Head To The Berkshires For The State's Best Beer Bar

LEE, MA — The Berkshires watering hole Moe's Tavern was recently ranked as the best bar in Massachusetts, and one of the best pubs in the entire country for grabbing a beer.

CraftBeer.com, a website published by the Brewers Association, revealed its annual list of the Great American Beer Bars winners across all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

Here’s what they said about Moe's:

Moe’s Tavern has 17 rotating taps dedicated to delicious craft beers. The New York Times described this Massachusetts bar as having “quietly built a near-cultish following among both craft beer and American whiskey lovers across the Northeast.” It’s a place where locals and tourists mingle; all are welcome at Moe’s.

Among those 17 taps are some beers you'll find on this side of Worcester. Framingham's Springdale and Jack's Abby and Woburn's Lord Hobo are both on tap there right now. Moe's is also a whiskey bar, featuring distillers from as far away as Utah and Louisiana.

According to the beer-based website, readers were asked to nominate their favorite bar in the state, and nominations were tallied by editors on a state-by-state basis to create the rankings.

“An impressive craft beer menu, a stellar atmosphere, and servers who their stuff are all the making of a great beer bar,” authors of the Great American Beer Bars list wrote. “With more than 8,000 small and independent breweries in the United States, great beer bars play an important role in the growth of local breweries.”

To read through all the bars included on the list, visit CraftBeer.com.