COLUMBUS – Columbus is a city of beer-drinkers, of course, and it’s a good place to be one.
Columbus ranks as the No. 6 city in the nation for beer drinkers, according to the personal finance website smartasset.com.
Columbus is a newcomer to the top 10 cities on the list (above), partly because it added four new microbreweries since the 2015 list was compiled, bringing the total to 27.
Columbus also has cheap pints and lots of places to imbibe them.
There are 29 bars per 100,000 residents in Columbus and the average pint of domestic beer costs $3.
Cincinnati, at No. 4 is the only other Ohio city also in the list’s top 25 cities.
Asheville, the No. 1 city, has almost eight times as many microbreweries per resident as third-ranked Pittsburgh.
The website compiled the list using data on 300 of the largest U.S. cities from brewerydb.com, the U.S. Census Bureau and Yelp. The average price for a pint of domestic draught beer comes from Numbeo.com.