88 plates since August 2010
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Hop Safari

Photographs from breweries, kitchens, festivals and roads — Austin to Denver, New Orleans to Venice, and wherever the next one is.

88 plates · 221 photographs
Since August 2010
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A chef tosses a flaming pan at the Beer and Food Pavilion, Great American Beer Festival, Denver.
Plate 7 · Beer and Food Pavilion at GABF · 2 September 2010
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Where the book is open

Iceland
Plate 88 · 16 October 2026

Iceland

Lighthouses in the wind, waterfalls, black sand and a country heated from below: a week in Iceland, and why it pays to break from the plan.

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Contents

Four ways in

All 88 plates, in order
A Birthday at Uchiko
I

Food

Chefs, plates, and the rooms they come out of.

33 plates
Art at New Belgium
II

Drink

Breweries, bars, and the people who run them.

52 plates
Photos from the Great American Beer Festival Day 0
III

Events

Festivals, competitions and the crowds around them.

36 plates
Sunday Drive
IV

Places

Roads, cities and weather; the essays that are mostly picture.

42 plates
Selection

Twelve plates

  1. Scraps 75Scraps
  2. A Venetian Daily Driver 81A Venetian Daily Driver
  3. El Arbol 43El Arbol
  4. The Arteries of San Francisco 62The Arteries of San Francisco
  5. The Texas Capital Building in Fog 56The Texas Capital Building in Fog
  6. A Taste of Ethiopia 53A Taste of Ethiopia
  7. Doing Good 25Doing Good
  8. The Lovely Details of New Orleans 74The Lovely Details of New Orleans
  9. Riding a Lamborghini Gallardo on the Circuit of the Americas 84Riding a Lamborghini Gallardo on the Circuit of the Americas
  10. Two Curves 72Two Curves
  11. A Birthday at Uchiko 40A Birthday at Uchiko
  12. Two Worlds on the Mississippi 86Two Worlds on the Mississippi
Guides

Two things still worth using

Kenya

Kenya Safari Guide

A Complete Guide to Preparing for a Safari in Kenya

 Minnesota

Minnesota Restaurant Favorites

A Guide to my Favorite Restaurants in Minnesota
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About this volume

Hop Safari is written and photographed by John M. P. Knox, mostly in Austin, with detours to Denver, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, Venice and the Mississippi Delta. New plates are added when there are new plates worth adding.

John also advises and invests in B2B SaaS and life-sciences startups at Moving Average. New work arrives in the feed.

Begun
August 2010
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88 plates · 221 photographs
Latest
Plate 88 · 16 October 2026
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