What Beer Represents Your State?

They just announced PA distribution this week. It will be another 3 or 4 weeks before the beer is in stores.

 

Yep, that Ishtar happen but I bet it will be like some of the others we’ve been getting—3-4 of their flagship beers, like the recent return of three floyds to pa.

 

From what I've seen from our NY BAs King Sue is bountiful. Hardly a flagship and the opposite of Three Floyd's.

 

I know that is what you proposed and I asked you how you knew they we deliberately producing less than demand rather than limited in their capacity. you don’t know that at all.

BTY, I know tha map shows in pa but they are in fact not physically here for anyone in pa to buy.

Note— in CA? there map needs up dating, yet they already added pa when only the paper work is in place.

 

Sounds good if it happens. Opposite in what way?

 

The only Three Floyd's beers I have seen are a lot of Gumball Head (the oldest brewed on February) and least desirable of the original drop and a sixer of zombie dust. By the opposite I mean that Toppling Golath is actually willing to distribute beers consumers want to buy in large quantitys.

 

Well I bought alpha king, zombie dust and one other but not gumball head. All reasonably fresh.

Didn’t check the Gumball Head tho.

Note, they sold well around here but gumball Head was slower than the rest. so somebody was wanting to buy them

 

Distribution is at like 12 states now. It's not scarce, it's just not west cali.

 

Ghost in the machine.. and it’s not even close!

 

Natty Boh(National Bohemian) has to be it, but Flying Dog Brews are becoming popular.

 

Below are the top rated beers by state, based on the top 250 beer ratings received (foreign or domestic) on beer advocate:

Michigan: 1. Breakfast Stout - Founders Brewing Company (17,443) American Imperial Stout
Delaware: 2. 90 Minute IPA - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (16,158) American Imperial IPA
California: 3. Pliny the Elder - Russian River Brewing Company (15,172) American Imperial IPA
Vermont: 5. Heady Topper - The Alchemist (14,569) New England IPA
Illinois: 9. Bourbon County Brand Stout - Goose Island (12,939) American Imperial Stout
Indiana: 17. Zombie Dust - 3 Floyds Brewing Company (10,686) American Pale Ale
Colorado: 21. Ten FIDY - Oskar Blues Grill & Brew (10,127) American Imperial Stout
Massachusetts: 24. Samuel Adams Boston Lager - Boston Beer Company (9,604) Vienna Lager
Pennsylvania: 29. Nugget Nectar - Troegs Brewing Company (8,729) American Imperial Red Ale
Florida: 30. Jai Alai - Cigar City Brewing (8,686) American IPA

Oregon: 43. Dead Guy Ale - Rogue Ales (7,873) German Maibock
New York: 47. Pumking - Southern Tier Brewing Company (7,709) Pumpkin Beer
Ohio: 68. Edmund Fitzgerald Porter - Great Lakes Brewing Company (6,707) American Porter
Missouri: 72. Budweiser - Anheuser-Busch (6,602) American Adjunct Lager
Oklahoma: 76. Bomb! - Prairie Artisan Ales (6,427) American Imperial Stout
Wisconsin: 91. Pabst Blue Ribbon - Pabst Brewing Company (5,992) American Adjunct Lager
Minnesota: 100. Furious - Surly Brewing Company (5,727) American IPA
Maine: 105. Lunch - Maine Beer Company (5,669) American IPA
New Hampshire: 120. Smuttynose IPA "Finest Kind" - Smuttynose Brewing Company (5,384) American IPA
Iowa: 130. Pseudo Sue - Toppling Goliath Brewing Company (5,217) American Pale Ale

Utah: 169. Hop Nosh IPA - Uinta Brewing Company (4,399) American IPA
Texas: 177. Bock - Spoetzl Brewery / Shiner (4,310) German Bock
Maryland: 190. Raging Bitch Belgian-Style Ale - Flying Dog Brewery (4,145) Belgian IPA
Georgia: 202. W-n-B Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout - Terrapin Beer Co. (4,031) English Oatmeal Stout

Twenty Four states represented, fourteen styles as recognized on B.A. Decent list, and fairly representative, though not definitive. I agree with my State's choice (GI BCS), would likely switch the following three in the top 10 if not using an objective method (not my highest rated beer, but the beer I think most/best represents the state):

Michigan: Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Colorado - New Belgium's Fat Tire
Pennsylvania - Yuengling's Lager

 

In MA we also receive quite a few beers from Toppling Goliath.

Just about every IPA they have it seems. Stouts are only rare drops at select bars on draft.

 

How are any of these beers representing your state?

Enjoy

 

I’ll have to throw a curve ball since I am not currently located in the states. I live in Hainaut Provence in Belgium so I will have to go with Chimay.

 

Granted I was in Brussels, but I recall seeing quite a bit of Hoegaarden.

 

I...definitely thought Boulevard was on the Kansas side. Huh.

Minnesota's has gotta be Grain Belt Premium, if only for the iconic sign in MPLS. And it's still going strong since the '40s. Summit EPA for the craft age, sure. But Grain Belt is way more ingrained in Minnesotan history.

 

Grain Belt, now brewed by Schell's, the 2nd oldest family brewery remaining. Not the best by any means, but it represents the grain of Minnesota and the beer that's flowed for centuries!