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Blaze Your Trail

Self-Guided Tour Of The Quad Cities Favorite Craft Breweries

Welcome to the QC Ale Trail, organized by Visit Quad Cities. We invite beer lovers on a self-guided tour of the craft breweries across the Quad Cities bi-state region. Our makers are a collaborative community who are creating unique, drinkable beers across the spectrum.

Blazing a Trail requires some knowledge to become a professional Trail Blazer.  Do you know about the Quad Cities Beer History, Drinkable Diversions, how to be a Trail Champion, and where our Destination Center is located? Click on the links below and expand your craft beer horizons. Join the public QC Ale Trail Facebook group to share your progress blazing the trail.

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Be A Trail Champion

Go QC Ale Trailblazing with all the right information so you can get your QC Ale Trail swag and share your best craft life moments.
Champions
the visitor center of the Quad Cities

Destination Center

When you have gone to 4 breweries or all of them, you’ll want to come to the Visit Quad Cities Destination Center to receive your QC Ale Trail swag. The pass on your phone will show you the way!
Destination Center
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Drinkable Diversions

Take this detour to see the other side of the QC's craft drink makers.
Off the Trail
Sunset over the Mississippi river

Regional History

We have always been an area of inventors and makers. The beer brewing industry got its start with the arrival of German immigrants in the mid-1800s who settled the Quad Cities.
Beer History