In fact, probably if you took a reader survey in any state in the Northeast you would find Budweiser at the top of the beer list, since it is the highest selling beer in the country and is particularly strong in New England. It is always excellent. Still, it is surprising that at a time when smaller, boutique ales are more readily available, that Budweiser would win out. Our beers are true to style. That's a lot of beer.
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Yet the beer is the best you can get around here. But in addition to good brew, it helps to have a good marketing plan. Designs promoting City Steam's beers are 1950s style illustrations of anything from, say, naughty nurses to musical nuns. Only in their fourth year of business, and the beers of the Troutbrook Brewing Company are already served in 180 restaurants around town. He and his partner, Bill McCarthy, are both graduates of the nation's premiere brewing school, Chicago's Seibel Institute of Technology, the same place where the Busch and Miller families learned their trade.