Are you the kind of person that rates a restaurant by how it handles its beer? I am, at least I will always make that observation.
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I have read Short Course in Beer: An Introduction to Tasting and Talking about the World's Most Civilized Beverage more than once and a chapter I have studied is where the author lists some on the best beer places in the USA. Of course there is Monk's Cafe in Philadelphia and it also mentioned Max's Taphouse in Baltimore. It has been on the road trip short list ever since.
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During a recent business trip to Garrett County, Maryland, a new brew pub, Mountain State Brewing came highly recommended. So, needing a place to eat, I wanted to give it a try.
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I recently read an article Beer Tourism and actually contacted the authors about some of their thoughts. So while recently traveling to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I decided to take this thought into practice. I would be spending four days in Marquette, a beautiful town on the banks of Lake Superior.
So doing a some pre-trip recon I learning there were three local breweries within walking distance of my hotel. Score!
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