I stopped at Two Frays for a beer on my way home from visiting a friend in Lawrenceville. While I was there I found this booklet at the checkout stand. The Pittsburgh Brewers Guild has released a guide with all of the local craft breweries, styled like a passport. It's very cute! You can purchase the passport at any of the participating breweries (I assume), each of which will stamp their respective page. I've been assuming you have to buy a pint in order to the get the stamp, but none of the text in or about the book says anything about that. So, maybe simply visiting is enough (though, I intend to have at least one pint at each on my journey).
The participating breweries span the entire Pittsburgh metro area, but they are pretty tightly clustered along the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. You can see this on their interactive map.
By the end of the year I want to visit every brewery in the passport by using only PRT buses and my bike. This will be a fun way to pursue in parallel my goals of riding most of the bus lines and exploring all of the bike routes in the area. The day after finding the passport at Two Frays, I charted a course to take some friends on a ride to Aslin Beer Co. in The Strip so I could get a stamp and a liter of De Gens, their German Pilsner. We took a pretty indirect route there through Schenley Park and the trail on the southern shore of the Monongahela River. There was more to the ride, but this is all that's relevant to the beer adventure. I've included a screenshot of the route below, but you can see it in more detail on Ride With GPS.
This has been fun so far. I'll try to write a short report like this each time I got out to collect some stamps.