American Craft Brewing Week and the Great American Beer Tour
This week (May 15-21) is American Craft Beer Week. I plan on celebrating this occasion by participating in the Great American Beer Tour. The skinny is that tour participants can win prizes by visiting brewpubs and breweries. Each participant downloads and prints out a beer passport (pdf). You then take the passport with you to all the brewpubs and breweries you visit during the week and pester the staff to verify that you were actually there by signing and dating your passport. For each brewpub visited you get 1 point (not to be confused with 1 pint). For each Brewers Association member brewery, you get 2 points. If you are an American Homebrewers Association (AHA) member you get 3 extra points to tack onto your total (one of the perks of being an AHA member). To finish the tour you have to collect 10 points during the week.
I live on Long Island, a place blessed with four brewpubs and a brewery. Here’s my plan to get to 10 points: I’ll visit the Blue Point Brewing Company and Southampton Publick House. Because they are BA members, I’ll get two points each. The three remaining brewpubs, the Brickhouse, Black Forest, and John Harvard’s each get me one point. That’s seven points. Since I’m an AHA member, I get three more points and that gives me 10 points and will entitle me to claim my pair of pint glasses with the Great American Beer Tour logo on them to prove that I am a finalist.
So what’s your plan to get 10 points?
