Speaking as someone who has worked in the business locally now for several years, me and the majority of people I speak to on a regular basis couldn’t care less about this overblown poll.

It’s basically a joke to everyone, other than maybe a few owners who like to use it for ego-stroking/vanity/promotional reasons. It’s something the media has hyped-up beyond belief and at this point we’re all so sick of hearing about it,  because a) it’s totally unscientific and therefore meaningless when you get right down to it, and b) at this point why do we need a gimmick poll to tell us and everyone else we’re Beer City USA? Last I checked, we just scored two of the largest craft beer producers in the country, and now Oskar Blues, to boot. I think that, coupled with at least 12 locally grown operations, is more than proof enough.

Leave the hyperbolic, media-driven poling to other places.

Most of the local breweries don’t have marketing strategists. Nor do they have much time to hang out on Twitter. Not even all of them are on Twitter.