This is a vast and beautiful country we live in. It has a rich history and many regional and local cultures and customs. In our travels, we are exploring the country by traveling its highways, meeting its people and drinking its beer. The Traveling Growler covers our efforts to visit communities throughout the United States, and sample locally made beer. We are visiting local microbreweries and filling our HydroFlask Growler with whatever is recommended or sounds good, and writing about our experiences.
The Traveling Growler
The Traveling Growler at (512) Brewing Company, Austin, TX
April 16, 2012 By 2 Comments
Sometime you find greatness through hard work, research and perseverance, and other times you just plain trip over it. Our journey brought us to Austin, TX and I found (512) Brewing Company out of sheer luck. While we were in Austin, we found ourselves exactly eight months into our one-year trip around the US, with [...]
Traveling Growler in Albuquerque, NM
April 5, 2012 By 8 Comments
In mid-March, we crossed into New Mexico from West Texas and found ourselves in a land more hospitable to beer lovers. While we had some great experiences with Texas breweries, their beer laws were a little confounding. We spent a warm Sunday touring a National Park and museum, and felt that the best way to spend [...]
The Traveling Growler at the Pensacola Bay Brewery, Pensacola, Florida
February 15, 2012 By 2 Comments
Our travels have taken us around second base (Florida), so we have made the turn and are heading for home. I made a couple of great visits to Cigar City Brewing in Tampa and Swamp Head in Gainesville, so I was encouraged when I stopped by the Pensacola Bay Brewery in Florida’s panhandle. While the previous breweries set the bar high, [...]
Growlers and Growler Laws Across the US
February 3, 2012 By 2 Comments
Where to start on this one? Well, I suppose I should start at the beginning. First, this is my first participation in the Session. I have been blogging for about a year and writing about beer for about six months. Second, my family and I are taking a year to travel around the US in [...]
The Traveling Growler at Swamp Head Brewing, Gainesville, FL
January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Traveling Growler is back and it feels good! For the second time in two weeks, I have been able to visit a brewery and fill a growler, and this weeks visit was a good stop! While sampling a flight at Cigar City, I asked them a question that has become a standard one at all [...]
The Traveling Growler Visits Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
January 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Traveling Growler has been stuck in the closet for almost two months, but it is back in action. Sort of. The Hydroflask growler has not seen a lot of action due to our itinerary and state laws governing the use of growlers, but we resumed our brewery visits on the Gulf Coast of Florida [...]
Traveling Growler at Weeping Radish Brewery and Butcher Shop
December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Traveling Growler is now a (Budweiser) Beermaster
December 20, 2011 By 3 Comments
I am officially a Beermaster and have the certificate to prove it, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch. I did not get this honor through years of school or marathon beer sampling sessions. I just went to the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Jacksonville, paid them money and took a two-hour, in-depth tour of the plant. We arrived in Florida [...]
Notes from the Traveling Growler
December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My efforts to fill my Hydroflask growler hit a bump a couple months back. There were no problems, just roadblocks including state laws, travel routes, timing and big cities. But that does not mean we were not sampling local products. Below are summaries of places we did visit and/or beers we sampled: [...]
Traveling Growler at Folly Beach Brewing
December 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Hydroflask growler had been gathering dust, and this was due to so many reasons: state laws; few breweries on our route, lack of time to stop….it was time to break it out again. Unlike its neighbors to the north (North Carolina, Virginia), South Carolina allows breweries to fill growlers that are not their own, [...]
