Top 20 Breweries in your state

What a mediocre/poor list we have here in MD. Every day I envy the incredible local breweries so many others enjoy in other states.....

 

Good god- yes the omission of Swamp Head was an oversight. They would slide in right under Saint Somewhere. And Wakefield's brewery is not open yet, but his stuff is at pretty much every festival in the state. For that matter Angry Chair is not open yet either, but they have been brewing amazing beers for festivals thanks to their friends at CCB. ACBC (they already have the initialism) could be one of the best breweries in the state/southeast/country before too long. If you get a chance to try their Berliner Florida Weisses, i would highly recommend it.

 

Pretty solid CA list, in my opinion - agree with a lot of your rankings...

 

Wow this is tough. There's a LOT here I haven't had and a constant stream of top tier new breweries opening. Most people here would disagree with this list, I think.

1. Avery
2. Odell
3. Oskar Blues
4. Prost
5. Crooked Stave
6. Great Divide
7. Dry Dock
8. Funkwerks
9. Ska
10. Upslope
11. Left Hand
12. New Belgium
13. Gravity
14. Renegade
15. Mountain Sun
16. Trinity
17. Elevation
18. Twisted Pine
19. Paradox
20. Bristol

There's like 100 that are tied for the 19-20 spots.

 

Roughly the order I would rank them (top to bottom):
Hoppin' Frog
Columbus
Great Lakes
Jackie O's
Thirsty Dog
Fat Heads
Rockmill
Brew Kettle
Weaselboy
Seventh Son
Elevator
Barley's
Indigo Imp
Rock Bottom
Maumee Bay
Mt. Carmel
Market Garden
North High
Zauber
Buckeye

 

I totally agree with Alexipa. Our second tier of 20 breweries is better than most state's first team. We could include River North, Strange, Bull &Bush, Grimm Brothers, Trve, Denver Beer Company, Arvada Beer Company, Hogshead, Caution, Backcountry, Wit's End just to name a few.

 

I'm shocked that Indigo Imp is above ANYTHING.

My list, though the top three were hard to choose!

1. Great Lakes
2. Columbus
3. Hoppin' Frog
4. Brew Kettle
5. Fat Heads
6. Jackie O's
7. Thirsty Dog
8. Maumee Bay
9. Barley's
10. Seventh Son
11. Weasel Boy
12. Elevator
13. Mt. Carmel
14. Zauber
15. Rockmill
16. North High
17. Market Garden
18. Rock Bottom
19. Buckeye
20. Indigo Imp

 

I don't think we've hit 20 yet in Connecticut but here it is any way...

1. NEBCO
2. Beer'd

all the others should take lessons from HF

 

1. FOUNDERS
2. Bell's
3. Short's
4. Arbor Brewing
5. New Holland
6. Right Brain
7. North Peak
8. The Mitten
9. Odd Side Ales
10. Arcadia
11. Marquette Harbor (Veirling)
12. Grizzly Peak
13. Dark Horse
14. Keweenaw Brewing Co.
15. THE HIDEOUT! (Solely because of the Schuil's Hazelnut Cream Stout)
16. White Flame
17. Schmohz
18. Detroit Beer Co.
19. Saugatuck Brewing Co.
20. Atwater

I may be missing some really good ones... and also, I am from Michigan. I would list the best Utah breweries, but it would be a VERY short list.

 

For AZ...? Ha.

 

1. Great Lakes
2. Thirsty Dog
3. MadTree
4. Hoppin Frog
5. Columbus Brewing
6. The Brew Kettle
7. Fat Head's
8. Christian Morlein
9. Jackie O's
10. Triple Digit
11. Rhinegeist
12. Mt. Caramel
13. Listerman
14. Rivertown
15. Fifty West
16. Maumee Bay
17. Blank Slate
18. Double Barrell
19. Elevator
20. Rock Bottom

Lots of good beer going on in Ohio at the moment. Exciting times

 

Hahaha, this. I honestly dont think I could name 20 NJ breweries.

 

1. Boneyard
2. Gigantic
3. Block 15
4. Fort George
5. Double mountain
6. 10 Barrel
7. Breakside
8. Barley Brown
9. Deschutes
10. Occidental
11. Hopworks
12. Upright
13. Ninkasi
14. Hop Valley
15. Pfriem
16. Hair of the dog
17. Heater Allen
18. De Garde
19. Pelican
20. Rogue

 

Good list. I gotta get slumbrew in there though. Also no love for Harpoon? Most of their stuff is kinda blah, but they're definitely better than Cisco, Cape cod, or offshore Imo.

 

Good list, here is mine

1. Block 15
2. DeGarde
3. The Commons
4. Logsdon
5. Hair of the Dog
6. Upright
7. Boneyard
8. Double Mountain
9. Heater Allen
10. Deschutes
11. Flat Tail
12. Pelican
13. Breakside
14. Fort George
15. 10 Barrell
16. Cascade
17. Hopworks
18. Pfriem
19. Gigantic
19. Migration

 

Off-hand it would be Toppling Goliath, Great River, Peace Tree, Millstream, Backpocket and Madhouse. There are others in state but none that I can easily get.

 

I'll append 14 -- 20
Haymarket
Tighthead
Wild Onion
RAM
Lake Effect
Ale Syndicate
Finch's

 

The absence of Slumbrew and Harpoon on my list is really me just taking liberty of my own opinion. I really don't care for either brewery. And for the record I particularly like at least a few of Offshore's beers.

I also realized I forgot Trillium....

 

Seriously. Give it time, though. With the legislation passed last year (essentially allowing brewpubs to distribute, and/or micros to sell on premises) hopefully we will get a lot more interest in NJ, and in 5 years we will all be able to list more than 20. Honestly, I think it was amazing that we had any small breweries at all prior to that.

 

You know...Michigan is the best beer State in the country.