What US state has the best breweries?

There is one of these threads every two months...

 

Pound for pound it is Vermont by A lot. There are 600,000 people (49 out of 50). The state is 100% craft
Their list starts with Hill Farmstead, Alchemist, Lawsons and at the bottom is Magic Hat.
The ISO lists in the trade forum speaks for itself.
The book on microbrewing was literally written in Vermont.

Fyi... I am not from VT. I think they turned the 'buy local' movement into 'keep it local' and you are privileged to just get some beer. Despite the annoying hippie attitudes I still drove for 5 hours there, waited in line for a half hour in the snow to buy 3 cases of Heady Topper. I couldn't make it to HF because that backwards state doesn't plow their roads and driving at night sucks in the snow.
Its a love hate situation but the beer speaks for itself.

Quality over quantity, sorry California.

 

Ohio will become a cornerstone to this.... there's a lot of under the radar beer here and its waiting to burst out of this state .... watch and see my friends!

 

Vermont
Vermont
And
Vermont

 

California ,
Oregon ,
Washington ,
ok BC doesn't get the best distribution

 

New Jersey or Califorina

 

Puerto Rico has beer ?

 

Mi bells founders jolly pumpkin shorts dark horse, the list goes on...

 

ehhh Chicago more like. Only Indiana brewery I named was 3 floyds and that is in Munster, Indiana right across the border.

 

Cheers for mentioning Bear Republic, I thought Racer X was phenomenal this year.
May I add Green Flash, if only for Palate Wrecker ?

 

I just did a massive cross reference at amazon and there is no book on microbrewing written in Vermont !!
All kidding aside, I once stood for 45 minutes in Febrewary in the 70 degree chill in Santa Rosa for one ten ounce glass of Pliny the Younger... but Heady, god bless him, is still better and the owner of the Alchemist will talk to you.
I'm so torn.

 

They won't let me like this twice...but I want to !

 

I agree with your choices but I think you should load up the truck and move to Beverly...Hills that is and give the CA brewers a chance

 

I agree that we have a large selection of solid breweries but I'm not sure we have anything world-class. If you consider what comes out of Cali, Oregon, or even Michigan, I don't know if MA would be in my top 5 states tbh.

 

Personal favorite and best might be two different things.

I have lived in many different parts of the country, and still travel a lot. Every time I travel outside of Texas, I always feel like I am missing out. A single state might have a better selection, or more breweries by number. Though I will not give up Live Oak, 512, Karback, Austin Beer Works, Deep Ellum, or any number of other breweries in Texas for anything. So, I guess Texas is my answer.

 

Come on, now. Any answer other than California, Oregon, Colorado, or Michigan has to be a joke.

 

Gotta say Colorado since that's where I live. Obviously Cali but easy to say considering how huge the state is. Vermont and Oregon have a lot going for them though!

 

We got those in Colorado too, so we have all our bases covered.

Check thread title to LIST BREWERIES IN YOUR STATE.

 

Califronia #1 followed by Michigan and Oregon

 

Colorado Top 10 (in no order):

Odell
New Belgium
SKA
Oskar Blues
Great divide
Crooked Stave
Funkwerks
Avery
Dry Dock
TRiNiTY

Honorable Mentions:

Bull and Bush
Lefthand
Breckenridge
Strange
Denver Beer Co
UpSlope
Golden City
Mountain Sun
Copper Kettle
Durango Brewing
Prost Brewing
River North