A local experiment

This would be incredibly easy to do in Southeastern PA. Plus if you count Yuengling you can go anywhere and not worry about your ability to drink local.

 

Personally, when people spout the all too common BA (especially from the w-coast) "Drink local, drink fresh" slogan, something inside me cringes. I think it's the "drink fresh part", because to me, a) it's condescending, and assumes that we would otherwise drink cardboard water without this useful tip...actually it's the drink local bit too, because it b) promotes a behavior that could ultimately lead to less imports on our shelves, as well as craft brews in general. It is also foolishly ignorant of the global economy, and where money lands. Rant aside, and to the OP point, I wouldn't wish to drink local only for too long. But for a few months I could dig on

Captain Lawrence (their new sixer line is great for everyday drinking)
Greenport Harbor (Growlers of a wide selection of IPAs)
Blind Bat (Smoked Witbier anyone?)
Sixpoint (Resin and Crisp)
Southampton
Brooklyn (the whole line is decent)

In State, but not exactly local to me
Southern Tier
Ithaca
Saranac (cheap drinking)

 

Take away the corruption in Detroit proper, not the city itself.
Atwater, Traffic Jam, DBC, Motor City; plus the beer bars: Roast, Slows, Grand Trunk, Jacoby's, Park, St CeCe's, Rub, Cadieux Cafe, Tap Room, etc.
Plus all of the vacant land being converted to farms...btw hop farms are coming...

And to the OP, yes it would be easy here in MI...
Kuhnhenn, Jolly Pumpkin, Dragonmead, RMBC, Founders, Shorts...hell you know the list.

And how local are we talking? Like, within 50 miles from home? OK...Dragonmead, Kuhnhenn, Roch Mills, Sherwood, Great Baraboo, Fort Street, Atwater, MCBW, Traffic Jam, DBC, Royal Oak Brewery, Bastone, Lily's, WAB, MIP, Big Rock/Griffin Claw, Witch's Hat, Redwood, Copper Canyon, Malty Dog, Arbor, Corner, Grizzly Peak, Jolly Pumpkin, and more in the works. I could even include Valentine Vodka and B Nektar for my booze and mead fix.

 

I also am from Michigan so could and pretty much do this already. I would say 90% or more of what I own is from Michigan but man I sure would miss my Vitus.

 

I definitely could do it , but man I would miss me some MI and CA brews.

 

Great Lakes along with voodoo and erie brewery wouldn't be difficult to solely drink.

 

I can do both! You seem to feel that if too many people buy Blatant IPA then we'll never be able to get Flower Power or Heady Topper again. I just don't buy it.

 

I think yemenmocha is plenty relaxed. He makes thoughtful comments and is a pleasure to disagree with.

 

I agree. And we're starting to get some more Belgian styles brewed in WA, so even that is starting to look up a bit. Due to allergies, I haven't had a beer in a week, but off the top of my head, I think the farthest my beer has traveled in the last month or so is from Seattle. There were a couple of imports from the local bottle shop, but all my draft consumption has been from within about 100 miles.

 

Maybe you're allergic to local beers (sure hope not)

 

My home state is Kentucky. One of my all-time favorite beers is Bourbon Barrel Big Brown made by BBC. Also, I am a big fan of the beers currently being offered by Against the Grain (a restaurant and smokehouse in Louisville). Still, I don't think I could sustain purely on beers made in Kentucky. I gotta have my Michigan brews.

 

Sierra Nevada
Anchor
Russian River
Firestone Walker
North Coast
21st Amendment
Drake's
Fifty Fifty
Anderson Valley
Magnolia
Lagunitas
Bear Republic
Mendocino Brewing

Not only could I do in-state, I could do in-state and less than 200 miles from me.

 

Nope, just invisible floaty things in the air. I can finally breathe through my nose again, I think there'll be some beers in my weekend.

 

All three states I've lived in for significant periods: Michigan, Illinois, and California could make this possible. Illinois is easier if you're allowed to count Munster as being part of Illinois...

 

I could do it, considering my most commonly drank beers are from Half Acre and Metropolitan, add in Goose Island, Three Floyds (it's in IN, but it's suburban Chicago and takes less time to get to from the city than Two Brothers), Two Brothers, Revolution (soon to be distributed), brewpubs like Haymarket, and other breweries coming.

But I wouldn't want to, because I wouldn't want to give up the Belgians.

 

living in colorado i can say that i could easily drink nothing but colorado beers. forever.

 

Only RI beer? No way. MA beer as well? Sure, no problem there.

 

I'm going to give Texas some love here and say that it is possible--with Freetail and Ranger Creek in San Antonio, Real Ale in Blanco, and Jester King, Live Oak and (512) in Austin I could get by drinking beers within a 90 mile radius. Realistically, however, I like the variety and options available to me. But I think about this often--since I lived in California for the better part of a decade I find it easier to pass up the west coast brews that make it to my area now (and justify this in part because I drank so much and so many of them before, but also because of the distance they must travel to reach Texas).

 

5mins from Flying Dog Brewery. Yeah, ill be just fine!