in an industrial park near the Cape May Airport and it’s run by two friends and one of their dads. The two of them had been homebrewing for a while, but their [...]
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River Horse Brewery
TRP post courtesy of our East Coast Affiliate, Nick: River Horse Brewery was originally opened in 1996. In 2007 two self proclaimed ”finance geeks” bought the brewery from the original owners. Since then they have expanded production while maintaining the same recipes. It is located on the banks of the Delaware River in Lambertville, NJ. Lambertville and cross-river [...]
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