Best In Beer 2021

Writers and critics Stan Hieronymus, Kate Bernot, Alex Kidd, Samer Khudairi, and Joe Stange share their favorite beers and noted trends from the past year.

You have spoken! And so have we. In this once-a-year special episode, Joe Stange and Jamie Bogner share Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2021 and the results of the annual reader survey.

Here are the favorites you picked in these homebrew-related categories.

Since any general “top breweries” list will inevitably slant toward those that make IPAs, we asked about your favorite beers and brewers in these eight specific style categories.

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