How To Avoid Magellan’s Fate and Enjoy Great Beer

August 20, 2008

“Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart’s a vampire. Beer kills brain cells. Now let’s go back to that… building… thingie… where our beds and TV… is.”  - Homer Simpson

If you are unfamiliar with Magellan’s fate click here for the best summary of his final voyage. If you want to avoid his fate click on Craft Beer Explorers on the Beer Locator website. I have just signed up and joined the ranks of Magellan, Columbus and Armstrong. And I was able to do this while staying home and not putting on my pants. I am sure the Natives that Columbus either killed or enslaved wished he would have done the same.

Beer and exploration go hand in hand. We have heard the legend that the Mayflower was running low on beer and needed to stop at Plymouth Rock. One of the cooler stories that I heard about the Mayflower was about when it landed. Folklore tells that one of the first questions asked of the people on the Mayflower was, “Where is the beer?” Is it true? Who knows, but the first brewery in America was built 8 years earlier so it could be true. If I was there, it would have been the first question out of my mouth.

One of the cooler trips my wife and I made was out to Boston. It took the expedition of three days before we pulled into Watertown. On our trek, we stopped at Great Lakes Brewing Co. for Oktoberfest, Wiloughby Brewing and a real ale festival in Syracuse. Once in Boston we visited Harpoon, Cambridge Brewing Co., Boston Beer Works, and John Havard’s. We also visited some great beer bars located in Cambridge. The prep was the toughest part of the whole trip. No longer! When you sign up to be a beer explorer you can get this route mapped out for you.

The Craft Beer Locator has a lot of features that make the site unique and very useful and the information is direct from the breweries, so its reliable. You can get updates through email or text messages of events at your favorite breweries and your own personal webpage. You can also think to yourself, ”I want a Jolly Pumpkin Bam Noire,” look it up on the Beer locator page and find out the nearset place where it is sold. There are so many features that perhaps it’s just better to give you the link to their description of what Craft Beer locator is.

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