Saturday, May 06, 2006

Ride up to Great Lakes Brewery and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Last weekend we rode up to Cleveland to take a private tour of the Great Lakes Brewery. They have awesome beer. The whole operation was suprisingly low volume -- they only had three sparge tanks. Really great food and a great atmosphere too. I highly reccommend the brewpub in the cellar -- it used to function as a prohibition-era speak easy. After prohibition ended Elliot Ness drank there often. We ended up drinking too much to ride safely and stayed the night. Next day we hit up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Very nice. There was a bike rally going on that we didn't know about. There was probably 2000 bikes parked in downtown Cleveland. We hit up the Rock Bottom Brewery down in the flats and had a beer and dinner before the 5 hour ride home (my friend D got us lost). All in all a great weekend.