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Top 18 Craft Breweries in America

By YPB Team

Nine and a half thousand breweries operate in America, and these are the ones people drive out of their way for.

  1. Tree House Brewing — ranked #11
    Tree House Brewing
    Charlton, Massachusetts — a destination-only brewery people queue for in the rain.
    1000pts
  2. Sierra Nevada — ranked #22
    Sierra Nevada
    Chico, California, 1980 — its Pale Ale taught America what a hop tastes like.
    999pts
  3. Goose Island — ranked #33
    Goose Island
    Chicago, and Bourbon County Brand Stout, the beer that invented the American barrel-aged stout.
    862pts
  4. Cigar City Brewing — ranked #44
    Cigar City Brewing
    Tampa, Florida — Jai Alai IPA and a brewery that gave the Southeast its own identity.
    764pts
  5. The Alchemist — ranked #55
    The Alchemist
    Stowe, Vermont — Heady Topper put the unfiltered hazy IPA on the map in a four-pack of cans.
    764pts
  6. Russian River — ranked #66
    Russian River
    Santa Rosa, California, home of Pliny the Elder and the double IPA as a pilgrimage.
    647pts
  7. Bell's Brewery — ranked #77
    Bell's Brewery
    Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Two Hearted Ale, repeatedly voted America's best beer by homebrewers.
    647pts
  8. Founders Brewing — ranked #88
    Founders Brewing
    Grand Rapids, Michigan — KBS and Breakfast Stout made barrel-ageing a mainstream release date.
    647pts
  9. Deschutes Brewery — ranked #99
    Deschutes Brewery
    Bend, Oregon, 1988 — Black Butte Porter outsold every other craft porter in the country for years.
    647pts
  10. Odell Brewing — ranked #1010
    Odell Brewing
    Fort Collins, Colorado, 1989 — a family brewery that stayed independent while its neighbours sold.
    647pts
  11. Allagash Brewing — ranked #1111
    Allagash Brewing
    Portland, Maine, and the Belgian white that convinced Americans a cloudy beer was intentional.
    647pts
  12. Firestone Walker — ranked #1212
    Firestone Walker
    Paso Robles, California, and the oak-fermented pale ales from its Union brewing system.
    503pts
  13. Anchor Brewing — ranked #1313
    Anchor Brewing
    San Francisco's Anchor Steam is the beer historians point at when they date American craft to 1965.
    503pts
  14. Samuel Adams — ranked #1414
    Samuel Adams
    Boston Beer Company, 1984 — the brewery that proved craft could scale without a buyout.
    503pts
  15. Stone Brewing — ranked #1515
    Stone Brewing
    Escondido, California — arrogance as a brand strategy and a bastard on the label.
    503pts
  16. New Belgium — ranked #1616
    New Belgium
    Fort Collins, Colorado, and the Fat Tire amber that rode a bicycle onto every shelf.
    0pts
  17. Great Lakes Brewing — ranked #1717
    Great Lakes Brewing
    Cleveland, 1988 — Ohio's first craft brewery and its Edmund Fitzgerald Porter.
    0pts
  18. Dogfish Head — ranked #1818
    Dogfish Head
    Delaware's off-centered brewery, built on 60/90/120 Minute IPA and continuous hopping.
    0pts

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