After 14 hours in the car we reached Aaron’s place at 6am on Thursday (Aaron is Jeff's friend from college). Just as he was getting up to go to work, we pulled in to fall asleep with a vengeance! We woke up 4 or 5 hours later, and it was time to begin again. We called up the owners of Terrapin Beer, first and foremost, to find out where we could grab a few pints of their tasty brew and pick up some to bring home. We were after their Monster Beer series, and we had traveled far for it! With this information in hand, we took off for the liquor store where we found Imperial Pilsner and Rye Squared, as well as their flagship offering, Rye Pale Ale.

Aaron had no idea what type of beer store was right around the corner! I saw things you just can’t get up in MA (so as not to offend our good friends who run beer departments up here, I’m going to add the note that it was for distribution reasons, not because you guys lack anything… We can get stuff up here that is unavailable down there as well).

We then headed off to Sweetwater Brewing. It turns out their tours are, well, more like parties really. I was basically walking into a bar where $8 gets you a pint glass (to keep) and 6 drink tickets to try their beer. Obviously a great deal!

After sampling a few, we took the tour. They have a great setup and the people working there were really into it.


Unfortunately for us, the 6 tickets proved too much as we still had to drive, (never drink craft beer and drive) we gave away the balance of our drink tickets to some guys we’d been talking about our trip and home brewing with. They were psyched!

We went straight to Taco Mac, which had been recommended to us by the guys from Terrapin. This place was amazing; it had the tap selection of Sunset Grill in Allston, but had beer that is unavailable on our home turf. Aaron met up and we grabbed some pints of Terrapin Imperial Pilsner, Gordon Double IPA from Oskar Blues and some other stuff with dinner. Then it was time to go out to the Atlanta bars…which is a story for a different time.

We woke around 10 on Friday morning to go to Pennsylvania and Field’s house (Field is one of Jeff’s college roommates). We showed up around 1 in the morning and went to bed.

The next day we went to Iron Hill Brewpub for lunch, check it out now!

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