Comments on: Milwaukee is the official winner - Best Beer City

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:09:38 +0000

I think I would give it a 20 for total. Their Budweiser brewery now runs in the top third of the 12 Budweiser breweries turning out about 10 million barrels a year. 4s across the board with 2s for beer history and awards. Historically they were pretty good early but died out in the 50s. After that was when Budweiser moved in.

By: awhayes

awhayes — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:26:06 +0000

Great comment Rich. I did think of Columbus but only in passing as I tried to think of major University towns that party hard (Madison, Columbus, Gainesville, East Lansing, Austin). But I did not realize Columbus is the largest city in Ohio. You also raise a good point: there are some cities that have major satellite breweries for the big beer companies like Bud and Miller - and in the rating system, they should probably get at least a couple points under the “major brewery” category. How would you score Columbus according to the fool-proof, scientific measure?

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:11:25 +0000

I am originally from Wisconsin and I would not have believed it until I moved here but Columbus, Ohio is a pretty big beer drinking town. They have a major Budweiser brewery here on the north side of town. Columbus is now ranked the 15th largest city in the US at over 700,000 in population. If you include the metro region that goes up to about 1.7 million population. Most people don’t even realize that Columbus is the largest city in Ohio let alone the the 15th largest in the nation. OSU can put down some beer dude. German Village also has many fine micro brews. I would bet you probably never even considered Columbus in your post.