With California’s trout season opener fast approaching – and all the pent up desire and expectation of a long winter about to erupt in an explosion of failed fly fishing trips, broken fly rods, and massive disappointment – we think a beer might be in order.
And because we’re all about the cartographic arts here at the Underground, we’re happy to bring you the Beer Map of the USA’s Award-Winning Brews – which suggests California is home to the nation’s best beers.
The best beers in America? California's #1 (the rest of the country can eat our hops, if you know what I mean)
Essentially, we’ve scientifically proven the following: if you’re going to get skunked, the best place to do so is California (and frankly, recent results suggest that’s true for several reasons, though we’re simply too depressed to go into more detail).
In fact, I think we’ll just have an award-winning beer right now (perhaps the Official Porter of the Trout Underground).
See you at AA, Tom Chandler.
Bahhh
Maine Border’s Canada, so we get to take credit for their beers too. So I think that must put our total at well over 1000.5 (The .5 is for Labatt Blue Light)
Benjamin Rioux(Quote)
I’ll bet Canada will have something to say about your beer claim (like “no”).
Tom Chandler(Quote)
It’s alright,
They can’t say much, my mother is the only one in Maine who writes the Bonds that allow them to come across the border and work in the State!
Benjamin Rioux(Quote)
Total GABF medals was the metric for that map which is interesting for sure, but notoriously difficult to make sense of. Number one, you have to enter a beer into the GABF to win a medal, so lots of good breweries aren’t even considered, and number two, it is judged to style, so brewers like Three Floyds and Dogfish Head have a difficult time entering beers at all, though they have entered a few I think. Also of note, 65 of Missouri’s 89 medals went to Anheuser-Busch. And Miller and Coors totals didn’t exactly hurt Wisconsin and Colorado.
I’d say the biggest oversight was Michigan. Michigan has an incredible beer scene.
I know, I know, you’ve “scientifically proven” it, but beer on a fish blog, I have to chime in with some smarmy comment.
Matt Dunn(Quote)
If you’d created a graph or a pie chart I’d be far more likely to be moved by your argument (isn’t that always true?), but with California the home of the Beer So Good It Was Nearly Banned By the ATF, I’m sticking with my claims of state superiority.
We’ve gotta be #1 in something besides water-related lawsuits.
Tom Chandler(Quote)
I like pretty much that map, Maybe I will do something like this but for Argentina, maybe best beer and wine in Argentina.
Regards.
Eduardo Sanchez Seijas(Quote)