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Super Bowl means tailgating and, at least here at Road Trips for Beer, tailgating means some tasty local brews in the cooler. However, because Indianapolis hosts Super Bowl XLVI this year, fans partying pre-game outside …
The 2011 Beer Bloggers Conference in Portland, Oregon, certainly ranks as one of our top road trips of the year. Though the days were spent in sessions – admittedly, sometimes accompanied by beer – the …
How would you like to take a Road Trip for Beer to Montana, and have a chance to win a year’s supply of brew – all on the brewery’s dime?
One of our favorite breweries-that-we-have-not-yet-visited is …
Ordinarily, Road Trips for Beer publishes the Weekend Beer Forecast each Wednesday to alert road trippers about beer festivals and other brew-related events during the upcoming weekend.
However, since the holiday season means the slow season …
Story and photos by Carmel L. Mooney
What happens when three friends and home brewing beer geeks get together on an idea? Something truly wonderful if you’re talking Big Sky Brewing Co. in Missoula, Montana, where …
Every little boy responds with a glamorous job title when asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”
Firefighter, cowboy, race car driver – or astronaut. I was no exception, and when I …
Firestone Walker’s Oaktoberfest beer festival is coming back for the seventh time on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, and returning to the Avila Beach Golf Resort in Avila Beach, California. And as always a portion of …
Story and photos by Nick Puglisi, correspondent
Being a lifelong East Coaster, trips to California don’t come as often as they should. So, when my wife and I planned our California vacation this year, we decided …
Congratulations to Mary Rutemeyer, whose comment was chosen randomly as the winner of the two tickets to Kingsport Oktoberfest. Enjoy, and Prost!
Oktoberfest starts today in Munich, Germany. But face it. Many of us in the …
By Tonya Vots
Rocket City U.S.A., otherwise known as Huntsville, Alabama, is developing a reputation for producing quality craft beer.
Within the past three years, local breweries including Straight to Ale, Yellowhammer Brewing, and Blue Pants Brewing, …
We preview a lot of beer festivals for this site, but we don’t write about most of them. The main reason?
There’s just too damn many these days, and our team of writers (mostly me) just …
Beervana at last!
Road Trips for Beer editor Gerard Walen will arrive in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday to attend the second annual Beer Bloggers Conference.
Beer writers and bloggers will descend on Portland from Friday to Sunday …
By Tonya Vots, Correspondent
Update: CONGRATULATIONS to Jay Ashmore, winner of the tickets to the Atlanta German Bier Fest. Stay tuned, there will be more giveaways coming up soon.
Chalk up another one for the spectacular list …
A beer festival on Labor Day weekend in Maine will build on the Pine Street State’s growing craft beer market. And it would be a fantastic Road Trip for Beer, especially if you pick up …
Summer has arrived with a vengeance across the South this year, but as summer began some Northern states were still digging out from record snowfalls. However, a sure sign of summer is the beer festival, …
Story, Photos and Video by Ryan Whaley
In the Colorado Rockies, the winter of 2010-2011 never quit. I’ve lived in the high country for five years and love playing in the snow, but this year it …
Philly Beer Week starts this weekend and as it does every year, the City of Brotherly Love opens its doors and taps for brew-loving residents and road trippers alike. Craft beer fans would be hard-pressed …
Elvis did it. Celine Dion did it. Barry Manilow’s doing it. And now craft beer has signed on for a long-term engagement in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas World Beer Fest will kick off October 13, …
UPDATE: We have our winners – Susan Maloney and David Tolan. You’ll each need to contact me at gerard@roadtripsforbeer.com so I can send you the details. Congratulations.
The Great Northern Beer Festival was named to …
(UPDATE: Congratulations to commenter Ryan McCartney, winner of the tickets to the festival. Thanks to everyone who entered. You can still get a discount on advance tickets. Read on to find out).
Most beer festivals …
Ever thought of taking a Road Trip for Beer to Long Island, New York? If not, you might want to reconsider and plan on hitting Long Island in mid-May because it was just announced that …
Road Trips for Beer can work both ways. Usually, we go to the beer. But sometimes, the beer comes to us.
Our friends at Great Northern Brewery Co. in Whitefish, Montana, were kind enough to send …
Most of the country is thawing out from an especially brutal winter this year, which means sunnier, longer days and mild temperatures as the early spring weather predicted this year by groundhog prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil …
Zephyr Adventures, the adventure tour operator that organizes the Beer Bloggers Conference, is combining those two areas of expertise to offer a six-day Hike, Bike & Beer Adventure in the areas of Yellowstone and Grand …
Take a road trip to California and return to that glorious day in 1933 when word reached the saloons and speakeasies of the United States that Prohibition ended. There were no shiny aluminum kegs tapped …
