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Craft Beer Travel Guides
Planning your next vacation or trip? The Hop Culture team has been all over and we have chronicled some of the best places to visit if you’re looking for your next beer destination.
Our Favorite Breweries and Pubs to Visit In London
His Majesty's guide to drinking in England's capital.
At the beginning of April, I booked myself a one-way ticket to London. I hadn’t been to the U.K. since my freshman year of high ...
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48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Manchester, England
Bask in the cask!
When most folks travel to the U.K., they have one city in mind: London. Look, we get it. England’s capital has an amazing beer culture, ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Visiting Franconia’s Rich Beer Scene
At Gold Ochsen in the tiny Franconian town of Spielbach, I sat at a communal table where a retired farmer seemed intent on explaining the ...
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The 9 Best Breweries in Portland, Maine
Our favorite Portland, Maine breweries.
The Hop Culture team has been to Portland, ME, quite a few times. From hosting one of our flagship Juicy Brews festivals to our women ...
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The 8 Best Breweries in Kansas City, Missouri
Beer in the 'Heart of America.'
Yes, we know it might sound odd. When we think of epic beer cities, we’re more likely to name Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, ...
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The 7 Best Breweries to Visit in Boulder, Colorado
Where the beer is 'boulder.'
Everyone knows that Denver is a brewing mecca. Home to 150 breweries, brewpubs, and taprooms and the site of one of the biggest craft beer ...
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The 5 Best Places to Drink in Vero Beach, Florida
Sunrises, not high rises!
When Hop Culture Founder Kenny Gould got married in December in Vero Beach, I had the opportunity to check out some of the best places ...
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The Top Places for Beer Travel in 2024
Save up those miles!
We went to a lot of places in 2023—Paris, Lille, Belgium, Bratislava, Nashville, Munich, Rancho Cordova, Vermont, Austin, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, just to ...
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Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2023
Planes, trains, and auto-mo-beer!
Over the last couple of years, we’ve enjoyed bringing you our best under-the-radar beer states and under-the-radar beer cities. And in the past, we’ve named ...
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48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Rancho Cordova, California
A drinkers gold mine!
For years, we’ve documented some of the best places to travel for beer in the United States, from Portland, OR, to Portland, ME, and everywhere ...
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Best Breweries and Bars to Visit in Belgium
Pilgrimmage to a beer mecca.
At the end of September, I joined a ten-day beer trip to Belgium led by Ryan and Rachel Evans, co-founders of Bruz Beers, and Peter ...
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France’s Best-Kept Beer Secret: 48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Lille
The beer capital of France.
I’m going to tell you about France’s best-kept secret. When it comes to food and drink, we know France for many things: some of the ...
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The Best Breweries in Manhattan and The Bronx
Take a bite (errr...sip) of the Big Apple
New York State bursts with world-class breweries—like these in the Hudson Valley, and New York City, in particular, has some of the country’s best craft ...
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The 12 Best Breweries in Miami, Florida
The best breweries in The Magic City
Overall, South Florida is a pretty hot beer destination. But in Miami, particularly, it seems like there’s a new taproom to check out every few ...
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The 14 Best Breweries in Cleveland, Ohio
Where to get a beer in Cleveland.
“CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!” Lebron James screamed when he won their first NBA Championship in 2016, bringing back the city’s first major sports title ...
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