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Flying Bison Brewing Company

The first in a long line of local craft breweries, and the heirs of a proud tradition of Buffalo brewing that never quite recovered after Prohibition, Flying Bison's 2000 launch marked the first time beer was brewed in Buffalo for commercial purposes since Iroquois closed up shop twenty-eight years prior. Despite an increasingly crowded field of competitors, they're still giants on the local scene: "Aviator Red" is Buffalo's best-selling red ale, the Vienna-style "Rusty Chain" is sweet, smooth and yeasty, and seasonal offerings such as the holiday favorite "Blizzard Bock" abound.

Address: 840 Seneca St
Getting there: Metro Bus 15, 18 or 23
Hours: Retail store open Thu-Sat noon-8PM
Website: flyingbisonbrewing.com (opens in a new tab)

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Flying Bison offers three tours a week of its brewery in Larkinville, where guides explain the company's history and mission, walk visitors through the beermaking process step-by-step, and furnish a glimpse of brewers in action. The atmosphere is laid-back and friendly as can be, and frankly it's almost unfair to say these tours are free — they're so liberal with the free samples it's almost like you are being paid to take the tour. (According to one reviewer, the staff, who are notorious for shooting the breeze with visitors over drinks before and after tours, "basically get you drunk on the house".)
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An odd sight to see amongst the restored warehouses, quirky restaurants, and trendy craft distilleries of Larkinville, this roadside shrine was built around 1950 by local barber Joseph Battaglia, inspired by a vision he had of the Virgin Mary several years earlier. In the ensuing years, Our Lady of Seneca Street has attracted the attention of local Catholic devotees, who still deliver prayers to the Blessed Mother by mail (the postal service drops them in the adjacent mail slot), the area preservationist community (who sprung into action to save the shrine when Battaglia's former barber shop — now the parking lot to its rear — was razed in the late 1980s), and dramatist Tom Dudzick, whose 2009 play Miracle on South Division Street was based on Battaglia's vision and its aftermath.