# Are Portland and Denver still the microbrew capitals?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 30, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-portland-and-denver-still-the-microbrew-capitals/541317 "2010-05-30T21:18:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-portland-and-denver-still-the-microbrew-capitals/541317/41 "2010-06-10T02:14:47Z")

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> [@Eonwe](#):
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> Not to turn this into a pissing contest, but if you had done a quick google search on VT breweries as I’m sure you did for Oregon breweries, you’d find very quickly that there are 21 breweries that are members of the [VT brewers Association](http://brewersvt.com/index.php), which puts VT at one brewery per 29,607 citizens. **bouv** was listing breweries in and immediately near Burlington, VT, which is the population center of the state.
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> At any rate, on the East coast, you can’t do much better than Burlington, and if you’re willing to drive an hour and a half, almost every brewery in the state is accessible from here. I’ve also heard good things about Portland, ME, though I’ve never been.
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> If anyone does come to VT for beer, getting tickets to the [VT Brewers Festival](http://vtbrewfest.com/) in July is highly recommended. Scads of VT and other regional brewers.

Thanks - Ignorance successfully fought, and my appreciation. Should you ever be in the Columbia River Gorge, I’ll buy you a beer.

Hometownboy

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