We are getting closer!!
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@brianlittlejohn said in We are getting closer!!:
@scottalanmiller Haven't planned it out... most likely rent a car after the conference, plan on going to some wineries, other than that it is up in the air.
Ithaca or Watkins Glen are the best places to base out of for the wine district. Or Penn Yan if you do the smallest of the wine lakes.
Cooperstown has the distillery and beer tours. That's east of the Finger Lakes in the Central Leatherstocking Region (yes, named after James Fennimore Cooper's novels... and Cooperstown is named after him.)
Elmira is a nice town if you want to see where Mark Twain lived. But not super exciting.
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@scottalanmiller I'll have to add the beer tour to the list.
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@brianlittlejohn said in We are getting closer!!:
@scottalanmiller I'll have to add the beer tour to the list.
- Ommegang is in Cooperstown
- Saranac is near Utica
- Ithaca is... well near Ithaca
- Genesee (makes of Labatts, Genesee and they often brew Sam Adams) is literally walking distance from the conference site in Rochester - 6th largest brewer in America, I believe.
- Utica Club is in Utica
- Empire Brewery is in Syracuse but they at least used to have a branch in Rochester by the conference center
- The Old Toad is their own microbrewery and is a long walk from the conference center on Alexander St. and is well worth a stop if you like authentic pubs.
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Tons of microbreweries all over the state. Those are just the big ones. Even down around the corner from the NTG HQ in the country is a new micro that just opened run by one of my classmates.
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@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
Tons of microbreweries all over the state. Those are just the big ones. Even down around the corner from the NTG HQ in the country is a new micro that just opened run by one of my classmates.
Thats one of my favorite parts of visiting Colorado, almost every town has a microbrewery in it.
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@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
Tons of microbreweries all over the state. Those are just the big ones. Even down around the corner from the NTG HQ in the country is a new micro that just opened run by one of my classmates.
He isn't ready for tours yet (but I have been there). He is even trying to come up with a microbrew that I can have
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@brianlittlejohn said in We are getting closer!!:
@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
Tons of microbreweries all over the state. Those are just the big ones. Even down around the corner from the NTG HQ in the country is a new micro that just opened run by one of my classmates.
Thats one of my favorite parts of visiting Colorado, almost every town has a microbrewery in it.
It's not nearly Colorado level here, but microbrews are quite popular.
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@Minion-Queen said in We are getting closer!!:
@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
Tons of microbreweries all over the state. Those are just the big ones. Even down around the corner from the NTG HQ in the country is a new micro that just opened run by one of my classmates.
He isn't ready for tours yet (but I have been there). He is even trying to come up with a microbrew that I can have
That would be pretty awesome.
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If you're interested in Cooperstown and alcohol.
http://www.cooperstownbeveragetrail.com/
The Fly Creek Cider Mill is probably one of my favorite places to go and just hang out. My wife loves it, and the cider is dry but tasty. We're ~30-40 minutes from Cooperstown we go a few times a month on average.
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If you want to do Finger Lakes wine, go to Watkins Glen and work your way around the lake. You'll be unable to stand before you get to the top.
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@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
If you're interested in Cooperstown and alcohol.
I have Quench, the magazine of the Cooperstown Beverage Trail, sitting right here beside me, in fact!!
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@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
If you want to do Finger Lakes wine, go to Watkins Glen and work your way around the lake. You'll be unable to stand before you get to the top.
Always hire a driver. Limos are popular for the trails.
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@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
We're ~30-40 minutes from Cooperstown we go a few times a month on average.
I'll be about that same distance from Cooperstown for about half of the summer. We drive through it regularly from my wife's parents' place.
The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown is a nice stop for younger kids. Mine loved going there.
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Since I can't drink wine, I would be happy to play DD if needed.
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@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
We're ~30-40 minutes from Cooperstown we go a few times a month on average.
I'll be about that same distance from Cooperstown for about half of the summer. We drive through it regularly from my wife's parents' place.
The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown is a nice stop for younger kids. Mine loved going there.
I was going to mention the Farmer's Museum as well. One of the best ways to kill an afternoon if you've got nothing else going on. They are doing some pretty cool hops stuff this year too!
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@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
@scottalanmiller said in We are getting closer!!:
@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
We're ~30-40 minutes from Cooperstown we go a few times a month on average.
I'll be about that same distance from Cooperstown for about half of the summer. We drive through it regularly from my wife's parents' place.
The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown is a nice stop for younger kids. Mine loved going there.
I was going to mention the Farmer's Museum as well. One of the best ways to kill an afternoon if you've got nothing else going on. They are doing some pretty cool hops stuff this year too!
They do an awesome maple syrup show at the right time of year, too.
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If you're looking for another way to kill an afternoon ~1.5 hours south is the Corning Glass Works Museum. We go a few times a year with different people. They just did a huge expansion, I want to say increasing the Museum area by 1/3?
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I haven't been in years. It was cool back then.
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@coliver said in We are getting closer!!:
If you're looking for another way to kill an afternoon ~1.5 hours south is the Corning Glass Works Museum. We go a few times a year with different people. They just did a huge expansion, I want to say increasing the Museum area by 1/3?
Good call, that's not "too" far from the conference and is an excellent Western NY museum.
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Rochester also has The Strong Museum of Play. Which sounds like it is for kids but they do have some cool exhibits for adults as well.
