Below, we note each brewery’s 2025 rank, if applicable, in parentheses.
Favorite American or West Coast IPA Brewer
1. Russian River (1)
2. Pinthouse (2)
3. Ghost Town (14)
4. Hop Butcher (4)
5. North Park (8)
6. Alma Mader (13)
7. Highland Park (7)
8. Lumen (16)
9. Sierra Nevada (6)
10. Green Cheek (5)
11. Breakside (10)
12. Outer Range (+)
13. Triptych (15)
14. Movement (+)
15. Civil Society (+)
16. Alvarado Street (12)
17. Brujos (+)
18. Burial (9)
19. Cellarmaker (+)
20. Stone (+)
Favorite Hazy IPA Brewer
1. Tree House (3)
2. Hop Butcher (2)
3. Pinthouse (1)
4. Brujos (7)
5. BKS (4)
6. Lumen (16)
7. Triptych (12)
8. Outer Range (11)
9. Green Cheek (6)
10. Humble Sea (8)
11. Cellarmaker (+)
12. Civil Society (14)
13. Highland Park (13)
14. North Park (10)
15. Original Pattern (+)
16. WeldWerks (+)
17. Russian River (+)
18. Alma Mader (+)
19. Burial (5)
20. Sierra Nevada (18)
Favorite Saison Brewer
1. Dupont (1)
2. Sante Adairius (2)
3. Fair Isle (4)
4. Hill Farmstead (11)
5. Boulevard (5)
6. Floodland (3)
7. Side Project (9)
8. Is/Was (8)
9. Russian River (+)
10. Jester King (6)
11. Cuver (+)
12. Burial (10)
13. Funky Fauna (+)
14. Alesong (+)
15. de Garde (16)
16. New Glarus (+)
17. HenHouse (+)
18. Allagash (13)
19. Off Color (17)
20. Blindhouse (19)
Favorite Stout or Porter Brewer
1. Guinness (1)
2. Side Project (3)
3. Deschutes (4)
4. Founders (6)
5. Burial (2)
6. Firestone Walker (18)
7. Russian River (+)
8. Bottle Logic (12)
9. North Coast (10)
10. River North (+)
11. Sierra Nevada (+)
12. Fort George (5)
13. Highland Park (8)
14. Revolution (11)
15. Pinthouse (+)
16. Cellarmaker (+)
17. Left Hand (9)
18. Goose Island (7)
19. Moksa (+)
20. Cerebral (+)
Favorite Abbey-Style Brewer
1. St. Bernardus (1)
2. The Lost Abbey (5)
3. Allagash (6)
4. Chimay (2)
5. Monkless (9)
6. Ommegang (11)
7. Westvleteren (3)
8. Westmalle (4)
9. Rochefort (7)
10. Duvel (8)
11. New Belgium (13)
12. River North (+)
13. Russian River (17)
14. Boulevard (10)
15. Cuver (+)
16. New Glarus (12)
17. Unibroue (+)
18. Huyghe (+)
19. Monkish (15)
20. Sante Adairius (+)
Favorite Pale Ale Brewer
1. Sierra Nevada (1)
2. Russian River (12)
3. Cellarmaker (4)
4. Half Acre (5)
5. Hop Butcher (3)
6. Alma Mader (16)
7. Triptych (+)
8. Lumen (+)
9. Pinthouse (11)
10. Original Pattern (+)
11. Civil Society (+)
12. Burial (8)
13. New Glarus (10)
14. Sunriver (+)
15. Ghost Town (+)
16. Three Floyds (13)
17. BKS (+)
18. Boulevard (+)
19. Green Cheek (9)
20. Oskar Blues (17)
Favorite Sour or Wild-Ale Brewer
1. de Garde (2)
2. Russian River (12)
3. Cantillon (3)
4. Jester King (1)
5. Side Project (4)
6. Sante Adairius (8)
7. Alvarado Street (5)
8. Floodland (7)
9. Crooked Stave (16)
10. New Glarus (11)
11. Drekker (13)
12. Fair Isle (17)
13. WeldWerks (+)
14. The Bruery (9)
15. Burial (6)
16. Alesong (+)
17. Lumen (+)
18. New Belgium (+)
19. UPP Liquids (+)
20. Burning Barrel (+)
Favorite Lager Brewer
1. Goldfinger (1)
2. Bierstadt Lagerhaus (2)
3. Highland Park (5)
4. Alma Mader (12)
5. Wayfinder (8)
6. Geisthaus (3)
7. Heater Allen/Gold Dot (4)
8. Wondrous (9)
9. Cohesion (20)
10. pFriem (7)
11. Chuckanut (15)
12. Humble Sea (13)
13. Pinthouse (+)
14. Altstadt (+)
15. BKS (14)
16. New Glarus (17)
17. Dovetail (11)
18. Enegren (+)
19. Burial (10)
20. Schilling (6)