Best beer state 1 on 1

Have you been asleep for the last decade?

 

How is this thread still alive? Shouldn't it be Cali vs [insert 25 different states names here]?

 

Green Mountain Boy

 

I don't mind.

 

It really comes down to Greensboro Bend vs Cali. Lawson and the Alchemist both basically make one beer really good. It's David vs Goliath. Alpine alone is right there w HF. Societe too. Vt has nothing even close to Stone. Magic Hat is probably the biggest mass market brewer -- and it's pure shite. Is there a single brewer in Cali that uses that Ringwood yeast? So nasty -- but so many Vt craft brewers use it -- long trail etc. Up north in Cali they got a little brewer called Anchor. U know - the iconic San Fran original one and only? I can't think of a VT brewer that could hold Anchors jock strap -- from a historical importance perspective. Come on -- Cali crushes VT.

 

F New Mexico. El cumbre
K Wyoming. I don't know a single beer from Wyoming off the top of my head.
Marry Alabama. One word -- the nook (or two words I guess).

 

Stupid ass thread. Lol

 

That drive from Waterbury /Stowe to HF sure goes through a boat load of crap hole towns....

 

A little spreadsheeting of the Top 250 list has 62 from Cali and 30 from VT... For what it's worth. A vast vast vast majority of the VT beers were Lawson's, Alchemist or HF. So more than a third of the list is from 2 states.

 

I think someone's a little drunk.

 

Worth nothing, but thanks for the factoid.

 

Not trying to incite any hate because there's good people in both states, but how about the classic MA vs. New York rivalry? I feel like this might be a little more fair than the whole Cali vs. Vermont debate; similar amount of breweries per capita, large spectrum of styles, and fewer whales than CA vs. VT.

 

Nobody can stand a chance against California.

 

What is the benefit of every Californian trying to get everybody else on California's dick.

This does not make sense.

 

North Dakota vs. South Dakota?

 

No love for FW?

 

California:
Sierra Nevada
Stone
Lost abbey/ port
Cellarmaker
Rare barrel
Russian river
Lagunitas
Societe
Almanac
Bear republic
Faction
Sante Adairius
Alpine
Firestone Walker
50/50
Anchor
Knee deep
North Coast
Ballast Point
Modern Times
Etc, etc, etc.


I mean, like ... Come on meow.

 

Especially Cellarmaker, like oh em gee. Any of their DIPA's are ridiculous, Dank Statement, Are You Afraid Of The Dank, Original Dankster, Highway to the Danker Zone.

 

I just didn't think of it when I posted. There's too many in California for me to remember all of them, especially as I get on in years and can't remem...uh, what was I talking about?

 

California loses point because it's the only state with 2 Anheuser-Busch breweries.