A beer nerd’s guide to baseball: Ranking every stadium by craft beer offerings (2024)

To many fans in today’s baseball stadiums, a beer fits the hand like a ball in a glove. The game itself — the pace, length, even the volume — seems to fit the beverage more than any other. And, increasingly, that beer in your hand at the ballpark is from a local craft brewery instead of a national macro brewery.

Just as the food options at most stadiums have begun to include smaller shops dedicated to interesting, well-crafted food sourced from the local culture, beer options have trended toward suds from local craft breweries over the past five years. That follows a national trend: Nearly five times as much craft beer is being sold today as was sold 15 years ago.

Not every park has followed the trends as well as the industry leaders. A handful of parks have beer festivals and weekly beer events featuring hard-to-find options. A few parks have co-branded beers with local breweries that are only available in their friendly confines. And then there are parks — including several that are often filled to the brim with enthusiastic fans — that have nearly opted out of the whole trend. And that’s fine for lots of fans. Miller Lite represents years of hard work and is palatable to millions.

In order to try and rank these stadiums based on their local craft beer offerings, however, we have to admit a few things.

For one, this will be a subjective enterprise, specifically when it comes to placing one particular park over another. In order to combat this, I enlisted the help of nearly 100 fans and writers, many of whom are thanked at the end for their contributions. These helpful people found lists of available beers and outlined where those beers were sold, and even helped compare offerings to other parks they’d visited. I still had to make a subjective choice in the end.

Secondly, though we’ve broken the 0-10 rankings into three component numbers — top-end beer, average available beer and craft beer accessibility — it’s impossible to separate these three facets of a stadium’s beer offerings. The best beer available lifts the quality of the average beer, and poor accessibility will drag it down. These are intercorrelated aspects. But hopefully, they’re worth separating so that readers (and commenters) can better nail down why a park was rated where it was. Even with this effort, we had plenty of ties — I tried to explain how I broke those ties in the text.

The perfect beer park — and there are probably two or three — has some rare craft beers in a couple of spots, and great local craft options accessible no matter where you happen to be sitting. The worst beer ballparks — and there are probably two or three — have few interesting craft beers and make their limited craft beer options hard to find. In between, we’ll do our best to sort the parks before they announce the 2020 improvements to their beer rosters.

1. T-Mobile Park, Seattle

Top beer: 10
Average beer: 10
Accessibility: 10

The craft beer scene in Seattle is in full bloom, and its ballpark has followed suit. Pacific Northwest labels Fremont Brewing, Reuben’s Brews, Georgetown Brewing, Bale Breaker, Black Raven Brewing, Ecliptic Brewing, Ninkasi Brewing, and even the smaller pFriem Family Brewers all have beers available at the ballpark. There’s a $6 (!) can deal every year, and one year it was a hazy IPA from Georgetown Brewing called Bodhizafa. Practically every food vendor has a craft tap, and there are cans in the aisles.

And not only does this place run on craft beer, but it also has a stand behind home plate (section 129) that boasts hard-to-find cask, barrel-aged and specialty beers on a rotating basis. The list of rare beer releases at that stand last year was enough to excite even the most “hardcore of beer geeks” as Washington Beer Blog put it. Whether you want a cheap can of a crushable IPA, something hazy and local on tap, or something hard to find — you’re not far from it in Seattle, which is the crown jewel of craft beer in baseball.

2. Petco Park, San Diego

Top beer: 10
Average beer: 10
Accessibility: 10

You could say San Diego and Seattle share first place, if you like. San Diego is, in many ways, the birthplace of the modern craft beer movement, and the park has always had a plethora of great beers to choose from. It, too, has a stand behind home plate that rotates through special releases on Friday nights. It, too, represents the area well when it comes to breweries — AleSmith Brewing Company, Pizza Port Brewing Company, Mike Hess Brewing, Coronado Brewing Company, Alpine Beer Company and more.

There’s a beer made for the park. In fact, there are (kind of) two. AleSmith’s .394 Pale Ale — named for Tony Gwynn’s batting average that fated 1994 season — is the original gangster, but you can get that all over San Diego and not just at the park. It’s probably slightly better than Ballast Point’s new Petco-centric beer, Swinging Friar, which is a similar, palatable crusher and is available all over the park.

If there’s anything negative to say about the park, it’s perhaps that the beer scene in the city has continued to grow and innovate, and in some ways has left the park behind. Resident’s Chasing Citra is a great hazy beer in the carts behind home, but when there’s no beer fest in center field or a special beer behind home plate (which happens enough to mention), you’re mostly drinking beers from the first or second wave of great beer in San Diego. Keyword here: great.

3. Oracle Park, San Francisco

Top beer: 10
Average beer: 9
Accessibility: 9

You can get local beer easily in most sections of the park, even if you don’t want to drop the $15-$20 for a can of the special ones they brought in recently. Deschutes Fresh Squeezed is available in the outfield corners, and all of the Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada and Lagunitas selections provide a very high replacement level.

In 2018, the park added cans from Local Brewing Company, Auburn’s Moonraker Brewing (known for their world-class hazy IPAs), Oakland’s Temescal Brewing, Santa Rosa’s Russian River (Pliny the Elder pours!) and Livermore’s Altamont Beer Works at three locations, two of which are only accessible to Field Club ticket holders. It’s the accessibility to these top-end options that dings San Francisco in the end.

The asterisk is the Public House, a bar attached to the park by the front gate. It has a chalkboard beer list that ranks with the best beer bars in any city, full stop. You can get sours, limited-release barrel-aged stouts, hazy (and crisp) IPAs from all over the state — and Russian River’s Blind Pig, a beer that inspired a wave of innovation in the industry, is always on tap. You can even take your beers into the park. But fair warning: It’s a bit of a walk back to get another one later; you’ll probably miss some game time.

4. Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago

Top beer: 9
Average beer: 9
Accessibility: 9

In what might prove to be an innovation that eventually will spread to most ballparks around the league, the White Sox put in a Craft Kave in 2017 — a beer bar with plenty of taps, but an even more impressive beer cooler. One of the difficulties of stocking smaller craft breweries is the peril of a kicked keg without a replacement. A useless tap can cost the ballpark a ton of money. So instead enter a cooler full of cans that can spread to the rarer parts of Chicago’s beer scene, without the same danger if a certain can runs out.

As a result, the list of available beers on the South Side is impressive, maybe one of the longest in the league. And, even if you might notice that a large percentage of those beers is only available in the Kave, there’s good news. There’s now a second (express) Kave in the 500 level. Add that to the Revolution Brewing Bar and the two Midwest Craft stands and a few assorted craft beer carts, and you have top-shelf accessibility.

Look again at the list, and you’ll see that Revolution’s beers are the easiest to find outside the main craft beer areas. Would you rather have a Revolution in the hand or a chalkboard craft beer bar in the bush? The tug between the highest-end options and accessibility to good craft beer options begins.

5. Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 8
Accessibility: 9

Brand Ambassador Jeremy Danner once worked for Boulevard Brewing and now works for 4 Hands Brewing, so he’s a little biased, but his description of the beer scene where the Royals play ball pretty much sums it up (and, frankly, he goes to a ton of games there, so it’s not surprising):

“If you’re looking for craft beer during a Royals game, nearly every stand that pours beer will have an offering. Seriously. The two spots where you’ll find the widest selections are the Boulevard Pub (behind home plate, just outside the Diamond Club) and Craft & Draft. The latter is like walking into a full-on craft beer bar at a baseball stadium. With 20ish taps pouring primarily local offerings and another 50ish in cans in bottles, you can find beers from Missouri favorites Boulevard, 4 Hands, Martin City and Mother’s alongside selections from regional and national breweries. The food is super solid and beer-friendly as well.”

Though Craft & Draft is amazing — a section for beer lovers, with its own field-facing seats and food menus — it’s really the fact that there’s a craft beer on tap at most stands that makes this a great ballpark for beer.

6. Progressive Field, Cleveland

Top beer: 9
Average beer: 8
Accessibility: 8

Progressive Field has a very interesting approach to bringing local beer into the ballpark — one that should be lauded because it represents the city so well and also provides easy access to great local beer. The park is broken into “districts” that represent all the different neighborhoods in the city, and each district has a restaurant — and breweries — local to those neighborhoods.

So you’ve got Great Lakes in one section, Market Garden Brewery in another, Fathead’s in a third and Brew Kettle right next door. You can get Great Lakes Dortmunder, Market Garden Citramax, Fathead’s legendary Headhunter IPA and Brew Kettle’s White Rajah IPA. All great beers, though they end up being a little sequestered into their districts. They’re also all at the Corner Bar, with around 40 rotating taps (and a self-service section!) in right field, and you can get Great Lakes almost everywhere in the park.

Great Lakes as a replacement-level beer, with some of the state’s best IPAs at most a section away? Giddyap.

7. Target Field, Minnesota

Top beer: 9
Average beer: 8
Accessibility: 7

Surly, baby! And Summit, Fulton, Bent Paddle, Third Street, Fair State. … So much of Minnesota’s beer scene is on display at Target Field, and you can’t go wrong with Surly to begin. Go to the beer stand by Gate 34 or the Bat and Barrel right above it, and you’re set for excellent local craft beer. Not much better than some Surly at a game.

The only problem? It’s a little hit or miss if you’re not at those two locations. There’s a canned Surly spot up the third-base side. Some macro craft beer behind home plate. Some cans on the first-base side. Town Ball Tavern and Minnie & Paul’s on the 200 level. A stand by 128 that’s only open some weekends? Not much on the 300 level. Sometimes portable craft beer stands with cans. The selection is really good, the availability is more haphazard.

8. Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 8
Accessibility: 7

The beer finder for Great American doesn’t tell the whole story, much like national beer media might not tell the whole story about the Cincinnati scene. Sure, you can see Christian Moerlein and MadTree on the list, but you’ll miss Fretboard and Rhinegeist if you don’t look close enough, and we’re not talking about the yearly beer festival. If it looks like many of those are only available at one place, that place is fairly epic: Brewery District. It feels like a taproom, say seasoned veterans of the park. There are eight or so stations, the lines move quickly, and it has its own set of televisions so you don’t miss a pitch. And now they’ve added a second District on the other side of the park.

Throw in some regular convenience-store-type locations (like Chicago’s Craft Kave), plus Taft’s Ale House on the third-base side (get the Gavel Banger IPA), and you’ve got craft beer wherever you are in the park, or at least around the main section — sometimes it can get thin upstairs. If the brewery names don’t move the needle for you, that might be because Cincinnati beer doesn’t get the same coverage nationally, nor do those breweries distribute nationally. But there’s great beer in the city, and at the park.

9. Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 8
Accessibility: 7

Here’s another story of great beer in spotty locations. Cigar City, Tampa Bay Brewing Company, 3 Daughters and Green Bench are all Tampa-area breweries of varying renown but consistent quality, and you can find them at the Trop. Just the idea of having a Cigar City Jai Alai IPA at a game should make some baseball fans from other cities jealous. Green Bench even makes a Trop-exclusive beer you can only get at the park, as a bonus.

But it’s not all over the place. The Outfielder Bar and Grill offers the best selection, with around 10 local brews there. It sort of mimics the Public House in San Francisco as it has its own gate but allows you to take your beers into the park. Once you get inside, there’s a Coppertail Brewing stand behind home plate that was lauded universally by our correspondents, and then a stand by the third-base foul pole. And then some craft beer in cans scattered throughout. Walk a little, and you’ll be happy.

10. Miller Park, Milwaukee

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 7
Accessibility: 7

You have to go to the Local Brews bar on the Loge Level if you go to Miller Park. Serious Wisconsin craft from Central Waters, New Glarus, Lakefront, Raised Grain and Karben4 will grace your tastebuds if you do. Even beyond that bar, they’ve improved their accessibility and added cans of Spotted Cow from New Glarus, Happy Place from Third Space, and the IPA from MKE Brewing.

The score would be better if not for the fact that this is still squarely a MillerCoors park. See the name. That might change once the park shifts its namesake to American Family Insurance in 2021, but for now, it’s mostly about the Local Brews bar, the bar behind home plate and the (great local) standard cans sprinkled throughout. The best news? Every year, they add new craft beers and the list gets longer.

11. Comerica Park, Detroit

Top beer: 9
Average beer: 7
Accessibility: 6

This was one of the toughest parks to rank. Michigan’s place in the craft scene is unassailable — it’s one of the best beer states in the union. And, at the top of the beer list, Comerica represents that tradition well. Bells is there, with the legendary Two-Hearted IPA, Oberon and, in season, Hopslam. So, when Hopslam is in the house, the top-end beer is probably a 10. Depending on a possible reaction to the brewery’s recent settlement, Founders will continue to be there too, with Canadian Breakfast Stout at times. A 10 on those days, too, probably. Even the smaller good stuff is there, like Atwater and even Old Nation, whose M-43 hazy IPA was a Beer of the Month on my podcast with Derek Van Riper last month.

That’s the good news. It’s great news. The bad news? It’s all available behind home plate, and mostly on the ground level: their version of the craft beer cave, the main bar, a small Atwater cart, and the bar attached to the stadium. On the top end, you’re banging with the best baseball bars in America. But if you’re in the bleachers by the third-base side, you’re walking for a while before you get your beer. Eh, maybe you don’t need to go to your seat this year much anyway.

12. Minute Maid Park, Houston

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 6

St. Arnold Brewing Company is awesome. Their Art Car IPA is a beautiful thing, and their dark beers are really well done. There’s a massive St. Arnold stand that’s almost like a microbrewery inside Minute Maid, so there’s your destination. You’ll also find some Eureka Heights and 8th Wonder beers at the Karbach bar upstairs. Those are your top beers in the park.

Karbach has also brewed an Astros-specific beer called Crawford Bock that you can find everywhere inside, so the average beer is pretty good. This is not a pervasive craft beer situation, though. There’s no Spindletap or Brash. There are a lot of really good Houston breweries that don’t have any footprint inside. The range is not wide, and the average stand isn’t deep in craft taps.

13. Oakland Coliseum

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 5

At the very top of the park, along the third-base line, there’s a cool bar called the Tree House. There are games such as ping-pong, some sort of rotating food cart, a bar with some solid taps — think Firestone Walker and Drake’s Brewing — and then, around the corner, a cooler. In that cooler, there are hazy IPAs and crisp Pilsners from Temescal Brewing, and some harder-to-find experimental beer by Drake’s at reasonable prices. That’s a good top-end option! You can get something from Almanac or a Drake’s 1500 at Shibe Park Tavern above home plate on the upper level, and those are strong local efforts.

But walk around the park, and you’re mostly seeing Sierra Nevada (Hazy Little Thing though), Firestone Walker (Easy Jack, Luponic Distortion and 805), Kona and St. Archer. It’s above average, and you don’t have to travel too far, but it’s a little bit like going to Oracle Park in San Francisco without the Public House and without the multiple top-end can stands. This is what an average craft beer ballpark should look like today, probably.

14. Citi Field, New York

Top beer: 8
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 5

There isn’t an obvious enough plan here (no, this is not about the Mets). Yes, you can pregame at Mikkeller — a creative brewery that opened up shop outside the park but doesn’t allow ins and outs with their beers — and you can find a couple of Mikkeller beers around the park. There’s a Mikkeller ballpark-only beer dedicated to the 7 Line Army called United We Cheer. You can also find some really cool offerings from LIC Beer Project, Interboro and Brooklyn Brewery. There’s some Six Point! 5 Boroughs, Montauk, Fifth Hammer … some great beer!

Where is it? There’s a stand behind Section 133, something in 304, maybe 416, the Foxwood’s Club. “It’s very random with like no rhyme or reason,” summed up former BeerGraphs writer Michael Donato. And that, by definition, makes it hard to find. If you define your ballpark by the best beer you can find, push Citi up to just outside the top 10. But accessibility counts, too.

15. Truist Park, Atlanta

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 6

If you like Terrapin’s beer, you’re set. There’s a big Terrapin Tap Room in the right-field corner, and then there’s also the ATL Brew Lab, a small (Terrapin) microbrewery attached to the park. That lab has released some fun beers unique to the ballpark — Baseball Saison, 3 Up 3 Down American IPA and Batter Up Dunkelweiss in the past, as well as a blueberry Berliner Weisse called Frenchy’s Blues — and also has some cans to go in the cooler.

Once you get inside, it’s a lot more Terrapin, which is fine. But if you want a taste of the newer things going on in Atlanta, you have to go to the Chophouse. There, you can get some Sweetwater or Monday Night or Red Hare or Jekyll. And maybe you can go to the club level for some cans of those, but otherwise, it’s a ton of Terrapin! Which is fine.

16. Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 6

If you want local craft beer, then the District Draft stands at Nationals Park are for you. They’ve got DC Brau, Atlas, Old Ox and Port City taps, with some Right Proper and 3 Stars on the club level. Though some of DC Brau’s IPAs are of the older-school, malty variety, there are some good beers to be had around this park.

There was a refrain though. Despite five District Draft spots, the most common comment we heard was “not enough District Drafts,” which could mean some combination of not enough stands, not enough taps and not enough variety depending on the source. You can get something you like, but you’ll probably have to walk to one of the four corners of the park to find it. Which might be fine if you include a run to Shake Shack or one of the other top-shelf food options available at the park. But the food is probably ahead of the beer.

17. Busch Stadium, St. Louis

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 5

Five years ago, Busch was a craft beer wasteland, and maybe the reason is fairly obvious. The pressure from a large conglomerate that is the league’s official beer sponsor and also has its name on the stadium and also rose to prominence in that city must be enormous, even if it’s not the official party line.

But recently they’ve added some of the good local craft beer that St. Louis provides as well: 2nd Shift, 4 Hands (including their dedicated St. Louis pale ale called City Wide), Schlafly and Urban Chestnut are now available in four or so “markets” with beer coolers, and stands in a couple of sections with 8-10 drafts, including larger national craft beer purveyors. You have to hoof it to get the good stuff, as one fan put it.

18. Camden Yards, Baltimore

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 6
Accessibility: 5

The Yards once had the reputation of having a ton of Natty Boh — their “local” low-taste lager — and not much else, but that has slowly changed over the years. A couple of years ago, the team added a craft can shop on Eutaw Street, and then two sizable craft beer stands in the lower concourse. You can find some Union (Duckpin is great), Heavy Seas, Jailbreak, Brewer’s Art, Manor Hill, Flying Dog, Key Brewing and Monument City at those three locations at least. They have Orioles-inspired beers — Union Steady Eddie Wheat IPA and Flying Dog Bleacher Beer — so that’s fun.

But the locations are limited (especially for taps), and if you don’t want to go that far from your seat, you might just end up having a Guinness (blonde, even if you’re not ready for a stout) and sitting back down. It’s a beautiful park, so you might forget about beer for a bit.

19. PNC Park, Pittsburgh

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 5

At PNC Park, the focus seems to be on the regional breweries like Southern Tier, Troegs and Victory.The only semi-local breweries our respondents had seen at the stadium were Blockhouse, East End and Penn Brewing. East End’s Big Hop and Penn Pilsner are the local craft beers you can most easily find, but you can get some Dogfish Head, Brooklyn and even Cigar City in cans and bottles around the park. “Everyone should find at least one beer they like,” former BeerGraphs writer Ethan Obstarczyk says.

The bar behind home plate on the 300 level is good, and the concourse near Section 130 has food spots that have Penn and Dogfish Head on tap. You’ll find some cans if you follow the concourse around. While there’s some good selection, it’s not always easy to find something that’s, you know, actually from Pittsburgh.

20. Citizen’s Bank Park, Philadelphia

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 5

The local craft beer heavy lifting is done by three very solid breweries in Victory, Troegs and Yards, and you can’t go wrong with having a Troegs Perpetual IPA on a sunny day at the ballpark. There’s also a CBP-only beer from Goose Island. The park hits some notes, and was actually one of the early adopters when it came to craft beer.

But it feels like it has fallen behind a little. There’s not much variety beyond the big three, and those three have been in the park forever. Craft beer lovers dig shiny new beer, and CBP hasn’t scratched that itch in a while. You might be able to find something we haven’t listed at the Backyard Bar in the outfield, but that’s really the only location that changes it up some.

21. Angel Stadium, Anaheim

Top beer: 6
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 5

Los Angeles has some really great beer: Highland Park Brewery, El Segundo Brewing, Eagle Rock Brewery, and Mumford Brewing all make beer worthy of any craft hot spot in America. None of them is represented in Angel Stadium. Well, OK, naming conventions aside, the Angels really play in Orange County. No worries there: Monkish, Brouwerij West, Noble Ale Works, Bottle Logic and Beachwood are all close to Anaheim. Noble is right across from the park! It looks like they have one beer inside, and you can even get their Nose Candy delivered to your seat in the club level! Some good news!

Otherwise, you’re drinking San Diego Big Craft in this stadium: Ballast Point, Saint Archer, Stone, some Modern Times. And though you can get that stuff anywhere in that stadium, and getting Modern Times’ Fortunate Island for $14 a can is OK for a ballpark, there’s no relationship between the stadium and the land around it. Which makes sense, maybe, since the team can’t even decide where it’s from.

22. Coors Field, Denver

Top beer: 5
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 6

At Coors, there’s OK beer everywhere. Fat Tire, Colorado Native, Breckenridge, Upslope and Oskar Blues are there, and that provides a high replacement level. There’s a history of beer here, too. There’s SandLot Brewery, the actual birthplace of Blue Moon. And all the MillerCoors craft you could want, with Hop Valley leading the way.

There wasn’t a consensus among those consulted for these rankings — beer writer Timothy Malcolm, who is working on a ballpark beer project himself, thought this ranking was too low. Because getting a Dale’s Pale Ale from Oskar Blues at the game is decent, and because there are Colorado beers here, and it’s not too hard to find them around the park, and they aren’t even that expensive. But for me, the problem is the stark contrast between what’s available at the park and what’s available across the street (literally) at Falling Rock Tap House. Go to that bar and you see how awesome Colorado beer is. Go to the park, and it looks … you know, fine.

23. Wrigley Field, Chicago

Top beer: 7
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 4

Just get an Old Style, really. Sure, they added Bell’s Oberon in the bleachers, and some Revolution Brewing here and there, and it’s super sweet if you can find the 3 Floyds Zombie Dust (Section 132 most likely). The list supposedly says there’s Half Acre in there; I think I’ve seen it once, tucked away. All of the locations are on the first level, and most are by Gate D, or at least the locations you can get to without a special ticket.

They’re trying to improve the offerings, but there are some limitations due to the age and dimensions of the park, so if you’re looking for a local craft beer in Wrigley, you’re going to be looking for a while.

24. Chase Field, Phoenix

Top beer: 5
Average beer: 5
Accessibility: 3

If you visited only the stadium, you might come away with the erroneous impression that the beer scene in Phoenix is not up to snuff with the rest of the country. SanTan has some stuff there, a decent Devil’s Ale, their Moon Juice IPA. Recently acquired Four Peaks is there (get the Brut IPA). You can find 20 or so craft options (no surprises) in the upper level in right field at a place called the Draft Room. But if you’re not sitting there, you have to take an elevator on the right-field concourse to access it. Quite the trek, and the view ain’t great once you get there. They can do better — Arizona Wilderness, 12 West, Wren House and others make excellent beer just a few miles away.

25. Fenway Park, Boston

Top beer: 6
Average beer: 4
Accessibility: 3

There’s Lord Hobo in the park, and I’m not talking about the term I use when I’m defending my work-at-home look to my wife. There’s a Wachusett Blueberry wheat ale, some Harpoon, of course, and Narragansett around. Oh, but those are the hardest to find! You can get some Wachusett Green Monstah if you’re sitting on the monster, and sometimes in other seats. Boston has an awesome beer scene — Jack’s Abby, Lamplighter, Night Shift, Trillium — it deserves better representation than this.

26. Marlins Park, Miami

Top beer: 4
Average beer: 4
Accessibility: 4

There is a park-only beer. They have some Veza Sur. There’s a Sola IPA from Concrete Beach — one of a handful of great breweries in Wynwood Walls, a neighborhood just a couple of miles from the stadium. You just have to go to The Clevelander bar out past the left-field bleachers to get it. If I was sitting on the opposite side of the park, I’d probably just pop in for an Estrella Jalisco and go to the Walls later.

There is an asterisk here, though — in their fan fest this spring, the stadium announced a Biscayne Bay Brewing Beer Hall behind home plate. That would help the ranking, but without a distribution strategy around the park and a little more innovation, it would only bring them into the back end of the middle of our rankings.

27. Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles

Top beer: 5
Average beer: 4
Accessibility: 3

The beer you get will be large. If you get the macro, it’ll be relatively cheap. If you get the craft beer, from one of the two stands on the club level, it’ll be super expensive, but still large. It’ll mostly be Golden Road. It’ll mostly ignore a solidifying Los Angeles beer scene that ranges from Highland Park to Eagle Rock to El Segundo to Beachwood. Go get the big macro, probably, or the frozen Kirin. It’s half as expensive and just as cold and it will save you a long walk.

28. Yankee Stadium, New York

Top beer: 4
Average beer: 4
Accessibility: 2

You’ll find some Bronx Brewing beer. And Blue Point — their toasted lager is around — is local. And that’s it. It’s not particularly easy to find, and it ignores all the beautiful beer being made in New York City. It’s as if someone who knows nothing about local craft beer picked a brewery that was named after the borough the Yankees find themselves in, added another craft brewery that was owned by the conglomerate providing the rest of the beer in the stadium, wiped their hands and congratulated themselves on a job well done. Or, and maybe this is more likely, nobody there cares. Which is weird, because craft beer lovers drop serious coin on craft beer.

29. Rogers Centre, Toronto

Top beer: 3
Average beer: 3
Accessibility: 3

I could list the beers, but I’m not trying to shame anyone. Let’s just say there’s not really any local craft beer in this park. It’s sad, too, because they’re leaving money on the table in Toronto, as they are in New York. Toronto has Bellwood’s, Left Field, nearby Collective Arts — there’s a great beer scene in Ontario. There are people who will spend more on craft beer. There are people who will walk down the concourse to get to craft beer. There are people who will come to a craft beer night at the park. I promise. They read this post, they represent a thirsty coalition, and they are being let down.

N/A. Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas

Top beer: Incomplete
Average beer: Incomplete
Accessibility: Incomplete

Let’s hope they do something fun in Arlington. We’ll see you on here next year.

Thanks to, among others: Timothy Malcolm, Jeremy Danner, Scott Armstrong, John Hedegard, Bradley Paterik, Shadi Abudayyeh, Thomas Yiengst, Josh Nelson, Tim Furlong, Sam Kardatzke, Andrew Newsbit, Damian Peyton, Alex Hooper, Aaron Titiner, Kyle Brager, Travis Knops, Michael Bertels, Steve Maurer, Tyler Young, Kyle Bederman, Ulises Sambrano, Sean Roberts, Casey Unrath, Sean Blott, Jacob Perrin, Austin Jones, Richard Justice, Curtis Cardonzo, Mike Winstanley, Dylan White, Michael Donato, Chris Vaerakis, Joe Yakacki, Robbie Grubbs, Jeff Thoensen, Charlie Fiegel, Stefin Clapham, Michael Lyons, Jed Marshall, Andrew Stallman, Rob Gindes, Ryan Wagner, Michael McGrath, Ethan Obstarczyk, Sunil Doshi, Joe Melchionna, Richard Canada, Jon Torrence, Christopher Waco, Evan Altman, Josh Noel, Tyler Stapp, Ryan Ellenwood, Andrew Salzman, Rob Winter, Sam Dessania, Mario Hernandez, Brett Moore, Jim Urbancik, Alex Laird, Tim Swatek, Mark Murphy, Sean DeCory, Gabriel Lerman, Jarrod Smith, Mike Priest, Ben Clemens, Ryan Garofalo, Michael Konstantinedes, Cody Stahl, Tara Rasmussen.

(Top photo: Joe Robbins / Getty Images)