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With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.

We've now reached the seventeenth state on the list, The Bluegrass State, Kentucky.  The state's nickname  is a clear reference to the grassy pastures that feed thoroughbred horses throughout the area, due it's fertile soil. It's also the home of Bourbon, a name indirectly derived from the French dynasty (likely from Bourbon Street in New Orleans) and are thus the richest source of Bourbon barrels, used for secondary beer fermentation, in the world.

Kansas ranks 34th in total population (roughly 2.9 million) and housed 22 craft breweries as of 2014 who are represented by the Kansas Craft Brewers Guild. The state ranks 35th in total breweries and 34th in breweries per capita as of 2014, according to the Brewers Association.

With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.

We've now reached our fourteenth state on the list, The Hoosier State, Indiana. Indiana ranks 16th in total population (roughly 6.6 million), housed 80 craft breweries as of 2014 (roughly over 100 today) and are represented by the Brewers of Indiana Guild (best use of the dotbeer domain thus far, btw). The state ranks 14th in total breweries and 18th in breweries per capita as of 2014, according to the Brewers Association.

With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.

We've now reached our Twelfth state on the list, The Gem State of Idaho. Besides those world famous potatoes, the state is known for their large annual production of the nation's hops, being the third largest hop growing state with around 10% of the total each year.

With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.

For the sake of clarity and with an eye toward avoiding any bias, we're doing this thing alphabetically. We've now stayed sober long enough to have reached our eleventh state on the list, The Aloha State, Hawaii.

With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.

With our headquarters in Washington DC and the bulk of our correspondents found near America's top producing craft beer regions on the coasts, it only makes sense for us to start a new series giving all the states their due, featuring breweries large and small, plus the histories behind them.