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My vote went to New England: Sam Adams, Harpoon, Shipyard, Allagash, Smuttynose, Magic Hat, Hill Farmstead, The Alchemist (their Heady Topper beer is tops at Beer Advocate), Trillium, Maine Beer Company, Tree House, Longtrail, Cisco, Redhook and several others.
For being such small states, both Vermont and Maine offer an amazing array of local breweries.
Vermont is the best state at doing the best things in life, the best way possible. I <3 Vermont.
And per usual California is taking on a gazillion states by itself.
Considering California on its own has about 40 million citizens, why shouldn't it? Northwest, for example, has 11.6 million and they're safely clobbering CA plus Hawaii in the poll. Add up some of the rest if you want and I think you'll see CA+Hawaii is more than a fair region.
I'm guessing you meant "territory"...and if so that is not true at all. Pabst, Bud and Coors may not have territory and are rather ubiquitous, but availability of craft beer depends greatly on region. If I drive 7 hours home to Pittsburgh from Chicago for example, I will not be able to purchase Three Floyd's at any of the local stores, and will not likely find it on tap anywhere. Craft breweries have a distribution radius and cannot be purchased just anywhere. Seasonal and rotational brews are especially difficult to obtain when searching out of the region that they are brewed (and sometimes even hard to find within that region for select beers). Microbreweries and small independent brewers are certainly territorial and often don't even distribute within their own cities extensively let alone spanning regions.
Considering California on its own has about 40 million citizens, why shouldn't it? Northwest, for example, has 11.6 million and they're safely clobbering CA plus Hawaii in the poll. Add up some of the rest if you want and I think you'll see CA+Hawaii is more than a fair region.
Or did you just want to ?
I don't get it. You want me to add up the populations of regions? To what end? You literally just proved that number of citizens is irrelevant... So my comment still stands.
I don't get it. You want me to add up the populations of regions? To what end? You literally just proved that number of citizens is irrelevant... So my comment still stands.
I used to read your name as "RationalAtheist" but it's about the last thing that comes to mind after reading your posts for some time now.
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