Background Jon Bloostein with Heartland Brewing began serving its lineup of craft beers in 1995, at a location in Union Square. In 2004 Heartland expanded into the Empire State Building. In 2009 Heartland opened a brewpub inside the Port Authority Bus …

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Background Mike Mallozzi and Myles Stone, opened Borderlands Brewing  in downtown Tucson in 2011. The brewery, in the Tucson Warehouse Arts District is in a brick building with wooden exposed rafters that was built in the early 1900s. Voltron Brewing …

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Background – Brasserie Saint James Arthur Farley purchased a historic icehouse in 2010 and two years later, opened Brasserie Saint James, a restaurant and brewery using the water from the property’s celebrated artesian wells.  In 1929, the owners of the icehouse …

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Tahoe Mountain Brewing is a great little brewpub as you are traveling around Lake Tahoe.  I loved the Hop Song IPA, fantastic pine nose and excellent flavor.  All the beers were flavorful and they have the most unique flight.  If …

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Background – Coopersmith’s Pub and Brewing Though prohibition in Fort Collins ended in 1969, the breweries that would become a staple in Western college town culture did not arrive for another twenty years. It was Fort Collins’ status as a college …

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