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karstenkibbe said:
Mmmmm. You definitely sound like a regional beer snob. But you’re also kind of wrong. The NEIPA style is fairly ubiquitous now. You won’t find the volume of well-done examples nationally, but you will find the style in AZ and NC... pop a can from Arizona Wilderness or from Resident Culture (Charlotte) and you’d be pleasantly surprised. If you won’t go to breweries outside New England, you are seriously missing out on some good haze. Monkish says hello.
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You may be right but I just can't bring myself to do it. Whenever I am outside of New England and I see or hear "brewery," all I think about is how I live in beer country and they couldn't possibly do it better. It would be like living in Las Vegas and traveling to experience a casino...or living in Hawaii and traveling to experience the beach. Then the locals try to tell you “this is the best beach.” Right.
 
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I’ll also add Baltimore. Had never been there until our oldest daughter started looking at colleges. She ended up at Loyola Maryland and has had a great education and a great time, and we’ve had several excellent visits.

The Wire and Freddie Gray, among other things, have given it a bad rap; and no doubt there are places you absolutely should not go. But there are literally dozens of great neighborhoods with lots of interesting food, drink, history, culture, arts, etc. Tons of young people there, too.
 
My hometown of Pittsburgh is number one but I’ll throw Columbus into the mix...

As close as it is, I never really considered a trip to Columbus until a few years ago when we had a game at OSU. Since then I’m angry I waited so long to make the trip, as it’s a seriously fun spot. R Bar in the Arena District is truly the best sports bar I’ve ever been to. Tons of fun spots, great food, and very affordable. Can’t recommend it enough.
 
hank970 said:
Grand Junction, Colorado and environs, including Fruita and Palisade. Located at the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers. Equable climate and dark, transparent skies. Iconic western scenery. Vibrant downtown, with well-established Art-on-the-Corner displays. Home to rapidly-growing Colorado Mesa University. Unlimited outdoor recreation, with mountains immediately to the east and desert immediately to the west. Great network of trails for both mt. biking and road biking. 20,500-acre Colorado National Monument on the southwest side of town. Arches and Canyonlands NPs and Dinosaur NM are 90-minute drives. Powderhorn Ski Area a 45-minute drive. Numerous public golf courses. Wildlife viewing and hunting opportunities galore. Fishing on adjacent Grand Mesa, with its 200+ lakes and forests of aspen, fir, and spruce at up to 11,000 feet above sea level. Minor league baseball team. Palisade is famous for its peach and other fruit production. Lots of restaurants, wineries, and craft breweries. I-70 runs through the valley, and there's a regional airport and rail access (Including the California Zephyr). Superb medical facilities. Aspen, Vail, and Telluride all within three hours. Decent shopping, but if a person craves even greater variety, or access to professional sports, then Denver is only a four-hour drive east and Salt Lake City a five-hour drive west.

Ya'll come and visit, but don't stay.
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GJ has fantastic mountain biking.sshh
 
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husky429 said:
Am I the only one on this board that doesn't give a rats rear about breweries when thinking of traveling somewhere? Literally everywhere has craft breweries at this point. Any town with a semblance of tourist infrastructure is going to have 10+. If I could collectively shortsell all of craftbrew America I would--that bubble is bound to pop.
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Boooooooo!!!!!!
 
husky429 said:
Am I the only one on this board that doesn't give a rats rear about breweries when thinking of traveling somewhere? Literally everywhere has craft breweries at this point. Any town with a semblance of tourist infrastructure is going to have 10+. If I could collectively shortsell all of craftbrew America I would--that bubble is bound to pop.
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Bars > Breweries
 
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8893 said:
Awesome? Absolutely!

Underrated? By whom?!?
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You're right - may not be underrated. I do feel like it sometimes gets lumped in with SF. I just don't hear people mention Sausalito as a stand alone place.
 
storrsroars said:
Most pretentious brewery I've ever set foot in. And I didn't like the beer. Had a better experience at Smog City.
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No doubt it’s a pretentious vibe. Will definitely give you that. As for the beer, that might be your personal preference. But you can’t deny that they do a certain style really, magnificently well. Kind of like the bar pie at a certain joint in your old stomping grounds.
 
omaha, boise, reno. all fundamentally fail my calculus requiring the need to breathe salt air, but outside of that, really, really nice places. them and a hundred others. and then there's montreal in north new england, and dededo in west hawaii (guam). it's a comer, and i certainly plan to go there. santa rosa in kali, bigger than any city in Connecticut, or most of new england for that matter, is nice too. boston is fun, iffn you live in brookline. pittsfield gets sweeter by the year. of course, newport is fine as pie, 12 months of the year, ya just gotta enjoy that cold, iced, north atlantic salty breeze in the sweater months. luv it. sooo many great places in the nation, and i enjoy visiting them, but i ain't movin nowhere. imma homer.
(there are around 70 cities of 100k+ in kali alone. around 70. burlington, vt. is around 45k, the same size as dededo. jus sayin'...)
 
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I'll go international - Sarajevo. Great culture and food, amazing scenery, an Olympic ski resort just outside of town, and enough remaining bullet holes to make it edgy.
 
Had a great time in Minneapolis/St Paul a couple years ago — great sports town.

Wichita is an alright place, I prefer it over OKC
 
Portland is amazing. Great food, breweries (ha) and it’s still a working port/dock city.
highly recommend. Drive north, drive south to Portsmouth etc. great area that time of year
 
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Smaller: Bend OR, Providence and Long Beach CA
LIuconn said:
Big cities: Atlanta & Miami
Smaller: Bend OR, Providence and Long Beach CA
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As a current resident of Atlanta, I can say that it’s immensely livable - perhaps the most livable big city in the country. I love living here.

unsure of how much of a tourist destination it is, though
 
I like living in New Haven, visiting my daughter in LouKY, and having Cayuga Lake's Seneca County shore as my north-of-Ithaca home base when I visit one sister, and the dry town of OCNJ when I visit the other.

Because nobody's mentioned it yet, I'll add that I really enjoyed my few days in St. Louis a couple years ago.
 
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karstenkibbe said:
No doubt it’s a pretentious vibe. Will definitely give you that. As for the beer, that might be your personal preference. But you can’t deny that they do a certain style really, magnificently well. Kind of like the bar pie at a certain joint in your old stomping grounds.
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I'd have to assume you mean sours as that seemed like most of the menu the night I went. And yeah, that is not a personal favorite style.
 
Guapo said:
As a current resident of Atlanta, I can say that it’s immensely livable - perhaps the most livable big city in the country. I love living here.
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Atlanta really grew on me my last visit. Instead of staying downtown, I stayed in College Park. I could definitely live in that neighborhood, which might be the best "right near the airport" big city neighborhood I've been. Cute little walkable main street with three truly excellent restaurants. And MARTA is terrific as metros go.

LIuconn said:
Portland is amazing. Great food, breweries (ha) and it’s still a working port/dock city.
highly recommend. Drive north, drive south to Portsmouth etc. great area that time of year
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North to Acadia is certainly nice, as is south to KPort and Portsmouth. I'd add drive northwest, through Sebago Lake into NH toward North Conway, then over to Bartlett to Bear Notch Rd, then down the Kancamagus to Lincoln. It's a beautiful drive. Might be my favorite part of the country, especially in fall, but summer is nice too.
 
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My buddy lives in Greenville, SC. He keeps trying to get me to move there(ain't gonna happen) but I had a great time there and definitely underestimated how nice it its. Cool little downtown with the Liberty suspension bridge crossing the Reedy River. Good beer and food scene with Tetrad Brewing and Iron Hill Brewery being standouts for me. Some nice museums too, for folks interested in local history and art.
 
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