Not sure if I agree with all of these, I feel like New Glarus should be on here. I’m not sure if I’m aware of a brewery that dominates a state like they do.
This will come off snobbish, but just blurting it out before I think too hard on it:
I think this article is in error. Those WERE the most important breweries of the 1990s. What have they done lately, other than continuing to still be kind of important?
Starts with Sierra Nevada, ends with Weldworks, by the date founded.
Sierra Nevada would get my vote for the Oktoberfest collaboration with a different German brewery each year. I don’t buy many 6 packs, but I always get one or more of that one.