Where’s the best place in the United States to drink beer this week?<\/p>\n
I’d vote for Baltimore, always an good choice but with Baltimore Beer Week<\/a> in full swing a rather obvious one.<\/p>\n For some reason Baltimore — as well as Washington, D.C. — seems to have been neglected of late. I went looking through a variety of “best beer city lists” and no Baltimore. Asheville, N.C., makes two, but the closest Baltimore came was when Michael Jackson picked a top seven<\/a> in 2000 and called Baltimore a “contender.”<\/p>\n He also made a point worth remembering the next time a little “best beer city” silliness breaks out. He wrote, “A great beer city needs to be big enough to create a market but sufficiently small to have a genuine local pride in its beers.”<\/p>\n With that in mind here are a few compilations of top-rated and “under-rated” cities.<\/p>\n Stephen Beaumont’s Unsung Destinations<\/strong> AABM Under the Radar<\/strong> Men’s Journal’s Top U.S. Cities<\/strong> Examiner National Poll<\/strong> Ben McFarland’s World Best<\/strong> Michael Jackson’s Magnificent Seven<\/strong> <\/p>\n Where’s the best place in the United States to drink beer this week? I’d vote for Baltimore, always an good choice but with Baltimore Beer Week in full swing a rather obvious one. For some reason Baltimore — as well as Washington, D.C. — seems to have been neglected of late. I went looking through … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom the Oct.\/Nov issue of Ale Street News<\/em>
\n1. Western Michigan
\n2. Atlanta
\n3. Raleigh-Durham
\n4. Anchorage
\n5. Manhattan<\/p>\n
\n(Mark Lisheron story in All About Beer magazine – alphabetical order)<\/em>
\nAsheville, N.C.
\nAtlanta
\nBurlington, Vermont
\nMadison, Wisconsin
\nMinneapolis\/St. Paul
\nPittsburgh
\nPortland, Maine
\nSanta Rosa\/Healdsburg<\/p>\n
\n1. San Diego
\n2. New York
\n3. Portland, Oregon
\n4. Philadelphia
\n5. Chicago<\/p>\n
\n16,000 votes<\/a><\/em>
\nTie – Portland, Oregon
\nTie – Asheville, N.C.
\n3. Philadelphia
\n4. San Diego
\n5. St. Louis
\n6. San Francisco\/Bay area
\n7. Seattle
\n8, Denver
\n9. Portland, Maine
\n10. Milwaukee
\n11. Fort Collins, Colorado <\/p>\n
\nFrom World’s Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass — review coming soon<\/em>
\n1. Bamberg
\n2. Bruges
\n3. Munich
\n4. London
\n5. Boston
\n6. Portland
\n7. Prague
\n8. San Francisco
\n9. Brussels
\n10. Cologne <\/p>\n
\n(from 2000, listed west to east)<\/em>
\nSeattle
\nPortland
\nSan Francisco
\nDenver
\nAustin
\nPhiladelphia
\nBoston<\/p>\n <\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"