2016 Up-and-Coming Breweries

I definitely think you will see Prison City in Auburn, NY get attention this year once they start bottling some of their fruited berliners. Their main problem is capacity. I think he brew a berliner as well as DeGarde, but some serious investments will have to be made to keep up with any sort of demand.

 

Finback in Queens and Three's Brewing in Brooklyn.

 

came here to write Ocelot as well. In a half year, these guys have leapfrogged every brewery in the area with their IPAs. The stouts and porters I've had from them have been very good.
Not to mention the owner and staff are awesome people.

Union for sure. Their Gose alone should get them on the map. Double Duckpin is really good, but over valued on trades already.

Outside my area, I could see Foundation Brewing in Maine exploding.

 

I enjoyed South of Eleven from Hoof Hearted but I can rarely find their stuff in Columbus; it goes fast. I had to Google JAFB and sadly I am never in the Wooster area.

I echo much of the sentiment in this thread, CBC has been talking about bottling Bodhi for a few years. It would be nice to be able to hit a store and pick up a 4/6-pack of the stuff. As much as I like getting growlers, the $16 + tax for 64 oz's adds up.

 

Can't help it I'm gonna go with the homer answer of Aardwolf out of Jacksonville, FL. Their bottle releases (especially the recent Barrel Aged White Russian imperial stout) have been incredible, and their sour beer program is on point. Can't wait to see what they roll out in 2016!

 

Thanks for the reminder about Veil. I live in Richmond and forgot to put this one on my radar.

 

Transient, with its own brewing facility. Hoof Hearted will continue to get big

 

In the DC Area, Ocelot and Aslin Beer are the two that come to mind.

Ocelot is producing some juicy IPAs and Aslin has a solid combination of juicy IPAs and their Imperial Stout & Stout variants (Toasted Coconut & Mexican Hot Chocolate) have been excellent.

 

Sole Artisan Ales brewing out of Susquehanna Brewing Co. in NEPA is making some good beer...

 

Side Project here in St. Louis is just a pup at just over a year old but still makes some of the best barrel-aged Sours and Imperial Stouts out there.

 

I'll throw in a couple votes for tallgrass brewing and central standard brewing. Definitely tallgrass as I think they will get better and better distribution with unique seasonaland one offs, and a solid line up of core beers.

 

Their sours are dynamite!

 

One of the best avatars I've seen. Big XTC fan

 

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Epiphany is in my top 5 DIPA if not #1. Just had Afterglow this past weekend and couldn't stop drinking it!

 

Agreed. I think ther IPAs are good but have a definite homebrew quality to them. Can be inconsistent and often smell better than they taste. But the sours are awesome. Have a Zzzlumber that I'm waiting to split with a buddy as well.

 

Their Derivative Galaxy is a world class NE Pale Ale in my opinion. Not too far off from Fort Point and the last batch of Derivative Mosaic was their best yet. Super dank. Their Tendril IPA needs work. It's wildly inconsistent. And they need to work on updating customers as to what's available. They seem to have no problem having beers kick and never update their site or twitter while customers drive more than an hour to pick up something that's not available.

 

Tendril was their first IPA I thought was superb and the Derivative inconsistent. It's gone back-and-forth, but things have been solid for their last batches of everything.

 

In New England:
CT: Kent Falls
ME: Oxbow (Austin Street if Oxbow is no longer an up and coming)
NH: Schilling
VT: Hermit Thrush
RI: Tilted Barn
MA: I can't really pick one here, but maybe Bog Iron or Mystic to explode with their sours

 

I would agree, singlecut is doing some amazing things and putting out sone solid brews

 

I thought Keraterra was outstanding. And their forte actually is theirs sours and open tank fermenting. The whole Pale Ale and IPA thing as I've heard from reliable sources was an appeal to the masses that became wildly (overly IMHO) overrated as depicted by their tongue in cheek description on the Derivative label. Certainly good but not world class. I'm thinking they really don't want to be part of the whole overly hopped IPA and Pale Ale movement. I like and can respect that.