Travel & Leisure America's Favorite Cities

Beer Travel
1

So here’s the top 35 according to them:
http://www.travelandleisure.com/americas-favorite-cities/2010/category/local-specialties/microbrew-beer

I don’t know who was polled for this, but they obviously haven’t been to some of those cities in search of beer…

1 Portland, OR 4.79
2 Denver 4.65
3 Seattle 4.47
4 Providence 4.41
5 Portland, ME 4.39
6 Savannah 4.30
7 Boston 4.28
8 Austin 4.20
9 San Francisco 4.20
10 Nashville 4.19
11 Kansas City 4.17
12 Minneapolis/St. Paul 4.17
13 Charleston 4.11
14 Chicago 4.09
15 Anchorage 4.03
16 New Orleans 3.98
17 Philadelphia 3.97
18 San Diego 3.94
19 Phoenix/Scottsdale 3.87
20 Houston 3.83
21 Baltimore 3.80
22 San Antonio 3.79
23 Salt Lake City 3.75
24 New York City 3.70
25 Santa Fe 3.69
26 Atlanta 3.64
27 Washington, D.C. 3.58
28 Honolulu 3.56
29 Las Vegas 3.47
30 San Juan, P.R. 3.46
31 Dallas/Fort Worth 3.44
32 Memphis 3.41
33 Los Angeles 3.40
34 Orlando 3.19
35 Miami 3.17

2

It was the readers of the magazine that did the rating.  Those are all popular travel/vacation destinations, as size or number of breweries or good beer bars was not a factor.  I don’t think we are the target audience.

3

I’m sure you can get “beer” in all of those places :slight_smile:

4

Hmmph. They need to get their priorities straight. Not so sure I like the results of this poll.

5

Let’s do our own poll. See my next post.

6

Well, they got #1 right!