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Nate,

Do you live in Chicago or are you from this neck of the woods?

Regardless, you probably know that this town has some very fine drinking establishments, including two of the top bars in the U.S. for beer drinking as voted by readers of Beer Advocate.

Map Room came in third and Hopleaf ranked 21.


I was up in Milwaukee last weekend, right before this list was published. While tailgating at Miller Park (home of the Brewers), I was offered a beer about every ten minutes.

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I live in Chicago. The Ontario thing is an old joke from Andrew Karpinski's heydey. We have a lot of really cool bars here; goes with the whole neighborhood thing.

In a previous life, I did some consulting work for a large Milwaukee-based industrial firm. These were mild-mannered people, but a typical night out might feature six or seven beers at Miller Park, some drunken driving, a drink or two on Water St., some more drunken driving, and then hanging out at the client's house until two in the morning for even more drinking. And then a 6 AM meeting the next day.