Not all brewery tours are the same, but it's always exciting to meet the people behind the brew tanks and put a little more personality into your beverage. Most microbrewers love to shoot the breeze with beer enthusiasts. They enjoy their work and like to express why their beer is the best. Beer Festivals are the best way to sample microbrews. Not only is there an unlimited amount of beer to drink, but most of the brewery staff is on hand to tell you all about their creations.
Beer Festivals range in all sizes, but are always at least a third the size they claim to be.
As microbrewed beer becomes more popular beer festivals become better and better every year. Unfortunately I don't have the time to go to every festival, but I'll be sure to keep you informed of the ones that I do attend. When I travel I like to use beer directories suchas Pubcrawler , Beer Expeditions , and Beer Travelers to get the addresses and phone numbers of any place in a city that I can enjoy a good brewski. I am trying to create a beer travel guide of the best places in America to enjoy a beer or two at. This is going to be the most difficult section to complete since it can take quite a bit of time to review all the brewpubs, beer bars, and beer stores in a city.