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Pretty sure that Metro Denver is either the largest or 2nd largest in the US. Denver or Portland Metros are probably 1 and 2 in the US. Not sure which is 1 and which is 2 though!!!!!!
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Tough one. I voted Great Lakes, but easily could have picked New England. Pacific Northwest would be the third choice. I've never been impressed with Oregon or Northern Cal beers, there are some good Washington ones.
Favorite brewery is New Glarus (WI).
Other ones I like: Berkshire Brewing Company (MA), Three Floyds (Indiana)
I'm not factoring in brew pubs.
The downfall of so much of the microbrew scenes is their addiction to hops. A good IPA is nice one in awhile, but our craft brew scene is being destroyed by people trying to outhop everyone else. It's a bad crutch and one that is the destruction of many microbreweries.
Whatever region produces the most wheat beers, Widmer Hef is one of my favorites so maybe the Northwest. SD has a great craft brew scene too but it seems like A LOT of IPA's which I can't stand. Hate Stone Brewery beers.
Arizona and New Mexico are more connected to the Pacific and Mountain states respectively. They are not connected with Texas and Oklahoma. AZ-NM-TX-OK is not one cohesive "Southwest" region. I know in AZ it would be far more common to come across craft brews from even the PNW than it would to come across anything from Texas. Conversely I doubt any AZ microbrews make their way into Texas or Oklahoma. Different regions altogether.
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E, MD, NJ, NY, PA, D.C.
