Ratebeer.com has released it's annual list of the best of the best in the world of craft beer, aptly titled, RateBeer Best. It's a year long competition to be named one of the world's top 50 beers, top 100 brewers, top beer by style category (IPA, stout, etc) and top 5 new brewers. This year the awards expanded a bit to include categories for best beer retailers and the top 50 new releases from last year. The website goes into far more detail about how the awards are decided, but when you're talking about 180,000 different beers from 13,000 breweries, it's safe to say you're making some quality brews if you land on any of these lists.
There was no change in the top spot for #1 overall beer, that honor once again went to Westvleteren XII, which seems to be a given at this point. Russian River's Pliny the Elder however made a big jump to the 2 spot from #16 last year, past his highly touted brother Pliny the Younger. The biggest surprise was Hill Farmstead who seemed to win just about everything this year. You couldn't make it very far on any of these lists without running into them.
If you like craft beer you're definitely going to want to spend some time checking out the complete awards on Ratebeer.com to see where all your favorites landed. Later, I'll bring you my winners and losers from the 2013 RateBeer Best.
Drink On,
Dan
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