What are your 2 favorite breweries?

I disagree, the year round lineup is excellent.

 

1. Founders and 2. Terrapin
As many have mentioned Founders is well-rounded, decently priced, and nearly everything they make is amazing.
Terrapin was a favorite when I lived in Georgia. I still get my hands on it when I travel. I miss you guys and wish you would start distributing to Kentucky in 2015!

 

Founders and Surly- They have become staples for me.

Although I like Dogfish Head quite a bit too.

 

Lets start with honorable mentions....

Fat Heads... is great, however seems to excel in the hoppy beer a bit more

Stone... is awesome but has seem to become more af an experimental project brewery (which I'm glad some one is, just kinda of knocks them in terms of overall great beers

Bells/Three Floyds... Their good beers are amazing, however their miss's are pretty bad, thus dropping them overall

Great Lakes... is also VERY solid overall, while all their beers a very good, none blow you away and their lineup is rather drab and short of special (limited) releases

Sierra Nevada... gets great points for being readily available and reasonably priced, however i feel there isnt a vast difference between each of their recipes

The Vermont Breweries (Alchemist, HF, Lawson's) I had from a trip are amazing, but what good are they if you cant obtain them?

Southern Tier and Ballast Point are on the brink


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2: Jackie O's... Just really seems to be rocking some amazing brews in diverse category's. They have their production can line, their seasonal tap beers, bottled imperials and then limited bottle releases. They do multiple styles well. Jackie O's has been crushing it lately!


1: Founders.... I mean, an amazing year round lineup, a phenomenal limited/backstage/specialty/seasonal line up. I actually think that's what makes Founders so amazing to me. Their beers are obtainable within reason, yet you cant sleep on them. Their 'morals' are in place with the music and online gift shoppe, seem to have the social media thing down. Fresh clean web page. They don't go crazy with new beers like a stone. They also don't have the same boring lineup like Great Lakes. They do hoppy and malty brews alike well. I don't really know what else to say. Founders seems to have a strangle hold on the #1 spot for me~

 

So many great breweries:
Hill Farmstead
3 Floyds
Wicked Weed
Dark Horse
Sun King
Blue Mountain
Jack's Abbey
Kuhnhenn
New England
Fifty/ Fifty

 

New Glarus and Central Waters

 

Based on volume purchased by me in 2014

Troegs
Columbia Kettle Works

Based on if I could get their beers whenever I wanted some

Russian River
Lawson's Finest Liquids

 

Bell's with Westbrook and Stone a very close second.

 

New Glarus and Toppling Goliath. Never had a bad beer from either brewery (some better than others of course). New Glarus nails every style attempted, and TG can do no wrong with hops. Between the two, I could happily survive on the hypothetical deserted island.

 

Fatheads and founders

 

Russian River and Tired Hands

 

My favorite local: Terrapin Beer Company (For W&B)
My favorite OOS: Founders Brewing (For ratio of beers I like vs/ don't like)

 

How about my top five...

Goose Island, great barrel aged stouts and sours
Three Floyds, I've had at least ninety of their beers
Russian River, Temptation and Framboise for a Cure are two of my all time favorites
Cantillon, self explanatory, I think they do raspberries better than anyone
18th Street, new kids on the block led by Drew Fox. He will be famous someday

Honorable mention: Cigar City, De Garde, Lagunitas, Dogfish Head

 

The Bruery and Firestone Walker

 

Goose Island and the brewery you haven't heard of yet (total hipster). Just kidding it's Two Brothers.

 

Half Acre and Alchemist...if I'm forced to pick 2

 

Cantillon and Hill Farmstead. Not one single beer of theirs I've tried has been anything less than mind-blowing.

 

Firestone Walker - They would have to be my favorite brewery, solid everyday beers and then their barrel aging program is second to none in my opinion.

The Bruery - A close second, the variety of flavors and styles appeals to me, as well as most of their huge abv offerings.

 

Firestone Walker
Ballast Point
Union Craft (As my hometown pick)