Chicago overtakes Seattle as city with most breweries

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  1. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    #1 BBThunderbolt, Dec 14, 2018
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  2. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,036) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    Chicago, bang bang. :slight_smile:

    Is Pipeline one of Chicago's favourite?
     
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  3. sportscrazed2

    sportscrazed2 Pooh-Bah (2,360) Mar 29, 2010 American Samoa
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    Oh yay but, are are any of them good? Pipeworks and HA are good but, i live 30 miles away and don't really feel much reason to visit for beer at least
     
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  4. cbcrunch

    cbcrunch Grand Pooh-Bah (4,783) Jan 21, 2012 Wyoming
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    Sweet Home Chicago! :beers:
     
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  5. Bitterbill

    Bitterbill Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,036) Sep 14, 2002 Wyoming
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    Pipeworks is what I meant. My bad.
     
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    sportscrazed2 Pooh-Bah (2,360) Mar 29, 2010 American Samoa
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    Baby don't you wanna go?
     
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  7. BrewmanCapote

    BrewmanCapote Initiate (0) Feb 3, 2013 Illinois

    Little-known fact: "Sweet Home Chicago" was the last song Stevie Ray Vaughan played on stage.

    It was at an Eric Clapton show at Alpine Valley, with opening acts SRV and Robert Cray. The final encore from Clapton was Sweet Home Chicago, featuring guitar solos from Clapton, Stevie, Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Buddy Guy, and Clapton's second guitarist.

    A short time later, Stevie's helicopter crashed, robbing the world of a great guitarist.
     
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  8. rronin

    rronin Initiate (0) Jul 4, 2005 Washington

    Couple of things:
    You could drop Seattle in the middle of Chcago and never find it again (population 705,000 vs 2,700,000)
    Chigago summers? hot and muggy. Chicago winters? Don't ask!
    Seattle murder rate 3.4 per 100,000. Chicago murder rate 28.2 per 100,000.
    Oh, but it rains in Seattle! Yeah, average Seattle rainfall 37.1 inches average Chicago rainfall 36.83!
     
    #8 rronin, Dec 15, 2018
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  9. JackHorzempa

    JackHorzempa Grand Pooh-Bah (3,375) Dec 15, 2005 Pennsylvania
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    It is correct that Seattle does not get much annual rain as measured by inches. If instead you counted the number of rainy days, that would be a BIG value!!

    Cheers!
     
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  10. MostlyNorwegian

    MostlyNorwegian Pooh-Bah (2,236) Feb 5, 2013 Illinois
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    Your loss then because many of them are quite good.
     
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  11. steveh

    steveh Grand Pooh-Bah (4,174) Oct 8, 2003 Illinois
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    Anyone can live in San Diego or Charleston (or Seattle). Takes character to live thru Chicago (one g) winters. :wink:

    A Portland (OR) bar tender once regaled me with horror stories of a one inch snowfall that closed down the city for a day. Really? @grantcty how's that sound? :grin:
     
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  12. sportscrazed2

    sportscrazed2 Pooh-Bah (2,360) Mar 29, 2010 American Samoa
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    I live 10 minutes south of three Floyd's. It takes something special to make me travel for beer. Not saying it's not good just saying it's gotta be great to make me seek out something in Chicago rather than just hitting up a binnys
     
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  13. sportscrazed2

    sportscrazed2 Pooh-Bah (2,360) Mar 29, 2010 American Samoa
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    It takes stubborness and stupidity. I'm not sure the two are mutually exclusive
     
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  14. sculls65

    sculls65 Pundit (769) Dec 15, 2008 Michigan

    How's your homeless drug population coming? No city is perfect so let's not get in a pissing match. And I live in neither place.
     
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  15. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,348) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    Drugs need homes bro, just like beers.
     
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  16. HorseheadsHophead

    HorseheadsHophead Grand Pooh-Bah (3,732) Sep 15, 2014 Colorado
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    This does not surprise me. I've always noticed that Chicago has an enormous plethora of breweries.
     
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  17. FatBoyGotSwagger

    FatBoyGotSwagger Grand Pooh-Bah (3,999) Apr 4, 2009 Pennsylvania
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    No surprise here. For the last few years Chicago has been the most affordable large city to reside in the United States.
     
    #17 FatBoyGotSwagger, Dec 15, 2018
  18. hopfenunmaltz

    hopfenunmaltz Pooh-Bah (2,647) Jun 8, 2005 Michigan
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  19. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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    Yes.
     
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  20. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    Well, Seatt-hole has Heinenitas and InBevlysian breweries, and Chicago has InbevIsland and (IIRC) Lagunitaken breweries.

    Shrug. I'm not a fan of population centers, in general, but, I think we all can agree that NYC needs to get over itself.


    Amirite?





    Grin, wink, and smirk .
     
    #20 BBThunderbolt, Dec 15, 2018
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