Belgian beerThat title is like sweet music to our ears and soon to be sweet beer to our lips. After researching with those who have tested, tasted, and gotten wasted we’ve come up with the best beer cities in the world.

10. Mexico City: Corona, oh how we heart you! The most perfect summertime beer known to man is produced in Mexico City. Not into a lime wedge in your drink? No problem. The locale is also noted for their smooth, dark Negra Modelo lager, Dos XX golden lager, and Bohemia pilsner lager. Una cerveza por favor indeed!

9. Portland: Home to the some of the oldest breweries in the U.S., Portland takes the cake for having the most breweries in a U.S. city. All 28 of them ensure that there is plenty of beer to go around.

8. Sapporo: Japan? Beer? What the… Yes it’s true. Sapporo loves beer so much that they even have vending machines that line the streets chock full of the stuff. There is also a beer garden next to the Sapporo beer museum where a daily barbeque ensues. Man, who knew the Japanese were such party animals!

7. Montreal: The Canadian’s are known for two things – hockey and beer. Quebec is home to Labatt and Molson while Montreal is home to many renowned brewpubs like Le Cheval Blanc. The Canadian’s have gotten a little tricky and differentiate their beer by color rather than classification. Ie: “I’ll take a blonde,” instead of saying “I’ll take a lager.”

6. Brugge: Belgium is known for many of the finer things in life like lace, Godiva chocolates, and – beer. Brugge offers hundreds of varieties of brusky, more than 500 to be exact. Plus it’s chock full of drinking history with the well preserved 1515 Café Vlissinghe and the 1455 De Gouden Boom Brewery that has been getting the fine people of Brugge sloshed for centuries.

5. Prague: If beer had its own Miss Beer of the Universe pageant, Prague’s would win every time. The brews are just tip top quality yet surprisingly as easy on the wallet as they are on the eyes. U Fleku, the world’s oldest brewpub, is also located here and the Pilsner factory is only an hour away.

4. Burlington: Just north of Boston and south of Montreal (two other big time beer drinking cities) Burlington gets the best of both brewing worlds. Plus it’s a collegiate town with a four block pedestrian zone that just begs for stumbling feet. Not to mention beer keeps a belly warm while skiing in the blustery Vermont winter.

3. Dublin: When Irish eyes are smiling… that probably means their good and drunk at a pub in Dublin. It’s also home to Guinness and you can find a pub crawl to join any day of the week. Need we say more?

2. Amsterdam: Did you think that a magic mushroom was all Amsterdam was good for? Think again! The Dutch also brewed up some of our favorites like Heineken, Grolsch, and Amstel. Wanna get to a local spot away from tourists? Ask to be pointed in the direction of the nearest pils.

1. Wait for it…wait for it…. Berlin: Surprised you, didn’t we? This city gets all the props with its version of the famous Munich Oktoberfest, hosted in a 1.2 mile long beer garden. This festival is celebrated around the world by the young and old. Even when we were at the virginal Disneyworld in Orlando, Epcot’s Oktoberfest was going strong. A little weird but nonetheless a smack down win for Berlin.

Check out these hotels next time you’re in Europe. They’re right where all the beer drinkin’ action is.

Berlin: Amstel House

Amsterdam: Xavier’s Happy House

Dublin: Temple Bar Hotel