Day 14b: Route 3 / Brewery Stops
“By 2017, [the Unites States] had more than five thousand [breweries] —or in practical terms, one or more in any city with creative ambitions for its future. As with any start-up field, not all of these ventures were well thought out, and not all of them could survive. But enough have flourished to make craft breweries one of the most reliable signs of civic energy. A town that has them also has a certain kind of entrepreneur, and a critical mass of mainly young (except for me) customers. It sounds like a joke, but it explains a lot.””
Good vibes at Pherm — the town’s second brewery that opened December 2020.
A quick “Cookie D’oh’ — a 10.2% Basil Hayden bourbon barrel aged double chocolate stout — in Pherm’s “Shakedown Beer Garden.”
Crofton’s biggest tire on Lee Street
Need to cross Route 3 but waiting for a better spot
The dumpster scene behind Giant
Some of the only graffiti I saw around Crofton.
DOBRA isn’t exactly Cool “Disco” Dan. I think we could probably narrow down where DOBRA lives based on the location of tags.
The site of the Crofton gates
The spot of my eventual Route 3 crossing
Brewery #2: Chesepiooc
When I saw that Chesepiooc would be tapping a helles lager with habanero called “Run Like Helles,” I knew this was where I needed to complete this journey. In this photo I thought I was toasting the completion of 344 streets and only realized a few hours later that my watch accidently stopped recording my run 5 miles before I finished running.
Miles: 7.70
New streets run: 10
Chelmsford Drive | Christa Lane | Goldenrain Court | Goldenrain Drive | Houndhill Court | Lee Street | New Windsor Court | Stoneham Road | Thistle Brooke Court | Walden Court |
Progress: 328 of 344 Crofton streets run (95.3%)