There are different reasons why ranking is done and, I am going to have to say, Thrillest, has out done itself with their recent ranking adventure. Three of the Thrillest writers/contributors took on the pain-staking task (an immense amount of sarcasm goes into saying 'pain-staking task') of traveling around the United States and ranking each state based on their beer. I will note, that some states surprised me, and, well, some did not - some states just aren't meant to be cool. Find out what kind of state you live in. Are you within boring beer borders, or does your state carry some bodacious beer that put you amongst the top 5...?
http://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/every-state-in-the-usa-ranked-by-its-beer