America’s 20 Best Cities for Beer Lovers
How do you tell a beer tourist from a wine tourist? One of them is much more likely to look out the windows of a tasting room.
Wineries are as much about the beauty of the landscape as the wine, suggests Sairey Gernes, a beer-tasting enthusiast whos also the founder of Minneapolis-based underwear retailer Urban Undercover . But I love the atmosphere and culture inside the breweries. Breweries are about the peoplea lot of artistic people, entrepreneurs, go-gettersand the beer. Theyre different experiences, but equally enjoyable.
Whether they came for brewery tours, taproom tastings or just to fill their growlers, Travel + Leisure readers clearly enjoy beer tourism, even if its from a windowless warehouse. As part of this years Americas Favorite Cities survey, readers ranked 38 metro area on categories like fine dining, live music, pizza, and burgers, all of which lend themselves to another survey category: locally-made craft beer. Some of the top 20 beer cities have brewing histories that predate Prohibition, but many are still finding their own flavorliterallyusing local ingredients like pecans, bourbon barrels, or even frozen lemonade. Others offer quirky settings and backstories: one city brewery came out of a weekly Bible study group; another offers regular yoga classes inside the taproom.
I find breweries to be more approachable than wineries, says beer travel blogger Tim Brady (who also owns Brattleboro, VT, beer bar Whetstone Station )but he admits that the beer scene has garnered its share of snobs, too. I proudly call myself a beer geek , not a snob, he says. I believe that theres a time and a place for every beerbe it the cheap macro at a ball game, or the exclusive bourbon-barrel-aged beer at a special one-day release. Its all about beer enhancing the experience.
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Couldn't have said it better.
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Go to the linked article to discover which of the twenty cities you live close to.
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My brother-in-lawdrinks Zilker beers, and with much high praise, though I haven't had the chance to sample any of them myself (they livein theBeltonarea).Which local brewswould you suggestAyatollah? I love hoppy as well asporter flavors.
No. 12 Philadelphia - Yards brewing replaced Yuengling for me. Love the Ales of the Revolution, I recommend a Jefferson Ale or the Washington Porter.
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My wife and I have been able to take a couple of "brewpub" vacations, mostly through northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. If ever I get the chance to try any of'em from Yards, I will take your suggestions.
Yum!
Dear Friend Larry Hampton: Fun Scriptural and historical fact. In both the Sumarian Gilgamesh Epic and the Noah Flood story beer played a prominent role.
Following floods there are too many impurities in food waters for the liquid to be potable.
In both cases, the tales have it that humans drank, and gave for drinking to livestock beer from kegs.
Until you tap them, the beer keeps in kegs. Not so for barreled waters.
Here's to your health, and dry land.
E.
Stuck on a ship for an extended period of time with ornery relatives and/or animals (maybe one-in-the-same), I'd very much wanna have a beer now and then!
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Dear Friend Larry H.: Out on the sea with ice cold brews for you and me.
Now that's an example of getting our ship together.
Smiles.
E.