Beer Infinity Beer, Brewing & Beyond
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Just because every Monday needs a little math, and I just had the pleasure of visiting Montana’s 45th brewery, I got curious and did a little calculating. Montana has been teetering back and forth with our distant neighbor to the west, Oregon, with who ranks right behind Vermont (#1) in breweries-per-capita. What I discovered, unofficially, is that we just overtook Oregon to become #2. We were number two back in 2011, but today the Brewer’s Association ranks Montana #3 (based on 2013 metrics). Since I had not the patience to wait until the end of 2014, I wanted to see where we were today. Here’s what I found: Using the same data at the Brewers Association, which is assigning the “capita” as those 21 and older in the state (since we’re dealing with alcohol), the three states have the following populations of drinking-age individuals (taken from SuburbanStats.org, 2013 and 2014 data): Vermont: 453,381 Now looking at the latest numbers of breweries for each st … |
Source: Montana Beer Finder
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