Pub Crawl NYC visited the New Belgium Brewery and Odell Brewery in Fort Collins (a detailed take on each one forthcoming).\u00a0 We did not have enough time during our visit to see additional breweries, so we’ll have to return to Fort Collins to see the other dozen or so.\u00a0 But, we learned one interesting fact that sets some of these Fort Collins craft breweries apart from their East Coast brethren: The Fort Collins ones are open nearly everyday of the week and for at least eight hours each day.\u00a0 And, visitors can spend as much or as little time as they would like in the breweries’ tasting rooms.\u00a0 These breweries are almost like Napa\/Sonoma wineries, in that regard.\u00a0 Most craft breweries on the East Coast are open to the public a day or two (usually only on weekends) and get the visitors in and out in a fairly quick fashion.\u00a0 Space is likely part of equation here.\u00a0 Most craft breweries on the East Coast don’t have much room for a large tasting room.\u00a0 Furthermore, to this Northeast native, life in Fort Collins is much more laid back compared to most East Coast and Northeast cities.\u00a0 What are your thoughts on this, why do you think Fort Collins’ breweries seem more welcoming and accommodating to their visitors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pub Crawl NYC visited the New Belgium Brewery and Odell Brewery in Fort Collins (a detailed take on each one forthcoming).\u00a0 We did not have enough time during our visit to see additional breweries, so we’ll have to return to Fort Collins to see the other dozen or so.\u00a0 But, we learned one interesting fact that sets some of these Fort Collins craft breweries apart from their East Coast brethren: The Fort Collins ones are open nearly everyday of the week and for at least eight hours each day.\u00a0 And, visitors can spend as much or as little time as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pub-crawl-nyc-random-thoughts","category-pub-crawl-nyc-road-trips","post-style-no-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pubcrawlnyc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}