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Session #29: Traveling For Beer

July 3, 2009 By Jay Brooks 3 Comments

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I just returned from yet another trip to visit beer destinations, in this case beer gardens in Queens and Brooklyn, an emerging trend there. So it’s fitting that The Session is all about traveling for beer. Our 29th monthly trip is hosted by Beer by Bart tourguides Gail and Steve.

Their chosen topic is “Will Travel For Beer,” which they describe as follows:

If you see the words “travel” and “beer” and instead of your best tourist sagas you think of work or logistics, we want to know your tips and strategies on the road. (Perhaps for getting prized bottles home.)

And if you haven’t done much travel for fine beer, either for work or pleasure, but you have a trip you’d love to do, tell us where you’d like to go seeking the experience and the community of beer. Who would you want to meet at your destination, who would your travel-mates be, and what would you most want to taste when you arrived?

Details please, whichever way you take this! You’re welcome to pull out the vacation slide show if you wish. By all means have a beer that reminds you of the trip, and describe it if you wish. This episode of The Session goes up on Friday July 3rd, 2009. Finish early and maybe you can go someplace for the weekend!

For me, beer and travel are inextricably linked. I can’t really imagine them being separated from one another. Travel is beer, at least for me. Of course, unlike most people I do this for a living — or try to — and so it makes sense that any time I go somewhere, even if it’s just a family vacation, I also check out the beer scene, what breweries are there, etc. I spent my honeymoon visiting breweries in the Pacific Northwest. Frankly, I don’t travel nearly enough but with two young kids it’s not always possible.

beer-world-map

I’m actually behind in putting up photos of all my beer trips, but time is short these days and deadlines are always looming, so I’m working on it. But there are still quite a few you can see at the old photo gallery. I’ve started moving them all over to a Flickr Pro account, where you’ll be able to more photos from all of the events, since I don’t have to worry about taxing my server there.

I’d say my favorite trip would have to be to the Traquair House Brewery located in Traquair House, Scotland’s oldest continuously inhabited home. You have to take two buses south from Edinburgh, and then walk about 2 miles from town to get to the house. It’s pretty remote and completely worth the effort. The house has secret passageways, a hedge maze and an unimaginably old brewery. My photos from that trip are on film, so one of these days I’ll have to scan those pictures. Until then, here’s a shot from the Traquair House website.

traquair

Filed Under: The Session Tagged With: Photo Gallery, Scotland, Travel



Comments

  1. Michael Reinhardt says

    July 4, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Travel and beer are linked for me, too. I don’t ever go anywhere without having some plans and expectations about what I can get and where.

    Reply
  2. Gail says

    July 4, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    Thanks Jay! What an amazing map that is.

    The Session round-up is now up at http://beerbybart.com/2009/07/04/the-session-will-travel-for-beer-roundup-29/

    I haven’t seached for twitter tags yet, I spose there could be other Session #29 posts out there too.

    Reply
  3. Scott-TheBrewClub says

    July 5, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Its easier now I think than ever to get beers from parts of the world that were not available before.

    Still, a nice thing about visiting a different place, even domestically, is getting a feel for local life and culture by trying some of the local beer.

    Reply

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