List your top 10 breweries

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  1. Cstamp3084

    Cstamp3084 Pundit (902) May 3, 2020 Maryland
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    What can I say I have a type.
     
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  2. bubseymour

    bubseymour Grand Pooh-Bah (4,800) Oct 30, 2010 Maryland
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    Breweries whom I’ve had several beers from where they always seem to blow me away:
    Hill Farmstead
    Cantillon
    3F
    TreeHouse
    Side Project
    Russian River
    Suarez
    Resident Culture
    Burial
    Alchemist
     
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  3. beer_beer

    beer_beer Pooh-Bah (2,306) Feb 13, 2018 Finland
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    Good thread, nice to check this out from my brewers list. This:

    A. Le Coq
    Big Drop
    Binding
    Brooklyn
    Force Majeure
    Hartwall
    Laitilan
    Õllenaut
    Olvi
    Sinebrychoff
     
    #63 beer_beer, Apr 13, 2024
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  4. bubseymour

    bubseymour Grand Pooh-Bah (4,800) Oct 30, 2010 Maryland
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    After reading some others I really need to throw New Glarus in there as an honorable mention. I love all their beers. For the record, none of these breweries are in my distribution area and I rarely get their beers so I guess I can taste the scarcity goodness.
     
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  5. Giantspace

    Giantspace Grand Pooh-Bah (3,043) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Forest and Main
    Fonta Flora
    Sierra Nevada
    Jacks Abby
    Bells
    Human Robot
    Allagash
    Birdsong
    Suarez

    in no order. The two on top are my 1 and 2 though. If I lived in NC Fonta would be 1.

    Enjoy
     
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  6. woodchipper

    woodchipper Grand Pooh-Bah (3,735) Oct 25, 2005 Connecticut
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    Two comments-
    Peoples lists seem to coinscide with thier geogrophy.
    In retrospect, my personal list has changed considerably over time.
     
    #66 woodchipper, Apr 14, 2024
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  7. Giantspace

    Giantspace Grand Pooh-Bah (3,043) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    I only had 9, my 10th is

    DeMolen

    Enjoy
     
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  8. Urk1127

    Urk1127 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,790) Jul 2, 2014 New Jersey
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    10 is too many for me but notables for me I’d say if your counting Asahi although it’s a parent company. Hofbrau and Sixpoint immediately come to mind.
     
    #68 Urk1127, Apr 14, 2024
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  9. Iggy88

    Iggy88 Grand Pooh-Bah (4,176) Dec 17, 2022 Ohio
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    In no particular order:
    Fat Head's
    Founders
    Great Lakes
    Masthead
    Old Nation
    Paulaner
    Hoof Hearted
    3 Floyds
    Southern Tier
    Goose Island
     
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  10. Doppelbocker98

    Doppelbocker98 Aspirant (264) Feb 7, 2023 Nevada
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    Scrolled way too damn far to see St Bernardus.
     
    #70 Doppelbocker98, Apr 14, 2024
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  11. 67elbirdos

    67elbirdos Crusader (403) Sep 20, 2021 Missouri
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    No doubt, geography and distribution reach weigh heavily. My St. Louis palette, biased by German ancestry:

    Ayinger
    KC Bier
    Weihenstephaner
    Sierra Nevada
    2nd Shift
    Perennial
    Narrow Gauge
    Civil Life
    Bell’s
    Urban Chestnut
     
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  12. jzlyo

    jzlyo Pooh-Bah (2,743) Mar 4, 2012 Iowa
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    In no particular order:

    Hop Butcher For The World
    Boulevard
    Phase Three
    Samuel Smith
    Confluence
    Singlespeed
    Three Floyds
    Paulaner
    Bells
    Van Steenberge
     
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  13. cavedave

    cavedave Grand Pooh-Bah (4,157) Mar 12, 2009 New York
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    In no order and with no common theme

    Hill Farmstead
    Cantillon
    Tree House
    Sierra Nevada
    Alchemist
    Allagash
    Industrial Arts
    Suarez
    Fullers
    Cigar City
     
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  14. Squire

    Squire Grand Pooh-Bah (4,385) Jul 16, 2015 Mississippi
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    For me the type of beer comes first . . . who makes it comes second.
     
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  15. LesDewitt4beer

    LesDewitt4beer Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,315) Jan 25, 2021 Minnesota
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    That's a tough question! I've really only scratched the surface of the amount of breweries that exist and with that under consideration, my top 10 list would most certainly be subject to change. But, as of now, here's my list (not in any specific order) of breweries that make the beers I like best:
    1. Sierra Nevada
    2. Barrel Theory
    3. Summit
    4. Schlenkerla
    5. Founders
    6. Fernson
    7. Ayinger
    8. Bell's
    9. Kros~Strain
    10. Maine Beer Co.
     
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  16. ATL6245

    ATL6245 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,984) Aug 16, 2018 Georgia
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    My favorite breweries (ones I consistently buy the most beer from & one or two I would buy from all the time if I had consistent access):

    Good Word Brewing (GA)
    Halfway Crooks Beer (GA)
    Bold Monk Brewing (GA)
    Round Trip Brewing (GA)
    Creature Comforts Brewing
    Weihenstephaner
    Ayinger
    G. Schneider & Sohn
    Schilling Beer Co
    Fox Farm
    Bierstadt
     
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  17. zid

    zid Grand Pooh-Bah (3,132) Feb 15, 2010 New York
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    Out of curiosity, is there a particular inactive brewery you'd want to be on your list?
     
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  18. deanzaZZR

    deanzaZZR Maven (1,347) Jan 8, 2015 California

    Is there any particular reason you use the site of FW's brewpub and test facility? The main brewery is in Paso Robles miles north of LA.
     
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  19. beergoot

    beergoot Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,310) Oct 11, 2010 Colorado
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    ...two, actually:
    • Privatbrauerei Bischoff GmbH (a small regional brewery in Winnweiler, Germany) that ceased operations about 2 or 3 years ago -- a nostalgia thing as I had some great experiences near Sembach, Germany while stationed / living in the area for three years
    • Hair of The Dog
     
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  20. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    I wonder how our personal lists might have changed over the years. I suspect mine has changed at least a little.

    I'm not sure I could really put a top 10 together, much less in order. I think I might be able to chunk them into categories, though.

    No doubt making the list:
    Hill Farmstead
    Russian River

    There's just no disputing these, in my mind. They do damn near every style, and damn near every style among the best in the world.

    Probably making the list:
    Suarez Family
    Kane
    Tree House
    Fremont
    Firestone Walker

    It would probably take one heck of an argument to push these out, due to complete mastery of one style and an ability to brew others.

    Maybe making the list:
    Allagash
    The Bruery
    Sierra Nevada
    Fox Farm
    Cigar City (I refer you to El Catador offerings to make my case)
    Anchorage
    Transient
    The Alchemist
    Angry Chair
    Modern Times
    Bottle Logic

    These are all high quality, but either have a limited style in which they excel (Angry Chair, Bottle Logic), or a more varied selection but without necessary being best-of-the-best in anything (Allagash, Sierra Nevada). Any of these would have an argument, for sure.

    Difficult to put on the list due to limited output:
    Rochefort, Westmalle, Chimay, Orval, Cantillon, Drie Fonteinen, Aecht Schlenkerla

    I love abbey ales and I love lambics and gueuze, but I would find it very difficult to put a brewery on a personal top 10 list if that's literally all they produce (or at least the only thing you'll find from them). The same goes for a number of German brewers who produce fantastic lagers, and may well produce other wonderful beer at the source, but not necessarily beers I'll run across stateside.
     
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