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Best Places For Beer By Subregion
The very best places to have a beer
For the year 2018
Jan 23, 2019
A summary of the very best beer retailers in the states, provinces and counties as judged by the worldwide beer enthusiasts at RateBeer and calculated from their many reviews. Many thanks to all those who work hard every day to provide us with the very best best beers, stored and served to the highest standards, in an enjoyable atmosphere.
| UNITED STATES | brewpub | restaurant | brewer tap room | bottle shop | grocery | bar |
| Alabama | J. Clyde | Good People Brewing Company | Liquor Express | The Nook | ||
| Alaska | Glacier Brewhouse | The Hangar on the Wharf | Midnight Sun Brewing Company | La Bodega | Humpy’s Great Alaskan Alehouse | |
| Arizona | Arizona Wilderness Brewing | Yard House - Scottsdale | Superstition Meadery | Tops Liquors | AJs Fine Foods - Arcadia | Angel’s Trumpet Ale House |
| Arkansas | Diamond Bear Brewing Company | Flying Saucer Draught Emporium - Little Rock | ||||
| California | Russian River Brewing | Beachwood BBQ | Sierra Nevada Brewing Company | El Cerrito Market & Liquor | Whole Foods Market - Coddingtown | Tony’s Darts Away |
| Colorado | Kannah Creek Brewing Company | Hops & Pie | Avery Brewing Company | Mile High Wine and Spirits | Falling Rock Tap House | |
| Connecticut | Willimantic Brewing Company and Main Street Cafe | Engine Room | OEC Brewing (Ordinem Ecentrici Coctores) | Manchester Wine and Liquors | Cask Republic | |
| Delaware | Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats | Fins Fish House and Raw Bar | Dogfish Head Brewery | Total Wine & More - Claymont | Two Stones Pub | |
| Florida | Engine 15 Brewing Company | Kickbacks Gastropub/Goozlepipe & Guttyworks | Aardwolf Brewing Company | Total Wine & More - Orlando | Whole Foods Market - Tampa | Coffee District Beer and Wine Bar |
| Georgia | Wrecking Bar Brewpub | Taco Mac - Atlanta (Metropolis) | Sweetwater Brewing Company | Hop City Craft Beer and Wine - West Midtown | Brick Store Pub | |
| Hawaii | Maui Brewing Company Brewpub | Kona Brewing Company - KoKo Marina Pub | Yard House - Honolulu | |||
| Idaho | Sockeye Grill & Brewery - Cole Rd | Payette Brewing Taproom | MarCellars | Pilgrim’s Market | Black Rock | |
| Illinois | Half Acre Beer Company & Taproom | Howells & Hood | Revolution Brewing Company - Kedzie Ave Taproom | The Beer Temple | Whole Foods Market - Lincoln Park | The Map Room |
| Indiana | The Tap - Bloomington | Rathskeller | Sun King Brewing Company | Keg Liquors - Clarksville | HopCat - Indianapolis (Broad Ripple) | |
| Iowa | Exile Brewing Company | The Sanctuary Pub | Toppling Goliath | Cyclone Liquors | El Bait Shop | |
| Kansas | Free State Brewing Company | The Anchor, A Drinking Establishment, Inc | Cork and Barrel - South | |||
| Kentucky | Monnik Beer Co. | Sergio’s World Beers | West Sixth Brewing Co. | Chuck’s Wine and Spirits | Whole Foods Market - Louisville | Holy Grale |
| Louisiana | The Chimes Restaurant & Oyster Bar | NOLA Brewing Co. | Stein’s Market and Deli | Avenue Pub | ||
| Maine | Liquid Riot Bottling Company | Ebenezer Kezars Restaurant and Pub | Oxbow Brewing Company | Tully’s Beer & Wine | Novare Res Bier Café | |
| Maryland | Franklins Restaurant, Brewery and General Store | Victoria Gastro Pub | Burley Oak Brewery | State Line Liquors | Max’s Taphouse | |
| Massachusetts | Cambridge Brewing Company | Row 34 | Tree House Brewing Company | Julio’s Liquors | Fort Point Market | Armsby Abbey |
| Michigan | Shorts Brewing Co. | Slows Bar BQ | Greenbush Brewing Company | Merchant’s Fine Wine | Horrocks Farm Market | Kalamazoo Beer Exchange |
| Minnesota | Fitger's Brewhouse | Town Hall Tap | Surly Brewing Company | Zipp’s Liquors | Republic (at Seven Corners) | |
| Missouri | Schlafly Tap Room - Saint Louis Brewery | Bailey’s Range | Side Project Cellar | Craft Beer Cellar - Clayton | Bier Station | |
| Montana | Tamarack Brewing | Montana Ale Works | Bozeman Brewing Company | Liquid Planet | The Rhinoceros | |
| Nebraska | Upstream Brewing Company (Old Market) | Beertopia | Yiayia’s Pizza Beer and Wine | |||
| Nevada | Silver Peak Restaurant & Brewery | Yard House - Las Vegas (The LINQ) | Hop Nuts Brewing | Total Wine & More - Las Vegas (Summerlin), NV | Aces & Ales (Tenaya Way) | |
| New Hampshire | Portsmouth Brewery | Smuttynose Brewing Company (Hayseed Restaurant) | Bert’s Better Beers | Strange Brew | ||
| New Jersey | Iron Hill Maple Shade | Cloverleaf Tavern | Kane Brewing Company | WineWorks | Barcade | |
| New Mexico | Bosque Brewery and Taproom | La Cumbre Brewing Co. | Susan’s Fine Wines and Spirits | |||
| New York | The Peekskill Brewery | Eleven Madison Park | Other Half Brewing Co. | Top Hops Beer Shop | Whole Foods Market - Bowery | Spuyten Duyvil |
| North Carolina | Wicked Weed Brewing | Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria - Asheville | Sierra Nevada Brewery - North Carolina | Peabody’s Beer and Wine | Whole Foods Market - Asheville (Greenlife Grocery) | Thirsty Monk Brewery & Pub |
| North Dakota | Laughing Sun Brewing Company | JL Beers - Downtown Fargo | ||||
| Ohio | Jackie O’s Brewpub & Public House | Dutch’s Bar & Bottle Shop | Hoppin’ Frog Tasting Room | Belmont Party Supply | Jungle Jim’s International Market - Fairfield | Tremont Tap House |
| Oklahoma | Pete’s Place Restaurant & Brewery | Midtown Liquor | RePUBlic Gastropub | |||
| Oregon | Pelican Pub and Brewery | Apizza Scholls | Upright Brewing Company | The Bier Stein | Whole Foods Market - Pearl | Belmont Station |
| Pennsylvania | Tired Hands Brewing Company - Fermentaria | Fat Head’s Saloon - Pittsburgh | East End Brewing Company | Bella Vista Beer Distributors | Whole Foods Market - Plymouth Meeting | Monk’s Café |
| Rhode Island | Julian’s | Proclamation Ale Company | Nikki’s Liquors | Pour Judgement | ||
| South Carolina | Edmund’s Oast | Closed for Business | Westbrook Brewing Company | The Greenville Beer Exchange | Whole Foods Market - Greenville | Flying Saucer Draught Emporium - Columbia |
| Tennessee | Terminal BrewHouse | 12 South Tap Room and Grill | Southern Grist Brewing Company | Craft Brewed | Flying Saucer Draught Emporium - Nashville | |
| Texas | Draught House Pub and Brewery | The Friendly Spot | Jester King Brewery | Total Wine & More - Dallas | Whole Foods Market - Park Lane | Banger’s Sausage and Beer Garden |
| Utah | Squatters BrewPub (SLC Brewing) | Epic Brewing Company | The Beerhive | |||
| Vermont | American Flatbread Burlington Hearth / Zero Gravity Craft Brewery | Prohibition Pig Restaurant | Hill Farmstead Brewery | Craft Beer Cellar - Waterbury | Willey’s Store | Blackback Pub |
| Virginia | Blue Mountain Brewery and Hop Farm | Mekong Restaurant | Ocelot Brewing Company | Grape And Gourmet | Whole Foods Market - Vienna | The Birch |
| Washington | Naked City Taphouse | Yard House - Seattle | Fremont Brewing Company | Malt and Vine | Whole Foods Market - Roosevelt Square | Über Tavern |
| Washington DC | The Arsenal at Bluejacket | Birch & Barley | Right Proper Brewing Company - Brookland | Craft Beer Cellar - DC | ChurchKey | |
| Wisconsin | Vintage Brewing Company | The Old Fashioned | New Glarus Brewing | Historic Casanova Liquors | Woodman's Foods - Oak Creek | Burnhearts |
| Wyoming | Snake River Brewing Co. | Sanford’s Pub and Grub - Cheyenne | Thai Me Up Restaurant & Brewery | |||
| GERMANY | brewpub | restaurant | brewer tap room | bottle shop | grocery | bar |
| Baden-Württemberg | Heinrich’s Super Getränke-Markt 3000 | Mon Petit Cafe | ||||
| Bavaria | Brauerei Witzgall | Roppelt’s Keller | Camba Bavaria | Landbierparadies | Tap House Munich | |
| Berlin | Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens - Berlin | Das Meisterstück | BRLO BRWHOUSE - Craft Beer, Brewery, Restaurant | Berlin Bier Shop | Muted Horn | |
| Brandenburg | Braumanufaktur Forsthaus Templin | |||||
| Hamburg | Alles Elbe | Beyond Beer | Pappenheimer Wirtschaft | |||
| Hesse | Maruhn | Naïv | ||||
| Lower Saxony | Craft Beer Kontor | |||||
| North Rhine-Westphalia | Braustelle | P&M Getränke | Craftbeer Corner Coeln | |||
| Saxony | Gasthaus und Gosebrauerei Bayerischer Bahnhof | Craft Beer Store Dresden | ||||
| ENGLAND | brewpub | restaurant | brewer tap room | bottle shop | grocery | bar |
| Berkshire | Siren Craft Brewery | Grumpy Goat | Nags Head | |||
| Buckinghamshire | Brewery Shop Emporium High Wycombe (Mad Squirrel) | |||||
| Cambridgeshire | Bacchanalia - Mill Road | Maypole | ||||
| Cheshire | Brewery Tap (Spitting Feathers) | |||||
| Cornwall | Blue Anchor | Front | ||||
| Cumbria | Beer Hall (Hawkshead) | |||||
| Derbyshire | Furnace Inn | Buxton Brewery Tap House & Cellar | Alexandra Hotel (Castle Rock) | |||
| Devon | Taphouse & Bottle Shop at Tuckers Maltings | Darts Farm | Beer Cellar | |||
| Dorset | Goat and Tricycle (Wadworth) | |||||
| Durham | Quakerhouse | Victoria Inn | ||||
| East Sussex | Craft Beer Co - Brighton | |||||
| Essex | Ale House - Chelmsford | |||||
| Gloucestershire | Moor Brewery Tap | Favourite Beers | Small Bar | |||
| Greater London | Temple Brew House (Essex Street Brewery) | Beavertown Brewery Tap Room | Hop Burns & Black | Craft Beer Co - Clerkenwell | ||
| Greater Manchester | Marble Arch Inn (Marble) | Bundobust | Cloudwater Brew Co | Beermoth | Port Street Beer House | |
| Hampshire | Bitter Virtue | South Western Arms | ||||
| Hertfordshire | BEER:shop | |||||
| Kent | Foundry Brew Pub (Canterbury Brewers) | BottleShop: Canterbury | ||||
| Lancashire | Booths Supermarket (Various Locations) | |||||
| Leicestershire | Offie | BrewDog Leicester | ||||
| Merseyside | Ship & Mitre | Ship in a Bottle | Dead Crafty Beer Company | |||
| Norfolk | Fat Cat Brewery Tap | Beers Of Europe | Plasterers Arms | |||
| North Yorkshire | Trembling Madness Drinks Shop | House of Trembling Madness | ||||
| Northamptonshire | Malt Shovel Tavern | |||||
| Nottinghamshire | Vat and Fiddle (Castle Rock) | Brew Cavern | Junkyard | |||
| Oxfordshire | Hook Norton Brewery Visitor Centre | Lamb & Flag | ||||
| Rutland | Grainstore Brewery | |||||
| Shropshire | Chez Sophie | |||||
| Somerset | Independent Spirit | Raven | ||||
| South Yorkshire | Sheffield Tap (Tapped Sheffield) | Beer Central | Shakespeare’s Ale & Cider House | |||
| Staffordshire | Coopers Tavern | |||||
| Suffolk | Dove Street Inn | Beautiful Beers | ||||
| Surrey | Egham United Services Club (EUSC) | |||||
| Tyne & Wear | Bridge Tavern (Tavernale) | Rehill’s Of Jesmond | Free Trade Inn | |||
| West Midlands | Jolly Crispin (Fownes) | Burning Soul Brewing Company | Cotteridge Wines | Post Office Vaults | ||
| West Yorkshire | Rat & Ratchet | Bundobust | Magic Rock Tap | Beer Ritz | Grove | |
| Worcestershire | Firefly | |||||
| CANADA | brewpub | restaurant | brewer tap room | bottle shop | grocery | bar |
| Alberta | Charcut Roast House | Keg n Cork Liquor Company | The Underground Tap & Grill | |||
| British Columbia | Spinnakers Brewpub | The Drake Eatery | Brassneck Brewery | Brewery Creek Cold Beer and Wine Store | The Alibi Room | |
| Nova Scotia | The Port | Stillwell | ||||
| Ontario | Indie Ale House | beerbistro | Beau’s Brewery | Bar Hop | ||
| Prince Edward Island | The Gahan House | |||||
| Quebec | Le Trou du Diable - Brouepub | Bistro des Bières Belges | Hopfenstark | Au Vent du Nord - Bières Dépôt Sherbrooke (DBSQ) | Vices et Versa | |
| Saskatchewan | Bushwakker Brewpub | Beer Brothers Gastropub and Deli |