The Best Beer in your state (It sucks to be you, Idaho)

[MrScorpio]

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1102/beer-map/flat.html

[blueamy66]

1. I lived in AZ for 38 years and have never heard of Nimbus!

And I'm a drinker.

Oh well.....

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. full steam for NC ? Nope...not even close.

Highland and Foothills far better just to name a few.

Full steam I've had tasted flawed.

[Ryano42]

3. New Mexico: Marble is very good...

La Cumbre is FREAKING AMAZING!



So hoppy it will chip a tooth...

[handmade34]

4. this is best...

named after my Grandmother!! (actually I like George -her brother, my great Uncle- better)

http://www.hillfarmstead.com/main/

http://www.hillfarmstead.com/ancestral-series/anna.html

[NightWatcher]

5. Landshark (a Bud prod) in Florida. That's BULLSHIT.

There are a ton of new, good craft brewers around the state that are getting good distribution and this website picks a shitty Bud product that sold at Jimmy Buffet shows?

Cigar City
Intuition Ale Works
Bold City Brewery

With many more coming online every few months, how can they pick a Bud Lager?

[CBGLuthier]

6. I like Coop better than Choc

Their brewery is four blocks from my house. They are just now starting to expand outside Oklahoma.

[fizzgig]

7. colorado here

fort collins, home of new belgium, and i primarly drink their sunshine wheat. fat tire, the most commonly found one, is shit imo. i do, think however, there are better breweries in town as far as having more than one beer i like.

[Boom Sound 416]

8. When in Louisiana - Turbo Dog is for me

[OriginalGeek]

9. Landshark?!

They picked LANDSHARK?! From a state that has Cigar City?!?!? And Dunedin? Landshark is a goddamn Anheuser-Busch beer! Those dumb shits are fucked in the head. Goddammit. Shit, we even have a Yuengling brewery in Florida. Yuengling dregs are better than goddamn Landfuckingshark.

Fuck now I'm pissed off.

[T_i_B]

10. There's a Marble brewery in New Mexico?

One of the very best Breweries in Britain is Marble brewery in Manchester. Their pub, the Marble Arch is also one of the very best.

http://www.marblebeers.com/

[a la izquierda]

11. Bridge Brew Works is very good nt

[NutmegYankee]

12. Willimantic Brewing Company (Conn.) has an awesome stein night on Sundays

Bring a stein and get it filled at pint cost. Damn good food too!

[hermetic]

13. In defense of Idaho

There are at least 3 highly rated breweries there: Sockeye, Payette and Grand Teton Brewing. I haven't tried any but am quite certain I will be doing so a few months from now. I'll get back to you on that.

I hope Harvey comes back. I miss his beer reviews.

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[NRaleighLiberal]

14. looking at ratebeer.com, Grand Teton and Laughing Dog get some great reviews

I always go for the stouts - and they have a few in the high 90s out of 100 in rating.

[jmowreader]

15. Has anyone even heard of this website before?

This is one of those "reader poll" things, and apparently no one in Idaho voted because there are several craft breweries that sell packaged beer here - in North Idaho the big one is Laughing Dog.

Next question: is New Belgium really a craft brewer anymore? They sell over 700,000 barrels of beer a year and they're building a second brewery.

[T_i_B]

17. But what actually is a "craft" brewery?

Is it a brewery that doesn't pasteurize it's beer? Is it just an acceptably small brewery? Or is it a brewery that gets big marks on ratebeer.com?

Craft beer can be a remarkably vague term.....

[jmowreader]

19. It's apparently one that makes more than 50 percent of its income on IPA and imperial stout

I went to Ivar's Acres of Clams in Seattle last summer and asked for a locally-made beer you can see through. They had three choices. Fuckin' EVERYTHING not made by a multimillion barrel per year company is IPA now, or at least it seems that way...the supermarket in Coeur d'Alene with the best beer selection in town has at least fifty different ones, and not much of anything else.

IPA has its place. However, that place is not in my glass.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. Alaskan Amber is probably the most popular here,

but there are a ton of microbreweries in the state.

The Kodiak Island Brewing Company makes "Sarah Pale Ale," which has a caricature of Sarah Palin on the label looking like the St. Pauli girl, with the words "you betcha, it's good" underneath. That cracked me up.

[mopinko]

18. 2 brothers? who did this poll?

some kid?

goose island, at the very, very forefront of the microbrew movement, is far and away the best beer in illinois, still. they were also instrumental in keeping the seibel school of brewing alive just long enough to turn out brewmasters for all the hipster breweries.

the brothers are punks.

[Agschmid]

20. VT - Should have been Switchback!

[raven mad]

21. Alaskan Smoked Porter (from Alaska Brewing Co.) is oustanding. If you can get it!