Best City for Craft Beer Enthusiasts

[Zyngawf]

Originally Posted by Natural510

Dayton OH has twelve craft breweries in a metro of barely over 1 million. Grand Rapids and Asheville are also small regional destinations for craft beer as well.

12 might have been a lot 20 years ago but ONLY 12 now is nothing. Take Spokane Washington for example, Here are 41 and I know there are more on the way...
Breweries

238 Brewing
Badass Backyard
Bale Breaker
Bellwether
Bennedito’s Brewpub
Big Barn
Black Label
Budge Brothers
Daft Badger
Downdraft
English Setter
Hopped Up
Ice Harbor
Iron Horse
Iron Goat
Laughing Dog
Mad Bomber
MickDuff’s
No-Li
New Boundary
North Idaho Mountain
Northern Ales
Orlison Brewing
Paradise Creek
Perry Street
Quartzite
Republic Brewing
River City
Riverport
Selkirk Abbey
Slate Creek
St. Brigid’s
Steamplant
Ten Pin
Top Frog
Trickster’s
Twelve String
Waddell’s
Wallace
Yakima
Zythum

[Reactionary]

Huntsville Alabama has a thriving craft beer scene: 8 breweries in a city (and suburb) of 235,000 people.

We also have a genomic technology company that propagates yeast for use by craft brewers..

Leavendary Crafting Legendary Yeast for Largest Craft Brewer in Alabama - HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

[Syringaloid]

Originally Posted by Zyngawf

12 might have been a lot 20 years ago but ONLY 12 now is nothing. Take Spokane Washington for example, Here are 41 and I know there are more on the way...
Breweries

238 Brewing
Badass Backyard
Bale Breaker
Bellwether
Bennedito’s Brewpub
Big Barn
Black Label
Budge Brothers
Daft Badger
Downdraft
English Setter
Hopped Up
Ice Harbor
Iron Horse
Iron Goat
Laughing Dog
Mad Bomber
MickDuff’s
No-Li
New Boundary
North Idaho Mountain
Northern Ales
Orlison Brewing
Paradise Creek
Perry Street
Quartzite
Republic Brewing
River City
Riverport
Selkirk Abbey
Slate Creek
St. Brigid’s
Steamplant
Ten Pin
Top Frog
Trickster’s
Twelve String
Waddell’s
Wallace
Yakima
Zythum

Some of those are not in Spokane but rather over the state line in Idaho.

[mjlo]

Best Beer Scene Winners: 2016 10Best Readers' Choice Travel Awards

1. Grand Rapids, Mich.
2. Fort Collins, Colo.
3. Tampa
4. Cleveland
5. Asheville, N.C.
6. Philadelphia
7. Chicago
8. Portland, Maine
9. Baltimore
10. Atlanta

Read this and it reminded me of this thread.

[EclecticEars]

Portland, Seattle, Austin, Denver, L.A., San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Louisville, Chicago, and Cincinnati/Dayton come to mind

Apparently, based on 2-3 posts before this, Spokane also has a thriving scene.