Best Beer: Top 10 Cities for Drinking Beer

The best beer may be enjoyed anywhere. It is fun however, to sample and enjoy refreshing beverages right in the heart of the very city where they are born and brewed. It can be a daring adventure as well as an educational undertaking to learn the history of the best beer and adopt the spirit and tradition of the brewery's devotees. Following are the ten cities for the best beer:

1. Kailua Kona, Hawaii

Home to the rapidly growing and wildly unique Kona Brewing Company, Kailua Kona offers Pipeline Porter. Pipeline Porter is unusual in that it is brewed with island- grown delicious local coffee.

2. Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Beer Company is the creator of enormously popular Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams presents many acclaimed choices, including Boston Lager, Black Lager and Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat.

3. Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Vlezenbeek is the location of Lindemans very large brewery. Lindemans Framboise Lambic is a delicious and popular choice for beer lovers to indulge themselves in.

4. Stuttgart, Germany

Stuttgart is the place of creation for Dinkelacker Privat. According to The Beer Book, Dinkelacker is "fine, smooth and clear with a mild aroma of hops." Sounds irresistible, doesn't it?

5. Cape Town, South Africa

It is great to relish a nice, refreshing Paulaner in Cape Town, South Africa. Paulaner has different franchises in many locations throughout the world, but Cape Town is recommended because the local brewery sticks to Paulaner's Belgian roots.

6. Jupiter, Florida

Carefully produced by Inlet Brewing Company with a great regard for quality, Monk in the Trunk is a delectable surprise. It is a copper- colored, spicy ale made with Belgian Abbey yeast.

7. Hoegaarden, Belgium

Hoegaarden is the location where Pierre Celis created his distinctive Hoegaarden in the Cloister Brewery. This brewery is now part of the company InBev.

8. Munich, Germany

Franziskaner, which means Franciscan and denotes the Franciscan monks, is a superb product of the Spaten- Franziskaner- Brau Brewery. This old brewery in Munich is now an interesting historical museum.

9. Eureka, California

Eureka, California is home to Lost Coast Breweries. Lost Coast Brewery is part of Lost Coast Brewery Pub and Cafe. One interesting fact about Lost Coast is that it is female- owned, unlike the vast majority of breweries. Lost Coast is the 46th largest brewery in the United States of America. Lost Coast produces the excellent Lost Coast Apricot, which should be sampled by anyone who loves a smooth finish.

10. Bangor, Maine

The award- winning Sea Dog Brewing Company was founded in 1993 in Camden, Maine. Presently located in Bangor, Maine, they brew with English- style two row, malted barley and top fermenting yeast. They offer pale ale, blonde ale, brown ale, porter and stout. One highly recommended product is Sea Dog Blueberry.

The ten choices listed above offer various options of the best beer for beer lovers everywhere. From Cape Town, South Africa to Bangor, Maine, beer drinking is a delightful pasttime that can take you all around the world.

Hampson, T. The Beer Book. (2008) New York, NY: Blue Island Publishing.
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