I will once again wish you an excellent day

This is always annoying. Seems like an /r/pittsburgh / redditor / Paula Deen way to say "fuck you".

Anyway...

If you judge a city by the beer it produces, then Pittsburgh should be on top of the shittiest beer list for ever and ever for having produced Iron City...and for claiming it still.

Denver? Because they have a centrally-located convention center that hosts GABF? Because they gave this country the gift of Rock Bottom? Or Coors? Great Divide and Breckenridge are 2nd tier at best. New Belgium? Ft. Collins. Avery? Boulder? Not Denver. It seems like you don't like Anchor (fair enough) and use this same methodology to dismiss SF.

In fact, SF is so trend-setting their mojo filters through NYC and LA before it ever arrives in Pittsburgh...we get stuff SF put in motion 4 or 5 years after the fact. It's cutting edge out there man.

San Diego...I'll give ya that. Stone, Pizza/Port/LostAbbey...a couple o ringers for sure. Ale Smith, Green Flash, and Ballast pulling up the rear. Hard to argue with that. But SF engenders a sort of connoisseur culture and has such amazing accessibility to all of this stuff...it's nearby, it's cheap, it's everywhere....that you absolutely can learn more about craft beer and brewing and many other things just by virtue of living there.

If you go to a really fine craft beer store in Pittsburgh, or anywhere on the east coast, upwards of 50% of their selection will be west coast breweries...and many of the truly excellent brews aren't available because of demand or distribution or capacity. Go to the same store in SF or Portland or Seattle or San Diego and 90% of their selection will be west coast breweries...including all of the choice nuggets...and a few east coast selections, mostly Dogfish and Sam Adams.

I'm talking about Mission bodegas offering growler fills of Swami's and Old Rasputin.

And don't get me started on coffee.