As has been my tradition for the last couple of years, my final blog entry for the year reviews my brewery visits during the previous 12 months. This year I visited a total of 63 different breweries. That is an average of one brewery every 5.79 days. Overall, I visited three less breweries in 2019 than I did in 2018. Of the 63 breweries, 14 were in my home state of Ohio, 46 were in other parts of the United States (excluding Ohio), while three were outside of the United States. In addition to Ohio, I visited breweries in 10 different states – California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Of the 63 breweries I visited, I had been to 15 before (indicated in italics in the lists below). Late in the year, I did manage to visit some breweries outside of the United States. A late-November trip to the Netherlands afforded me the opportunity to visit three breweries in Amsterdam, two of which I had been to before. The most breweries I visited in one day was six – when I participated in The Napa Beer Mile in Napa, CA in February. The city where I visited the most breweries was Charlotte, NC. During a trip there in October I visited nine breweries. At the start of 2019, I set myself a target of visiting 52 different breweries during the year. I easily hit that target. I will set myself an identical target for 2020.
Below you will find a list of all the craft breweries that I visited during 2019. Following this list, you will find one photograph from each of the places that I visited. I hope that you enjoy these. They are intended to capture the beauty and diversity of craft beer and the places that brew and sell it.
Ohio Breweries (14)
- 4KD Crick Brewery, Defiance, OH
- Bait House Brewery, Sandusky, OH
- Carillon Brewing Co., Dayton, OH
- Catawba Island Brewing Company, Port Clinton, OH
- Earnest Brew Works, Toledo, OH
- Fifty West Brewing Company, Cincinnati, OH
- Findlay Brewing Company, Findlay, OH
- Grainworks Brewing Company, West Chester Township, OH
- Inside The Five Brewing Company, Sylvania, OH
- Maumee Bay Brewing Company, Toledo, OH
- Neon Groundhog Brewery, Grand Rapids, OH
- Patron Saints Brewery, Toledo, OH
- Sonder Brewing, Mason, OH
- Two Bandits Brewing Co., Hicksville, OH
US Non-Ohio Breweries (46)
- Against the Grain Brewery, Louisville, KY
- Anchor Brewing Company, San Francisco, CA
- Antietam Brewery, Hagerstown, MD
- Atwater Brewery, Detroit, MI
- Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company, Austin, TX
- Beer Church Brewing Co., New Buffalo, MI
- Birdsong Brewing Company, Charlotte, NC
- Black Narrows Brewing Company, Chincoteague Island, VA
- Bluegrass Brewing Company, Louisville. KY
- Brewers at 4001 Yancey, Charlotte, NC
- Corner Brewery, Ypsilanti, MI
- Dented Keg Brewing Company, Mars, PA
- Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant, Napa, CA
- Draught House Pub & Brewery, Austin, TX
- Ghost Isle Brewery, New Buffalo, MI
- Goodwood Brewing Co., Louisville, KY
- Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co., Madison, WI
- Haymarket Brewing, Bridgman, MI
- Heist Brewery, Charlotte, NC
- Hillsboro Brewing Company, Hillsboro, WI
- Hops & Grain Brewing, Austin, TX
- Lazarus Brewing Co., Austin, TX
- Legion Brewing, Charlotte, NC
- Live Oak Brewing Company, Austin, TX
- Napa Palisades Beer Company, Napa, CA
- Oddwood Ales, Austin, TX
- Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Charlotte, NC
- Pavlov’s Brewing Company, Temperance, MI
- Pilot Brewing Company, Charlotte, NC
- Pinthouse Pizza, Austin, TX
- Protagonist, Charlotte, NC
- Railroad City Brewing Company, Altoona, PA
- RAR Brewing, Cambridge, MD
- Resident Culture Brewing, Charlotte, NC
- Round Barn Brewery & Public House, Baroda, MI
- South Bend Brew Werks, South Bend, IN
- Southern Tier Brewery, Pittsburgh PA
- Springfield Manor Brewery, Thurmont, MD
- St. Clair Brown Winery & Brewery, Napa, CA
- St. Elmo Brewing Company, Austin, TX
- Stone Brewing, Napa, CA
- Tannery Bend Beerworks, Napa, CA
- Tapistry Brewing Company, Bridgman, MI
- Trade Brewing, Napa, CA
- Wooden Robot Brewery – The Chamber, Charlotte, NC
- Working Draft Beer Company, Madison, WI
Non-US Breweries (3)
- Bierfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- De Bekeerde Suster, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brouwerij de Prael, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
