State Lawmakers Hope to Create New York Beer Trail

From The Associated Press:

Lawmakers are encouraging residents and visitors alike to enjoy a tall, cold one. A bill making its way through the Legislature aims to create a New York state beer trail, similar to those the wine industry has successfully used to attract millions of oenophiles to Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley and eastern Long Island.

Sponsors of the legislation say it will highlight the re-emergence of breweries in New York and help brewers cash-in on the popularity of their oatmeal stouts, India pale ales, and bitters.

A state beer trail? Travel--or should I say stumble--along the trail as you're enjoying various tall cold ones with their different flavors, colors and textures? Read up on the history of the different microbreweries, see how the different ales and stouts are made, make new friends--preferably with the opposite sex. And you'd certainly would explore two other important state trails which utilize the same pathways as the state beer trail--the state peanut trail and state pretzel trail. Hey, if you're going to be tasting beer, you better have peanuts and pretzels to go along with it.

And don't forget the state beer trail's signature motto: "One hundred bottles of beer on the wall...."