Top 20 Breweries in your state

oh I would agree if I have to pick 1 CCB wins every time, every their bad beers are not that bad, well not all of them... but I have no attachment to any of them, make good beer and i will drink it.

 

I feel bad for the states who can't play this game.

 

I don't... they should fix it

 

Here goes

1. Revolution
2. Half Acre
3. Goose Island
4.Two Brothers
5. Destihl
6. Pipeworks
7. Dry Hop
8. Solemn Oath
9. Piece
10. Brickstone
11. Lucky Monk
12. 5 Rabbit
13. Metropolitan

Soon to be Lagunitas

Best I can come up with

 

I don't even know if MD has 20 breweries. Heavy Seas, Flying Dog, Evo, DuClaw, Union, Baltimore Beer Works, Brewers Art, Stillwater, Burley Oak.... Full Tilt? Baying Hound? We have a lot of really small breweries that have little to no distro yet, or haven't even begun to bottle/can.

 

WI in order, just my opinion.

1. New Glarus
2. Central Waters
3. Ale Asylum
4. Lakefront
5. Lucette(have not had much but there APA alone puts them here in my book)
6. Tyranena
7. Rush River
8. Lake Louie (do not care for much, but there scotch ales are among the best in the world)
9. Angry Minnow Brewpub (in Hayward WI. Small, amazing DIPA, had it 6 times on my last vacation... River Pig Pale is nice as well and canned and distributed locally.)
10. Point
11. Capital
12. 3sheeps, good IPA, was a go to when it was first distributed round these parts. No Dating and I bought a old 6 without knowing so they are out of the rotation for now....
13. O'so
14. Sand Creek
15. Pearl Street (hometown brewery, not great but nice brown and a decend DIPA if you have it fresh, which in bottles is as close to impossible as it comes.
16. Furthermore
17. Great Dane
18. Hinterland (love there Saison, do not care for much else)
19. Sprecher
20. Potosi (do not care for there beer, But they are an all for charity micro! So they get the nod for that fact alone!)


I only did ones I have had several beers from. So while Karben4 is beloved by you Madison folks, I will not know untill they start bottling! Cheers gang!

 

No Anchor or Pyramid? Not sure who you replace but it's a pretty tough list to get on. How many states would have Anchor in their top 5?

 

I'll throw my hoodie into the ring.
1. Cigar City
2. The Funky Buddha
3. 7venth Sun
4. Pegs/Cycle
5. Rapp
6. Angry Chair
7. J. Wakefield
8. Tequesta
9. Saint Somewhere
10. Intuition
11. Mile Marker
12. Pinglehead
13. Due South
14. Barley Mow
15. Green Room
16. Aardwolf
17. Pensacola Bay
18. Big Storm
19. Dunedin
20. Bold City

 

You could throw flossmoor station, finch's, and wild onion in there.

 

I do give props to Anchor steam, but nothing else from them impressed me much.. I would consider Drakes, Marin, and Cismontane over Anchor (note: never tried an aged xmas ale, which I've heard good things about).

I only tried one beer from Pyramid... not stoked to try any others.

 

Scotland, in no order

Williams Bros
Black Isle
Cromarty
Tempest
Fyne Ales
Stewart
orkney
Highland
WEST
Loch Lomond
Luckie
Tryst
Harviestoun
Inveralmond
Traquair
Cairngorm
Alchemy
St Andrews
Houston - only because I like the pub, the beer is distinctly average

 

I'll play...alphabetically. Haven't had every single NC brewery, but have had the vast majority.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing
Big Boss
Duck-Rabbit
Foothills
French Broad
Fullsteam
Green Man
Highland
Lonerider
Mother Earth
NoDa
Olde Hickory
Olde Mecklenburg
Oskar Blues
Outer Banks
Pisgah
Southern Appalachian
Triangle
Trophy
Wicked Weed

If I had to pick a top 3, I'd say Trophy, Foothills, Wicked Weed.

 

Belgium – the order is an aproximation:

Top 4: 3 Fonteinen + Cantillon + Struise + Orval
5. Hanssens Artisanaal
6. De Dolle Brouwers
7. De La Senne
8. Dochter van De Korenaar
9. Geuzestekerij De Cam
10. De Ranke
11. De Proefbrouwerij (keeping in mind the “foreign” stuff they make but hard to rate)
12. Rochefort
13. Brasserie Dupont
14. Brouwerij The Musketeers
15. Brasserie de Blaugies
16. Kleinbrouwerij De Glazen Toren
17. Brouwers Verzet
18. Rodenbach
19. Alvinne
20. Fantome (getting worse recently)

 

1. Dylon
2. Dylon
3. Three Floyds (for everything but sours)
4. Dylon
5. Upland (only because of sours)
6. Three Floyds
7. Muskabeetz
8. Sun King
9. Dylon
10. Dylon
11. Brugge
12. Dylon
13. Dylon
14. Dylon
15. Dylon
16. Bier/Triton/Flat12/BBC/BRB/

 

For NJ I would go:

Kane
Kane
Kane
Carton
Kane
Kane
Rammstein
Kane
Flying Fish
Kane
River Horse
Kane
Kane
Bolero Snort
Kane
Kane
Cape May
Climax
Kane
Cricket Hill

 

I should have mentioned that I had no particular order...but I had been drinking. Thanks for finishing it out.

 

Forget rankings, these are just the ones I know exist:

Coastal Extreme (Newport Storm)
Grey Sail
Foolproof
Bucket
Just Beer
Trinity Brewhouse
Union Station
Narragansett (moved out of state in '81, but trying to build new brewery in Providence I think)

 

Considering Yorkshire to be the equivalent of a state (or maybe even better!), I don't know about 20 but we've got some pretty good ones:

Timothy Taylor's
Theakstons
Ilkley
Leeds
Black Sheep
Elland
Kelham Island
Samuel Smith's

 

So, does J Wakefield actually have a brewery now? Or is that still everybodys favorite brewery that doesn't actually exist?

Don't forget Swamphead, I'd put them pretty far up on that list.

 

Have only had beers from 21 of the states breweries, so this list would be better if I got out and drank more

1. Troegs
2. Selin's Grove
3. Victory
4. Iron Hill
5. Weyerbacher
6. Turkey Hill
7. Stoudts
8. Appalachian BC
9. Yards
10. Allentown/Bethlehem brewworks/Fegley

After that, no particular order

Earth Bread
Erie
Full Pint
Kutztown Tavern
Lancaster
Lion
Roy Pitz
Sly Fox
Spring House
Swashbuckler
Yuengling

Commiserations to those states without 20 breweries