Some plan their travel around food. Museums. Nature.

But for a certain contingent with a taste for the better beverages in life, beer is the motivating factor.

Craft beer, to be exact.

Which is why wayward hopheads make pilgrimages to places like Greensboro Bend, Vermont, for a growler of Hill Farmstead, or Charlton, Massachusetts, for a can of Julius.

The worth of a legendary brew-centric trip, however, is measured in options: Access to loads of great breweries and phenomenal beer, all in one centralized place. Which is why we here at Wanderu decided to rank the very best craft-beer cities in the U.S., in a truly empirical analysis of the nation’s top hop hubs. (Do yourself a favor and cross-reference this list with our list of the Biggest Party Hubs if you really want to go ham.)

Employing a lock-tight Methodology, these rankings are based on cumulative data for each of the 100 most populous cities in the U.S., including:

“High-quality” is defined as places with 4 stars or more and at least 10 reviews on Yelp.

Well, don’t just sit there like a shelf turd — prep your palette for the full list: