Go Bottoms-Up On A Beercation

Hotels across the United States are celebrating the art of craft beer with brew-themed getaways offering guests the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing vacation complete with water, malt, barley and hops.

At Woodstock Inn, Station & Brewery in New Hampshire, guests can learn how to brew in the property’s on-site microbrewery with its Brewer’s Weekends deal. The special includes overnight accommodations for two nights in the heart of the majestic White Mountains as well as a full country breakfast each morning, a Friday night brewer’s reception, lunch on Saturday, a brewer’s dinner Saturday night, a commemorative t-shirt or hat and a lesson on the brewing process. Rates start from $271 per person.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery opened a new brewery-themed boutique hotel in Lewes, Del., along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal between its production facility and brewpub this past summer. Each room inside the 16-room Dogfish Inn features a refrigerator filled with unique Dogfish Head glassware, wall-mounted bottle-openers and Dogfish Head beer soap made from 60 Minute IPA, hops and barley. Guests have to bring their own Dogfish brew if they want one, as Dogfish owner Sam Calgione decided not to sell beer or serve food at the hotel as he did not want to take business away from local shop owners and restaurateurs, many of whom are close friends.

The oldest brewpub in Texas, Fredericksburg Brewing Co., moved from brews to beds when it opened Bed & Brew, an “adult retreat” above a restaurant offering 11 unique guestrooms. Each guest receives a complimentary four-sampler of the brewery’s beers for each night’s stay.

Located in Mineral Point, a small pre-Civil War town in Wisconsin, Brewery Creek houses a brewery, pub restaurant and bed and breakfast all in one. The property offers overnight accommodations in five guestrooms above the brewpub and in two restored cottages so visitors can be close to the brewing action that produces top-notch European beer styles, including biere de garde, Scottish porter and dunkelweiss.