Visit a local microbrewery
June 20th, 2008
I don’t know about you, but nothing quenches my summer thirst like a good refreshing microbrew. A nice feature about the local breweries is that many of them offer a guided tour of how beer is made. Sometimes they will even let you have a small sample of some of their wares! I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a great staycation idea to me! You’ll be amazed at the science and the technology that goes into making one of the world’s oldest and favorite drinks.
The problem is, especially when you are traveling or new to an area, is finding a brewery nearby. One of my favorite tools for finding a microbrew is The Beer Mapping Project the creator of this site has gone to great lengths to map just about every microbrew and brew pub. He also done a great job of including lots of tools and interactive content like reviews and forums. They also just released a Google Homepage widget that displays a random “location of the day” You can download the beer widget here
Funny little sidenote. I actually started my own beer mapping project at: Beerfindit.com before I discovered The Beer Mapping Project. Sometimes, you just have to know when you have been beat.
You can also make your own microbrews at home!
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