First course of action upon arrival and checking into the hotel was to go and visit Harpoon Brewery. It was well worth the visit. Was one of the best brewery tours that I have been on. They give you a sample of their hefeweizen before the tour starts. Next they went on to explain the brewing process and then it was off to the fermentation process where they poured their IPA straight from the fermentation tank. Moving on to the bottling and kegging process and then it was back up to belly up to the bar and sample as many of their beers that you wanted within about 20 minutes before the next tour. I must say their fruity hefeweizen that they had was quite good and refreshing.
Visited Salem and will never ever go back there. It was crowded since it was October. Couldn't get into the Witch Museum due to so many people there and getting into the bars to have a drink was a big hassle. What's up with asking for two forms of ID's and if we have credit cards? We got cold hard cash to spend on beer and ya don't want us to come in well screw you we will take our tourist dollars elsewhere.
Champions Sports bar in the back bay at the Hilton was an awesome bar for a hotel bar. Plasma TV's all above the bar and an extensive beer list was the ideal place to watch Da Bears game while we were there. Then it was off to Spooky World at Fenway Park that night and it sure was a howling good time.
After hitting up numerous bars while walking along the Freedom Trail we then went and visited Harvard University in Cambridge, MA and they had some good beer bars there like Cambridge Brewing Company, and John Harvard's Brew House.
I would definitely go back there but next time I will avoid going to Salem.
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