The Master Brewery List - The Hoppy Flight Attendant

I wasn’t kidding when I said I will travel for beer. The following list has been broken into several sections based on where they’re located. Any breweries with a * next to them I highly recommend checking out. Just because a brewery is on this list doesn’t mean I loved it, just means I went there & I drank a beer. If you have any recommendations on breweries I should check out please comment below. Also feel free to contact me if you are planning a trip soon and want any more info I would love to help! Also any references to ‘we’ means I went their with my wonderful boyfriend who is just as much a beer snob as I am.

Hampton Roads, VA

O’Connor Brewing Co.* (Order a Great Dismal Black IPA)
Smartmouth (Recently famous for their Lucky Charms IPA)
Rip Rap
Bench Top
Bold Mariner
Back bay
Home Republic
Bearded Bird
Wasserhund Brewing Company
Young Vets
Reaver
Green Flash (location closed)
Commonwealth*
PleaseHouse
Coelacanth
Gordon Biersch (A chain. We went to their location in VA beach)

Washington D.C. Area

Atlas
Bardo
Capital City
Rock Bottom (A chain that we just happened to visit here for the first time)

Final Gravity in Richmond. Great place to stop if you also need some brewing equipment!

Indianapolis Area

Quaff On* (Get the Strawberry Blonde!)
Mettazoa* (Their flight boards come in different animal shapes)
Planetary
Mashcraft
Black Swan

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Bald Man Brewing* (I always order a Tupelo Honey & used to go there after a stressful day in the skies when I was based there)
Surly
Lakes & Legends*
Pryes
Wabasha
Bad Weather

Hank Hudson in Mechanicville, NY. Every year a new Capital Craft Beverage Trail passport comes out & you get rewards based on how many you visit.

Stowe, Vermont

Idletyme
Alchemist (you get to sip a few of their beers but they’ve got plenty of cans for sale to take home)
Von Trapp*
Stowe Cider

Boston Area

Sam Adams (Duh, you have to go. They do an amazing FREE tour with beer at the end)
Democracy
Harpoon (get a pretzel, seriously)
Lamplighter*
Cambridge
Notch (Salem)
Aeronaut
Boston Beer Works
Dorchester
Nightshift*
Trillium

Check out my Blog Post where I go more in depth about my favorite Boston Brews!

Asheville, NC

Bhramari*
Wicked Weed
Green Man
Burial
Twin Leaf
Catawba*
New Belgium*
Sierra Nevada*
Highland*

Miscellaneous

Squatters* & Red Rock in Salt Lake City, UT
Bemidji Brewing in MN
Bricktown in Oklahoma City
Forager in Rochester, MN
Tamarack in Kalispell, MT
Sweetwater in Atlanta, GA
Heineken in Amsterdam
White Dog in Boise, ID
Goldwater in Phoenix, AZ
Deschutes in Portland, OR
Stone Brewing @ Liberty Station in San Diego, CA
Lost Forty* & Rebel Kettle in Little Rock, AR
Grand Rapids Brewing* in MI
Maui Brewing Co. Hawaii
49th State* & Broken Tooth* in AK

O’Connor Brewing Co. in Norfolk, VA. The first brewery I ever went to, thus starting this list of breweries!

Richmond, VA

Legend
Strangeways (Perfect for sour beer drinkers!)
Hardywood
Center of the Universe
Stone (loved this location, can’t wait to check out the ones in CA)
Final Gravity
Triple Crossing

Pittsburgh, PA

The Church Brew Works* (Yes, it’s in an old church & totally worth seeing)
Southern Tier* (Haven’t made it to their original NY location but they are one of my top 5 favorite breweries. If you haven’t had Warlock get it before the fall season is over!)
Mindful Brewing

Quaff ON! also known as Big Woods & they have several locations in Indiana (Franklin, Speedway, Bloomington, and Nashville)

Albany/Saratoga Springs Area

Druthers (3 locations)
Artisanal
Schmaltz
Alewerks
CommonRoots* (They have amazing beer & their staff is always so nice. They’re currently running out of a smaller taproom & rebuilding their brewery after a huge fire this year)
R.S. Taylor & Sons (we haven’t made it out to their actual brewery but they have a cozy bar in downtown Saratoga Springs)
Wolf Hollow
Great Flats*
Mad Jack
Racing City
Hank Hudson
Unified
Rare Form
Brown’s Brewing
Northway*
Nine Pin Cider
Frog Alley*
Indian Ladder Farms Cidery & Brewery
The Real McCoy
Fort Orange
C.H. Evans

Lamplighter, Cambridge Brewing, Harpoon, and Trillium)

Portland, Maine

Rising Tide*
Oxbow (great for Saisons)
Goodfire
Lonepine
Liquid Riot
Shipyard
Gritty McDuffs Brew Pub
Sebago
Bunker
Seadog
Maine Brew Co.*
Allagash*
Foundation
Austin Street
Battery Steele
Definitive

Charlotte, NC

Olde Mecklenburg
SugarCreek
Brewers at 4001 Yancey* (A collaboration between Victory, SixPoint, and my favorite Southern Tier)
Wooden Robot

Flight from 4001 Yancey, 3 amazing breweries in 1.

Utica, NY

Woodland Farm
Saranac (also known as Utica Club, also known as F.X. Matt, also known as the only thing keeping this town alive)
Copper City
16 Stone*
Ommegang* (Cooperstown, NY)

I went to Arkansas just because it was my last state to go to & guess what all I did was go to breweries & fly back home.

Well that’s a wrap guys. I’ll keep this Master Brewery List updated as I go along my travels & please don’t hesitate to comment, share, like and ask me any questions you have! I’d also love to see if anyone else has a brewery list they would like to share!