Posted on 04/14/2009 3:35:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Trying to find the ideal place to live? Statistics gathered by The Brewers Association might help you decide. It calculated the number of breweries in each state and then divided that number into the population of each state. This produced a ratio of breweries to residents. Vermont is the state with the best ratio: one brewery for every 32,698 residents. As the above picture shows, Vermont also produces a lot of maple syrup. I guess you could convert the maple syrup buckets to growlers for beer. The other top four states were Montana, Oregon, Maine and Colorado. Maryland has 21 breweries, two more than top-finishing Vermont. But our populations is so much larger than Vermont's that our brewery-per-capita number ends up as one for every 268,267 residents. This puts us 32nd among the 50 states. Delaware, with 7 breweries, ranked 9th. Pennsylvania, with 75 breweries, ranked 20th. Virginia, with 32 breweries, ranked 30th. California, the state with the most breweries (221), ranked 21st. Mississippi with only one brewery for its 2.9 million residents, finished last. There is a link on the Brewers Association page to a PDF that ranks each of the 50 states. Would the number of breweries per capita figure in your decision about where to live?
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Good to see Colorado up high on the list!
So, as any good government does when they see an opportunity, the state has a bill this legislative session to tax microbrews 1000% or some God awful amount.
ML/NJ
It ain’t the number of breweries it is the quality of the brew!
#1 place in the world for great beer is New Zealand. A distant #2 is Australia. #3 is the Eire. #4 is the United Kingdom. #5 is India. #6 is Canada. #7 is South Africa. #8 is Oregon. All others are FAIL.
Here is a Vermont micro brewery that makes some of the best beer in the world.Don’t believe me? Then get out here and get some!
Scottish Ale................the best.
http://www.troutriverbrewing.com/
Fail? Naa... Can you buy it 24/7/365 like we can here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast? If you can't get it when you want it, what good is it to you?
(Grin!) We can get it 24/7/362.5 — only days not available are Easter Friday, ANZAC morning, and Christmas Day. I can work around those constraints.
Not bad. Not bad at all!
Breweries is but one measure of wealth. I’d like to see this statistic along side of a few other statistics...
Bars per capita
restaurants per capita
golf courses per capita
health spas per capita
parks per capita
movie theaters per capita
water parks/theme parks/amusement parks per capita
zoos per capita
professional sports stadiums/arenas per capita
wineries per capita
distilleries per capita
confectioneries per capita
professional chefs per capita
professional musicians/entertainers per capita
public swimming pools per capita
airports per capita
private boats per capita
motorcycles per capita
private planes per capita
hospitals per capita
gas stations per capita
banks and bank branches per capita
malls per capita
ski resorts per capita
Then break it down by county, not state.
Dang, not asking for much are you?
Ha. It’s too much for me to hunt for. Maybe there’s someone on FR that already knows of a site with some of that info already collected. My hunch is that the winner will be a county that is within 300 miles of washington DC
Masham , North Yorkshire , England .
I have never tried The Broken Halo, but will look for it.
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don’t forget a couple really important things, like tax rates and job possibilties, otherwise MI would rank pretty darn high on your list.
Yeah and you ain't the least bit prejudiced, right?
I'll stay right here in south Mississippi, thank you very much.
But I agree whole heartedly that UK beers are far and away better than anything coming out of Germany.
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