Why Europe? America is the new beer capital, in my opinion. Home of the American IPA style. Nomz. Also, we have Lagunitas, Dogfish, Stone, 21st Amendment, Uinta, Oskar Blues, New Belgium, Bells', Sweetwater, Terrapin.. the list goes on and on.

QFT.

Don't forget about Sierra Nevada, either.

We just got Sierra nevada's bigfoot barleywine and their ruthless rye. $14 for a 6 of bigfoot and $10 for a 6 of ruthless. I'm buying both. I love that brewery.

I know we have delicious beer here, but we can access it whenever. Don't you want to try some new stuff that you can't get here?

Travel within the states for good beer.

I live near Austin, TX and here's a list of breweries around here whose beer you can't get outside the state:

Live Oak Brewing Company
512 Brewing Company
Independence Brewing Company
Real Ale Brewing Company
Austin Beerworks
Thirsty Planet Brewery
Jester King Brewery
Circle Brewing Company


F*CK, there are TONS more. The first one I listed has one of the top-rated hefeweizens in the world per Beeradvocate.com -- why go to Europe for European styles when breweries in US does them better?

Just go outside your state and you'll be able to get shit you won't be able to get where you live. Whenever I travel, wherever I travel, I ALWAYS drink the local beer.

This is true. Here in Georgia, we have Terrapin and Sweetwater breweries, but Im sure you can get both of those outside the state. Just goes to show how grassroots brewing has become.

Okay okay okay..... we don't have to go to Europe, but I still vote on a beer tour.

Drinking and marinating steak with this:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23973/47102

Tonight's selection:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/77231