5 Best/Favorite Breweries

My favorite breweries all share the fact that they're inexpensive, easy to get, consistent and delicious. You can't be my favorite brewery if I can only buy you a couple times per year due to availability and/or cost.

Lagunitas
Stone
New Belgium
Victory
Sam Adams

 

Shorts Brewing Company
Dark Horse
Founders
Bells
Odd Side Ales

 

No order...

Pipeworks
Three Floyds
Revolution
Dc Brau
Lagunitas

 

Firestone Walker
Russian River
Deschutes
Goose Island
Lagunitas

 

hmmm, tough one, but, in no particular order:

-dogfish head
-lagunitas
-oskar blues
-flying dog
-stone

i love firestone walker, but have only had double jack and wookey jack. i have a velvet merlin in the fridge to try soon. i really have enjoyed what i have tried, and certainly hope to try more! just not enough experience yet to really judge.

 

In No Particular Order:
Deschutes
Stone
Odell
Great Divide


My fifth is really a toss up between New Belgium, Flying Dog, Dog Fish Head and Lagunitas

 

Sierra Nevada
Brooklyn
Anchor
Great Lakes
Trap Rock (local brew pub)

 

That's a solid foundation to build on! Welcome to the party, Admiral.

 

Sixpoint
Unibroue
Founders
Sierra Nevada
Clown shoes.

 

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Russian River
3. New Glarus
4. Alpine
5a. Prairie
5b. Jack's Abbey

 

1. Stone
2. The Bruery
3. Port Brewing
4. Alesmith
5. Green Flash

 

Bell's
Columbus
Founders
Sierra Nevada
Great Lakes

 

1. Toppling goliath
2. Hill Farmstead
3. New Glarus
4. Three floyds
5. Alpine

 

Disclaimer- my answers will probably not match the last time I did this, so blame my faulty memory and ever-changing moods if they don't:

Heller-Trum- brewers of the exceedingly perfect line of Schlenkerla beers.
Weihenstephaner- I probably had Ayinger last time, but Weihenstephaner's O'fest puts it over the edge.
Victory- very solid examples in numerous styles, very fairly priced to boot. And Dirtwolf.
Sierra Nevada- always been there, always will- plus I really dig Narwhal.
Southern Tier- makers of my favorite seasonals, plus great surprises like Grand Arbor.

 

Thank you kindly.

 

No order:
Founders
Great Lakes
Cigar City
Bell's
(tie) Anderson Valley and Deschutes

 

No problem. Enjoy the ride.

Not to throw too much too soon at you- but if you start branching into the Goose Island Belgian-style beers like Sofie or Matilda, it's best to get them with about 9 months or more on them. They are innoculated with brettanomyces, which takes a while to work its funky magic.

Other than that, you have some solid line-ups to continue to explore. Cheers!

 

man... this used to be easier....no order
Bells (Michigan)
Central Waters (Wisconsin)
Toppling Goliath (Iowa)
Stone (California)
Indeed (Minnesota)
followed closely by....
New Glarus (Wisconsin)
Odell (Colorado)
Great Lakes (Ohio).....
too much good beer!!!!

 

1. New England Brewing Co
2.Jacks Abby
3.Sixpoint
4.Firestone Walker
5. Sierra Nevada

 

No order here

1. Deschutes
2. Sound Brewing
3. Black Raven Brewing
4. Unibroue
5. Dogfish Head