You’re 100% right with how most of these lists are bullshit. This list from Travel And Leisure is probably a bit more realistic. NYC isn’t even on the list. I’ll tell you one thing, I have no idea how Denver was ranked at #20. That’s just crazy.While We’re on the subject, What would your top 20/10 be?
It would be hard-pressed to rank them, but I’d say this would be my rough top 10, in no particular order: San Diego, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and Philly.
Others in contention (or perhaps in a separate tier for smaller cities): Burlington, Vermont, Madison, Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, Asheville, Fort Collins, Santa Fe, Indianapolis, Bend, Portland, Maine, Austin.
And even then, I’m stretching in each to get a full ten in. Like I said, based on the criteria, there’s only a few that would be no-brainers for my list. The rest have compelling reasons to include and not to include.
By the way, the T+L list is bullshit for another reason: it’s voted on by its readers, who apparently know nothing about beer, because I’m from Providence, and there’s no way it hell I’d put it in even the top 50 beer cities in the U.S., let alone at #8.
Do these logos look similar to you? Would you take the risk of using the one on the left for a commercial product knowing the one on the right has been in use since 1995 and is owned by a multinational corporation? My take on the trend of trademark disputes in the craft beer industry.
The 20 best beer towns in America: http://bit.ly/13KXfVq
NYC is #7 Huzzah!
Eyeroll. Can we just agree that these types of lists are complete bullshit? Like, seriously? New York ahead of Philly and Boston? Come on, I live and breathe the New York beer scene, but that’s bullshit. Portland and Denver at #18 and #20? But Austin, Texas at #2?! And MIAMI AT #10?!
You know what makes a “best beer town?” Not having to grasp at straws for reasons to justify its place on the list. Not having to call out specific bars for their beer selection, because every bar serves good, local craft beer. Not having to suggest breweries an hour away because they “influence” the beer scene. Plenty of cities meet these criteria, but most of them are stuffed inexplicably at the bottom of this list (in fact, #17-20 could all conceivably make a case to be in the top 5).
I can’t possibly imagine by which criteria this author came up with this list. Cities in which he has personally consumed the most beer?
Oh, this circle of friends isn’t about the obscene, gross, and expensive stuff (our most recent bachelor parties have consisted of a house rental and beer, not a strip club or strippers), but the tone of the best man suggested we’d be in bed at 10:00 that night. I’d post the entire email, but it’s about 3 pages long, and includes such important details as the rental house’s wifi password, a dinner and breakfast menu, and carpooling plans.which side are you on? Generally people should do something FUN but a lot of dudes think it’s an excuse to do obscene and gross things for an entire night, things that ultimately aren’t actually fun and cost a shit ton of money
Re: a bachelor party this summer
Email from best man of groom, organizing said party:
[Groom] certainly isn’t expecting any craziness or debauchery, so best to leave that for the wedding and after party.
Immediate responses from our circle of friends, removing best man:
I get this is going to be a quiet night — but am I reading that correctly? Is the bachelor party going to be more tame than the wedding reception?
Better bring some nuns for this one #YOLO
A fiver goes to the guy who shows up in a monocle and, anytime someone takes a drink, “oh no. Mother would not approve.” All in an elderly British woman’s accent.
What kind of debauchery is [groom] expecting at the wedding?
Leave it for the after party? this guy just invite us into [groom’s] honeymoon suite? I mean I’ve snuggled up with him before, but never quite like this…
In another email, he warned us not to tell [groom] of any of the “classified” details of the bachelor party. Like what? The fact that we’re having steaks for dinner? (with sides, likely consisting of salads, grilled vegetables, chips, etc)?
“The ambulance couldn’t even come up to the building,” Lee Liss, the victim’s wife, told the tabloid. “The ambulance couldn’t get to him. These bike racks are a detriment.”
“With great difficulty they managed to get the guy out,” said Dave Marcus, vice president of the Cambridge co-op board, adding that the racks formed none other than an “impregnable wall.”
But a quick call to the fire department revealed that this simply wasn’t the case—not by a long shot, said Frank Gribbon, an FDNY spokesperson.
“The fire units on scene had absolutely no problem accessing this building,” he said. Well, surely paramedics have had trouble maneuvering around other Citi Bike kiosks?
“There have been no problems,” Gribbon said, exasperated. “None.”
Case closed.
I’m waiting with bated breath for the Post’s follow-up.
[URL redacted, because I do not give the scumbags at the New York Post the pleasure of a link.]
A Greenwich Village co-op board that has sued the city for blocking its entrance with bike-share racks nearly saw its worst fears realized Sunday when emergency responders had trouble getting to a 92-year-old resident in distress.
I can’t even anymore.
The Post is now using people’s lives as pawns in their anti-bike crusade.
The picture in the article says it all: the perfectly able-bodied EMS workers wheeled a gurney a whopping 30 feet around a bike share rack to get between a building entrance and an ambulance parked on the street.
Never mind that cars could legally park in the same space for 14 hours each day before the bike racks were installed and could just as easily block the building entrance, which never resulted in a lawsuit or an alarmist “news” report like this.
Never mind that the article says the ambulance had to park “three doors down” when it was actually parked in front of the building directly next door.
Never mind that they quote a neighbor who calls the rack, which like every other installed in the city has many, many spaces between bikes, “an impregnable wall.”
Never mind that the city says the EMTs had no problems responding to the call, yet the Post makes the absurd accusation that because he wasn’t taken to the hospital for an hour (gee, I don’t know, maybe they could have been treating him on-scene?), that’s somehow the fault of a single set of bike racks.
Never mind the pending lawsuit against the city by this building’s co-op board, the already cozy relationship between the litigants and the Post from when they first reported on the lawsuit, and the fact that the photo in the article of EMTs very easily wheeling the man off the sidewalk (conveniently framed in the edge of the photo with the bike racks front-and-center) was taken by the co-op board’s vice president.
And never mind that the guy who was wheeled out had “an undisclosed medical emergency,” survived, and was recovering yesterday at the hospital.
There’s a reason this article was tagged “exclusive.” Nobody else at any other paper in this town would stoop so low as to write something so pathetic.
Power is turned on at the Citibike station by my office! #bikenyc
That thing when you get a Facebook invite to a birthday party and it mentions their age and you nearly fall over because you thought they were your age, not 15 years older than you.
Attention Rhode Island ex-pats in NYC! This is officially a thing.
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So does this Yahoo thing mean that Tumblr’s interface might no longer be the buggy disaster it is now?
