What are your 2 favorite breweries?

Based solely on what I always have on hand, would be Stone and Lagunitas......I cannot remember the last time one or the other (most of the time both)

My 2 import would be Weihenstephaner, and Ayinger.

Locally, it is Great Lakes and Fathead's...........

Guess I cannot pick two easily, have a dozen more I want to post, but will stop here, as my two easily became six....

 

My hometown boyz Ithaca Beer and I have to also say Victory Brewing.

 

Bells and Jackie O's

 

Revolution and Half Acre, I am a homer. When pipeworks starts canning they will probably be in there.

 

Trillium :-(
Trillium :-(
Founder's
Notch

 

Favorite larger brewer: Ommegang, because they make a great collection of Belgian style beers.
Favorite smaller brewery: Alchemist, because they produce excellent DIPA styles and I can buy local.

Side note, you are in likely one of the most concentrated craft brewing areas in the US, so you have a massive assortment of great breweries right in the San Diego area.

 

Mystic--Well worth the hour plus drive for a growler. Have not had a bad beer from them yet.

#2 is a toss up between Two Roads--hometown brewery and Sly Fox.

 

For wildly different reasons:

#1 Hill Farmstead
#2 Sierra Nevada

I could survive if those were the only two breweries left on earth.

 

Ugh such a hard choice, I can never really pick my favorite breweries.

 

Founders and Stone. Not sexy picks, but simply based on their wide variety of exceptional beers. There are a lot of breweries that make a few fantastic beers, but not like these 2.

FFF, Oskar Blues, Surly and Odell would certainly be up there as well.

 

Deschutes & Lagunitas

 

Founders for their rock solid, affordable beers.

Short's for their insane variety.

 

Alpine & Russian River

 

New Glarus and Heavy Seas - yeah, I'm a homer both to my roots (WI) and current location (MD)

 

Q4T

 

Fremont and Alpine

 

1. Ballast Point- Sculpin is the best everyday beer available
2. Pipeworks- their IPAs are so redic

New Glarus, CCB, Deschutes, Stone right there. Revo and Half Acre coming up

 

Deschutes and Sierra Nevada can do little wrong in my book. Great beer across the board, a lot of variety, and a fantastic price - hard to go wrong.

Honorable mention to Firestone Walker, I just wish their year-round line was a little more robust; however, everything they do pretty much rocks.

 

Union Craft Brewing (homer pick) and Dogfish Head

 

Founders - My favorite brewery in general and my favorite from my home state. Whenever somewhere with Founders distro I can always find multiple beers of theirs I enjoy regardless of the season.

Firestone Walker - These guys really opened my eyes to barrel aging and how amazing these beers could be. I also believe they have a stellar lineup of hoppy beers as well. I'm always looking forward to new offerings by FW.