Your top craft breweries

Alphabetical order, most important to me are quality of selection, variety, innovation, availability and price:

Bells
Dog Fish Head
Flying Dog
Founders
Great Lakes (I'm from Cleveland)
Rogue
Samuel Smiths
Sierra Nevada
Stone
Victory

I'll say,

La Cumbre
Ska
Lagunitas
Surly (cause I trade for it)
Deschuttes

I'll try to keep it to 5.

Victory
Troegs
Firestone Walker
Brooklyn
Carton

Brooklyn may be on it's way out of the top 5 depending on how I enjoy some other breweries.

Avery, Founders, Southern Tier, Schmaltz, Sierra Nevada

This should be a top 5 list because I could make a good list that would just be annoying. I'm from California and we have THE BEST! I'll even try to provide my favorite beers one that is a special brew and one that is not a "specialty" beer.
1) Firestone Walker- Velvet Merkin, Double Jack
2) Sierra Nevada- Porter, Estate
3) Lagunitas- Little Sumptin' Sumptin' Wild, Little Sumptin' Sumptin'
4) Bear Republic- Hop Rod, Red Rocket
5) Stone- Ruination, Oaked Double Bastard

I think alot of this depends on where you live. I live in SW Canada and my favorites are:

Driftwood Brewery (Victoria BC)
Ninkasi (Eugene OR)
Parallel 49 (Vancouver BC)
Sierra Nevada (Chico CA)
Deschutes (Bend OR)

I'm from Farmington, nm in northwest NM. So I have to rep some of the local!

Ska
Three Rivers
Marble
Steamworks

And non local has to be

Deschuttes
Odell
Stone

Russian river

Odell

Sierra

Anchor

Lost Abbey
Lagunitas
Green Flash
Pizza port
Firestone walker

Rogue, Ballast Point, Lagunitas.

No particular order

Lagunitas, Sixpoint, Smuttynose, Great Divide, North Coast, Allagash, Stone, Lefty's, Founder's, Abita, Cambridge Brewing

Lagunitas, Stone, Allagash, Goose Island, Heavy Seas, Rogue

Surly
Russian River
Stone
Lagunitas
Widmer
Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada
Stone
Sixpoint
Bear Republic
Bell's
Founders.

I'm from WV, SN is the only one on the list available here. Gotta cross state lines to get anything really good.

Bells
Dark Horse
Founders
Arcadia

Founders
Bells
8 Wired
Cigar City
Lagunitas

Midwest in me is going to shine through here......

Boulevard
Schlafly
Mother's
Tallgrass
Left Hand

landshark said:

Midwest in me is going to shine through here......

Boulevard
Schlafly
Mother's
Tallgrass
Left Hand

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I'm a weird combo of Midwest and South:

(In no particular order)
Boulevard
Tallgrass
St. Arnold
Abita
Sierra Nevada (nowhere close to me but its my favorite brewery so bite me)

lagunitas
21st amendment
green flash
evolution

I missed 21st Amendment. Loved their stuff last time I was out in San Fran.

Local; Midnight Sun Brewery

Lower48; Lagunitas, Firestone, Stone, 21A

-Odell's (Ft. Collins, CO)

-New Belgium (Ft. Collins, CO)

-Equinox (Ft. Collins, CO)

-Funkwerks (Ft. Collins, CO)

-Blackbottle (Ft. Collins, CO)

.... Those are my top 5 local ... expanding state wide

- Left Hand
- Avery