This is the time of year when many people reflect about the year that is coming to an end. So as I was thinking about a topic for my final blog entry of 2017, I thought I’d compile an inventory of the
breweries I visited during the last twelve months.

During 2017, I visited forty-six breweries. That’s an average of a different brewery every 7.9 days. Twenty-two were in Ohio, a further twelve were inside the United States (but outside Ohio), and twelve were outside of the United States. Outside of Ohio, I visited breweries in Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas, while outside of the United States I visited breweries in Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Of the forty-six breweries, I had visited five before this year (indicated in italics in the list below). So forty-one of the breweries were first-time visits. The year also included a visit to one non-craft brewery – Carlsberg, in Copenhagen, Denmark. I also paid my first visit to a former craft brewery (10 Barrel Brewpub in Denver, CO), that is now owned by AB InBev. Here is a list of breweries visited:

Ohio Breweries (22)

Bad Tom Smith Brewing, Cincinnati, OH
Black Cloister Brewing Company, Toledo, OH
Black Frog Brewery, Holland, OH
Bowling Green Beer Works, Bowling Green, OH
Catawba Island Brewing Company, Port Clinton, OH
Double Wing Brewing Company, Madison, OH
Earnest Brew Works, Toledo, OH
Figleaf Brewing Company, Middletown, OH
Forest City Brewery, Cleveland, OH
GOTL Brewing Company, Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH
Granite City Brewery, Maumee, OH
Listermann Brewing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
MadTree Brewing, Cincinnati, OH
Market Garden Brewery, Cleveland, OH
Maumee Bay Brewing Company, Toledo, OH
Moerlein Lager House, Cincinnati, OH
Nano Brew, Cleveland, OH
Rhinegeist Brewery, CincinnatI, OH
Rivertown Brewery, Monroe, OH
Streetside Brewery, Cincinnati, OH
Taft’s Ale House, Cincinnati, OH
Upside Brewing, Sylvania, OH
Woodburn Brewery, Cincinnati, OH

US Non-Ohio Breweries (12)

10 Barrel Brewing Company, Denver, CO
Blue Heron Brewing Company, Espanola, NM
Chili Line Brewery, Santa Fe, NM
Denton County Brewing Company, Denton, TX
Great Divide Brewing Company, Denver, CO
Hofbrauhaus, Covington, KY
Jagged Mountain Brewery, Denver, CO
Our Mutual Friend Brewing Company, Denver, CO
Ratio Beerworks, Denver, CO
Second Street Brewery, Santa Fe, NM
Snowbelt Brewing Company, Gaylord, MI
Woods Boss Brewing Company, Denver, CO

Non-US Breweries (12)

A-Frame Brewing, Squamish, Canada
Backcountry Brewing, Squamish, Canada
Brouwerij Martinus, Groningen, Netherlands
Brouwerij de Prael, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
De Bekeerde Suster, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Howe Sound Brewing Company, Squamish, Canada
Mikkeller Baghaven, Copenhagen, Denmark
Norrebro Bryghus, Copenhagen, Denmark
Steamworks Brewing Company, Vancouver, Canada
Strathcona Beer Company, Vancouver, Canada
Warpigs, Copenhagen, Denmark

I look forward to 2018. I am not sure how many breweries I will visit in the coming year. Within the United States, I already have plans to visit Austin, TX, Cincinnati, OH, Denton, TX, Portland, OR, and San Antonio, TX. Outside of the US, trips are already planned to Canada, India, Italy (two trips), Ireland, Portugal, and Qatar. A visit to Austria is also a possibility. I am sure the list of my travel destinations will grow. I hope these travels take me to lots of new breweries. Hopefully, there will also be some new breweries to visit closer to home, including Toledo’s new Patron Saints Brewery, which should be open soon.

So I decided to finish the year with one photograph of each of the breweries I visited during 2017. I hope you enjoy them.