Hey Brokaw, Joe Scum and the rest of you hacks - do you know why small breweries

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7. and the very best are right here in Vermont.

and the best brewery in the world, according to RateBeer is 3 miles down the road from me.

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Not that the craft beer movement is anything new to this tiny New England state, which sports the highest number of brewers per capita — roughly 25,030 people per brewery. But lately the attention those brewers have garnered is different. It’s not a hey-they-have-great-beers-in-Vermont. It’s a hey-they-have-the-best-beer-in-the-world.

No, really. Hill Farmstead Brewery recently was rated the world’s best brewer on the popular international consumer review website, RateBeer.com.

And that has triggered a rush of beer enthusiasm — and enthusiasts — that has bordered on fanaticism. Since Hill Farmstead opened three years ago, beer tourists have been coming from around the world to visit the microbrewery on a farm off a dirt road in Greensboro to buy growlers and bottles of brewer Shaun Hill’s creations.

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http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/apr/23/vermont-brewers-set-beer-world-abuzz/


and then there's Heady Topper:

For someone in pursuit of a Heady Topper — the world's top-ranked beer at the moment my plane touched down in Vermont — I made the mistake of arriving on a Sunday.

I had driven directly to a bar in Burlington that research told me served Heady Topper. And sure enough, the beer was listed on the menu for $7 per 16-ounce can. Even more important than the price were the two words beside it: "Limited availability." This was, after all, the top-ranked beer in the world.

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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-22/travel/sc-trav-0421-vermont-beer-20130422_1_best-beer-beer-advocate-brew-pub

My tastes aren't that elevated, but I really dig every beer I've tried from Hill Farmstead.