About 15 minutes to the nearest good one . There is another around 15 minutes in a different direction but it doesn’t count because their beer sucks badly. Lots of new ones I need to check out.
5 miles to the Blind Pig brewery. Very good beer, and an excellent place. 10 minutes in the car, and 20 by bike. Triptych in Savoy is a 20 minute drive. Also very good.
I have, actually I’ve known Ben a couple years now since they originally opens their brewery around the corner from me. They couldn’t work out an agreement to open a tap room on site so they moved up there. Not around the corner anymore but the beer is good and they’re great people!
This intrigued me enough to open up Google maps, to determine that I am 1.0, 1.2, and 1.4 miles from the three brew pubs in town. The 1.0 and 1.2 miles are 0.2 miles apart (convenient!), but the 1.4 mile one is in another direction.
But, it really doesn’t matter to me, as I spend 90% of my time at my local pub, which has all three breweries on tap.
I’ve found that since we’ve had children, my wife and I don’t really get to go out much alone anymore.
That said, Empire Brewing and Middle Ages are right in Downtown Syracuse (~15 mins), Ommegang is about 1 hour east of us, Saranac is about 45 mins west in Utica.
Portland breweries are starting to push out into outer Southeast which is nice. Zoigelhaus opened recently in the Lents neighborhood just to the east of us here in Woodstock. It’s about a mile and a half and it is walkable in nice weather.
Double Mountain from Hood River is opening a tap room about a mile in the other direction, which will also be walkable in nice weather, but no brewing on site so technically not a brewpub.