Favorite breweries

Over the years.

Favorite Breweries:
AleSmith
Avery
Central Waters
Hair Of The Dog
Stone
Surly

Cheers!

 

Firestone Walker
Alesmith
Modern Times
Bruery

 

The ones with high quality products and wide variety of styles. Can't stand breweries with 98% of their portfolio being one or two styles. And when they try to do something different, they fail.

 

This is a difficult question to answer. There's room for a shitd load here.
Readily accessible:
Jack's Abby
Proclamation
Trillium
Nightshift
Otter Creek (Yes!)
Two Roads (lawsons)
Kent Falls
Single cut
Grey Sail
OK I give up....

 

Off the top of my head...

Fat Heads
Trillium
Sierra Nevada
Victory
Brew Gentleman

 

So many - Founders, Surly, Indeed, UpSlope, Odell, Central Waters..

 

Grimm
Singlecut
Founders
Lagunitas
Stone
Sixpoint
Smuttynose
Firestone Walker
Victory
Clown Shoes

...and many more. I could easily do a top 15 or 20, but I usually limit myself to 10 on these sorts of threads.

 

I'll assume you're only talking about U.S. breweries as doing it globally would be difficult. On the other hand I always have Unibroue and Spaten on hand. Tough question.

 

I've been a huge Victory and Stone person since my last return to craft, so those are probably way up there for non-local beers I can get (although Stone just opened a brewery here, so, guess they are local now?). My most commonly visited and favorite local breweries are The Veil andThe Answer, and as for "out of my distro" favorites, I'd say Odd Side, Carton, Olde Hickory, Other Half and Fat Head's. I'm probably forgetting a few breweries that are pretty important to me, but that's what I'm thinking off the top of my head.

 

To Visit:
OEC
Burlington Beer Co
Two Roads (place is Huge)
Black Hog (around the corner from OEC)

To Drink:
TH, Alchemist, Grimm, Finback, Burlignton Beer Co, Oec, Crooked Stave, Cantilon, Hanssens, Boon, Oud Beersel, Girardin.

 

Firestone Walker
Sixpoint
Founders
Russian River

 

Founders
Lagunitas
Stone
SixPoint
Surly

 

Heavy Seas
Founders
Lagunitas
Sixpoint
Dogfish Head
Union
Ommegang

 

Lagunitas
Sierra Nevada
Deschutes

 

Bale Breaker
Seapine
Fremont
Melvin
Stoup
Crux

 

I have a love/hate relationship with this question, as others have said, because it changes. But here's my current top 10, not necessarily in order.

• Dogfish Head
• Bells
• Founders
• Shorts
• New Glarus
• Jagged Mountain
• Troegs
• Green Flash
• Cascade
• Deschutes

* Honorable mentions

• Boston Beer (Portfolio driven)
• Solemn Oath
• Revolution

The list could go on and on

Cheers!
-Phillip

 

Angry Chair and Cycle

 

A timely topic since I just finished my year-end bookkeeping and budgeting. According to both my wife and my credit card statements, I spent most of our food budget last year at either Hill Farmstead or Trillium. Notable sums were also spent at Jack's Abby, Tree House and Brick & Feather.

 

• Trillium
• Bissell Brothers
• Great North
• Maine Beer Company
• Foundation
• Two Roads
• Tree House
• Stoneface
• Oskar Blues
• Dogfish Head