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

In this yearly update, we plot the moves in the Brewers Association’s top 50 craft brewers by production volume, from 2007 to the present. To simplify the data and make it easier to follow, we fast-forward from 2007 to 2017 and pick up from there.

Here's a new look at the growth in the number of breweries in the United States—growth that’s been leveling off, recently—with some other data points for context.

Beer writer and critic Stephen Beaumont, co-author of the World Atlas of Beer and a Toronto native, names five Canadian breweries that beer lovers everywhere ought to know, now.

You voted, we tallied. From our annual Readers’ Choice survey, here are your favorite breweries—broken down by size, based on how many barrels brewed per year.

Big-city breweries and bars aren’t the only ones who can draw crowds with events dedicated to traditional Kölsch service. In rural Fairbury, Illinois, the locals have quite taken to Kölsch Night in the converted dairy barn at Emancipation Brewing. Cofounder and head brewer Lincoln Slagel explains how and why it works.

Here, we plot state populations against the number of breweries in each state, to get insight into which have the most and fewest breweries per capita.

You voted, and here they are: your top 50 beers of 2022, plus your favorite breweries by size, as decided by the readers of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®.

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

Some brew systems make beer for us to drink. Others just solve mysteries—providing an acceptable outlet for failure and serving as the lifeblood of craft beer. John M. Verive is on the case.

Small Brewery Sunday is November 29. The annual campaign to support smaller, independent breweries means more than usual this year, with a dire winter ahead for the hospitality trade.

Six weird, wild, and wonderful beer events that any true beer lover should experience, even if just once.

Few brewers are more well-traveled than Averie Swanson, (the recently departed) head brewer at Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas. Here are five breweries she recommends.

Tampa-area breweries will brew an IPA using hop varietals that begin with I-R-M-A with proceeds going to a local food bank.

Looking for a tasty trip? Head to 1 of 5 featured cities with this guide to find some of the best beers in the world.