Finally a good Top 10 Cities list

That's kind of like saying Brooklyn's best baseball team is the Dodgers.

Look, I'm not saying Philly shouldn't be on a list of great beer cities, or even that it shouldn't be high on such a list. I'm just saying that in 2013, it doesn't boast as many truly great breweries as a lot of the cities on this list.

 

To be fair, it's impressive that a New Yorker even acknowledges anything outside his home borough exists.

 

You got a magical multi-brewery list for Kalamazoo? Oh, only Bell's? Hmm...

 

The list seems to be geared around metropolitan areas and even combines some (Kalamazoo-Grand Rapids) so it would make sense to include the breweries in Philly Burbs.

 

Usually, when you're the methamphetamine and herpes capital of the world you don't acknowledge much past a ten block radius, so New York's boroughism has it's understanding.

 

Dude, this is the Interwebz.
We Philly cheerleaders can't be bothered to actually read the article in the embedded link. We're too busy drinking whalez.

Besides, OP titled his thread poorly.
Furthermore, the article is preceded & linked by "America's Top Ten Beer Towns" and only later mentions "brewing".

And I also can't believe you're defending his list.

 

Being a San Diego native, I'm proud to see my city at the top of the list. Though I'm drinking a beer from Kansas at the moment and I got to say it's quite good. Those farmers got their brewing down.

 

This might be the funniest thing I've read on the Interwebz since I've been using the Interwebz.

 

30 mile radius of Waterbury VT takes the entire city of Boston, slaps it on its jammy and splits it in half. I lived in Boston for 8 years and can confidently say that the Waterbury/Stowe zone pubs are LOADED with amazing brews and knowledgable beer geeks that crush Boston's snooze fest of blueberry beers and Sam Adams. Blackback Pub, Resivoir Taproom and Prohibition Pig in Waterbury are all on the same block and better than any advocate pub crawl Boston can offer(minus drunk college cuties). If you hit Montpieler the Three Penny taproom may not have as many taps as Sunset Grill, but is way better pound for pound. Worthy Burger in South Royalton has a better beer/burger combo than anyplace in the entire state of MA. I live 1hr from Boston(Concord NH) and almost always choose the extra hour to hit VT. Was at Worthy Burger last nite, look at the second half of their beer board:
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tell the tale...

 

what's in boston that even justifies it entering into the conversation of top beer cities? i'm asking honestly because i'm up there all the time and would love to stop off at some places. i know sam adams and harpoon are up there but thats not enough to put it on this kind of list.

 

Asheville, NC deserves more than honorable mention. Thats messed up

 

Well, you guys have a point. A number of the breweries listed for Seattle aren't within city limits either.

As for the mixed-up titles, it's possible that an editor or whoever actually puts the material on the website gave it the misleading headline.

I just hope the BA who compiled this list shows up here to defend it (I forget his current username, or I'd personally invite him to join in). I guarantee a holy shit storm will ensue, followed by this thread's inevitable deletion.

 

Oh, I almost forgot because I'm a little drunk at the moment. Tired Hands in Ardmore takes royal shits on EVERY SINGLE brewery located in/around Boston, Seattle, Kalamazoo, Bend, and Portland. Armore is literally within pissing distance of Philadelphia...considering Philadelphia is bordered by Montgomery Avenue which is the spine of Ardmore, so if Boulder/Denver (and I grew up in Colorado) are combined (40 miles apart) and Kalamazoo/Grand Rapids are mentioned in the same sentence, Philadelphia now has in excess of ten breweries that you've all jerked off to at one point or another.
...and we still have Tired Hands.

 

This sounds like it should be on the next episode of Always Sunny

 

Boston has a decent beer culture in that it's not hard to get a craft beer and the populace generally seems to appreciate craft. You can get a decent beer in most places. And there are some good local brews. It's not amongst the greats, but as a craft beer drinker there are much worse places.

 

I'm gonna go ahead and call Shenanigans on this statement. When I lived in Boston, everyone drank Bud and Bud Light. I couldn't even find Sam Adams in most bars.

 

But sunny is awesome, that dude is not.

 

Must be from all that jerking off over your thousands of excellent breweries.