Local Brewery Poll

Just north of L.A., Calif...7-10 within an hour and several (1-4) opening up this year. Remember though, in Cali, "one hour" may only be twenty miles depending on traffic. If I said thirty or forty miles, I could include five or six more breweries.

 

I was surprised myself when I done counting. Close to an even split between brewpubs and production breweries also.

 

North Philly Burbs. I'm trying to use Beermapping.com to figure out how many breweries/brew pubs are within 25 and 50 miles of me, but the site is running slow.

 

I'm in Salt Lake City. I can only come up with 6. If I was back home in WI...well I think I will get lost with numbers.

 

I live near Boston, so I have no idea the exact count but it's obviously greater than ten.

 

I live in a geographically large county with a population of less than 90,000, and a town of 40,000, and yet I can think of at least eight breweries within an hour or me (and only one of them is shitty!). All things considered, I feel pretty damn lucky.

 

The Blind Pig Brewpub is easily my favorite. The brewmaster gets to create whatever he wants and it is almost always fantastic regardless of style. He's a really nice guy to boot, always willing to discuss brewing science and help homebrewers fix problems.

What I've had from Triptych is really good too. I need to head to their tasting room soon to try what they have now.

 

That's 17 breweries most of which are closer than 1 hour from my house. St. Louis is a great beer town. I'm probably forgetting at least a few.

Perennial,
4204 main street brewing,
Cathedral Square,
Schlafly,
Urban Chestnut,
Budweiser,
4 Hands,
Buffalo Brewing,
Civil Life,
Side Project,
Six Row,
Alpha Brewing,
Morgan Street,
Square One Brewery and Distillery,
Ferguson Brewing Company,
Peel Brewing Company,
O'Fallon Brewing,

 

Twin Cities, Minnesota: There are around at least 60 open now within an hour of the middle of the metro area, all but a few of which have commercial taprooms or are brewpubs, plus 14 as of this writing that I expect to open in the next year. I believe around 40 have opened in the last three years or so.

 

Why is there no option for 50 breweries within an hour of me?

 

Ugh. That's a weird one to answer for me. We have 3 here that wouldn't be defined as brewpubs by anyone. More like restaurants and oh by the way, we brew our own in house beer. At the biggest of these restaurants, they sell bottles of bud and mixed drinks. If you walk in one of their restaurants you will see a lot of people consuming bottled adjunct lagers or mixed drinks instead of the house brew.

We have one stand-alone brewery, but they don't can or bottle. One of the micro breweries in one of the restaurants has packaged one style of their newest release in a bomber for sale in liquor stores. So, out of four breweries, we are able to go and buy literally one beer from one brewery in package form from a store.

Besides the one stand-alone brewery that doesn't package, I wouldn't consider any of the others traditional breweries like I've seen in any other town. These places are really restaurant forward.

 

Memphis TN.

 

Central Oregon Coast. Despite being Oregon, the coast is a barren wasteland compared to the central valley (I 5 corridor) and Portland (3hrs away) Close by there is of course Rogue and Newport Brewing then a half mile north is Rusty Truck and a McMinnemans then East you can just barely make it to Corvallis for Block15, Flattail and Skyhigh in an hour.

 

@DarkerTheBetter, thanks for the tip about beermapping.com!!

I am from the ‘burbs of Philly and with the help of beermapping,com I determined that within 1 hour from me:

· 16 production breweries

· 27 brewpubs

Cheers!

 

All I can say is Come to Grand Rapids, Mi. Beer City, USA 2 years in a row now.

 

From where I am in AL. 7 within an hour...if I go out 1:30 then the number goes up a lot more because then I get into Huntsville and Atlanta.

 

100+ breweries within an hour - and who knows how many are set to open. My guess is 15 to 20.

 

Have more than 10 now and more than 8 slated to open. I can't speak for how good some are, but there are definitely a shitload of breweries around here.

 

St Louis metro area, here. There are 34 now an hour from where I live. Several new ones on the way, too! Most are St Louis metro area, two are Springfield, IL...which is exactly one hour from my doorstep.

Perennial
2nd Shift
4 Hands
Side Project
6 Row
Square One
Alpha
Urban Chestnut
Ferguson
Kirkwood Station
Granite City
Exit 6
Earthbound
Morgan Street
Trailhead
Tin Mill
Recess
Old Bakery
Grafton Bierhaus
Peel
4204 Main Street
Schlafly
Civil Life
Heavy Riff
Augusta
Cathedral Square
Modern
Griesedieck Brothers
Crown Valley
Obed and Isaac
Engrained
Kaskaskia
Excel
Anheuser Busch

 

Up in northeastern MA with 10+ (probably at least 20 really) and at least 1 opening in 2015.