What are your most underrated breweries?

Not in my area, but Unibroue puts out some really good beers.
In my area, Brickstone has several good beers.

 

New Heights Brewing Company (Nashville, TN) - This brewery makes consistently great quality beer, not just trendy beers. Their Navel Gazer Imperial Stout series beers are my personal favorites, as of this writing.

Black Abbey Brewing Company (Nashville, TN) - Very good lineup of Belgian style beers.

Mantra Artisan Ales (Franklin, TN) - A fearless variety of of quality brews, as if they were made with the intent to be paired with your favorite foods.

Bearded Iris Brewing (Nashville, TN) - This brewery perfected the New England style hazy and juicy IPA style, light years before it became the faddish craze that it is today.

 

Exactly. There is a huge difference in underrated and under the radar

Underrated - a brewery that continues to put out quality beer in different styles yet only gets between 3-3.75 because it isn't a DDH NEIPA or a pastry stout. Breweries like Stone and Sierra Nevada would be in this category.

Under the Radar - your local, non-distro place with great tap beers and maybe a crowler. Electric used to be this for me. They have blown up to HYPE MACHINE status now thanks to the hazebois.

 

I have recently returned to NJ from some time living in Florida, so I feel compelled to mention a few from both states...
NJ:
Cypress - Edison
Czig Meister - Hackettstown
Bolero Snort - Ridgefield Park
Twin Elephant - Chatham Township
Wet Ticket - Rahway

FL:
Barrel Of Monks - Boca Raton (the best all-Belgian inspired breweries on this side of the pond!)
Wicked Barley - Jacksonville
Invasive Species - Fort Lauderdale
Due South - Boynton Beach
Bangin' Banjo - Pompano Beach

 

Burial Beer Company - Asheville, NC.
Great lagers, IPAs, stouts, and sours. Should be ranked up there with the best breweries in the US.

 

Modern Times -San Diego
Fox Farm -CT
North Park Brewing -San Diego
Half Door -San Diego
Resident -San Diego
Humble Sea - Santa Cruz

 

I agree that Bearded Iris is amazing, but I don't a brewery who has gotten a 4+ rating on every beer (except one that got a 3.89) released in the last two months is "underrated."

Not meant to be argumentative, more to focus on the meaning of "underrated."

 

When I hear about NY beer now, all the haze and sour in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley takes up all the air in the room.

So I vote a couple of Upstate mid-size/regionals with solid lineups:
Ithaca
Southern Tier

 

I have to agree with this. Their beers are simply amazing. Bounding Main, Snag and Drop, Follow the Gull to name a few...

 

I think my favorite session beer is Always Ready. That shit is awesome!

 

Although my favorite Brew Pub is on the opposite coast from where I live, Port O Pints of Crescent City California is a pub with a great family "Cheers" type atmosphere. I really enjoyed every beer I tried and the food is fantastic. A must stop if you are going up the coast or checking out the Redwoods! Did I mention they brew an excellent beer?

 

Upper Pass in Tunbridge, Vermont is producing an awesome line up of beers. Try a Cloud Drop Double IPA, it is a little slice of heaven. Zero Gravity is Burlington, Vermont also rocks with a solid line up.

 

Bare Bottle Brewing out of San Francisco knocks it out of the park on virtually all of its beers. Lots of limited releases Like Jeff Hazos are excellent but they are on the top of their game in many categories. Another great one is TAPS. They just opened a distortion brewery in Tustin,CA but have been knocking it out of the for the last few years brewing at their restaurants in Corona and Brea, CA. Multiple GABF medal winners. TAPS is a can't miss

 

Damn, wish I'd known this a month ago.

 

I am a big fan of local brews (within reason). I like Combustion in Pickerington OH - they make a couple of great grapefruit IPAs. The Oaked Hogscraper is great too. I can’t say is underrated but definitely under the radar.

Southern Tier has some pretty good IPAs as well as some great specialty beers like Samoa This.

 

Drank a fresh focal banger next to 6 week old Gone Away IPA this evening. Gone Away was a clear winner, to everyone involved.

Sometimes getting exposed to foreign beers makes you realize how good you have it.

 

Their hoppy game is actually pretty darn solid as of late. I highly recommend pebbles.

 

Both from MA:

Wormtown: Be Hopppy is my go-to beer, & a good value @ $58/case of 16 oz. cans. Their other beer is solid too, easy to find in my area.

Fort Hill: Tougher to find, but Fresh Pick is very good, & a great value @ ~ $40/case of 12 oz. cans.

 

I will add two breweries to the list:

1) While there are a lot of good breweries in Asheville, I have not seen a lot of attention paid to a brewery that I would consider to be the BEST in Asheville: Burial Beer.

2) Since starting grad school at Clemson, I've been in a mission to try out every good brewery in South Carolina. Surprisingly, I've found quite a few good ones (Swamp Rabbit, Birds Fly South, and Westbrook), but the brewery that stands out as arguably my favorite, yet also seemingly most underrated, is Edmond's Oast in Charleston, SC.