What US state has the best breweries?

biased opinion new york brews underrated. have to get to the breweries to find the best stuff though

 

Well...Vermont. Duh.

 

I am quite happy with what I can get here in SoCal.

 

Probably Michigan....


The top 3 states for beer are:

Michigan
California
Vermont

Put them in any order you want but those are the best.

/thread

 

Based on personal preference, I would have to say Michigan

 

While many states have excellent breweries, Three Floyds is, " in my humble opinion", the Meca of craft breweries therefore Indiana gets my vote.

 

The Flowa Powa, Ithaca Brewing

 

Michiana!

This is so true though. You can easily hit all these breweries in a day. Can't really top that.

 

I think NY should get more love in this discussion:

Southern Tier
Ithaca
Ommegang
Brooklyn
Blue Point
Sixpoint
Captain Lawrence
Horseheads
Southampton
Middle Ages

 

Bend followed by Fremont

 

I've always been partial to beers from California, Colorado, and Michigan, but then again, this is hard to say because there are lots of great breweries operating w/ limited distribution, so a lot of us don't see the greatest beers in our neck of the woods. So this is really a tough, relatively unfair question.

 

You mean Fargo Brewing? Yeah thas a good one!

 

1. California
2. Michigan

3. Others (CO, PA, OR, NY) I'd say VT but the good stuff is barely distributed.

 

Ok, fixed!!

 

Vermont.

 

Agree. Very clever

 

Homer time...SC

Coast
Holy City
Palmetto
Westbrook

All make great beer

 

California wins with overall quantity, but what if we lined up the top 4 'seeds' head to head:

Michigan: 1) Founders; 2) Bells; 3) Dark Horse; 4) Kuhnhenn
California: 1) Russian River; 2) Stone; 3) FW; 4) Alpine

Slight edge still to California. Very slight.

 

Calirado

Colofornia

 

+1 for California.

Bear Republic
21st Amendment
Heretic
Ballast Point
Anchor

and many more...