Further Adventures in USA

On the West Coast, we took an overnight trip up to Portland and managed to squeeze in a couple of well known brewpubs/microbreweries. The first of these was Laurelwood (http://laurelwoodbrewpub.com/), who had the following Mission Statement on prominent display:

They are large enough to run a sizeable van:

The following day it was the famous Hair of the Dog (http://www.hairofthedog.com/), who had the following draft selection:

It's a pretty "earthy" place but they have specialist bottled and vintage ales, for tasting only in their sample room:

 

The last stop on our holiday was New York and we returned to the Heartland Brewery's (http://www.heartlandbrewery.com/) outlet just off Times Square - a place we had last visited 10 years ago. It hadn't changed at all.

Although not a brewpub - more a craft ale outlet - we preferred the beer garden at The Jeffrey (http://thejeffreynyc.com/) on Manhattan's East Side:

where the selections were:

Our final USA brews were in the BA lounge at JFK where we were delighted to find a couple of microbrews on draft from Long Island's Blue Point Brewing (http://bluepointbrewing.com/bpbc/). Their Pumpkin Ale wasn't at all bad, despite preconceptions.

We picked up a few of the many beer publications freely available in most brewpubs across the nation - Ale Street News, Celebrator & NorthWest Brewing News - and  spotted a couple of articles with UK connections, including a feature on Cardiff's Tiny Rebel Brewery (http://www.tinyrebel.co.uk/):

Suspect they may use the same design/image team as Brewdog?

The other UK connection came via the BJ's Brewhouse (http://www.bjsrestaurants.com/) chain, who were advertising a collaboration with Caledonian Brewery, producing the Hoppy Scotsman beer: