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23 Breweries, 1 Festival, 5 Northeast States (Part 1 - Hudson / Lower NY)

23 breweries, 1 festival and miles of beautiful New England (plus New York, that's not part of it, right?) and 13 days later, my liver emerges slightly worse for the wear. "Epic" was the word often thrown at Nathan and I as we drove a 2010 Roadtrek 22' Camper Van from Newark, NJ, to Littleton, New Hampshire, and back.  "You did like 90% of it," one guy remarked, "You just missed Maine."  Yes, the Portland-to-Portland connection will have to happen another day, but still, we executed a phenomenal tour de bier focused on highly rated and respected breweries of Northeast America.  These are the highlights.   Day 1: The Longest Beer Wednesday, September 14, 2022 It sucks flying East; you lose a day.  We were up around 6AM to catch a 9AM flight from PDX to EWR (the worst airport on the planet save for its proximity to the better parts of NY).  We landed around 6:50pm, booked it to Ringwood NJ where we picked up the Roadtrek in the last trickle of daylig