Best beer bar in the world, three years running

Ebenezer’s Pub, located in the tiny town of Lovell, Maine (population: 974), is the best beer bar in the world.

But don’t take my word for it (I’ve never been there — except in my dreams). Try reading some of the reviews on their website:

Sometimes, an experience is so rewarding, so beyond your expectations, that it’s almost divine. My visit to Ebenezer’s Pub in Lovell, Maine, was one of those experiences.

That’s from United Nations of Beer. There are similar superlatives from RateBeer.com, and from Beer Advocate magazine (which named them best beer bar in the world for the last three years), among others.

With 35 Belgian beers on tap and 700 rare bottles stashed away as part of the bar’s half-million-dollar inventory, the former “redneck bar” has turned into a beer mecca.

I just finished reading about it on Boston.com, which gives you a great introduction into the pub and its proprietors. That includes the fact that, some days, you can sit in the bar and have it almost to yourself. But in the summer, during their August beer festival, “visitors camp out in tents on the adjacent golf course – despite the $250 per person prix fixe menu.”

Wow.

Time for a trip to Maine?