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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!