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2019 Year In Review

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)

US Non-Ohio Breweries (46)

Non-US Breweries (3)

Downtown Joe’s Brewery & Restaurant, Napa, CA
Bierfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
St. Elmo Brewing Company, Austin, TX
Round Barn & Brewery Public House, Baroda, MI
Catawba Island Brewing Company, Port Clinton, OH
Lazarus Brewing Co., Austin, TX
Pilot Brewing Company, Charlotte, NC
Goodwood Brewing Co., Louisville, KY
Inside the Five Brewing Company, Sylvania, OH
Pavlov’s Brewing Company, Temperance, MI
Earnest Brew Works, Toledo, OH
Black Narrows Brewing Company, Chincoteague Island, VA
Carillon Brewing Co., Dayton, OH
Birdsong Brewing Company, Charlotte, NC
Oddwood Ales, Austin, TX
Tannery Bend Beerworks, Napa, CA
Wooden Robot Brewery – The Chamber, Charlotte, NC
Sonder Brewing, Mason, OH
Against the Grain Brewery, Louisville, KY
Working Draft Beer Company, Madison, WI
Springfield Manor Brewery, Thurmont, MD
Resident Culture Brewing, Charlotte, NC
Fifty West Brewing Company, Cincinnati, OH
Brouwerij de Prael, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Southern Tier Brewery, Pittsburgh, PA
Neon Groundhog Brewery, Grand Rapids, OH
Live Oak Brewing Company, Austin, TX
Corner Brewery, Ypsilanti, MI
Protagonist, Charlotte, NC
South Bend Brew Werks, South Bend, IN e
Atwater Brewery, Detroit, MI
RAR Brewing, Cambridge, MD
Draught House Pub & Brewery, Austin, TX
Brewers at 4001 Yancey, Charlotte, NC
Ghost Isle Brewery, New Buffalo, MI
Der Bekeerde Suster, Amsterdam. The Netherlands
Hillsboro Brewing Company, Hillsboro, WI
Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company, Austin, TX
Findlay Brewing Company, Findlay, OH
Two Bandits Brewing Co., Hicksville, OH
Stone Brewing, Napa, CA
Patron Saints Brewery, Toledo, OH
St. Clair Winery & Brewery, Napa, CA
Pinthouse Pizza, Austin, TX
Bluegrass Brewing Company, Louisville, KY
Heist Brewery, Charlotte, NC
Hops & Grain Brewing, Austin, TX
Beer Church Brewing Co., New Buffalo, MI
Great Dane Pub & Brewing Co., Madison, WI
Olde Mecklenburg Brewery, Charlotte, NC
Anchor Brewing Company, San Francisco, CA
Bait House Brewery, Sandusky, OH
4KD Crick Brewery, Defiance, OH
Napa Palisades Brewing, Napa, CA
Grainworks Brewing Company, West Chester Township, OH
Railroad City. Brewing Company, Altoona, PA
Tapistry Brewing Company, Bridgman, MI
Legion Brewing, Charlotte, NC
Dented Keg Brewing Company, Mars, PA
Maumee Bay Brewing Company, Toledo, OH
Haymarket Brewing, Bridgman, MI
Trade Brewing, Napa, CA