This is now on my bucket list.Explore the Mammoth Lakes region, including the unusual basalt rock formations at Devil's Postpile © Min Chiu / Shutterstock Day three: Mammoth Lakes to Lone Pine You need to taste beer fresh from the source to fully appreciate it.Īnd so, go forth and enjoy responsibly. I suppose I could just order bottles through mail, but there’s no fun in that. Not many of them make it out here to California. Personally, I have a lot of east coast beers to try. The northeast looks good, as does the northwest, southern and northern California, and around Denver, Colorado. In the map above, thicker black lines represent areas along the route with more breweries to visit. So the length of your road trip minus 20 days gives you how much leeway you have to stop elsewhere. Time to drink and sober up applies here too, obviously. There are over 1,400 within a five-mile radius along the route. With driving route in hand, and because there are certainly more than 70 excellent breweries in the country, I followed in the footsteps of BreweryMap and found breweries and brewpubs along the way. They’re also about what happens along the way. Of course, road trips aren’t all about the official stops. When you take into account opening times and more importantly, when each brewery is closed, it likely takes a bit longer. You can of course drink what you want at the end of the day and sleep it off, nice and fresh in the morning. This assumes staying near one of the 70 breweries each night.
CALIFORNIA BREWERIES ROAD TRIP PLUS
This figures in a couple of hours at each stop to sample and metabolize (so you don’t drive drunk), plus driving time in between each place. If your only goal is to sample the beers at each of the top breweries, it takes you about 20 days. You have to backtrack some to get to the Michigan breweries, but if you’re gonna do this, you might was well do it right. You stop in 28 states and pass through a total of 40. Taking the route above, a trip to 70 breweries, you get about 197 hours of drive time across 12,299 miles.
Two breweries on the list - Clown Shoes in Ipswich, Massachusetts and the Alchemist in Waterbury, Vermont - are currently closed to the public, but I leave them on the map because they aren’t totally out of the way and maybe they will open some day. I omitted two breweries: Evil Twin, because it’s a gypsy brewery that originated in Denmark, without an official place to visit and Anchorage Brewing Company in Alaska, because if you’re in the conterminous United States, you probably need another reason to go that far north by road other than a brewery visit.
I applied Olson’s solution to breweries to get the order in which to visit them in the least miles possible. He computed an optimal road trip to visit a historical landmark in each state.įorget that though. Randal Olson found a pretty good solution using genetic algorithms and the Google Maps API. You don’t want to pick breweries willy nilly, unless you’re a fan of driving aimlessly across the country. If we know where we want to go already, the next step is to figure out what route to take. However, visiting the best breweries is something worth thinking about.Ĭommunity beer and brewery review site RateBeer puts out a list every year of the top 100 breweries in the world, “according to reviews taken last year and weighted by performance within and outside of style, balanced by indicators of depth.” From this year’s list, 72 of the breweries are based in the United States. Unless your job is to drink beer every day, visiting every brewery is probably not a practical goal to strive for. So there’s a lot of good beer out there - and yet so little time. In 2014, the Brewer’s Association put the United States count at 3,464, with about 1,800 microbreweries and 1,400 brewpubs. There are thousands of craft breweries in the United States (and the world) that make delicious beer.
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