Best Craft Beers Inside and Outside of the WOrld Series

Okay, Chico is about a three hour drive north of San Francisco, but it’ll do. Because if we’re talking about a terrific World Series beer, this is it, a collaboration between veterans of the craft brewing world from northern California and Kansas City, Missouri.

Sure, I could have picked any number of great San Francisco brewers to represent the National League pennant winners. (As I did in 2010 with Anchor Porter and Brew Free or Die.) But who can argue with Sierra Nevada Brewing? The company’s beer is served at AT&T Park, and everyone in Chico will be pulling for the Giants anyway, as the team shows up for its third series in five years. (Every even year since 2010 for numerologists in the crowd.)

Boulevard Brewing’s beers are likewise served at Kauffman Stadium, where the games will begin; the Royals have home field advantage in their first World Series since beating the Cardinals in seven in 1985, four years before Boulevard opened its doors. Boulevard had grown to be the 12th largest U.S. craft brewer by 2012. The next year it was acquired by Duvel Mootgat of Belgium. This was a sale that seemed to trouble no one in the beer geek world, at least compared to the way the Goose Island or Blue Point breweries were pilloried after their purchases by A-B InBev. CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST OF THE STORY AT THEAPOSITION.COM