Beer Radar

As part of Philly Beer Week, March 7-16, the city has declared itself the best beer-drinking city in America. Here’s the evidence in no particular order.

There are 13 states where you CAN’T buy Samuel Adams Utopias: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Oregon, Washington.

Yes, you read those last two states correctly. In Oregon and Washington - the vaunted home of the American craft beer renaissance, where they boast of more breweries per capita than anywhere in the world, where trendmeisters in Seattle and Portland can’t stop gloating over award-winning ales - it is illegal to buy Utopias because it is too strong (27% ABV).

Say what you want about Pennsylvania’s goofy beer laws, you can buy it here. The folks from Oregon and Washington oughta pick up a bottle when they visit next March.

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