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Where to live: A beer drinkers' guide
entertainment/news ^ | Rob Kasper

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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1 posted on 04/14/2009 3:35:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono; GOP_Raider

Good to see Colorado up high on the list!


2 posted on 04/14/2009 3:42:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: JoeProBono
Oregon makes some great beers.

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.

3 posted on 04/14/2009 3:46:08 PM PDT by llevrok (I would rather die, standing up and fighting, than to be on my knees, begging)
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To: JoeProBono
If you'd been to Munich, you would know the answer to your question.

ML/NJ

4 posted on 04/14/2009 3:52:40 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: JoeProBono

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.


5 posted on 04/14/2009 3:54:14 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: JoeProBono

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/


6 posted on 04/14/2009 3:59:10 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: JoeProBono
Oregon is where the micro brew industry started. Portland has more breweries than any other city in the US. Bend, where I live has 5. The first micro brew I tried was at the Hillsdale Tavern (McMenamin Brothers) in Portland in about 1984. It was OK (a little green and under hopped), but I did not no any better. Now almost all the breweries produce excellent suds. My favorite brewery is Deschutes Brewery in Bend.
7 posted on 04/14/2009 4:03:46 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: DieHard the Hunter
All others are FAIL.

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?

8 posted on 04/14/2009 4:09:04 PM PDT by houeto (I see Obama voters...and it's changed my tipping habits.)
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To: houeto

(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.


9 posted on 04/14/2009 4:11:57 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
(Grin!) We can get it 24/7/362.5

Not bad. Not bad at all!

10 posted on 04/14/2009 4:14:01 PM PDT by houeto (I see Obama voters...and it's changed my tipping habits.)
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To: JoeProBono

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.


11 posted on 04/14/2009 4:17:27 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre

Dang, not asking for much are you?


12 posted on 04/14/2009 4:22:27 PM PDT by houeto (I see Obama voters...and it's changed my tipping habits.)
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To: mickey finn
I concur, Oregon has the best beer in the country (especially for an IPA drinker). However, my fave is Widmer Bros. The Broken Halo IPA is a staple of mine.
13 posted on 04/14/2009 4:29:04 PM PDT by fightin bronco (All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others)
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To: houeto

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


14 posted on 04/14/2009 4:36:39 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: JoeProBono

Masham , North Yorkshire , England .


15 posted on 04/14/2009 4:53:50 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: fightin bronco
My friend who I used to home brew with works for Widmer as a quality control manager. Must be tough. LOL

I have never tried The Broken Halo, but will look for it.

16 posted on 04/14/2009 5:51:09 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: GOP_Raider

ping


17 posted on 04/14/2009 11:01:50 PM PDT by The SISU kid (I feel really homesick all the time & so do all the other aliens.....)
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To: rzeznikj at stout; GOP_Raider; Rodney King; Tainan; Chasaway; SquirrelKing; dynachrome; ...

Beer Ping!

A low to medium ping list aimed at all of us who, well, love our beer…

FReepmail rzeznikj at stout or GOP_Raider to be added or struck from the list…

18 posted on 04/14/2009 11:42:31 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Have you risen above your own public education today?)
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To: mamelukesabre

don’t forget a couple really important things, like tax rates and job possibilties, otherwise MI would rank pretty darn high on your list.


19 posted on 04/15/2009 4:13:39 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
#1 place in the world for great beer is New Zealand.

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.

20 posted on 04/15/2009 7:03:48 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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