re: States with the best beer scenes?

They both look like they have down syndrome. Maybe their beers are retarded good.

Eta I'm just kidding

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The best brewery in the United States is in Missouri and

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Side Project is top-5

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The best brewery in the United States is in Missouri and, if it was the only brewery in the entire state, that alone would put it on any top 5-10 list. Quality over quantity any day of the week.

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What brewery and according to whom is it the best in the US?

Edit: I see you're referring to Side Project Brewing (whose website is pretty good), but I still don't know where you're getting this claim of "best in the US."

Side Project is very, very good. I don't know if I would rank it the "best," but I haven't drank a lot of the others that are considered the "best" such as Alchemist or Hill Farmstead.

Well I can get my hands on Alchemist, Tree House, Trillium, and HFS. Sounds like a trade needs to be put together.

I don't have one state that I prefer over the other, but I've been fortunate to have close connections with some of the well-known states.

- Lived in Vermont for several years growing up, so I'm out there a couple times each year and I have friends that are willing to send me packages.

- My parents have a place on the Cape, so I'm able to get plenty of beer in Boston before hopping on the ferry to P-Town. Wish I had a more-consistent Treehouse connection, but my Boston friends don't make it out to Charlton more than once every couple months.

- My parents live in Brooklyn, which is good for the breweries there and in Queens.

- I'm in San Francisco every month for work. Once every few months, I'll find myself seeing a client in Los Angeles and will try to get to Monkish.

- Currently live in Chicago, which is seeing an "beer explosion" of sorts.

- Went to school at Wisconsin. I don't get up to Madison more than once every few months, but my girlfriend is nice enough to bring plenty back when she goes to see her parents.

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We're not up there with the heavyweights, but Georgia has some great craft beer options.

Just about everyone knows about Sweetwater and Terrapin. Creature Comforts, Orpheus, Red Hare, Jailhouse, Monday Night, Red Brick, and Wild Heaven all make excellent beers.

Georgia has over 50 craft breweries now and they put out some damned good stuff.

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I'm biased obviously, but Georgia is above average and probably 2nd or 3rd in the South. You didn't even include Scofflaw, which gets high praise as one of the top new IPA powerhouses in the country. Ratebeer has it in the top 10 for new breweries since mid 2016 or so.

I think we're a little top heavy, as Sweetwater, Terrapin, Creature Comforts and Scofflaw are far better than Red Hare and Red Brick and the like, but 4 breweries of that quality would be exceptional for any state outside of the elite tier.

Atlanta -Athens does very well in comparison to similar cities, IMO (Dallas, for example, which was pretty slow to catch up with the rest of the country).

The brother of a guy I know just opened a brewery in KC that is getting rave reviews. Forget the name of it though. He's supposed to be sending me some.


BKS Artisan Ales is the name of it.

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As much as I love Denver’s beer scene, I’d say some of the state’s best are outside of the city (Weldwerks, Avery, Outer Range, Casey, New Image).

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Ditto for Oregon. Block 15, De Garde, Boneyard, Barley Brown's, pFriem, Fort George, etc... If you gave me choice of whether to take all of the Portland breweries, or all of the non-Portland breweries, I would take non-Portland, all day. I think the same would apply in Colorado.

Now the advantage of the Portland breweries is that I can get the non-Portland beers in the taprooms, and can hit all the breweries I want in a much shorter time period. But just from a beer standpoint, I would rather drink the non-Portland beers.

how old is that map?

Crying Eagle Brewing Company (Lake Charles) site

40 Arpent Brewing Company (Arabi) site - gone pecan

Abita Brewing Company (Abita Springs) site

Bayou Teche Brewery (Arnaudville) site

Broken Wheel Brewery (Marksville) site

Cajun Brewing (Lafayette) site

Chafunkta Brewing Company (Mandeville) site

Chappapeela Farms Brewery (Amite City) site

Courtyard Brewery (New Orleans) site

Covington Brewhouse (Covington) site

Crescent City Brewhouse (New Orleans) site

Dixie Brewing Company (New Orleans) site

(Dixie does not brew in New Orleans)

Flying Heart Brewing (Bossier City) site

Flying Tiger Brewery (Monroe) site

Gnarly Barley Brewing Company (Hammond) site

Gordon Biersch Brewing Company (New Orleans) site

Great Raft Brewing (Shreveport) site

Louisiana Purchase Brewing Company (Ponchatoula) No website

Low Road Brewing (Hammond) No website

Mudbug Brewery (Thibodaux) site

New Orleans Lager and Ale Brewing Company (New Orleans) site

Old Rail Brewing Company (Mandeville) site

Ouachita Brewing Company (West Monroe) site

Parish Brewing Company (Broussard) site

Red River Brewing (Shreveport) site

Second Line Brewing (New Orleans) site

Southern Craft Brewing Company (Baton Rouge) site

Tin Roof Brewing Company (Baton Rouge) site

Urban South Brewery (New Orleans) site

Wayward Owl Brewing Company (New Orleans) site