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(2022 rank is listed in parentheses)
Favorite American IPA Brewer
1. Russian River (1)
2. Green Cheek (7)
3. Sierra Nevada (4)
4. Breakside (5)
5. North Park (13)
6. Bell’s (6)
7. Stone (8)
8. Tree House (12)
9. Hop Butcher (11)
10. Fat Head’s (16)
11. Firestone Walker (10)
12. Pinthouse (+)
13. Lagunitas (9)
14. Highland Park (+)
15. Alvarado Street (19)
16. Riip (+)
17. pFriem (+)
18. Half Acre (15)
19. Maine Beer (20)
20. Odell (2)
Favorite Saison Brewer
1. Dupont (1)
2. Boulevard (2)
3. Hill Farmstead (4)
4. Sante Adairius (9)
5. Jester King (3)
6. Fair Isle (17)
7. Side Project (7)
8. Allagash (5)
9. Wolves & People (+)
10. Ommegang (8)
11. Upright (18)
12. Homage (+)
13. Funkwerks (6)
14. Holy Mountain (19)
15. Is/Was (20)
16. Off Color (10)
17. Afterthought (12)
18. Keeping Together (+)
19. Trillium (+)
20. Goose Island (+)
Favorite Abbey-Style Brewer
1. Westvleteren (6)
2. St. Bernardus (1)
3. Chimay (3)
4. Westmalle (8)
5. Allagash (4)
6. Ommegang (2)
7. Rochefort (5)
8. The Lost Abbey (9)
9. Duvel (11)
10. Unibroue (10)
11. Orval (+)
12. New Belgium (7)
13. Boulevard (14)
14. Monkish (+)
15. Monkless (19)
16. La Trappe (12)
17. North Coast (+)
18. Sugar Creek (+)
19. Bosteels (+)
20. Bruz (+)
Favorite Sour or Wild-Ale Brewer
1. Jester King (3)
2. Russian River (2)
3. Cantillon (1)
4. Cascade (7)
5. Jolly Pumpkin (+)
6. de Garde (8)
7. Side Project (4)
8. 3 Fonteinen (+)
9. Great Notion (+)
10. Alvarado Street (+)
11. Sante Adairius (16)
12. Urban Artifact (9)
13. Allagash (15)
14. The Bruery (6)
15. Crooked Stave (5)
16. Mortalis (+)
17. New Belgium (14)
18. Trillium (+)
19. Casey (+)
20. Cellador (+)
Favorite Hazy IPA Brewer
1. Tree House (1)
2. Hop Butcher (3)
3. Green Cheek (6)
4. Monkish (8)
5. The Alchemist (10)
6. WeldWerks (7)
7. Trillium (15)
8. Sierra Nevada (4)
9. Pinthouse (13)
10. Other Half (9)
11. Alvarado Street (+)
12. Breakside (11)
13. North Park (17)
14. Widowmaker (+)
15. Fort George (+)
16. Great Notion (+)
17. New Belgium (+)
18. Triptych (12)
19. Burial (+)
20. Old Nation (+)
Favorite Stout or Porter Brewer
1. Guinness (1)
2. Side Project (6)
3. Goose Island (4)
4. Bottle Logic (9)
5. North Coast (3)
6. Bell’s (13)
7. Deschutes (5)
8. Firestone Walker (7)
9. Fort George (+)
10. Left Hand (11)
11. Toppling Goliath (10)
12. Burial (20)
13. Breakside (14)
14. Three Floyds (+)
15. Alvarado Street (+)
16. Fremont (+)
17. Perennial (+)
18. Revolution (2)
19. Sierra Nevada (17)
20. Private Press (+)
Favorite Pale Ale Brewer
1. Sierra Nevada (1)
2. Three Floyds (4)
3. Green Cheek (9)
4. Cellarmaker (14)
5. Half Acre (5)
6. Oskar Blues (7)
7. Breakside (6)
8. Tree House (13)
9. Hill Farmstead (19)
10. pFriem (18)
11. Bell’s (17)
12. Deschutes (12)
13. Maine Beer (16)
14. Boulevard (+)
15. New Glarus (+)
16. Toppling Goliath (8)
17. Trillium (+)
18. Hop Butcher (10)
19. Triptych (11)
20. Sweetwater (+)
Favorite Lager Brewer
1. Bierstadt Lagerhaus (1)
2. Goldfinger (5)
3. Samuel Adams (7)
4. pFriem (+)
5. Highland Park (+)
6. Jack’s Abby (3)
7. Schilling (+)
8. Suarez (13)
9. Dovetail (2)
10. Wayfinder (14)
11. Yuengling (17)
12. Pilsner Urquell (+)
13. Chuckanut (4)
14. The ABGB (12)
15. Heater Allen (+)
16. Wondrous (+)
17. Green Cheek (6)
18. Great Lakes (19)
19. Halfway Crooks (+)
20. Human Robot (+)