Getting the flavor of ... New Hampshire’s hopping brewery

New Hampshire’s hopping brewery

At the Woodstock Inn Station & Brewery, you can “make your beer and drink it, too,” said John Holl in The New York Times. Situated in the heart of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, this microbrewery and country inn offers guests a chance to take part in “every step” of the seven-barrel brewing process. Through April and May, the Woodstock Inn hosts Brewers’ Weekends, during which guests do the “messy work” of removing hundreds of pounds of processed grain from a mash tun, in which milled grain and water are turned into wort. They then carry the wort to a kettle to be boiled, and follow its journey to the fermentation tanks and filter system. After getting their hands dirty, guests are treated to a “hearty Saturday lunch” featuring bread made from the spent grain, and later a five-course dinner, capped by the brewery’s 13 handcrafted brews—a taste of how their hard work will pay off.

Contact: Woodstockinnnh.com

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The Southwest squared

The name Four Corners is “far too prosaic” for the “strikingly beautiful” section of the American Southwest where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet, said John Rosenthal in National Geographic Traveler. Centuries before surveyors drew perpendicular lines at those states’ borders, the “forces of time” were creating this “geological pastiche of natural wonders.” The parks, preserves, and unnamed places of this area respect “no man-made boundaries.” From Flagstaff, Ariz., take Interstate 40 through the Petrified Forest National Park, and witness the “exquisite colors” of the Painted Desert. Drive north through Canyon de Chelly National Monument, whose 1,000-foot-high cliffs are “rich in color” and Navajo history, then up into Utah’s Monument Valley. Finally, follow the Trail of the Ancients into Colorado, where you can see the pueblo ruins of Mesa Verde National Park.

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