Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant Lancaster | Hopstinger | India Pale Ale That trip started out promisingly. The thrilling itinerary: Aug. 30: Leave home. Lancaster outlet shopping; Iron Hill Lancaster for lunch; drive to Columbus Ohio Aug. 31: Morning outlet shopping; Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds afternoon game at Great American Ballpark; dinner in Indianapolis (as it turned out, we just went to The Cheesecake Factory); nightcap at Lafayette Brewing Company in Lafayette, Ind. Sept. 1: Shopping during the day in the Chicago suburbs; dinner at Three Floyds. Sept. 2: See post below. Sept. 3: We weren’t done! Got up relatively early in time to make afternoon Tigers game at Comerica Park, then got to Cleveland in time to have dinner at Great Lakes Brewing Co. For those who are counting, that’s five Brewpubs in five days. Sept. 4: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, lunch at Skyline Chili (so I could say I’ve done it); stayed overnight in the middle of nowhere off I-80 in Pennsylvania. Northwest Pennsylvania is about as remote as anywhere I’ve been, which includes western North Dakota. Sept. 5: With no real plans, we stopped a few places for Amy to shop, and I had a couple beers at Selin’s Grove Brewing Company in Selinsgrove, Pa., better known as the home of Susquehanna University. Incredibly, we weren’t done, as we had dinner at Lancaster Brewing Company in Lancaster, all the places in Harrisburg being closed at the time we were driving by. Seven brewpubs in six days. I actually go to LBC for the white chicken chili, not the beer, though naturally I had one. The pic above is a glass of Hopstinger, a beer they brew occasionally at Iron Hill Lancaster. The name is a nod to honey, one of the beer’s ingredients, but for me it was a delicious IPA bursting with pine and citrus flavors. One of the best Iron Hill brews.

Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant Lancaster | Hopstinger | India Pale Ale

That trip started out promisingly. The thrilling itinerary:

Aug. 30: Leave home. Lancaster outlet shopping; Iron Hill Lancaster for lunch; drive to Columbus Ohio

Aug. 31: Morning outlet shopping; Pittsburgh Pirates at Cincinnati Reds afternoon game at Great American Ballpark; dinner in Indianapolis (as it turned out, we just went to The Cheesecake Factory); nightcap at Lafayette Brewing Company in Lafayette, Ind.

Sept. 1: Shopping during the day in the Chicago suburbs; dinner at Three Floyds.

Sept. 2: See post below.

Sept. 3: We weren’t done! Got up relatively early in time to make afternoon Tigers game at Comerica Park, then got to Cleveland in time to have dinner at Great Lakes Brewing Co. For those who are counting, that’s five Brewpubs in five days.

Sept. 4: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, lunch at Skyline Chili (so I could say I’ve done it); stayed overnight in the middle of nowhere off I-80 in Pennsylvania. Northwest Pennsylvania is about as remote as anywhere I’ve been, which includes western North Dakota.

Sept. 5: With no real plans, we stopped a few places for Amy to shop, and I had a couple beers at Selin’s Grove Brewing Company in Selinsgrove, Pa., better known as the home of Susquehanna University. Incredibly, we weren’t done, as we had dinner at Lancaster Brewing Company in Lancaster, all the places in Harrisburg being closed at the time we were driving by. Seven brewpubs in six days. I actually go to LBC for the white chicken chili, not the beer, though naturally I had one.

The pic above is a glass of Hopstinger, a beer they brew occasionally at Iron Hill Lancaster. The name is a nod to honey, one of the beer’s ingredients, but for me it was a delicious IPA bursting with pine and citrus flavors. One of the best Iron Hill brews.