Readers’ Choice: Favorite Breweries
You voted and we tallied—here are your favorite breweries broken down in categories by beer barrels brewed.
Small Breweries (fewer than 15,000 barrels per year)
1. Hill Farmstead (Greensboro Bend, Vermont)
2. Other Half (Brooklyn, New York)
3. Weldwerks (Greeley, Colorado)
4. Jester King (Austin, Texas)
5. Burial (Asheville, North Carolina)
6. Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver, Colorado) 7. Side Project (Maplewood, Missouri)
8. Hop Butcher for the World (Chicago, Illinois)
9. Monkish (Torrance, California)
10. Tired Hands (Ardmore, Pennsylvania)
11. Dovetail (Chicago, Illinois)
12. The Veil (Richmond, Virginia)
13. Vitamin Sea (Weymouth, Massachusetts) 14. Cantillon (Brussels, Belgium)
15. Anchorage (Anchorage, Alaska)
16. Alvarado Street (Monterey, California)
17. Suarez Family (Hudson, New York)
18. Great Notion (Portland, Oregon)
19. Bottle Logic (Anaheim, California)
20. Highland Park (Los Angeles, California)
Very Large Breweries (500,000+ barrels per year)
1. Sierra Nevada (Chico, California)
2. Founders (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
3. New Belgium (Fort Collins, Colorado)
4. Lagunitas/heineken (Petaluma, California) 5. Dogfish Head (Milton, Delaware)
6. Samuel Adams (Boston, Massachusetts)
7. Yuengling (Pottsville, Pennsylvania)
8. Goose Island/abi (Chicago, Illinois)
9. Guinness/diageo (Dublin, Ireland)
10. Wicked WEED/ABI (Asheville, North Carolina)
Midsize Breweries (15,000–100,000 barrels per year)
1. Russian River (Santa Rosa, California)
2. Tree House (Charlton, Massachusetts)
3. Allagash (Portland, Maine)
4. Toppling Goliath (Decorah, Iowa)
5. Modern Times (San Diego, California)
6. Trillium (Canton, Massachusetts)
7. Three Floyds (Munster, Indiana)
8. The Alchemist (Stowe, Vermont)
9. Fremont (Seattle, Washington)
10. Revolution (Chicago, Illinois)
11. Half Acre (Chicago, Illinois)
12. pfriem (Hood River, Oregon)
13. Surly (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
14. Jack’s Abby (Framingham, Massachusetts) 15. Fat Head’s (Middleburg Heights, Ohio)
16. Prairie Artisan Ales (Krebs, Oklahoma)
17. Lawson’s Finest (Warren, Vermont)
18. The Lost Abbey/port (San Marcos, California) 19. Creature Comforts (Athens, Georgia)
20. Fort George (Astoria, Oregon)
Large Breweries (100,000–500,000 barrels per year)
1. Bell’s (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
2. Stone (Escondido, California)
3. Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, California) 4. Deschutes (Bend, Oregon) 5. Cigar City (Tampa, Florida) 6. Tröegs (Hershey, Pennsylvania)
7. Odell (Fort Collins, Colorado)
8. Great Lakes (Cleveland, Ohio) 9. New Glarus (New Glarus, Wisconsin) 10. Oskar Blues (Longmont, Colorado) 11. Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri) 12. Ballast Point (San Diego, California) 13. Victory (Downingtown, Pennsylvania) 14. Rogue (Newport, Oregon) 15. Brewdog (Winchester, Ohio) 16. Southern Tier (Lakewood, New York) 17. Harpoon (Boston, Massachusetts) 18. Weinhestephaner (Weihenstephan, Germany) 19. Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York)
20. Sweetwater (Atlanta, Georgia)