The Best Beer From Every State; Happy National Beer Day!

Business Insider ^ | April 7, 2015 | Melissa Stanger

[Bigg Red]

Ah, Spotted Cow is, indeed, a great beer. Son #4 and his wife lived in WI for a time, and that’s how I learned of your fabulous New Glarus Brewery. Good stuff.

[brewer1516]

Agree. Stouts and other ‘big’ beers. Lots of way too hoppy American style IPAs (note, I didn’t say APA, which is probably more accurate). I suspect the people who contributed to the list are primarily under 30.

The young brewer thinks they need to blow your face off with the grapefruit nuclear blast. No thanks. They need to try a traditional Brit IPA. Yes, hoppy and malty, but very little to no citrus hop character. However, Anchor’s IPA is pretty tasty.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a big beer. But you can’t have a proper beer session with beers that had a >1.070 original gravity.

[mikrofon]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

They’re pretty upscale now, LOL!

http://shop.leinie.com/

[Farmer Dean]

So that’s what happened to Rolling Rock.It’s been reduced to the level of POC which was brewed in Cleveland.The deposit on the bottles was worth more than the beer.

[Falconspeed]

Excellent comments here. More good stuff:

New York: Schaefer since 1842
Milwaukee: Schlitz since 1858
Philadelphia: Schmidt’s since 1860
Detroit: Stroh’s since 1865
Colorado: Coors since 1873
San Antonio: Lone Star since 1884
St. Louis: Budweiser since 1876
San Francisco: Anchor Steam since 1896
Latrobe: Rolling Rock since 1939
Seattle: Pyramid since 1984

What I drink with my three brothers: Anchor Steam

[brewer1516]

Yup, fresh homebrew is the absolute best!

The coolest brewery in Ohio has got to be Carrilon Brewing in Dayton. It’s an 1850’s brewery from the ground up, including the recipes. They use wood-fired copper boilers. Really awesome! It’s a part of the Dayton historical society

http://www.carillonbrewingco.org/

[windcliff]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

Nice home page. We used to have keggers in the boonies.. Kegs and kegs and.. Then the cops showed up.. 8-o

[NormsRevenge]

Nice home page. We used to have keggers in the boonies.. Kegs and kegs and.. Then the cops showed up.. 8-o

[NormsRevenge]

Hic

[onedoug]

...Beer ping....

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!

[ebshumidors]

Back when we had a Coor’s brewery in Memphis, I knew an engineer there. They brewed beer for export in Memphis since U.S. Coor’s had to be made with “Rocky Mountain spring water. The Memphis Coor’s won every taste test. It’s the water. Perfect lager water.

[ebshumidors]

Syrup that will tie a knot in your butt. You have to use wine yeast for final fermentation because the alcohol will kill normal beer yeast.

[Qwackertoo]

I believe I had one of those in port on our AK cruise and it was dang good.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I remember Lone Star and Pearl were served at Luckenbach.

[T-Bone Texan]

Houston has Karbach and Saint Arnold.

Southern Star is out of Conroe.

all three rock.

[JRandomFreeper]

And not a one available in my neck of the woods.

If I really want to go drinking in Texas... Austin, for all the leftism has good beer stores.

/johnny

[jobim]

Hey Diana - I don't know your age (and I won't ask a lady that!) - but do you remember Rahr's Beer?

We had a family cottage in Green Bay out in Suamico, so my growing-up years found us up there for holidays, and when I was able to phony-up an ID (drinking age was 18 in Wisconsin but 21 in Illinois) we kids naturally gravitated to the cheapest beer, and that was Rahr's: $2.25 per case with returnable long-neck bottles (mid-1960s).

Looks like the Rahr Brewery Green Bay closed in 1966. There was also a longer-running Rahr's out of Oshkosh that closed in 1956, but I don't think those families were connected.