Favorite Brewery? There Can Be Only One...

Of course I can't do one! So..
Brewery whose beers I consume the most: Clown Shoes
Brewery who has my most "treasured" beers: Firestone Walker

 

In my distro it has to be Sierra Nevada. Love every beer I've ever had from them. Just last night I had Otre Vez and Tropical IPA bottled on 1-26-16. Great stuff! Love SN!
Cheers everyone!!

 

If I had unfettered access to all of their beers, and freshness wasn't an issue: Lagunitas.

 

Another for Hill Farmstead. So many good beers

 

Got to stay loyal to where my craft journey began with Boulevard. Great beers made by good people who represent the community of my home town Kansas City as well as a company can.

 

Very hard to decide. I was leaning towards FW because of their box beers. But I don't think that would make me happy year around. Then Stone came to mind. But I think if I had to choose one it would be The Bruery. Excellent variety from them. They have big BA beers, several IPA, sours, and everything in between. Also they constantly push the envelope with new ideas. Sometimes they miss, but it's always interesting to see what's next from them

 

Great Lakes

 

Kane Brewing

I think they make fantastic beers perfect to style. They dont really go for the crazy peanut butter and jelly beers aged on peppers, they stay within styles and execute it perfectly. And I grew up 1/2 mile form the brewery so there is the home town factor for me.

 

for the last 20 years I would have said Budweiser because their products is what I drank.. now that I'm more sophisticated I'd say Stone. Mostly because I've tried more beers from them than the others listed at this point.

 

Founders and Ballast Point...dead heat. FBS and VAS

 

This question was simple for me to answer: Sierra Nevada. I love a huge variety of esoteric brews, but Sierra Nevada provides a level of excellence that any operation should strive for. The Mills River facility absolutely proved to me their commitment to community and to beer.

 

If actual access to the brewery is the driver..for me it would be Solemn Oath. Not everything is a home run, but they hit more than they miss, the tap room is fun, the people there are really nice.

 

Gotta go Founders, love the Stouts and IPAs and Porter...3 of my 5 favorite styles (Hefeweizen & Tripels are th other 2, can't have everything I guess)

 

In general, Founders
Local brewer, Surly

 

Half Acre

 

Mystic

 

Anchorage.

 

Half Acre and it's not even close.

 

Not sure why so many macro "micros/craft" are on this list. I interpreted this as if all other breweries were destroyed, what one would I not want on this to be destroyed. And to me, there can only be one.

Tree House.

I have been a devoted pilgrim there for the last 5 months and they do not make bad beer. They do not make beers that are off. I haven't done many ratings, but basically every beer they make would probably be at least a 4 or 4.25 with most probably being in the 4.5-4.75 range with one 5 (king julius). I think if more people tried Tree House they would come to the same conclusion: that you could drink Tree House (even their regular stuff like Julius or Green) without getting bored and you would happily do so until your liver failed.

 

Hill Farmstead (Grimm and Tree House are very close seconds)