Location: 64
Hobbs Street
Conway,
NH
United
States
Phone:
(603) 447-5400
Tours:
3pm
Saturdays
Cost: Free
Visit
Date: 01/15/2011
Beers:
Pale Ale
Headwall
Alt
6288
Stout
Notes: FINALLY!
We made it to a tour! The first time, our GPS took us to
their old location. They'd moved but the software hadn't been
updated (and we update maps pretty regularly) confused, we left. The
second time, they were closed. Third times a charm, I guess.
We got lucky. Or unlucky as the case may be but this was a good consolation prize. We attempted a winter ascent up Mount Washington along one of the lesser used routes, Nelson Crag, not so successful. Nobody'd been up since the last snowfall, so we were breaking trail. Soft power up to our knees, factor in the boulders with 6 foot snowdrifts and the 60 degree slopes with ice underneath, and after switching snowshoes for crampons and back to snowshoes, and sliding down twice as far as we'd just climbed up too many times to count, we concluded our attempts were futile. Our last half mile took two hours (after a relatively easy first few) and we decided were we to make it to the top, we'd never make it down by sunset, not at that pace; so we turned back, and were back at pinkham notch by 2:30. We asked the nice guy at the desk if he knew how to get to the Brewery, since we couldn't remember where the right location was, and he was kind enough to call for us, he said the machine said the tour was at 3, and we bolted out of there as fast as we could!
We got lucky. Or unlucky as the case may be but this was a good consolation prize. We attempted a winter ascent up Mount Washington along one of the lesser used routes, Nelson Crag, not so successful. Nobody'd been up since the last snowfall, so we were breaking trail. Soft power up to our knees, factor in the boulders with 6 foot snowdrifts and the 60 degree slopes with ice underneath, and after switching snowshoes for crampons and back to snowshoes, and sliding down twice as far as we'd just climbed up too many times to count, we concluded our attempts were futile. Our last half mile took two hours (after a relatively easy first few) and we decided were we to make it to the top, we'd never make it down by sunset, not at that pace; so we turned back, and were back at pinkham notch by 2:30. We asked the nice guy at the desk if he knew how to get to the Brewery, since we couldn't remember where the right location was, and he was kind enough to call for us, he said the machine said the tour was at 3, and we bolted out of there as fast as we could!
We
got there a tad late but hopped on for the rest of the tour and then
went upstairs for some tasting. Good tour, very good beer, we
bought a case of the yummy alt to bring home, highly recommended.
Too bad the only tour of the week is at 3pm: a time when, if
I'm in New Hampshire, I'm usually still on a mountain
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