5 Best/Favorite Breweries

Odell
New Glarus
Bell's
Pateros Creek

Its really hard to come up with 5 that I really have the experience to put on a list... I really want to try some of Jack's Abbey beers as well as The Alchemist. HF wouldn't be a bad one to dream for as well!

 

TG
Boulevard
Dogfish
Founders
Oskar blues

 

HF
Alchemist
Goose Island
Pipeworks
Side Project

 

This is tough, but these are my 5 favorite breweries-

Hill Farmstead
Kuhnhenn
Voodoo
De Struise
Cantillon

 

Hill Farmstead
Other Half
Maine
Tired Hands
Kane

 

Sierra nevada
Boulevard
founders
Bbc/sam adams
Firestone walker
Honorable mention: schlafly, odell, great divide

 

Without placing them into any order:

Pipeworks
Fremont
18th Street
Founders
Firestone Walker

 

Ayinger
Schneider Weisse
Fuller's
Schlenkerla
Augustiner

And an honorable mention to Orval for doing their thing, somehow transforming that one brilliant beer to something quite unique every time.

 

7th Sun
Intuition
Three floyds
Lawsons
Green man
There are more like 50 favorites....

 

I've decided to list 5 in no particular order:

Jackie O's
Great Divide
50 West
MadTree
Country Boy

Non-American:

Cantillon
Boon
Mikkeller
Rodenbach
Hannsen's

(Not fair to only list 5!)

 

New England
Lagunitas
Stone
Sierra Nevada
Victory
Southern Tier

 

Fat Head's
Bell's
Dogfish
Three Floyds
Cigar City

 

Top 5 Local BC Breweries, not in order:

1) Parallel 49
2) Okanagan Springs
3) Big Rock Urban
4) Phillips
5) Driftwood

Lots of great breweries on this list that I've got to check out!

 

Although still in my young stages of beer drinking, so far:
Boulevard
Three Floyds
Revolution
Founders
Deschutes

Honorable Mention: Jackie O's

Too early to tell, but liking so far:
Ballast Point
Sierra Nevada
Firestone Walker
Oskar Blues
Heavy Seas
Weyerbacher
Columbus Brewing Company

And a bunch of other breweries I haven't even started yet...

 

Cracks me up that I've answered this twice before and doing it for a 3rd time now each time my answer is slightly different.
People and Palates Change and it's fun to see
Firestone Walker -Amazing Barrel aging program , stellar sours,and solid year round ipas and I freaking love Easy Jack
Founders- I'll drink their seasonal stouts year round haha and their porter is solid ,All Day Ipa has grown on me too.
Sierra Nevada- can't go wrong with Pale Ale or Torpedo. Narwhal and Bigfoot are good too a
And incredible after BAed
De Garde- Everything they have made that I have tried has been mouth puckering awesome sauce.
Lost Abbey/Port Brewing-Solud line up of Stouts,IPAs, and Sours love them all especially the barrel aged goodies.

 

Think this is the 4 or 5th thread with this title and each response I had is different thru the months lol
Anyway...

Trillium. By far some of the BEST ipas ive ever had. Hazy hop Juice
Firestone Walker. Union jack got me started on craft and their BA offerings are always top notch in my book
Hill farmstead. Sean's attention to detail is unparrelled sometimes. Although not everything Ive had from him is good, when it is he hits it out of the park.
Kane. Juicy Ipas, Thick rich stouts and their barrel program is fantastic with almost a new offering every month.
Lagunitas: On price point alone these guys rock. BA high west coffee stout under 10$, 16$ IPA 12packs. YES PLEASE!

 

Weihenstephaner
Three Floyds
Sierra Nevada
Karbach
Live Oak

....in no particular order.

 

No order, its too early for that much stress

Duvel
Weihenstephaner
Firestone Walker
Sierra Nevada
Ayinger

I would not at all complain if I had to stick with these guys for the rest of my life

 

In Order of Favorite Breweries Not Beers

1. Stone Brewery (The Garden)
2. Maine Beer Co..
3. Fiddlehead
4. Lost Rhino
5. Trillium


I chose these in this order again.. not for the beer, but the brewery.. all of these breweries are very CONSISTENT breweries, the atmosphere at the brewery is relaxing and fun. The beer is not difficult to get and there is not hoards of people telling everyone else why they are at the best brewery in the world.. Also.. all fo these breweries have a great selection of beers, and is not centered on any one type/person..


now in order of my favorite beers...

1. Lawson's Finest Liquids
2. Alchemist
3. Tree house
4. Fiddlehead
5. Stone


only 2 of my top 5 beers are fairly easy to get, and provide a great drinking atmosphere.. the rest are a race to the line and wait.. and wait... and wait... and wait.. and hope you got there early enough to get what you want..

 

Russian river
firestone
alpine
Ballast Point
Deschuttes