my local is Sweden but really it is Gothenburg and its neighbourhood. So I defined my local local as brewery location that I could reach (legally) within 30 minutes. My local local is 10,69 % of total and 26,80% of local.
So quite local;),
Pretty hard for me to determine; many of my Belgian rates have been while living in Amsterdam, and I’ve had plenty of Dutch beers while living in Brussels. It’s also super hard to determine what radius is 30 minutes away.
I’m just going to assume that it’s not that much because I’ve never worried about drinking local.
13% of my England rates are from the county I live in. Aside from my actual local brewery which I frequent I’m not really one to stick to my own area to be honest, I thrive on choice and variety and love getting beers from all over the country, and other countries.
Hi Adam, to make it simplier for me I took the central point of Gothenburg vs the breweries town central points.
Since u’re staying ib Brussels for the moment u can use the ring (?)/E40 as a boundary- takes 25 min in all directions accept the south.
2129 of my beers come from the state I live in, Virginia. However, some of those rates would take up to 6 or 7 hours if I drove to where they are brewed.
30 minutes just barely gets me to all the Washington DC breweries. (442 beers). I took a wild stab at the number of VA breweries that are within that distance, and I’m thinking about 650 of my rates are probably from within 30 minutes. There’s really only a handful of Maryland breweries that close so I’ll go with a modest 20 rates from there. If you bumped the time up another 20 minutes, it would probably be a few hundred higher (almost entirely VA ratings).
That’s 1112 “local local” ratings or 12.6% of my total ratings.
Other than when I’m traveling or happen to be at a bar that has other offerings, I pretty much exclusively seek out local or regional beers these days.
Well now that I’ve looked it up, Gloucestershire is about 3 times bigger than Gothenburg in terms of area. But I think all the breweries I’ve drank from are within a 1 hour drive of where I live.
If I narrow it down to your 30 minute timeframe for “local local” then only about a third of my county rates would qualify, so my 13% would fall to just 4% of all my England ratings.
I have actually never gone to the winery on Spencer, it is kind of in the middle of nowhere, and what I had from them was not impressive. There are breweries in Huntington and Beckley which take less time to get to, which I have visited.
Are you conflating “drinking” with “rating”. My rating’s all over the place. (shut it!)
My drinking recently is plenty of P6hjala (city), Pyhaste (country), and Tanker (country). So yeah I’m drinking local even if I’m ticking Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, and Canada (in the last month).
Right now in Vancouver it’s better to drink a majority of local-local, since we are blessed with excellent hoppy beers and the occasional Imperial Stout.
Taking this as a regional Länder issue in the still slowdeveloping German craft landscape:
380 Baden-Württemberg out of 4279= 11%
Really regional would be narrowing it down to just Baden (Karlsruhe-Lörrach) or even Südbaden, which would amount to less than 5%, Schwarzwald probably to less than 1%.
For what it’s worth, I’m drinking Freiburg Ganter Urtrunk and Braukollektiv by the case and they are both within walking distance, so that soothes my conscience in terms of drinking regional quantity…
I probably have 50 or so breweries within 30 minutes of me, so there’s no way I’m actually going through and crunching the numbers… But yeah, I’d say probably 95% of what I drink by volume comes from within those 30 minutes. Tick-wise… maybe 75% of my ticks are from within 30 minutes?