Beers from just 10 breweries - which do you choose?

Surly
CCB
RR
3F
Cantillon
Goose Island
Big Sky
Bruery
Toggling Goliath
Sierra Nevada

 

Dogfish Head
Founders
Stone
Oskar Blues
Avery
Lagunitas
Firestone Walker
Russian River
Three Floyds
Great Divide

 

Cantillon
Crooked Stave
The Bruery
Russian River
Hill Farmstead
Allagash
Cascade
Funky Buddha
Jolly Pumpkin
Firestone Walker

 

Surly
Mikkeller
Founders
Jolly Pumpkin
Toppling Goliath
Goose Island
Half Acre
FFF
21st Amendment
Lagunitas

 

In no order...

1. Stone
2. Dogfish Head
3. West Sixth
4. Sierra Nevada
5. Bell's
6. Great Lakes
7. Goose Island
8. Unibroe
9. Oskar Blues
10. Warsteiner (seriously, could drink Premium Verum all day every day)

 

Goose Island
Bells
Toppling Goliath
Surly
Founders
Central Waters
Actually 6 is plenty for me. I am not greedy.

 

1. New Glarus
2. Surly
3. Central Waters
4. Sierra Nevada
5. Stone
6. Lagunitas
7. Cigar City
8. Revolution
9. Bent Paddle (Local brewery that opened up about a month ago. Fantastic stuff)
10. Pabst ( I need my PBR from time to time)

 

The top 5 mentioned on my profile, and the following honorable mention:

DFH
Stone
Rogue
Ommegang
Sierra Nevada

Tough time leaving off Rising Tide and Great Lakes, sigh....

But I've never had anything by HF, Surly, Central Waters, Toppling Goliath, Lawson's or Cantillon, so I can't give 'em any love yet.

 

No order...

1. Surly
2. Russian River
3. Weihenstephaner
4. Hill Farmstead
5. Toppling Goliath
6. Founders
7. FFF
8. Prairie Artisan
9. Great Lakes
10. La Cumbre

 

Stone
DFH
Ommegang
Jolly Pumpkin
Captain Lawrence
Troegs
Lagunitas
Sierra Nevada
Unibroue
Southern Tier

 

Surly
Bells
Stone
Sierra Nevada
Lagunitas
Tallgrass
Toppling Goliath
Central Waters
New Glarus
Steel Toe

Of course, no particular order.

 

In no particular order...

Funky Buddha
Stone
Southern Tier
Dogfish Head
Ommegang
St. Bernardus
Cigar City
Russian River
New Glarus
Victory

 

Wow, how to sum it all up in just 10. Let's see if I can. In no order at all.

1. Unibroue
2. Cigar City
3. Founders
4. Avery
5. Three Floyds
6. Verhaege and every other Belgian brewery
7. Southern Tier
8. Dogfish Head
9. Funky Buddha
10. Kostritzer, Great Lakes, Left Hand, Bell's, Stone, Goose Island, Brooklyn, St. Somewhere & about 47 others plus all those I haven't had yet.

 

Toppling Goliath
Founders
Three Floyd's
Ballast point
Alpine
Russian river
Cantillon
Goose island (just for BCBS and variants)
Odells
Firestone walker

 

1. Bell's
2. Founder's
3. Oskar Blue's
4. Dogfish Head
5. Short's
6. New Glarus
7. Samuel Smith
8. Goose Island
9. Frankenmuth Brewery (because it's near by)

 

Surly
Hill Farmstead
Goose Island
Alchemist
Cigar City
Russian River
Lost Abbey
Founders
New Glarus
Toppling Goliath

 

Dogfish Head
Goose Island
Firestone Walker
Lagunitas
Russian River
Cantillon
Victory
Sierra Nevada
Founders
Ballast Point

 

For my first post(as a long time lurker)...while I'm drinking a Pliny the Elder after a trip to Colorado I have to start with

Russian River (Everything)
Stone (Everything)
Firestone Walker (Any Jack)
Victory (Prima Pils and Tripel)
Odell (IPA, St. Lupulin)
St. Arnold's (from Texas and love Endeavor IPA)
North Coast (Old Rasputin)
Oskar Blues (Everything)
Founder's (just started distributing to TX so have only had a couple so far...Centennial IPA is really good)
Lagunitas(Lil Sumpin Sumpin & Hop Stoopid)

 

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Founders
3. Toppling Goliath
4. The Bruery
5. Surly
6. Goose Island
7. Bells
8. Firestone Walker
9. Fitger's Brewhouse
10. Town Hall

 

Quick summary of the current count as of 12:30 AM EDT (last included agman05). I threw the rankings into a spreadsheet and tabulated the count. Note that some people did not exactly "play by the rules" and gave either more or fewer breweries. Some named specific beers rather than brewers--that's fine, as I knew which breweries were implied. Side note on Three Floyds: I was not sure how to interpret the notation 3F that appeared half a dozen times. Given that it could represent shorthand for one of three breweries (fff, Three Floyds and Drei Fonteinen), I was not sure hot to count them. Given, however, that the three breweries ended up in different clusters, I chose to interpret 3F to represent Drei Founteinen and FFF to be fff Brewery (UK). Three Floyds got none of those votes, so if it's not what you meant, my apologies. Even moving the 3F and FFF numbers to Three Floyds would not move it up to the next cluster. The numbers otherwise are as close as I could keep them, but might be off by one or two in either direction--this is essentially a computer-aided hand count.

Exactly 300 breweries got mentioned. Only two breweries have been mentioned, so far, more than 100 times: Founders (133) and Russian River (104). No other brewery came close!

Next cluster had between 78 and 81 mentions (in descending order):
Lagunitas Brewing Co.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (a.k.a. SN)
Stone Brewing Co.

The next cluster is from 71 to 67, followed by the cluster from 59 to 52:

Bell's Brewery (a.k.a. Bells, Bell, etc.)
Firestone Walker Brewing Co. (also listed as Firestone)
Goose Island Beer Co. (GI)

Brasserie Cantillon (mostly listed as Cantillon)
Three Floyds Brewing Co. (also 3Floyds, but not 3F or FFF)
Cigar City Brewing (CCB)
Hills Farmstead Brewery (HF)
Dogfish Head Brewery (DFH)

That is it. The rest of the breweries got mentioned fewer than 40 times. Those getting at least 15 mentions were:
Deschutes, Surly, New Glarus, Drei Fonteinen (including 3F), Ommegang, Victory, Great Lakes, The Bruery, Weihenstephaner, Great Divide, Alesmith, Troegs, Ballast Point, Southern Tier, Allagash, The Alchemist, Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Oskar Blues, Alpine, Toppling Goliath, Boulevard, Samuel Smith.

That's 36 top-mentioned breweries, in order. This is followed by about 120 that had more than one mention (with top three missing out being De Struisse, New Belgium and Odell), and another 150 or so that got only a single mention. If there's a call for the full spreadsheet (not exactly a work of science), I can post a Google Drive link. But I would just as well skip the complete list.