Hello and welcome to our new blog and website! I guess Andrew decided to make things almost legitimate, so goodbye tumblr and hello beerventurers.com. If you’re here, I’m assuming its because you’re our friends and you’re humoring us in this. So thanks guys!
The beginning of 2016 is as good a place to start as any. Maybe I’ll go back one day to the beginning of our travels, but not now. Anyways, we started 2016 with some old favorites, both brewery-wise and friend-wise. After eating our hangover brunch and playing some outdoor new year’s jenga, we headed over to Branford, CT to visit Thimble Island Brewing Company. We first visited Thimble Island back in 2013 and its been great to see them grow each time we’ve been back. They expanded from a tiny garage space to a gorgeous tap room! They also started a great trend of new breweries in the Branford area (Duvig, Overshores and Stony Creek) and I really should get over there more often. But we got some flights with a groupon (thanks Hildawg!) and played a couple rounds of Uno and then headed over to Mikro in Hamden, CT for some more beer and food. Nothing stood out too much, but everything was good.
The next day, we ventured over to Oxford, CT to go to one of my all time favorite breweries, OEC. If you like sours, this is the place to go. Flights are a little pricey, but its definitely worth a visit. Plus, the beer names sound like they came straight from Harry Potter, so that’s a plus!
After the beer was done and Cards Against Humanity determined that I was in fact the worst human in our group, we headed down the street to Black Hog and got a flight and a pint of Disco Pig 3.1. The Disco Pig series has been hit or miss for me but this one was definitely delicious and we may have walked out with a couple bottles to age.
Then we went over to Pies and Pints in Middlebury, CT for some food. Much to our disappointment the pies refers to pizza pies and actual pies. But luckily, the pizzas are great so I wasn’t too sad in the end. They also have a great rotating tap list in addition to their own house brews so we got a vertical flight of Imperial Stout Trouper by NEBCO (does 2 count as a flight?), Alternate World by Kent Falls and Berliner Weisse Tart Cherry by Back East. Yay CT beer!
Another new CT brewery just had its soft opening last weekend, and there are more coming on the horizon. We also have to work on Jersey, plan a Long Island trip, and maybe a road trip out west! So lots of beer in 2016!
New breweries: 0
Breweries visited in 2016: 4
Total Breweries: 204
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Looking forward to following your beer adventures from the other-side of the world.. Good luck and enjoy ..
Thank you Bob! Hopefully we can visit Australia one day and try all your local beers! Cheers!