One of the Northeast’s most exciting and inventive craft breweries, has opened their long-anticipated beer garden!

Craft beer tourism has truly arrived in America and increasingly fans are building their travel plans around exciting cities that also brew serious beer. We recently drank our way through Oakland’s emerging craft beer scene and we’ve hit a number of places that you don’t want to miss when you’re there. And here are some more craft beer destinations worth travelling for…

Craft beer tourism has come of age and increasingly fans are building their travel plans around exciting cities that also brew serious beer. We recently drank our way through Oakland’s emerging craft beer scene and we’ve a number of places that you absolutely don’t want to miss when you’re there.

Craft beer tourism has come of age and increasingly fans are building their travel plans around cool cities that also brew serious beer. One of the most exciting new beer destinations is Oakland, California, a city we drank our way through recently – and the Pacific Coast Brewing Company is one of the places that you don’t want to miss when you’re there.

Craft beer tourism has come of age. And with more American breweries than ever before now online, beer fans are increasingly building their travel plans around beer. And one of its most exciting new destinations is Oakland, California, a diverse and progressive community overlooking the magnificent San Francisco Bay – that also happens to be home to some of the most interesting craft beer in the world.

Craft beer tourism has come of age. And with more American breweries than ever before now online, beer fans are increasingly building their travel plans around beer. So in an effort to help you wade through a world of seemingly unlimited beer travel options, ACB is debuting a new series dedicated to the best craft beer destinations.

And how could we not start with the Katmandu of American beer travel...Bend, Oregon?

LoCo is a nickname for Loudoun County, a scenic expanse of small towns, rolling hills and mountain vistas just northwest of Washington, DC. For years it's been known for its artisan wineries - and now it's becoming a "go-to" destination for a whole new generation of craft breweries.

As we mentioned yesterday Denver has an incredible beer scene so you need to get out and visit some of them while you're in town this week. The city has a mind-blowing array of options and here's some suggestions courtesy of the Brewers Association, that you need to check out.

Bend has soft water - the result of snow melt from the nearby Cascade mountains - so maybe the water is the reason why a city of 80,000 people has attracted so many important and distinctive craft breweries.