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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Brasserie Saint James, Reno, NV
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Coopersmith’s Pub and Brewing, Ft. Collins, CO
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…
Tagged with: ABV, Beer Pilgrimage, Beer Trail, beercation, Brew Pub, Colorado, Coopersmith, Craft Beer, craft brew, Ft. Collins, The Armstrong, travel
Equinox Brewing, Ft. Collins, CO
Background Equinox Brewing was Fort Collins’ sixth brewery, and its founders, the husband-and-wife team of Colin and Shannon Westcott, never sought to expand beyond the city. In the ‘90s and 2000s, as Colin brewed for Anchorage’s Midnight Sun and led…
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3 Daughters Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL.
Background Mike Harting and Ty Weaver had worked in the food industry for years when they began to brew beer. One day they opted to leave the restaurant business and opened 3 Daughters Brewing in December of 2013. The brewery…
Tagged with: 3 Daughters, Beer Pilgrimage, Beer Trail, beercation, Brew Pub, Craft Beer, St. Petersburg, travel
St. Pete Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL.
Background – St. Pete Brewing Tom Williams and his wife Michelle opened St. Pete Brewing in 2014. Tom has always had a love of beer. While attending Boston University, Tom was inspired by Sam Adams and began home brewing. After…
Green Bench Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL.
Background Named after the iconic green benches that have marked St. Petersburg’s downtown sidewalks since the early 1900s, Green Bench Brewing paved the way for the city’s blossoming craft beer scene when it opened in 2013. Co-owner and brewer Khris…
Tagged with: Beer Pilgrimage, Beer Trail, beercation, brew pubs, Craft Beer, Florida, Green Bench, Khris Johnson, Nathan Stonecipher, St. Petersburg, Steven Duffy
Cycle Brewing, St. Petersburg, FL
Background Doug Dozark opened Cycle Brewing in 2012. Doug started a “nanobrewery” at his parents legendary Gulfport Mexican joint Peg’s Cantina. He thrilled patrons in downtown St. Pete by opening a stand alone brewery on Main Street. Through the years…
Tagged with: Beer Pilgrimage, Beer Trail, beercation, Brew Pub, Craft Beer, craft brew, Cycle Brewing, Florida, IPA, St. Petersburg, travel
Rapp Brewery, Seminole, Florida
Background In 2012 Greg Rapp opened a kickstarter project to raise some funds to get Rapp Brewery opened. Greg Rapp A homebrewer for more than 15 years, turned a hobby and an unfortunate, economically driven career downturn into a new…
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J. Dubs Brewing , Sarasota, Florida
Background – J Dubs Brewing J Dubs Brewing beginnings : in 2003, a Soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, along with one of his buddies and armed with Charlie Papazian’s “The Joy of Home Brewing”, brewed his first (horrible) batch of…
Tagged with: Beer Pilgrimage, Beer Trail, beercation, Brew Pub, Craft Beer, craft brew, IPA, J.Dubs Brewing, Jeremy Joerger, Sarasota, travel
Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin, Florida
Background Dunedin Brewery was founded in 1995 by Michael Norman Bryant, following his deep passion for home-brewing. Officially brewing by 1996, the first keg to be delivered was an Imperial Brown Ale to Skip’s Bar & Grille in Downtown Dunedin.…
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