Finally a good Top 10 Cities list

I had a good time on my recent visit, but if you aren't from the area the altitude and dryness is just murder to go out drinking no matter how much water you have.

It's like dealing with severe hangovers all the time and you aren't even drunk, rampant cracking skin, and nose bleeds all the time, where is the fun in THAT!?

 

The fact that the author is considering the state of VT a city and it doesn't even crack the top ten shows the blatent ignorance of whomever compiled said list and immediatley undermines their credibility. One of the most unobjective lists I've seen. The title of the post should be "Top ten best beer towns as considered by someone living in a West Coast bubble". But the author declared it non-fiction so it is fact. Just more proof that "best of" lists are dumb.

 

You should try visiting more often...

 

I'm a fan of this version:

 

Milwaukee... #1 Brandy city?

 

How the hell does an area with 5 of the top 20 beers rated in the USA NOT make the Top 10 list??? Absurd.
Waterbury, VT area needs to be in any Top 10 list. Period.

BTW... it also owns the number 1 rated beer in America as well.

 

I live in Philly. I just walked a block to my neighborhood bar. Without even getting into the selection of over 200 bottles, here's what's on tap:
AleSmith IPA
Avery IPA
Brouwerij Roman Ename Tripel
Bruery Rugbrod
DuClaw Euphoria
Free Will Coffee Oatmeal Brown
Harpoon Leviathan Czernobog
Green Flash/St. Feuillien Friendship Brew
Lancaster Winter Warmer
Spaten Premium
Omnipollo Leon
Telegraph Winter Ale
Terrapin Oak Aged Big Hoppy Monster
Weyerbacher Quad
Terrapin Hop Karma
Victory Hop Devil
Yards ESA

 

Congratulations. The list is about BREWERIES. Thanks for playing.

 

Everyday I have to say to myself, "No, resist the urge to troll on BA." But, threads like these make it so very very difficult not to give in.

 

This list is about the best beer cities, which I think should include bars and such, but since it doesn't and is about breweries, Phoenix and Arizona in general get crushed.

I lived in Tempe/Scottsdale from 2005-2012 and I can say that while the Phoenix area is slowly improving upon where it was about five years ago, it's still a relative "desert" for craft beer. Get it? There are some great bars and a few decent breweries (Four Peaks is king in the state but still mediocre on the national scale) but most are spread throughout the massive urban/suburban sprawl. And specifically to this site, the BA representation is very weak. Tempe is doing well so far with bars such as Taste of Tops, Boulders, WOB, and Flanny's. There's only a few great beer bars outside of Tempe like Papago, Delux, and The Hungry Monk.

So what I'm saying is, while the Phoenix area is getting better, it's no where near the Top 10 in the country for craft beer availability or number of quality breweries.

 

Thread was started by a derailer.

 

Here is what you see draft down the block in Seattle w/ 1,000 bottles:
1) Lazy Boy - Experimental IPA
2) Levenworth- Blind Pig Dunkelweisse
3) Dogfish Head - Hellhound on My Ale
4) Sam Adams- Alpine Spring
5) Fremont - Universal Pale
6) Elysian - Mortis Persimmon Sour
7) Snipes- Wild Eye.P.A
8) NW Peaks - Maude's English Mild
9) American- Impaler Pale
10) Snipes- Pear Saisson
11) Leavenworth - Black Lager
12) Cascade - Apricot Sour
13) Hilliards - Oaked Saison
14) Coronado - Belgian IPA
15) Sam Adams - New Albion Pale
16) Snoqualmie - Haystack Hefe
17) Laurelwood - Workhorse IPA
18) Green Flash - Palate Wrecker IPA
19) Snipes - IPA
20) Bainbridge Island- Blakely Brown
21) Full Sail - Wreck the Halls
22) Caldera - IPA
23) NITRO: Deschutes - Red Chair NW Pale
24) Laurelwood - Espresso Stout
25) Deschutes - Inversion IPA
26) Sound - Humulo Nimbus IIPA
27) Sierra Nevada- Bigfoot Barleywine
28) Spire - Pear Cider
29) Tieton- Apricot Cider
30) Tieton- Dry Hopped Cider
31) Cascade - Frostkiller
32) Bridgeport - Olde Knucklehead Barleywine
33) Issaquah - Apple Frog Tripel w/Apple
34) NW Peaks - Blewett Scottish Ale
35) Southern Tier - Choklat Stout
36) Maui Brewing - Coconut Porter
37) Diamond Knot- Slane's Irish Red
38) Maritime - Bosun's Black Porter

 

I know that can't be Brouwer's. Not enough taps

 

Looks like I chose the right city to live in.

 

Not a single Spokane beer on that list though. We're gonna invade your shit shortly.

 

In other news, the sun rose in the east again today.

 

I had my first No-Li beer last night, Silent Treatment. It was pretty good. Need to put that stuff in 12oz cans.

 

Solar Winds should be out soon. They give it a different hop treatment every year and last year's (Citra) was most excellent.

I'm gonna be the annoying Iron Goat fan boy pretty soon though.

 

2 great breweries (note: not in Waterbury) and 1 other brewery that makes 1 great beer does not = Great beer city.