Detroit Ranked 25th Best Beer City In America
If you like beer, there are apparently 24 cities in the United States you should go to ahead of the D, because Detroit’s ranked the 25 best beer city in the United States.
Real Estate Witch complied the data, and mentioned that beer will become a trillion dollar industry by 2030. Craft beers are also booming right now, as the number of craft breweries has tripled over the past ten years.
The site ranked the United States’ 50 biggest metro areas beer scene by the following weighted factors:
- breweries per capita (4x weighted)
- average price per beer (3x weighted)
- affordability of domestic beer (3x weighted)
- affordability of imported beer (3x weighted)
- average Yelp rating of breweries (3x weighted)
- average Yelp rating of bars (3x weighted)
- bars per capita (2x weighted)
- “beer passion score” on Google Trends (2x weighted)
- this was the amount of Google searches for 17 beer related terms
Detroit ranked first when it came to the best beer prices in the country, with the average price in the D, being more than $1 below the average at $3.55. This is where Detroit ranked in each of the categories, with the national averages in parenthesis:
[Related: 6 Awesome Metro Detroit Breweries to check out].
- average beer price: $3.55 ($4.78)
- breweries per capita: 0.49 (1.34)
- bars per 100,000 residents: 9.1 (19.0)
- % of annual income – domestic beers: 2.7% (3.4%)
- % of annual income – imported beers: 3.8% (4.2%)
- average brewery Yelp rating: 4.14 (4.24)
- average bar Yelp rating: 4.02 (4,12)
- Passion score: Google Trends: 66.8 (64.4)
This is how the eight factors they used to rank the best beer cities were weighted, where Detroit was ranked the 25th best beer city in America:
- breweries per 100,000 people (17%)
- average price of one beer (13%)
- affordability of domestic beer (13%)
- affordability of imported beer (13%)
- average Yelp rating of breweries in the city (13%)
- average Yelp rating of bars in the city (13%)
- bars per 100,000 people (9%)
- beer passion score
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