Brew Tour '09
Summer started cold and wet as Patti and I began our 3rd annual pop-em-up summer journey nestled in the heights of Rocky Mountain National Park this year...so, what did we do to kill time...road trip! Before we grasped the gravity of our situation, we had stumbled on, 'round and into a quantity of quality brew pubs, growlers and pints!
That infamous day in June we gathered five breweries and a mission for the balance of the year, harvest as many barley concerns as possible in the limited malted environment we live in and about, labeled Utah.
Colorado is a pretty great place to explore beer, with so many places dispensing draft, I began to taste, smell and even see the differences...hoping from joint to joint I begin to move past the obvious and to sense the subtle differences in brew styles and breweries...some establishments have their adult beverages dialed, others building decor/atmosphere and occasionally both blend and it takes a church key to get me out of the edifice.
We have called on thirty breweries dating back to June so far, including the six western states of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. I could wax on and on about all thirty places we visited, but that would even bore me...instead, it's going to be the TOP TEN moments of the brew tour!
I'm going to pinch one of Paul Harvey's lines to commence my journey..."Hello bog! This is Johnnymac, stand by for gossip!
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