{"id":2492,"date":"2014-11-21T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:08:44","slug":"travel-went-to-over-30-vermont-breweries-and-all-i-got-was-this-bag-of-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/travel-went-to-over-30-vermont-breweries-and-all-i-got-was-this-bag-of-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Travel: Went to over 30 Vermont Breweries and all I got was this bag of awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Vermont Beer Passport Schwag Bag of Goodies' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15658297819\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7572\/15658297819_c46b99c5b8_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Vermont Beer Passport Schwag Bag of Goodies\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myself and two friends spent the summer going to every brewery on the Vermont Beer Passport. It\u2019s funny because on day-one, the first brewery we hit saw our passport with 15 breweries and said, \u201cyou have the old one\u201d and gave us a passport with 25 breweries\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Then toward the end of our travels, we received another updated passport with close to 30 on it. We went to a lot of breweries this summer and I mailed in 2 evenly completed passports for a total of 30 breweries and got this in the mail as a gift. This is the stuff you get when you visit all VT breweries in the booklet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDrink Vermont Beer\u201d shirt<\/li>\n<li>VT Brewers Hat<\/li>\n<li>Eco-Beer Tote<\/li>\n<li>2 Coasters<\/li>\n<li>1 Bumper Sticker<\/li>\n<li>1 heavy duty metal bottle opener<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not a bad haul for doing what I was already doing which is visiting breweries and drinking their beer. Although we didn\u2019t keep track of mileage but I\u2019m betting it was over 1200 miles for all 6 weekends that we went out and hit clusters of breweries in various parts of VT.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myself and two friends spent the summer going to every brewery on the Vermont Beer Passport. It\u2019s funny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:29:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"7c7dd01c-31bf-4725-89fb-b64095da81fd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:29:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfH3QHDG_RyWJ-7ZAldqB_Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-travel","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Ec","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2593,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/linked-2014-the-year-in-vt-beer\/","url_meta":{"origin":2492,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Linked: &#8220;2014 \u2013 The Year in VT Beer&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via VTBeer:\u00a0 11 breweries opened\u00a0in 2014. 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