Your NE Top 10

no particular order

Foam Brewers
Hill Farmstead
Burlington Beer Company
Maine Beer Company
Frost Beer Works
Fiddlehead
Deciduous
Exhibit A
Jack's Abby
14th Star

Honorable mentions:

Lost Nation
Cambridge Brewing
Rising Tide
Mayflower
Simple Roots
Allagash
Four Quarters
Lawson's
von Trapp
Queen City
Ten Bends
Drop In
Foley Bros
Foundation
Good Measure
River Roost
Mystic

But I gotta admit, this will prolly change next week, I winged this tonight, lolz

 

1A. Hill Farmstead
1B. Von Trapp
1C. Alchemist
3. Allagash
4. Treehouse
5. Honest Weight
6. New England Brewing Company
7. Trillium
8. Jack Abbey
9. Smuttynose
10. Mystic


To be fair I have not had a lot of the smaller newer breweries in New England. My top 3 are hard for me to sort out. I really enjoyed all three and think all three are unique.

 

Tree House
Fox Farm
Proclamation
Bissell
Tilted Barn
Oxbow
Allagash
Hill Farmstead
OEC
NEBCO (for nostalgia sake)

 

Just based on what I drank the most of during 2017, in no particular,

Hill Farmstead
Oxbow
Allagash
Banded Horn
Night Shift
Barreled Souls
Mast Landing
Austin St.
Battery Steele
Jack's Abbey

 

Tree House
Alchemist
Hill Farmstead
Vanished Valley
Lamplighter
Trillium
Nightshift
Springdale

 

I wouldn't say half. But southwest corner of the state, yes.

 

1) Hill Farmstead
2) Tree House
3) Trillium
4) Bissel Bros
5) Oxbow
6) Foam
7) Alchemist
8) Lawson's
9) River Roost (haven't had a ton from them otherwise this would be higher)
10) Foley Bros

Honorable Mention: Schilling/Resilient and Lamplighter (which I also haven't had a ton from yet.)

I feel like my top 4 are such generic picks, but I really do love my HF for how well they do seemingly every style of beer (it makes the NEK better at least).

 

totally brainfarted on Lamplighter.

 

In no particular order

HF
Night Shift
Trillium
Tree House
Notch
Springdale
Medusa
Aeronaut
Lamplighter
Oxbow



Honerable Mentions
Mystic
Castle Island
Bunker

 

1. Hill
2. CBC
3. Treehouse
4. Allagash
5. Jacks Abby
6. Trillium
7. Foam
8. Proclamation
9. Mystic
10. Nightshift

I am really hoping that Buttonwoods and Shaidzon move onto this list during this year.

 

Fairfield County is NYC's parking lot. I get that. My Mom lives in Plainville and the vibe is mixed. Not to mention they weren't showing the Pats games but Jets/Giants games which is horseshit.

 

1- Hill Farmstead
2- Tree House
3- Foam
4- Brick & Feather
5- Trillium
6- Allagash
7- Bissel Bros
8- Night Shift
9- Clown Shoes
10- Springdale

NE has good beer!!

 

Whoa whoa whoa, I grew up in Brookfield, which is part of Fairfield County and definitely not close to NYC. Rural farmland, with a nice small town vibe.

 

1. Hill Farmstead
2. Cambridge Brewing
3. Trillium
4. Allagash
5. Jacks Abby/Springdale
6. OEC
7. Treehouse
8. Mystic
9. Oxbow
10. Night Shift

 

1. Treehouse
2. Jack’s Abby
3. Trillium
4. Lamplighter
5. Exhibit A
6. Medusa
7. Mystic
8. Castle Island
9. Idle Hands
10. Night Shift

I’ve also had a couple of beers from Hill and Foam, just not enough to include them in this list.

 

No real order here:

Tree House
Trillium
Fiddlehead
Alchemist
Exhibit A
Medusa
14th Star
Lawson's
Night Shift
Jack's Abbey
Stoneface

Yes I know that is 11.

 

HF
TH
Trill
Foam
Bissell
Mystic
Oxbow
Alchemist

I haven't been to or had: River Roost or Proclamation.
I don't like Non-lambic belgian style beers (sours only for me), so while I think Allagash is prolific and great, I have to dodge a bunch of stuff that I don't appreciate. They do seem to make a few shelf-sitters, but FWIW Cantillon used to sit for a while a few years back.

I don't know if the OP was marketing for someone in particular (I don't necessarily think so), but there are definitely some suspect choices in the list.

 

Dam I left off River Roost and Foam.

"Top 13"

 

Sorry. Mistyped. I meant suspect choices among all of the lists. Wasn't flaming, OP.

 

What are some of the suspect choices IYO? I was thinking of checking out some of the breweries in the thread that I have yet to experience.