Favorite "Next-Door" Brew State

RD ?

 

Northern California

 

Yep, it's pretty much a no-brainer in MN.

 

Here's my Ohio neighbor ranking.
1. Michigan - Bell's, Founders, Dark Horse, Short's, Odd Side,...
2. Pennsylvania - Troeg's, Victory, Weyerbacher, ...
3. Indiana - Three Floyds is the only brewer I'm super familiar, but I know the IN scene is booming.
4. Kentucky - because it's better than #5.
5. West Virginia - I've heard they have a brewery!

 

We can go through Canada to skip NH and get to Vermont would that count?

 

BFD is that it's the whole point of the thread.. Not "favorite brew state besides your own"

"CA doesn't have.. except Oregon"- Seriously, pick any other state. Chances are it only has one, MAYBE two neighboring states with good beer, just like your state.

That damn West Coast sense of entitlement..

 

All's I gotta say is, thank God for Oregon beer. OR breweries > WA breweries on every level for me, which is depressing because I like supporting my home turf. I guess Elysian and Fremont are okay but I just don't go to them very much.

 

Michigan and Ohio

 

You & Hawaii can claim any Pacific state, plus I'd give y'all Idaho & Montana, how bout that?

 

Rushing Duck.

 

Nothing you can actually get without driving a shit load...

 

Used to like, even love Tommy Knockers & Ft. Collins, but not so much lately...

 

Minnesota where you have Surly,Indeed, Steel Toe and a whole host of others that are churning out some great beers!

 

Michigan, because JP and Kuhnhenn are fairly easy drive...

 

We live in Indy and would have to say without a doubt Michigan!

 

Living in upstate NY, pennsylvania is a great bordering state in my opinion (even though i havent gotten down there to visit them recently)......Victory, Troegs, Weyerbacher. Its a bordering state but still a 6 hour drive to those breweries.

I would say Vermont but alas havent had the great opportunity to even try the alchemist, lawsons, or hill farmstead...ANY OF THEIR BEERS.....so i will go with pennsylvania by default

 

Quebec... Dieu de Ciel, Trou du Diable, Dunham

 

Probably Vermont, but Maine would be in a very close, practically a tie second place.

 

You forgot Newburgh Brewing, Defiant, Hyde Park Brewing Co, The Gilded Otter, and Keegan Ales. All of these are less than an hour or so from the North Jersey border, all off of I-89 in Rockland County/Hudson Valley

Great South Bay and a couple of others on LI as well

Ommegang's a little further up in Cooperstown, and Ithaca and Southern Tier are up in forever away, so I know you're not counting them, but still great breweries.

I'd definitely have to go NY over PA tho

 

Minnesota - I love driving up to the Twin Cities and filling my belly with local brews like Surly, Indeed, Dangerous Man, and Summit, and my car with stuff we don't get in Iowa like Ballast Point, Lagunitas, Kona, Odells, and more.