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Thanks for that listing and the thread....I am quite familiar with several of those brews...

We live in the Pacific Northwest, and have tons and tons of Microbreweries around...have relatives living down in Oregon and California, which also have many fine microbreweries....we make it a point of visiting all these places, whether the brewery themselves, or restaurants which feature these fine brews...

We are newly retired...soon, very soon, we plan to head out in our spiffy RV, and spend most of our retired time on the road, returning to our regular house, only for a rest here and there...

One of our goals, is to visit every microbrewery in America, and sample their wares, whether in the brewery itself, or in one of the pubs or restaurants that feature those brews...

We also have a fine collection of growlers...does everyone here know what a growler is?,..I ask, only because I have come across many beer drinkers, who have no idea what a growler is....

A growler is a large glass bottle, in which you can ask the restaurant you are visiting to fill up the growler with your preferred draft beer...its a fine way to take out a huge bottle of draft beer, whether to be enjoyed at home, in your RV, wherever...the beer is recommended to be consumed within, I think between 24-48 hours, to retain its freshness...you cannot drink the growler in the restaurant, simply because the cost of filling up the growler is quite minimal, compared to the price of a single glass of beer or a pitcher of beer...but growlers are a fine way of taking your draft beer home with you, to enjoy at your own leisure...

All growlers are different..they are usually the same size, but some are clear glass, some are a brown glass, some varying tints of glass...some have just screw on caps, some have rather fancy caps...most have some sort of advertisement on the growler, emphasizing the micro brewery where they came from...

We have about 12 growlers now...one is even a collapsible plastic growler, handy for when it is empty...we even have a special thermal jacket bought at one micro-brewery, which tightly and completely encasses the growler to keep the beer cold for even longer, on the ride home..

One of my favorite micro-brewery beers is the Jolly Roger Ale, put out by Maritime Pacific Brewery in Seattle Washington..its quite strong, and its a seasonal beer, put out at Christmastime...I have included a link to the Jolly Roger taproom...

http://maritimebrewery.citysearch.com/tab0/page/nun8/Chef_s_List/Chef_s_List.html%253Fpagecode%253Dnun8

Another fine brewery is the Port Townsend brewery in Port Townsend Washington, up on the Peninsula...its a very small brewery, but one can go to their tasting room, in Port Townsend, and attatched to the tasting room, is a lovely beer garden, and being as the weather in Port Townsend, is lovely most months of the year, one can sit out and enjoy...its difficult to get Port Townsend beer, too much outside of the Port Townsend area as they really only distribute the beer within a very small area...so we usually once a year, take a trip up to Port townsend, see the Olympic Mountains, camp on the Peninsula, visit the brewery and of course, sample their wares, take a growler to go and a buy several boxes of their fine beer...

Here is the link to the Port Townsend brewery, should anyone ever be in the area, stop in there and have a fine beer...

http://www.porttownsendbrewing.com/

So many breweries from which to sample, so little time...I suppose I need to live to be about 100, in order to sample all these fine beers...ah, but my hubby and I find the hunt, and the task ahead to be quite delightful...