This thread is helpful for NYC:
My quick list:
Breweries: Other Half, Threes, Grimm, Interboro, Finback, Mikkeller, KCBC, Singlecut, Kills Boro, Fifth Hammer are probably the best, but there are plenty pf breweries around those… none are in Manhattan.
Bars: Owl Farm, Proletariat, The Well, Mission Dolores, Bar Great Harry, Gingerman, The Jeffery, Covenhoven, Gold Star Beer Counter, Beer Street, Brouwerij Lane, Alewife (also, now, a brewery), The Sampler, Torst (if you want to overpay), Spuyten Duyvil, Double Windsor, Hops Hill, Meckelverg’s, Good Beer, Milk and Hops, and prob a bunch more I forgot to name.
