a year of travel and beer

4/9/2015

This time last year, I had been feeling rather frustrated with the daily routine that was my life. Don't get me wrong, I loved my job and the people I worked with, but I was longing for something more. I found myself constantly looking up destinations on Pinterest every chance I got. I dreamed of visiting these places, meeting new people and eating and drinking the local cuisine and beer.

I had just finished applying to law school and figured that this was the best time to travel and see the world before the casebook readings and lectures began. So I quit my job to see the world. I started by taking a solo trip through the South. I had never traveled alone before. I was terrified and kept second guessing myself. I had just quit a good job with the steady paycheck and was about to start living on student loans, was I insane? I quickly learned that it was the best decision of my life and I have never looked back.

It was this trip through the South that inspired me to start this blog. Originally, this blog was just supposed to be about travel, but it became pretty apparent that visiting breweries and drinking local beer was a big part of traveling for me, so it thus became a travel and beer blog.

This last year I traveled more than I have ever traveled in the rest of my life combined! I spent 22 days traveling through Arizona, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, 2 weeks exploring London, Paris and Dublin and 9 days camping in Arizona, Colorado and Utah. In between trips I toured my home state, California. I also made the move to Oregon for law school and even got to go to Canada in January!

During my travels, I was also very lucky to visit many breweries. From the booming craft beer scene of Austin to the mecca of stouts in Dublin and finally to Beervana in Oregon, I tried a lot of great beer and met a lot of even greater people along the way.

Because I haven't written it down anywhere yet and also because I just wanted to share with ya'll a complete list of which breweries I have visited in the last year, I present to you my list of a year of beer! (pictures of trips and breweries included)

Arizona- Phoenix
1. FATE Brewing Company
2. Four Peaks Brewing Company
3. Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co.
4. SanTan Brewing Company
5. Huss Brewing Company

Texas- Austin (also visited San Antonio and Dallas but didn't visit any breweries)
6. (512) Brewing Company
7. Hops & Grain Brewing
8. Live Oak Brewing Company
9. Austin Beerworks

Louisiana- New Orleans
10. NOLA Brewery

Tennessee- Memphis and Nashville
11. High Cotton Brewing Co.
12. Jackalope Brewing Company
13. Yazoo Brewing Company

England- London
14. The Sherlock Holmes Pub

Paris- no breweries

Ireland- Dublin
15. Guinness Storehouse

Arizona- Grand Canyon and Flagstaff
16. Mother Road Brewing Company
17. Historic Brewing Company

Colorado- Cortez
18. Main Street Brewery

Utah- Moab and Zion
19. The Moab Brewery
20. Zion Canyon Brew Pub

Texas- Austin
21. Oasis Texas Brewing Company
Bonus: Craft Pride and Easy Tiger

California- Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Mt. Shasta
22. Beach City Brewery
23. 21st Amendment Brewery
24. Noble Ale Works
25. Thorn Street Brewery
26. Mike Hess Brewing Company
27. Ohana Brewing Company
28. Progress Brewing
29. Pacific Plate Brewing Company
30. Cerveceria de Mateveza
31. Mt. Shasta Brewing Co.
32. Barley Forge Brewing Co.
Bonus: Beerology exhibit in San Diego

Oregon- Eugene, Portland, Salem and Corvallis
33. Ninkasi Brewing
34. Sam Bond Garage
35. Hop Valley Brewing
36. Rogue Ales
37. McMenamins
38. Elk Horn Brewery
39. Breakside Brewery
40. StormBreaker Brewing
41. Oakshire Brewing
42. Falling Sky Brewing
43. Viking Braggot Company
44. Plank Town Brewing Company
45. Cascade Brewing Barrel House
46. Burnside Brewing
47. Mt. Hood Brewing Co.
48. The Commons Brewery
49. Santiam Brewing
50. WildCraft Cider Works
51. Bunsenbrewer
52. Block 15 Brewing Co.
53. Flat Tail Brewing
54. Manzama Brewing
55. 2 Towns Ciderhouse
56. Hopworks Urban Brewery
Bonus- The Bier Stein