List your top 10 breweries

Russian River (x2)
Hoegaarden
Treehouse (Charlton)
Live Long
Erdinger
Jack's Abby
Ommegang
Alesmith
Wrenhouse

 

1. North Park
2. Green Cheek
3. Fidens
4. Monkish
5. everywhere
6. Moksa
7. Slice
8. Wondrous
9. Bottle Logic
10. Side Project

 

In no particular order-

Dieu Du Ciel
Firestone Walker
Legion
Burlington Beer Co.
Cantillon
OEC
Alchemist
Allagash
Treehouse
Suarez

 

Monkish (Torrance)
HF (Greensboro Bend)
Cellarmaker (SF)
RR (Santa Rosa)
Oakham (UK)
Bissell (Portland)
Treehouse (Brimfield)
Harveys (UK)
Dark Star (UK)
Alchemist (Stowe)

 

Sante Adairius
Cantillon
Hill Farmstead
Schonram
Monkish
St. Sixtus (Westvleteren)
Russian River
Floodland
Bierstadt Lagerhaus
Blind Enthusiasm / The Monolith

 

I’m approaching this by naming several of my favourite local/easy-for-me-to-get breweries that I really like, and those from elsewhere I’d hate to never have again.

Godspeed (Toronto)
True History (Toronto)
Brasserie du Bas Canada (Québec)
Jever (Germany)
Cantillon (Belgium)
Urquel (Czechia)
Hill Farmstead (US)
Alchemist (US)
Bottle Logic (US)
Timothy Taylor (UK)

My tastes in beer change periodically. I’m firmly into the lager side of things at the moment, hence a few of the choices. I could have added some of my US favourites, like Suarez and Bierstadt.

True History is a new-ish local that is excellent and firmly in the lager side of things. They are releasing a historical Vienna lager in a couple weeks that should be similar to the one Goldfinger made last year. I love that they do this. 11 out 10 Canadian beer drinkers will tell you that Bas Canada is the best brewery in the country. They are correct. Best stouts, Barleywines, hazy IPAs in the country by far.

Six months ago, Barncat Artisan Ales would have been on this list. Sadly, they closed a few months back. They were the best brewery in Ontario.

Taylor is on there because they are really good, but also because they are the only really good UK beer that is regularly imported here.

Cheers!

 

How I miss Timothy Taylor Landlord being on shelves near me. Even if it weren't particularly fresh, it was still awesome. Could be my #1 beer of all time, and that's coming from a lager nut like myself.

 

Like many other replies, in no particular order

Russian River
Sierra Nevada
LeCumbre
Odell
Bell’s
Hill Farmstead
Saint Arnold
Founder’s
Toppling Goliath
Lone Pint

 

Here’s my lists in a couple ways.

By my check ins of individual beers:
Other Half (553)
Hill Farmstead (173)
Tree House (155)
Trillium (95)
Barreled Souls (77)
River Roost (64)
Fox Farm (54)
Modern Times (52)
Foam (49)
Lawson’s Finest (43) tied with Side Project (43)

By my favorites currently that I have regular access to: (in order of my preference)
Hill Farmstead
Other Half
Side Project
Tree House
Fox Farm
River Roost
Lawson’s Finest
Schilling
Maine Beer Co.
Alchemist

 

Of the breweries from which I regularly buy (ie, they show up with consistency in my house throughout the year), my top 10 are:

1.) Fox Farm
2.) Notch
3.) Schilling
4.) Jack's Abby
5.) Treehouse
6.) Narragansett (actually, this one doesn't show up in my house, but I go to the brewery pretty regularly)
7.) Aecht Shlenkerla
8.) Sierra Nevada
9.) Mayflower (but I literally only buy one beer from them, their porter, which is phenomenal)
10.) Tie between Bitburger and Paulaner (as my affordable and quality German Pils provider)

 

Ohhh this is a fun one. In no particular order:

Side Project
Wax Wings
Cantillon
Bokke
Hill Farmstead
Treehouse
Modern
3 Fonteinen
Half Acre
Antidoot

 

Here's the core group that I still buy regularly and/or anything new they brew, despite the fact that I'm concentrating mostly on trying new breweries and buy anything else sparingly:

Firestone Walker
Founders
Fremont
Reuben's Brews
Trappistes Rochefort
Unibroue
Weihenstephaner

Then the last three haven't really done much to get me really excited for a while, but have been favorites for so long they have to be on the list:

Dogfish Head
Sierra Nevada
Stone

If I was doing this during fresh hop season, Stoup would have kicked one of these off the list.

 

This is much harder than I would have thought.
I am going to stick with just breweries I have been to.

1.). Fatheads
2.) Masthead
3.) Noble Beast
4.) Notch brewing
5.) Beirstadt Lagerhaus
6.) Brewery Vivant
7.) Jackie O’s
8.) Bookhouse
9.) Sierra Nevada
10.) Greyline Brewing

 

In no particular order, with number of their beers I've reviewed;

• Prairie Artisan (52)
  
• Goose Island (34)
  
• Lupulin (63)
  
• Founders (36)
  
• Boulevard (50)
  
• Kros Strain (10)
  
• Drekker (292)
  
• Central Waters (40)
• White Elm (60)
• Surly (47)

Runners-up;

• Brewing Projekt (98)
• Covert Artisan (27)
• Firestone Walker (12)
• Avery (14)
• Fair State (25)

 

Here's my list of 8 favorite breweries mentioned in this thread:

I'll add Hofbräuhaus Traunstein and JW Lees to bring it up to 10.

Everyone can pick favorites however they like, but I don't need a taproom, corn hole, a mascot dog, variety or a silly number of beers in production. Just gimme a great beer.

 

In no particular order…

Cantillon
Hill Farmstead
SARA
Private Press
Moonlight
Floodland
Nebuleus
Side Project
RR
Forager

honorable mentions to Suarez, Bierstadt, Enegren, Human Robot and Ghost Town

 

1. Tree House
2. Fox Farm
3. Hill Farmstead
4. Oxbow
5. Brick and Feather
6. Fair State
7. New Glarus
8. Sierra Nevada
9. Allagash
10. Lawson's

Bell's would have been included prior to Larry Bell's sale of the company to a multi-national conglomerate, who proceeded to destroy its portfolio of balanced, well-priced beers across a wide variety of styles. Sierra Nevada would have been higher back when it still sold more than just IPAs.