Top 10 Favorite Breweries

Thought this thread would be fun, and provide me with some breweries I should check out but haven't yet.

These are my picks for breweries that provide beers in their lineups that I tend to like no matter the style. Some breweries I like this one or that one, but for these I can pretty much pick up any of their offerings and be somewhat happy with them.

Here's my 10, in no particular order:

1. Ballast Point
2. Sierra Nevada
3. Three Floyds
4. Great Lakes
5. Bells
6. Founders
7. Unibroue
8. Dark Horse
9. Boulevard
10. Avery

I don't think I have 10 favorites but I could narrow it down to 5 breweries that no matter what they produce it gets a 7-8 out of 10 for me

1. Odell's
2. Founders
3. Dogfish head
4. Revolution
5. Bells

I'll stick to breweries I have gotten regularly

1. Victory
2. Founders
3. Lagunitas
4. Ballast Point
5. Hill Farmstead
6. Carton
7. Kane
8. Allagash
9. Maine
10. Firestone Walker

My residences have been NJ and northern NH for reference.

hoppyhoppyhippo said:

I'll stick to breweries I have gotten regularly

1. Victory
2. Founders
3. Lagunitas
4. Ballast Point
5. Hill Farmstead
6. Carton
7. Kane
8. Allagash
9. Maine
10. Firestone Walker

My residences have been NJ and northern NH for reference.

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Like your list alot.

1. Founders, buy at least 2 15 packs all day a month
2 Tired Hands
3 Kane. Very close to me.
4 Carton.
5 Firestone walker.
6 Round Guys.
7 Fegley Brew Works.

After them it all falls off pretty quickly.

(1) Stone
(2) Ballast Point
(3) Stone
(4) Bells
(5) Stone
(6) Sierra Nevada
(7) Stone
(8) Stone
(9) Bacon
(10) Stone

Unibroue FTW. Their La Fin du Monde entirely redefined what beer could be for me when I turned 21. I just wish they actually came out with new beers now and then. I got their yeast from the Wyeast private collection and Im loving it

Other breweries I will buy anytime I see them: Ommegang, Stone, Prarie Artisan Ales, Crooked Stave, any Hills Farmstead collaboration....I wish I could find some tired hands

also, I recently went to Bluejacket brewery in DC and holy crap it blew me away. Most breweries I go to theres maybe 1 or 2 beers that are non boilerplate boring stuff but every single beer they had was completely off the charts. It was so damn hard to pick what I wanted to try, let alone leave with a bottle of

1.Bells
2.Founders
3.Stone
4.Shorts
5.Oscar Blues
6.New Amsterdam (Canadian)
7. Tree Brewing (Canadian)
8.Brooklyn
9.Flying Monkeys (Canadian)
10.New Belgium
11. Dogfish Head

My list is based off of the ones I have physically been to... In no particular order.

Fat Heads
JAFB
Founders
Three Floyds
Revolution
Southern Tier
Sierra Nevada
Mad Tree
Troegs
Jackie O's

In no particular order:

1. El Segundo Brewing Company
2. Ballast Point
3. Stone
4. The Bruery
5. Russian River
6. Lost Abbey
7. Jester King
8. Smog City
9. Deschutes
10. Budwei... Kidding! AleSmith

1. Deschutes
2. Hales
3. Ninkasi
4. Daft Badger
5. Sam Adams
6. Leavenworth
7. Alaskan
8. Big Sky
9. Firestone Walker
10. Republic

Not in any particular order except Deschutes at #1

Pilsner urquell
Da halve Mann
Sierra Nevada
Heineken
Clandestine
Firestone walker
21st amendment
Freewheel
Draught line

In no particular order:
Founders
Deschutes
Bells
Ballast Point
Lagunitas
Rogue
Ale Asylum (local in Madison, WI)
Ale Smith
Toppling Goliath
Green Flash

1.) Verhaege
2.) St Bernardus
3.) Abbaye de Leffe
4.) Plzensky Plazdroj
5.) Brouwerij van Hoegaarden
6.) Schneider Weisse
7.) Anheuser Busch
8.) Anchor
9.) Flying Dog
10.) Unibroue

I am a west coast IPA junkie but my fallbacks are session IPAs, summer wheats and saisons. With that in mind (INPO):

Stone
Ballast Point
Lagunitas
Founders
Bells
Deschutes
Ommegang
Liftbridge
Hill Farmstead
Surly

I'm sure Russian River would displace one of the above if my palate had routine access (not in MN), but given I've only been to Santa Rosa the one time I can't quite put it on the list...

I'm in the pacific northwest so my favorites are based on what I can easily attain.

1. Firestone Walker
2. Russian River
3. Deschutes
4. Fremont
5. Boneyard
6. de Garde
7. Geaux
8. Dirty Bucket
9. Modern Times
10. Ballast Point

9. Logsdon
8. Goose Island (don't care if they're corporate now, Sofie is killer)
7. Revolution
6. Three Floyds
5. Cigar City
4. Pipeworks
3. Prairie Artisan Ales
2. Half Acre
1. Off Color

No particular order...

Brasserie St. Feuillien
Wicked Weed
Bird Song
Bells
Founders
Terrapin
Stone
Deschutes
Green Flash
Dogfish Head
Unibroue

Sierra Nevada
Firestone
Russian River
Cantillon
Civil Life
New Belgium
Ballast Point
Stone
Lagunitas
Cigar City

Being in the Chicago area, it's hard to beat the freshness of the local breweries. We got a lot of awesome breweries here.

Spiteful (something about Spiteful that I love, they're probly my #1)
Pipeworks
Temperance
Half Acre
Three Floyds (just had their new Cherry gose last nite and it was frickin awesome)
Firestone Walker
Revolution
Founders
Surly
Off Color

In no particular order: (and yes, some are CT local-because, local is fresh and friendly)

1. Victory
2. Firefly Hollow
3. New England
4. Oskar Blues
5. Alchemy
6. Sierra Nevada
7. Brooklyn
8. Lagunitas
9. Smuttynose
10. Long Trail

My favorite breweries because I've done automation work at most of them

Robinsons - Stockport, UK
Black Sheep - Masham, UK
Theakstons - Masham, UK
Boddingtons - when it was really Boddingtons
Wm Stones - Sheffield, UK
Greene King - Bury St Edmunds, UK
Arkells - Swindon, UK
Croft - port winery - Oporto (yes, I enjoy a good port as well as beer)
Sam Smiths - North Yorkshire
Whitbread - Samlesbury, UK... RIP - These guys didn't just make yeast - they brewed pretty decent ale at one time or another

HUGE SHOUTOUT TO Frog And Parrot - "Roger and Out" - Sheffield, UK

1. Sierra Nevada
2. Lagunitas
3. Dogfish head
4. Russian river
5. Deschutes
6. Stone
7. Fall River
8. Rogue
9. Eel river
10. New Belgium

Societe
AleSmith
Belching Beaver
Mother Earth
Green Flash
Stone
Ballast Point
Duckfoot
Saint Archer
Lost Abby

Ommegang
North Coast
Allagash
Avery
Deschutes
Ninkasi
Eel River
New Belgium
Santa Fe
Odells

Based on what's available here in Louisiana (order of 3 through 10 subject to change depending on my mood):
Rochefort
Dogfish Head
Founders
Unibroue
Stone
Sierra Nevada
Belhaven
North Coast
Sam Smith
NOLA

Honorable mention: Anchor

Hill Farmstead
Russian River
New Glarus
Cantillon
Wicked Weed
Burial
Bells
Cigar City
Westbrook
Evil Twin