Your NE Top 10

Allow me to (predictably) poo poo on this thread by pointing out that all of your previous posts are an attempt to hype breweries. Maybe give it up?

Or give us the obvious at #1 and then throw your baby into the second spot. Follow that with your hopes but put TH and Trill after those to try to stir conversation.

Like the thread but feels contrived.

To be complete:

Oxbow
HF
Trill
Allagash
TH
Austin St
OEC
Kettlehead
Alchemist
Mystic

 

Hill Farmstead
Oxbow
Allagash
Tree House
Trillium

OEC
Proclamation
Foam
Hermit Thrush
Earth Eagle

 

I'll play:

Oxbow
Allagash
Hill
TH
Jacks
Night Shift
Austin St
Kent Falls
Notch
Alchemist, I guess

Total cop-out having nine honorable mentions, OP. I could barely get ten. I'd have stopped at seven.

(Oh, and @Sweatshirt ... high praise of Kettlehead ... Used to vacation up that way. Seems like we have similar beer tastes. I guess I'm going soon.)

 

-Allagash
-Clown Shoes
-Fiddlehead
-Jack's Abby
-Lawson's
-Maine Beer Company
-Smuttynose
-Tree House
-Trillium
-Wormtown

 

Hill Farm
Treehouse
Fox Farm
NEBCO
Bissell
OEC
Austin Street
Long Trail (I love that taproom)
Trillium
Foam

 

Here are my top 10 according to the average of my beer ratings for each:

1. Trillium (4.54)
2. Hill Farmstead (4.43)
3. River Roost (4.40)
4. The Alchemist (4.38)
5. Tree House (4.30)
6. Lawson's (4.27)
7. Hermit Thrush (4.25)
8. Brick & Feather (4.21)
9. Jack's Abby (4.21)
10. Fiddlehead (4.21)

 

Top Three...

1. Brick & Feather
2. River Roost
3. Honest Weight

...because those are the ones closest to me. Everywhere else mentioned above are tied for number four.

 

For me, as follows.

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Lawson's Finest
3. Alchemist
4. Mystic
5. Oxbow
6. Trillium
7. River Roost
8. Foam
9. Fiddlehead
10. Maine Beer Co.

What I drink the most is Hill Farmstead and River Roost, would drink more Foam and Trillium if they were closer. 4-8 could be pretty interchangeable, I gave Mystic the nod because I really like their taproom experience.

 

I think I mentioned before, I can solve your Massachusetts problems if you can solve my northern Vermont problems.

 

I tend to get enough mailed to me already, but if they were next door or on tap where I frequent, I would probably drink more Trillium and Foam. I'm in the vicinity of both a handful of times a year (like for EBF in a few weeks).

 

Kettlehead definitely an up and comer. Great new addition to NH.

 

Jack's Abby
Fort Hill
Bissell
Austin St.
TH
Trill

 

-Hill Farmstead
-Tree House
-Trillium
-Suarez
-Jack's Abby/Springdale
-Brick & Feather
-Notch
-Lawson's Finest
-Barreled Souls
-Honest Weight

Honorable mentions: Night Shift, Oxbow, Cold Harbor, Mast Landing.

Keep an eye on River Styx.

 

Hill
TH
Trill
OEC
Proclamation
Foam
NEBco
Allagash
Relic
Jacks Abby ?
...haven't had any/enough of the following to comment: Oxbow, Honest weight, and several Maine beers (working on that though).

 

1) treehouse
2) Hill farmstead
3) OEC
4) bissel
5) Trillium
6) foam
7) hermit thrush
8) Alchemist
9) brick and feather
10) clown shoes (great imperial stouts)

 

Get your New York out of New England

 

That part of NY feels alot more like New England than half of the State of Connecticut. But, I agree. I'll replace it with whatever brewery @xerotime goes next.

 

Huh, I never really stopped to think of this before so it's kind of tough and kind of interesting at the same time.

These are not ranked and are weighted towards things I've had the opportunity to drink frequently relatively recently (which is why a place like Hill Farmstead isn't on the list):

1. Ipswich
2. Jack's Abby
3. The Alchemist
4. Idle Hands
5. Night Shift
6. Cambridge Brewing Company
7. Fort Hill
8. Zero Gravity
9. Notch
10. Tree House

Honorable Mention: Cape Ann Brewery

ETA: ah crap, Smuttynose should be in there somewhere