Dunedin Brewers Head Home After Cross-Country 'Hops" to Oregon

Folks from Dunedin Brewery – the state's oldest micro-brewery – are heading back to the Sunshine State after a summer road trip to the Portland, Ore., brewers' fest.

They have been writing about their travels in the Dunedin Brewery Culture blog.  Readers learned that the Dunedin Brewery introduced two of their craft beers at the recent brew festival.

They poured Dunedin Brewery's Double Oatmeal Pale Ale (DOPA) and the Subtropical IPA at the Portland, Ore., festival.

"These two beers are two ends of the pale ale spectrum," was the note in the brewery blog. "The first pays homage to the awesome funk-rock band Dop apod; the second, to the love we have for the subtropics and our own home state."

But the best journeys end at home, and the Dunedin brew crew is headed back to Florida...

"Writing about travel wouldn't be complete without mentioning home. As we leave the majestic skyline of Chicago and cross the tracks of open fields in Minnesota, we have home on the one hand, many states behind us, and on the other hand, 30 more days of travel stretching out before us. Our sweet home on the coast of Florida is so very close and yet so far away."