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Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2025

You voted, we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries, broken down into four categories by volume brewed.

Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2025

Small

(fewer than 5,000 barrels per year)

1. Green Cheek (Orange, California)
2. Highland Park (Los Angeles)
3. North Park (San Diego)
4. Goldfinger (Downers Grove, Illinois)
5. Alma Mader (Kansas City, Missouri)
6. BKS Artisan Ales (Kansas City, Missouri)
7. Absolution (Torrance, California)
8. Geisthaus (Sacramento, California)
9. Floodland (Seattle)
10. Brujos (Portland, Oregon)
11. Monkish (Torrance, California)
12. Triptych (Savoy, Illinois)
13. Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver)
14. Lumen (Omaha, Nebraska)
15. Side Project (Maplewood, Missouri)
16. Everywhere (Orange, California)
17. Cerebral (Denver)
18. Gold Dot & Heater Allen (McMinnville, Oregon)
19. Wondrous (Emeryville, California)
20. Holy Mountain (Seattle)

Small Regional

(5,000–25,000 barrels per year)

1. Pinthouse (Austin)
2. Hop Butcher For The World (Chicago)
3. Burial (Asheville, North Carolina)
4. Alvarado Street (Monterey, California)
5. Outer Range (Frisco, Colorado)
6. Meanwhile (Austin)
7. Ghost Town (Oakland, California)
8. Humble Sea (Santa Cruz, California)
9. Westbound & Down (Erie, Colorado)
10. Hill Farmstead (Greensboro Bend, Vermont)
11. Block 15 (Corvallis, Oregon)
12. Cellarmaker (Oakland, California)
13. WeldWerks (Greeley, Colorado)
14. Pure Project (San Diego)
15. Schilling (Littleton, New Hampshire)
16. Trillium (Canton, Massachusetts)
17. The Alchemist (Stowe, Vermont)
18. Phase Three (Lake Zurich, Illinois)
19. Prost (Northglenn, Colorado)
20. Dovetail (Chicago)

Midsize Regional

(25,000–100,000 barrels per year)

1. Russian River (Windsor, California)
2. Tree House (Charlton, Massachusetts)
3. pFriem (Hood River, Oregon)
4. Breakside (Portland, Oregon)
5. Fort George (Astoria, Oregon)
6. Other Half (Brooklyn, New York)
7. Revolution (Chicago)
8. Toppling Goliath (Decorah, Iowa)
9. Half Acre (Chicago)
10. Maine Beer (Freeport, Maine)
11. Pizza Port (Carlsbad, California)
12. Fat Head’s (Middleburg Heights, Ohio)
13. Saint Arnold (Houston)
14. Destihl (Normal, Illinois)
15. Fremont (Seattle)
16. Lawson’s Finest (Waitsfield, Vermont)
17. North Coast (Fort Bragg, California)
18. Real Ale (Blanco, Texas)
19. Ballast Point (San Diego)
20. Big Grove (Solon, Iowa)

Large

(100,000+ barrels per year)

1. Sierra Nevada (Chico, California)
2. New Glarus (New Glarus, Wisconsin)
3. Firestone Walker (Paso Robles, California)
4. Allagash (Portland, Maine)
5. Bell’s (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
6. Stone (Escondido, California)
7. Odell (Fort Collins, Colorado)
8. Founders (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
9. New Belgium (Fort Collins, Colorado)
10. Boulevard (Kansas City, Missouri)
11. Dogfish Head (Milton, Delaware)
12. Deschutes (Bend, Oregon)
13. Goose Island (Chicago)
14. Avery (Boulder, Colorado)
15. Wicked Weed (Asheville, North Carolina)
16. Three Floyds (Munster, Indiana)
17. Augustiner (Munich)
18. Great Lakes (Cleveland)
19. Guinness (Dublin)
20. Ommegang (Cooperstown, New York)