I think brewery tours are a much better "Fall Activity" than apple or pumpkin picking. Why go through the hoax of picking pumpkins, usually already cut from the vine, in some picturesque pumpkin patch when you can get them on the side of Fullerton, next to Domino's, from the back of a Vietnam Vet's RV? It's not like you're really going to learn all that much about growing squash by walking up and down the rows of said patch with a group of urbanites (or suburbanites) indulging their kids in an hour long jaunt in the countryside.
Two Brothers was fantastic. I ate a delicious lamb burger with sweet potato fries, drank about seven different kinds of ale, went on the kind of tour that's packed with information and led by someone who knows what the hell they're talking about, bought a couple of growlers to bring home, and then enjoyed some sunlight while sitting through traffic on the ride back to the city. A proper countryside trip. So today, in honor of fall, I cooked a Beef Beer stew (with Goose Island--I'm hoarding my growlers) that's got my entire building smelling like heaven. My poor neighbors.
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