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(2023 rank is listed in parentheses)
Favorite American or WC IPA Brewer
1. Russian River (1)
2. North Park (5)
3. Breakside (4)
4. Green Cheek (2)
5. Highland Park (14)
6. Outer Range (+)
7. Sierra Nevada (3)
8. Burial (+)
9. Alvarado Street (15)
10. Westbound & Down (+)
11. Cloudburst (+)
12. Fat Head’s (10)
13. Burgeon (+)
14. Bell’s (6)
15. Lagunitas (13)
16. Widowmaker (+)
17. Pinthouse (12)
18. Stone (7)
19. Firestone Walker (11)
20. Ghost Town (+)
Favorite Saison Brewer
1. Dupont (1)
2. Sante Adairius (4)
3. Fair Isle (6)
4. Boulevard (2)
5. Floodland (+)
6. Hill Farmstead (3)
7. Blindhouse (+)
8. Allagash (8)
9. Burial (+)
10. Cellar West (+)
11. Jester King (5)
12. Side Project (7)
13. Oxbow (+)
14. Is/Was (15)
15. Homage (12)
16. Funkwerks (13)
17. Zalaz (+)
18. Off Color (16)
19. Upright (11)
20. Afterthought (17)
Favorite Abbey-Style Brewer
1. St. Bernardus (2)
2. Westmalle (4)
3. Allagash (5)
4. Westvleteren (1)
5. Chimay (3)
6. Rochefort (7)
7. The Lost Abbey (8)
8. New Belgium (12)
9. Ommegang (6)
10. Monkless (15)
11. Duvel (9)
12. Bruz (20)
13. Orval (11)
14. Boulevard (13)
15. Huyghe (+)
16. Destihl (+)
17. 12 Degree (+)
18. Russian River (+)
19. Unibroue (10)
20. North Coast (17)
Favorite Sour or Wild-Ale Brewer
1. Cantillon (3)
2. de Garde (6)
3. Alvarado Street (10)
4. Jester King (1)
5. Crooked Stave (15)
6. Burial (+)
7. Casey (19)
8. Sante Adairius (11)
9. Side Project (7)
10. Destihl (+)
11. Drekker (+)
12. Fair Isle (+)
13. Urban Artifact (12)
14. Floodland (+)
15. Russian River (2)
16. Wicked Weed (+)
17. Cascade (4)
18. Urban Family (+)
19. Mortalis (16)
20. Homage (+)
Favorite Hazy IPA Brewer
1. Tree House (1)
2. Burial (19)
3. Green Cheek (3)
4. North Park (13)
5. Outer Range (+)
6. Monkish (4)
7. Highland Park (+)
8. The Alchemist (5)
9. Alvarado Street (11)
10. Other Half (10)
11. Cloudburst (+)
12. Brujos (+)
13. Hop Butcher (2)
14. WeldWerks (6)
15. Breakside (12)
16. Fidens (+)
17. Lumen (+)
18. Widowmaker (14)
19. Trillium (7)
20. Pinthouse (9)
Favorite Stout or Porter Brewer
1. Guinness (1)
2. Side Project (2)
3. Burial (12)
4. Goose Island (3)
5. Highland Park (+)
6. Founders (+)
7. Breakside (13)
8. Left Hand (10)
9. Bottle Logic (4)
10. Alvarado Street (15)
11. Fort George (9)
12. Private Press (20)
13. North Coast (5)
14. Firestone Walker (8)
15. Revolution (18)
16. Deschutes (7)
17. Holy Mountain (+)
18. Tree House (+)
19. Fremont (16)
20. Destihl (+)
Favorite Pale Ale Brewer
1. Sierra Nevada (1)
2. Cellarmaker (4)
3. Breakside (7)
4. Green Cheek (3)
5. Half Acre (5)
6. Burial (+)
7. Highland Park (+)
8. Burgeon (+)
9. Oskar Blues (6)
10. Alvarado Street (+)
11. Toppling Goliath (16)
12. Three Floyds (2)
13. Hill Farmstead (9)
14. North Park (+)
15. Trillium (17)
16. AleSmith (+)
17. pFriem (10)
18. Maine Beer (13)
19. Widowmaker (+)
20. Russian River (+).
Favorite Lager Brewer
1. Bierstadt Lagerhaus (1)
2. Highland Park (5)
3. Goldfinger (2)
4. Heater Allen/Gold Dot (15)
5. Breakside (+)
6. Burial (+)
7. Green Cheek (17)
8. Wayfinder (10)
9. Chuckanut (13)
10. Schilling (7)
11. Cohesion (+)
12. pFriem (4)
13. Alvarado Street (+)
14. Dovetail (9)
15. Prost (+)
16. Live Oak (+)
17. Enegren (+)
18. Jack’s Abby (6)
19. Suarez (8)
20. Notch (+)