You and your locals

All within 5 miles , less than 15 minutes:

Stoup
Reuben's
Lucky Envelope
Peddler
NW Peaks
Hale's Ales
Maritime Pacific
Bad Jimmy's
Populuxe

 

Revolution (brewpub) .2
Ale Syndicate .7
Arcade .7
Hopewell .9
Off Color 1.8
I'm not bothering with going into their averages. Yeesh.

 

Melvin- 4.09avg 70 miles 1:10hours
Snake River- 3.84avg 101 miles 2hours
Grand Teton- 3.86avg 127 miles 2:20hours
Talisman- 3.67avg 135 miles 2hours
Epic/Uinta-3.57avg&3.71avg 170 miles 2:25 minutes.

Dang I live out in the sticks! Still some quality joints I get to visit. A good afternoon drive and world class scenery.

Cheers

 

Ithaca Beer/Bandwagon
Syracuse Middle Ages within an hour, Cortland
Saranac and Genesee go that way
Vermont is north but Buffalo is lean to the left
Lakewood, ellicottville, horseheads
where did the time go Ommegang

 

GoodLife Brewing- 0.1 miles (3.71 avg)
Deschutes- 0.8 miles (3.82 avg)
Crux Fermentation Project- 1.7 miles (3.95 avg)
Bend Brewing- 1.8 miles (3.66 avg)
Silver Moon- 2.0 miles (3.67 avg)

Technically, Ale Apothecary's (4.25 avg) space is closer than GoodLife's, but you can't buy beer there. 10 Barrel (3.71 avg), Sunriver (3.79 avg), Cascade Lakes (3.6 avg), North Rim, CRAFT Kitchen, Immersion, McMenamins OSF, and Boneyard (4.01 avg) have breweries or brewpubs within this radius too.

 

Hopsters, Beer average 3.67
Aeronaut Brewing Company, Beer average 3.84
Samuel Adams Brewery, Beer average 3.64
Cambridge Brewing Company, Beer average 3.99
Winter Hill Brewing Company, Beer average 3.76

 

Skeye Brewing
Powder Keg Brewing 4.06
Oskar Blues 3.89
Bootstrap 3.52
Left Hand 3.76
Grossen Bart 4.04

All within four miles

 

Athens is becoming quite a place for freshly brewed beer.
We have Terrapin (now, technically a macro-brewery after being bought out by Miller-Coors - https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/terrapin-beer-company-joins-tenth-and-blake.436454/ )
Creature Comforts which is busting out of the starting gate with a popular fury!
Southern Brewing Company - My personal favorite of the 3 and the newest. The wild yeast program there is unique and there are always 16-20 various styles on tap.

Sorry, I'll follow the rules and add data later.

 

All less than 6 miles

Wooden Robot--keg only. Best pale ale in town--Overachiever 4.09
Olde Mecklenburg--incredibly authentic German styles--Mectoberfest 3.94
Heist--new brewer just a couple of years ago and amazing 3.82
Legion--up and comer 4.0
NoDa--Jam Session now their best--good but slipped 3.93

Good time for the Queen City

 

I live in downtown Valparaiso, Indiana; northwest Indiana. There are 3 breweries within walking distance, then 18th Street and Three Floyds are the next closest:

Ironwood Brewing Co.: 3.38/5. Very small cool place about 5 blocks/.2 mile. I've only been twice but there are a couple IPA's they have that I enjoy. They also release a big stout on Black Friday - it's not bad.

Figure 8 Brewing: 3.69/5. I've been here probably 10 times, but it's been at least 2 years. I think the beer is marginal at best, and last I went, the food seemed like it was heated frozen food. Not a fan. .5 mile from me

Four Fathers Brewing: 4.08/5. This place is awesome. There are maybe 15 seats, very small and intimate. But they have free bacon-fat popcorn (huge hit) and the beer is pretty solid for a super small, quaint place. My girlfriend and I go there often, including last Tuesday. 1 mile from my door step.

18th Street Brewing: 4.04/5, 17.8 miles from me. I went about a year and a half ago when it was still in Gary (bang bang). They've since moved locations closer to Chicago/Illinois border. Always love 18th Street brews.

Three Floyd's: 4.07/5, 27 miles from me. My favorite spot, used to go there a lot, havent been in about 6 months.

Burn 'Em: 3.88/5, also 27 miles from me. Wish this place was closer. The distro is only NWI and I'm lucky to be able to get all their stuff. Great small-ish brewery.

 

Recently moved here, certainly much nicer availability than where we were.

Seven Arrows Brewing - 2.8 miles - 3.74 BA
Redbeard Brewing - 6.8 miles - 3.66 BA
Blue Mountain Brewery - 15.8 miles - 3.82 BA
Starr Hill Brewery - 21.9 miles - 3.71 BA
Wild Wolf Brewing - 25.8 miles - 3.69 BA

Have yet to have beer from Seven Arrows, Redbeard, or Wild Wolf, but they are on the list to catch up on. Have been to Blue Mountain and will be going back in the future.

 

Pinelands brewing 7 miles away
Ship bottom now that they have a spot and not contacted anymore its 20 miles.

 

An easier way to discover which breweries are nearby is to click on Places on the main menu, then Nearby and then give permission to track your location. You'll get a map with symbols of Breweries, good beer Bars, Eateries, Stores (bottle shops), and Homebrew Supply Stores. By clicking on each symbol you'll get the main page of that business from the BA database. Collect the rating from each page and you're done.

I'm not at home right now so I can't take this easy route to look up the ratings (they are all 4.0 +/- 0.25), but in order of distance from my house are: Arcadia (Battle Creek) 5 miles, Territorial Brewing (6 miles), Dark Horse (12 miles), Bell's (20 miles) and Latitude 42 (22 miles).

 

Not sure if you meant " contracted " there (as in "contract brewed") but Ship Bottom started out as a nano-brewery in the owner's suburban garage in Wallingford, PA (still listed as such here on BA and on the Brewers of PA website). Wasn't aware they ever went the contract brewing route in between that and opening in Beach Haven.

 

Ah ok. Working on LBI, i heard a story that the owner had lived in ship bottom or beach haven on the island possibly a summer home, but contract brewed in PA. 2-3 weeks ago they opened in beach haven and i hear they ran out of beer opening day. Good for them.

 

Wichita Brewing Co. - 2.4 miles away 3.83 avg.
River City Brewing - 4.7 miles away 3.75 avg.
Central Standard Brewing - 4.5 miles away 4.04 avg.
Hopping Gnome Brewing - 4.3 miles away 2.76 avg.
Third Place Brewing - 4.9 miles away N/A


Wow. Great thread, because I learned a lot. I have only ever drank beers from WBC and River City, and I think their avg are low, but then again I'm not as snobby as most people are. The other three breweries I know nothing about, only even hear of Hopping Gnome and I'm sad to see their avg. of 2.76. On the plus side, I'm within 5 miles of 5 breweries, and that is awesome.

 

I just did this for my own curiosity, and mostly because I'm in an odd location right near the Hudson River. Naturally the closest places are on my side:

Brix City- 10.7 miles
Defiant- 14.7 miles

but on the other side places that look closer may actually be further for me to get to, due to the distance from any particular bridge:
Bronx Brewery- 16.7 miles
Gun Hill- 19.7 miles
Captain Lawrence- 19.8 miles
Singlecut- 20.0 miles

all of these turn out to be closer than Yonkers Brewing (21.6 miles), although as the crow flies it's within a 5 mile radius. My insurance company drives me nuts with this stuff all the time, telling me that doctors in Yonkers are 'close by'.

 

Have an idea around about where you may be, there's a couple more in Staunton: Shenandoah Valley and Queen City... unless they closed down.

 

closest:
1st Republic (isn't open yet) 4.8 miles (10 minutes) no BA yet
Burlington Beer Company, 7.3 miles (19 minutes) 4.25 BA
Goodwater Brewing Company, 7.5 miles (20 minutes) 3.95 BA
Farnham Ale and Lager, 8.1 miles (18 minutes) not listed
Groenfell Meadery, 9.9 miles (20 minutes) not listed

best:
The Alchemist, 34 miles (47 minutes) 4.62 BA
Burlington Beer Company (as above) 4.25 BA
Fiddlehead Brewing Company, 17.8 miles (34 minutes) 4.16 BA
Foam Brewers, 11.5 miles (29 minutes) 4.3 BA
Hill Farmstead, 59.2 miles (1 hour 27 minutes) 4.59 BA
Lost Nation Brewing, 36.2 miles (54 minutes) 4.26 BA
Prohibition Pig Brewery 23.2 miles (30 minutes) 4.34 BA