We flew across the pond a week and a half ago and spent our first 3 days in Las Vegas, which used to have a plethora of brewpubs around the touristy Strip. Times have moved on a bit since our first trip here over a decade ago (when the former Holy Cow brewpub was still going strong) and whilst craft beer is still popular and trendy, it seems a few of them have switched to the Brewdog/6 Degrees North style, selling beers from all round the world, but not actually brewing themselves on the premises any more.
One such example was our first stop on the Strip, The Pub at Monte Carlo (http://www.montecarlo.com/restaurants/the-pub.aspx). It has, however, a tremendous selection of over 300 beers to choose from - still well worth a visit. There are other brewpubs still going in LV, but they tend to be a bit out in the sticks and we didn't have time to check them out.
Still the best brewpub we've visited round here is Triple 7 at Main Street Hotel & Casino (http://www.mainstreetcasino.com/dine/triple-7-restaurant-and-microbrewery) in the less touristy Downtown area. They only do a fairly limited selection of 5 brews on the sampler tray - but they're all good:
The other great thing about heading Downtown is how relatively cheap things are. We had a couple of lunchtime 23 oz. beers for just $3.99 each in Triple 7 - much less than half the usual Strip prices.
We then moved briefly up to North West Nevada and were delighted to see a handful of brewpubs in what they call "The Biggest Little City in the World" - Reno. We only had time to sample one of them - the Silver Peak (http://silverpeakbrewery.com/), which had a nice open upstairs drinking/eating area:
From there, we moved to Heavenly Village, South Lake Tahoe for a week - a place we had stopped at briefly a few years ago. We took a slight detour on the way via Virginia City, which still tries to replicate its silver mining heyday. No brewpubs here - just an old sign:
There's 2 brewpubs in South Lake Tahoe - one right in the centre, next to the Gondola - the Stateline Brewery (http://www.statelinebrewery.com/), so called because, although it's in California, it's only 200 yards or so from the Nevada state line. They usually have 11 or 12 brews available for their sampler trays, including a "Scotch Ale" called Darker Parker - named after the brewer apparently.
The other brewpub in South Lake Tahoe is called The Brewery - we'd been there 6 years ago and enjoyed most of the 8 beers available, details of which are listed on a large blackboard inside:
The Bad Ass Ale was pretty meaty at 9.2%.
That's about it so far. We're now back in fairly familiar territory at our daughter's home in Grants Pass, Southern Oregon. We know our way round here pretty well by now, but I'll be interested to see how Conner Fields Brewing (https://www.facebook.com/connerfieldsbrewing) is doing - it was just starting up when we were here a year ago.
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