What's your most RESPECTED brewery?

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  1. DaverCS

    DaverCS Savant (1,212) Dec 9, 2014 Arizona

    I have thought about this question for a while: what is your most respected brewery? This doesn’t necessarily mean your favorite brewery or the brewery that makes your favorite beer; it means the brewery that you respect most. This respect can come from the passion they put into their beer, the friendliness of the staff, the effort for quality ingredients, etc.. etc… etc..

    Limit your response to one place only and explain why (it doesn’t have to even be popular just as long as it means something to you!).
     
    #1 DaverCS, Mar 20, 2015
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  2. Pahn

    Pahn Initiate (0) Dec 2, 2009 New York

    NEBCO for how they handle themselves with stuff like the gandhi bot fiasco (intelligently). Plus constantly improving beer, excellent customer service and really just awesome people.

    Sierra Nevada honorable mention. Clown Shoes guy is very cool too, and they give beer nerds what they want.

    Honestly theres tons of breweries i respect just as much as i like their beer. Good little subculture these days.
     
    #2 Pahn, Mar 20, 2015
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  3. jakecattleco

    jakecattleco Grand Pooh-Bah (3,749) Sep 3, 2008 California
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Sierra Nevada
     
    #3 jakecattleco, Mar 20, 2015
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  4. nc41

    nc41 Initiate (0) Sep 25, 2008 North Carolina
    Trader

    Love what Stone us doing introducing new hoppy stuff, They're not sitting on their hands. Love HF, he does what he loves at his pace on his level, not driven to supply the free world. Makes all world class brews too, really a dynamic innovative brewmaster.
     
    #4 nc41, Mar 20, 2015
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  5. seabeetastetest

    seabeetastetest Initiate (0) Feb 18, 2015 Texas

    Abita Brewery kind people with a passion for amazing beer
     
    #5 seabeetastetest, Mar 20, 2015
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  6. WeizenGuy

    WeizenGuy Initiate (0) Oct 9, 2014 Florida

    Ballast Point
     
    #6 WeizenGuy, Mar 20, 2015
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  7. do_ob

    do_ob Pooh-Bah (1,655) Feb 12, 2015 Kentucky
    Pooh-Bah

    Juet given what I've seen and read online, plus a few hi's and bye's with employees, etc.:

    Country Boy
    Stone
    Founders
    Dogfish Head
     
    #7 do_ob, Mar 21, 2015
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  8. loafinaround

    loafinaround Initiate (0) Jul 16, 2011 New York

    evil twin
     
    #8 loafinaround, Mar 21, 2015
  9. Doomcifer

    Doomcifer Pooh-Bah (1,665) Nov 10, 2005 Rhode Island
    Pooh-Bah

    Probably Victory.
     
    #9 Doomcifer, Mar 21, 2015
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  10. herrburgess

    herrburgess Grand Pooh-Bah (3,077) Nov 4, 2009 South Carolina
    Pooh-Bah

    Weihenstephan.

    Oldest continually functioning brewery in the world; seat of the world's best brewing university; proprietor of the world's most widely used lager yeasts; and maker of world-class examples of multiple styles.
     
    #10 herrburgess, Mar 21, 2015
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  11. JuicesFlowing

    JuicesFlowing Initiate (0) Jul 5, 2009 Kansas

    Wichita Brewing Company. They brew amazing beer, and are expanding. They just bought Tallgrass Brewing's old equipment as Tallgrass is expanding. WBC is going to open a production line and put beer on the shelves in the local community. I'm excited about this. It's watching a small-time brewery expand, and I love it, because I love their beer, and their food. Hopperoni pizza with hop flakes ...
     
    #11 JuicesFlowing, Mar 21, 2015
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  12. AlienSwineFlu

    AlienSwineFlu Savant (1,135) Dec 14, 2012 Ohio

    Cigar City, mainly for how they handled the Huna Day fiasco last year. Class-act business.

    de Garde, for keeping it real with their bottle prices. Awesome berliner bombers for $4? Sign me up!

    I have a much more opinionated "least respected" list, but that's another discussion...
     
    #12 AlienSwineFlu, Mar 21, 2015
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  13. Robtobfest

    Robtobfest Initiate (0) Oct 21, 2009 Connecticut

    Sierra Nevada...pioneers and still bring it!
     
    #13 Robtobfest, Mar 21, 2015
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  14. JmurphylovessAmadams

    JmurphylovessAmadams Initiate (0) Feb 25, 2015 Illinois

    Stone
    Bells
    Founders
     
    #14 JmurphylovessAmadams, Mar 21, 2015
  15. untitledeuphoria

    untitledeuphoria Zealot (747) Apr 26, 2014 New York

    Lagunitas.

    Produce great beers, everything they bottle is affordable, they refuse to take government handouts, and are aggressively expanding without diluting their product or culture.

    There will always be small brewers making better beer, but brewers like Lagunitas are what truly tip the needle away from BMC.
     
    #15 untitledeuphoria, Mar 21, 2015
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  16. beergoot

    beergoot Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,310) Oct 11, 2010 Colorado
    Mod Team BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    There are tons of exceptional breweries out there, but of late, Ballast Point is the one brewery where I'll grab anything I see...
     
    #16 beergoot, Mar 21, 2015
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  17. StoutSnob40

    StoutSnob40 Grand Pooh-Bah (4,611) Jan 4, 2013 California
    Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    How about suing because they think they can copyright IPA? That knocked them down a few pegs for me.
     
    #17 StoutSnob40, Mar 21, 2015
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  18. GuitarIPA

    GuitarIPA Savant (1,229) Mar 24, 2013 Connecticut

    Tree House, Maine, Founders
     
    #18 GuitarIPA, Mar 21, 2015
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  19. RutgersBeerGuy

    RutgersBeerGuy Savant (1,059) Jan 16, 2007 New Jersey

    Victory. I love their commitment to German styles. They haven't lost their roots.
     
    #19 RutgersBeerGuy, Mar 21, 2015
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  20. mychalg9

    mychalg9 Pooh-Bah (2,123) Apr 8, 2010 Illinois
    Pooh-Bah

    New Glarus

    Honorable Mention: Sierra Nevada
     
    #20 mychalg9, Mar 21, 2015
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