Top 20 Breweries in your state

Every summer I come out there to go to breweries for a few days if I can. Odell might just be my favorite brewery ever. So bummed they don't distribute to the east coast.

 

My list for the Sunshine State: Florida

1. Cigar City Brewing
2. J Wakefield Brewing
3. 7venth Sun Brewery
4. Rapp Brewing
5. Saint Somewhere Brewing
6. Funky Buddha Brewery
7. Proof Brewing
8. Intuition Brewing
9. Green Room Brewing
10. Pensacola Bay Brewery
11. The Hourglass Brewery
12. Green Bench Brewing
12. Due South Brewing
13. Dunedin Brewery
14. Swamp Head Brewery

The rest aren't worth mentioning IMHO, or I haven't tried any of their offerings.

 

1.) 3 Floyds (although they're due for a drop with how hard it is to get their beers anymore)
2.) Brugge Brasserie (great sours. they used boysenberries, guava nectar, blackberries...love what Tim Miller is doing)
3.) Broad Ripple Brewpub (they brew my favorite beer in the state: ESB on cask. unbelievable)
4.) Triton (love their rye pale ale and the new Headsplitter double ipa is incredible)
5.) Flat 12 (when they're on they're great. but man they can make some shitty brews (cucumber kolsch))
6.) Bier Brewery (tremendous beers with a bottling line coming soon)
7.) Lafayette Brewing (they make some really good low abv brews)
8.) Sun King (marketing *****s. but their ipas are getting better. and they just did a really good Flanders Oud Bruin. fuck their prices on special releases)
9.) Cutters (i dig the shit out of their scotch ale. i'll never buy their imperial stout at the current $21.99 price tag)
10.) Rock Bottom: College Park (Liz is a helluva brewer. her own recipes and not the bland RB recipes are really well done)
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There are other breweries that I enjoy but they slip my mind at the moment. I wanted to save this spot down here for Upland. They have to be the most overrated brewery whose beers i've had the misfortune of drinking. It's a shame because they have some really good food but I'd rather sip on water than the crap they brew. I don't care how many overpriced sours they sell: their core lineup of beers is embarrassing. I went their last year and got a flight. Best beer was some beer made from a local homebrewer who won and had them brew his recipe. Not a knock on the homebrewer at all. Sucks he doesn't have a cutesy logo and all the licenses because he would wipe Upland out of Bloomington

 

20???? How about the top 5? That will probably let all of them feel the glory.

 

In the great state of Texas there are several but they end to congregate in Austin and Dallas. Here is the list:
1. Jester King: Keeping Austin weird since 2010
2. Independence: Stash IPA, Convict Hill Stout and Brewluminati - Know them, Love them
3. Karbach: Bourbon Barrel Aged Hell Raiser
4. Freetail Brewing: La Muerta, Ananke and Verano Sin Fin
5. Rogness: Gigantophis
6. Southern Star: Valkyrie and Buried Hatchet
7. Ranger Creek: Small batch Series
8. Deep Ellum: Deep Ellum IPA
9. (512): Double Pecan Porter
10. Black Star Co-op: Crazy good selection of Imperial Porters
11. Austin Beerworks
12. Namaste (Whip In)
13. Branchline
14. Real Ale
15. BS Brewing
16. No Label
17. Draught House
18. Hops and Grain
19. Circle
20. Saint Arnold's: This is the biggest craft brewer in Texas, but they underwhelm me

 

This thread made me look up and discover that CT has 29 breweries/brewpubs listed on BA. I've never heard of 9 of them.

 

California has it good!

Russian River
Alpine
Green Flash
Stone
Ballast Point
Society
Sierra Nevada
Alesmith
Karl Strauss
Lost Abbey/Port
Mother Earth
Coronado
Belching Beaver
Hess
Rip Current
Lightning
Aztec
Butcher
Left Coast
Anchor

 

That's why I actually like this thread. Instead of 'Naming the Top Five Breweries in Your State', which would be incredibly old hat and predictable, this thread is actually challenging and interesting.

 

Challenge accepted!

For OR, based on my experiences:
1. Breakside
2. Cascade
3. Burnside
4. The Commons
5. Boneyard
6. Deschutes
7. 10 Barrel
8. Fort George
9. Hopworks
10. Ninkasi
11. Lompoc
12. Upright
13. Block 15
14. Pelican
15. Hair of the Dog
16. Barley Brown's
17. Oakshire
18. Gigantic
19. Terminal Gravity
20. Rusty Truck
21. Double Mountain
22. Bend Brewing
23. Astoria
24. Rogue
25. Natian

Did an extra five for fun...

 

They actually opened in 2011.

 

I have heard mixed reviews but I have not tried their stuff yet. Looking forward to trying it though, def want to try but to go out to a restaurant to try it and travel to get there just hasnt happened. That is the only reason why I did not include them.

 

Maine

1) Allagash
2) Maine Beer Co
3) Oxbow
4) Marshall Wharf

Feel free to swap 2 and 3.

All the rest are swimming in a sea of mediocrity.

 

I was pretty impressed. My sis lives up around that way and I went there on my own 1 night and with her crew another. Great variety of styles, all well done. Food was solid too.

 

1. Founders
2 (or 1b.) Shorts
3. Bells
4. Jolly Pumpkin
5. Dark Horse
6. New Holland
7. Dragonmead
8. Kuhnhenn
9. Atwater Brewing
10. Right Brain
11. Oddside
12. Greenbush
13. North Peak
14. Arcadia
15. Saugatuck Brewing
16. Perrin (rising fast)
17. Liberty Street
18. Rochester Mills
19. Brewery Vivant
20. Wolverine State Brewing

Listing these makes me so thankful I live in such a great state for beer.

 

Maybe get Fitgers Brewhouse on this list? But then again, MN beer scene really amped up after I left the state several years ago, so and back then, I lived in n. MN; I haven't had many of the entries you listed so am in no position to quibble.

 

Maybe Mystic and Enlightenment.

 

Mystic's on the list, but you're right...should have gotten Enlightenment in there. I dig what they're doing. I knew I'd forget one or two good ones...

 

I'd like to think of Moylan's as a 21st to this list.

PS. Like the respect to TAPS, their Irish Red, Remy, and some others are quite good.

 

I thought Pyramid is in Washington. Anchor is good, but there is so much happening in CA that it begs the question, "what have you done for me lately?" This is the exact reason Almanac is blowing up right now & on evertbody's radar. No disrespect to Anchor, their porter is stellar.

 

Upland makes pretty mediocre beer. I hear they have excellent sours but at this point I'm debating whether they even exist at all. Agree with Daredevil being higher.