Since opening in 2014, Platform (4125 Lorain Ave.) has established itself as a hip destination. The 5,000-square-foot red-brick building once housed a small bowling alley. Now, an old-style arcade bowling game welcomes visitors as they enter, stainless steel fermenters line the area behind a long bar, and an outdoor beer garden beckons in the nice... View Article
Texas has no shortage of odd liquor laws. Texans have long had to deal with regulations that prohibit alcohol sales on Sunday, spawn hour-long beer runs in the middle of large dry counties and create a jigsaw puzzle of small “wet” and “dry” municipalities overlaying large urban areas. Growing up in Dallas, we learned at... View Article
Politics aside, America is a nation bursting at the seams with people and places—and beers—that make it great. It’s a nation founded on big ideas, big endeavors and big cities (and bigger open prairies, woods and mountain ranges). From the giant redwoods to the Grand Canyon to, uh, the Super Bowl, this is the land... View Article
Courtyard Brewery’s tiny warehouse space sits in the shadow of the Crescent City Connection, linking the East Bank (which is on the west side of the river) to the West Bank (on the east side on the river). It’s the most traveled bridge across the Mighty Mississippi, and by the time Courtyard (1020 Erato... View Article
I live in a part of Portland, Oregon, so riddled with breweries that three opened mere blocks apart within a span of eight days—Scout Beer, Mt Tabor Brewing and Wayfinder Beer—bringing the brewery population in a one-mile radius to 13. But la-di-da, Portland’s gotta lotta breweries. With the Brewers Association’s year-end announcement that just before... View Article
There’s a city by the bay made popular in song, books and film, but there’s a town by the bay equally deserving of a visit—especially for its beer. Oakland, California, known to locals as The Town and not to be confused with The City (San Francisco), is home to burgeoning breweries, tucked-away beer gardens and... View Article
For years, the tiny crossroads town of Poncha Springs was a place that scores of travelers would pass through, but few would stay longer than it took to fill a gas tank. Then, in 2012, Elevation Beer Co. opened, and the south-central Colorado community quickly established itself as a preferred destination among Colorado beer explorers. Poncha... View Article
It’s the big juxtaposed with the small that makes Bonsai Brewing Project stand out. Built in a modest ranch-style yellow house in Whitefish, Montana, not far from the area’s most prominent natural landmark, Big Mountain—a hulking, rugged uplift slashed with downhill ski runs—Bonsai (549 Wisconsin Ave.) takes its name from the tiny, meticulously manicured Japanese... View Article
It’s not just farm-to-glass at Bale Breaker Brewing Co., it’s farm-in-the-glass, where you are encouraged to pick a couple of the Cascade hop cones growing just feet away and plop them in your ale. The sticky yellow lupulin powder loosens from its tight package of paper-thin petals, creating an extra fresh-hop kick in a pint... View Article
