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As someone who has spent substantial time in three of those six (GR, Cleveland, and NY), its hilarious to list any of them over St. Louis. Every other person here homebrews. Bars have 400+ beers. There are, like 40 local breweries I can think of and they are served everywhere.
It's not really defensible to have a list without this city. For better or worse, beer is pervasive in a way it isn't in NYC.
Beer advocate only lists about 21 breweries in St. Louis, and two of them are Anheiser Busch and Latrobe Brewing, which are both listed at the same address.
I don't doubt what you're saying about it being a great beer town, just wanted to do a little fact-check. Compared to how big your city is vs. NY, you have way more microbreweries per capita. Grand Rapids is even smaller that St. Louis and has over 30 microbreweries.
The Grand Rapids list is including almost all of Western Michigan (including Kalamazoo and Battle Creek). The St. Louis list is also missing a bunch. I count 34 in the STL Brewer's Guild, and those are all in the metro area. If you go out a little further to St. Genevive and some of the outlying country areas, you can add several others.
There's San Diego.
Then there's everyone else.
I live in Seattle and I wouldn't. Sure there are a few great bars and bottleshops (Brouwer's, Bottleworks, etc) and a couple good breweries (Fremont and the brand new Holy Mountain) but when Portland is so close, I'd choose to visit there every time if I were making a trip.Id throw Seattle, WA and Boulder , CO on the list.
Alpine... you're welcomeStone
Ballast Point
Alesmith
Karl Strauss
Coronado
Green Flash
Pizza Port
Just to name a few
I live in Seattle and I wouldn't. Sure there are a few great bars and bottleshops (Brouwer's, Bottleworks, etc) and a couple good breweries (Fremont and the brand new Holy Mountain) but when Portland is so close, I'd choose to visit there every time if I were making a trip.
The state of Washington has a lot of breweries, but the majority of them are very mediocre.
Or to Munchen.