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My 2015 Thanksgiving vacation included excursions to several breweries. There is so much to be thankful for!
Tuesday 11/24. My sister Marge and I went to Copperpoint Brewing Company, just minutes from her home in Boynton Beach. The place had opened 6 months earlier, and in fact they did a 6-month celebration the following day (later in this report). It was early on a Tuesday afternoon, so there was only one customer besides us. We sampled the following, all of which were great:
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Next we went to Due South Brewing Company, which is walking distance from Copperpoint.
We had been here before. They opened 3 or 4 years earlier. We got samples of:
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Our last stop of the day was Barrel of Monks, which opened early in the year in nearby Boca
Raton. All of their beers were Belgian styles. They were a bit pricey but good. We tried:
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Wednesday November 25. I returned to Copperpoint with my girlfriend Andi for their celebration of being open for 6 months.
This time the place was packed. They released a new keg every hour or two. We sampled:
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Normally when you go anywhere in south Florida you're surrounded by fossils. At just about any restaurant you walk in and see a
sea of gray hair. Not so with the breweries. Andi and I were the oldest people in there. Anyway, she had to leave to visit her
sisters in Loxahatchee, so after she left I got a tour of the brewery.
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After the tour, Marge picked me up and we went to Devour Brewing Company, which
became Boynton Beach's third brewery the previous spring. The beers weren't bad, though not great either. We sampled:
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Incidentally, there is another brewery in the area: The Funky Buddha. It has a
hookah bar in Boca Raton and a brewery
in Oakland Park. We'd been to the hookah bar a few times in years past and the beer was good so it's worth mentioning even though we
didn't get there this time.