Best In Beer

Which beers do you love the most? We polled thousands of our magazine and newsletter subscribers on their favorites, and here are the results.

Uncork the magnums, this is the winners’ circle. Through a gauntlet of judging panels and on to the editors’ table for a last round of blind tasting and spirited discussion, these are the beers that lit up our palates and our brains—or that simply had us yearning for another, and another.

In this once-a-year episode, Jamie Bogner and Joe Stange share Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2025, as selected by our judges and editorial team—plus, the results of our Readers’ Choice survey for best breweries, beer cities, bars, and more.

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

The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft-beer niches. The 2024 rank is noted in parentheses.

From the smallest Belgian beer café to the largest multi-tap beer extravaganza, these are your 20 favorite places to gather for beer in 2025.

Draft, can, growler, or bomber? From our Best in Beer 2024 Readers’ Choice Survey—and compared to recent years—here’s how you answered the question, “How do you prefer to buy your favorite craft beers?”

When it comes to memorable beer experiences, we get to do more than most—and we love that part of the job—but we can’t do it all. And yet … what if we could? Here are our picks for where we’d love to be in the year to come, given druthers, time, and wherewithal. See you there?

We asked five of the brewers behind our Best 20 Beers in 2023 to share their own favorites from 2024.

Our cofounder, editorial director, and host of the Craft Beer & Brewing Podcast shares his standout beers and moments from the past year.

The Manchester, England–based beer writer and founder of Pellicle Magazine shares his favorite beers from the past 12 months.

The New York City–based writer, tarot enthusiast, author of the Hugging the Bar newsletter, and noted metalhead shares her beery high points from the past year.

One of the most influential and incisive voices in beer, the force behind Dontdrinkbeer and the Malt Couture podcast, has been leaning into nonalcoholic beer over the past year as he battles cancer. Here are his greatest hits.

Pubs, bars, and cafés are crucial to the experience and community of craft beer and a vital link between maker and consumer. Here are your 20 favorites in 2024.

With IPAs and pilsners still on top, your favorite styles remained relatively consistent year over year.

Here are the best cities in the United States and around the world for drinking great beer in 2024—according to you, our readers.

Hear the stories behind the stories, as Jamie and Joe share your Readers’ Choice picks for favorites of the year, and as they reveal and discuss Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2024.

A year of focused tasting panels plus two full days of blind judging and lively discussion among our editorial panel—including Kate Bernot and Stan Hieronymus—culminates in this: the roll of honor. Here are the 20 beers that awed, delighted, and inspired us the most, representing the pinnacle of the craft today.

Which beers do you love the most? We polled thousands of our magazine and newsletter subscribers on their favorites, and here are the results.

Want to get into some great cider but don’t know where to start? Beth Demmon, author of The Beer Lover’s Guide to Cider, names five who could be the faces of American cider’s future, from innovative newcomers to groundbreaking icons of the craft.