What Makes a Good Brewery

Breweries are great. But what makes a good brewery?  Here's a few things that's surely to be amended the more reviews I put up:

1. Good beer

2. Easy parking

3. Good beer

4. Food options

5. Quality service

6. Good beer

7. Relaxed vibe

8. Clean

9. Easy access to beer (not too crowded)

10. Did I mention the beer?

Some of these things are arbitrary. Others are not.

"Easy Parking" is fairly objective. As is access to beer and cleanliness. Everything else is simply a matter of preference.

What makes good beer? Flavor, taste, aftertaste, smell, and even color, I'd say. Points for uniqueness, definitely, but in the end it really is a matter of preference, and in this case "preference" means actual "taste" as in, with your taste buds.

Am I a beer expert? Hardly. Though I ask plenty of questions at every brewery I go to, and read a lot about beer - both by those who appreciate drinking it and those who make it (and sometimes those are the same person!)

So if you're looking for a beer blog, this is not exactly that. While I'm happy to discuss beer, what I'm even more interested in are breweries themselves. The space, the vibe, the service, the location - everything. They provide a great place to grab a beer with family or friends or even by yourself.. 

In other words, I love breweries. I'm on a mission to "critique" as many as I can, and by "critique" I mean tell you about all the good ones and simply ignore the ones I don't like as much.  Because in the end, it's about contributing to this community of like-minded folks, and telling as many people as we can to patronize as many as possible with the final mission being a brewery on every corner. How great would that be?