So I was just curious to see everyone’s top 10 or so favorite commercial craft breweries?
Here are mine in no certain order
Odells Brewing (CO)
Strange Brewing (CO)
Deschutes brewery (OR)
Firestone Walker Brewing (CA)
Fort Collins Brewery (CO)
Big Sky Brewing (MT)
Mendocino Brewing Company (Select and Legend) (CA)
Dogfish Head (DE)
Big Horn Brewing (CB& Potts restaurant) (CO)
Stone Brewing (CA)
In no particular order of preference except for #1…
1.) Sierra Nevada
2.) Oskar Blues
3.) Victory
4.) Flying Fish
5.) North Coast
6.) Anchor
7.) Gordon Biersch
8.) Boston Brewing
9.) Traquair House
10.) Yuengling
Not making the list (because I don’t like their beers overall) is AB-InBev…but they do get a begrudging honorable mention because a couple of their specialty “craft” beers are actually very worthy and I enjoy them from time to time. (do I need to duck after saying that??)
This is a list that’s ever changing, but here is mine at this moment…
1. Odell
2. AleSmith
3. Avery
4. Full Sail
5. Dry Dock (right around the corner from my house)
6. Stone
7. Oskar Blues
8. Left Hand
9. Dogfish
10. New Belgium
In the number one spot:
a tie: Boulevard, Sierra Nevada
Deschutes almost makes it a 3 way tie, but they brewed the abomination known as the Abyss.
Other than these 3 I really don’t run across breweries whose entire portfolio appeals to me.
This is a list that’s ever changing, but here is mine at this moment…
1. Odell
2. AleSmith
3. Avery
4. Full Sail
5. Dry Dock (right around the corner from my house)*
6. Stone
7. Oskar Blues
8. Left Hand
9. Dogfish
10. New Belgium
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Dry Dock is great, I have recently discovered them. I really enjoy the brew hut for my homebrew supplies. only draw in terms of supplies is its a 30min drive for me to get to the neck of the woods, and also you have to navigate the tech center >:(.
I think that my favorite list could easily go up to 20 regular breweries that i drink, but i tried to pick breweries that i liked all their beers or almost all.
I live in SE Centennial and Dry Dock and Brew Hut are only a 7 min drive from my house. Dry Dock brews some great beer. I get all my ingredients from Brew Hut and the staff there is great.
Yeah I live over in the Ken Caryl so the Brew Hut and Beer at home (Broadway and Quincy) are my two local brew shops. however the Brew Hut i think has a better staff. I love dry dock i have not had a bad beer yet, their ESB is great and along with their IPA’s, i only wish the bottled all their beers