Bird’s Eye View Brew
Microsoft Live Maps recently released the ability for their maps to accept a file type that The Beer Mapping Project produces so we have been experimenting with their map system. We have had the most fun checking out the Bird’s Eye View mode.
Do you know what your favorite brewery looks like from a few hundred feet up? If you can spot yours, feel free to post a link in the comments. We have collected a few images to show, but if you want to see more, check out this thread from the forums.
Goose Island Fulton Street Brewery
This first image is the closest production brewery to my house at the moment. Goose Island’s Fulton Street Brewery. The silo’s are fairly easy to spot sitting on the roof. Click on the image to see the Brewery on Microsoft Live Maps.
Hair of the Dog
The next brewery wasn’t easy for my group to find. And we were on foot! This is a brewery in Portland where those high gravity Hair of the Dog beers come from:
Three Floyds Brewery
Another producer of popular high gravity beers is Three Floyds! In this image you can see where hundreds if not thousands of people will be hanging out next weekend for Dark Lord Day. Also of note, the garden in back is where some of the produce for the restaurant is grown. It appears that at least one of the Floyds has a green thumb.
New Belgium
One of the greenest breweries around (or so I’m told) is New Belgium. I knew they made a lot of beer, but man, look at the size of this place.
There is an awful lot of Fat Tire in those tanks!
Bell’s Eccentric Cafe
This final location is one I will be visiting on Sunday. Bell’s Eccentric Cafe!
Can you find a Bird’s Eye View of your favorite brewery?
April 20th, 2008 at 12:53 am
I’m imagined Mr. Rogers narrating that for some reason.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Having the ability to get an aerial perspective of locations is nice. I had a bit of trouble at first with cities that have spaces in the name but that seems to be working ok now. My biggest problem is that several of the locations I’ve looked for either don’t have birds eye or look like construction sites because of the photos are a bit too old. Guess that will improve with time.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
very cool…
June 19th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Is it true that Goose Island is moving from it’s Fulton Street location?
June 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
No. As far as I have heard, there is no indication that Goose would move from it’s production facility on Fulton Street.
Maybe you’re thinking about the Goose Island Brewpub on Clybourn? They have announced that they will possibly be moving from that location, but that will not happen until the end of 2008.
July 4th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Sprecher Brewery makes my favorite local beer!
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=r5gxq07p60n7&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=5426935&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1
http://www.sprecherbrewery.com/directions.php