If you’re like me and turn any vacation, work trip, or other travel into a beercation, here’s a place to start: Try the local beers chosen here to best represent their hometowns—St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Portland, San Diego, Denver, New York, and Nashville.
St. Louis, Missouri & Perennial Artisan Ales Saison de Lis
St. Louis, Missouri, has greatly evolved as a beer town–from its roots as a mecca of light macro lager to the inception of Schlafly Beer, the first brewpub in Missouri since Prohibition, to the recent additions of modern craft breweries. One of the most awarded and nationally recognized of these newer breweries is Perennial Artisan Ales. One of the brewery’s flagships, Saison de Lis, a Belgian-style Saison brewed with chamomile, represents St. Louis’s progression beyond light lager and into more experimental and international beer styles.
Salt Lake City, Utah & Uinta Brewing 801 Pilsner
Uinta’s 801 Pilsner is an appropriately named beer (801 was the area code for Utah and is now the area code for Salt Lake City) that you can find only in Utah. Its reputation precedes itself as an easy-drinking 3.2 percent ABV brew. “801 in a can allows the beer-drinking population of Utah to take their beer on all of their outdoor activities,” adds Tyler Mork, owner of Salt Lake City’s Bengal Brewing & Supply Co.