A beer lover could spend a year trying to visit all the breweries in the United States and still not even get halfway through.
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According to the fount of all that is true - Wikipedia - as of 2010 there were a whopping 1640 breweries in the US.
If you visited two a day, you'd need more than two years to get to them all. In brewery-visiting terms, that's a punishing schedule.
But on the upside it means there's an apparent never-ending source of new breweries to discover - whether you drive across the states or stay right here.
Because you can stay here and try some fine US beers, thanks to a favourable exchange rate. An example are the beers from Pennsylvania's Victory Brewing Company, which come to us via Queensland importer Innspire.
I tried several Victory beers and found them all quite enjoyable (forget your Budweiser-born prejudices - Americans make some fine beers).
There's the Hop Wallop, which lives up to its name with a pungent resiny hop aroma and a strong hop flavour (but not so intense it isn't a pleasure to drink)
For winter there's the Storm King Imperial Stout which weighs in with a big 9.1 per cent alcohol. But you'd have to read the label to discover that because the brewers have hidden that high alcohol content behind some very pleasing coffee and chocolate aromas and flavours.
The most impressive was the Prima Pils, an intensely more-ish beer thanks to strong hops providing citrus flavours.
