Out of the Cubicle onto the Open Road
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 [...]
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 [...]
EDIT 4/2/2013: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BACK IN FEBRUARY 2012 AND WAS BASED ON OUR TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCES FILLING OUR COLLECTION OF GROWLERS. WHILE IT IS ACCURATE IN THAT IT IS BASED ON OUR EFFORTS AT THAT TIME, THERE HAVE BEEN CHANGES IN LAWS SINCE THEN. SOMEONE SHOULD PRODUCE AN ARTICLE SHOWING CURRENT STATE LAWS [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This review is my first effort to review an entire brewing community. When we were mapping out our route and places we wanted to visit, Asheville, NC was near the top of my list. I had heard that Asheville was the Bend of the east, and/or Bend was the Asheville of the West. A lot [...]
The Traveling Growler has unfortunately been gathering dust for a couple of weeks. This is in part due to the fact that we ave been in big cities (New York, Philadelphia) and filling and carrying half a gallon of beer is tough under these circumstances. Also, we have been dealing with a myriad of state [...]
I have to admit that Samuel Adams was the first microbrew I ever had. So when we visited Boston, I felt a strong need to visit the Boston Brewing Company facility there. While the company produces most of their for-sale inventory outside of Boston, they still create all of their new and seasonal brews in the original [...]
The growler was not filled in this stop, but that was the only disappointing part of our visit. While we were in Vermont, we planned to hit the Ben and Jerry’s factory for a tour. So while we were in town, I tried to fill the growler. After visiting the ice cream factory and trying their new Schweddy [...]
