Ok folks…HERE IT IS!! My list for my NEW beer challenge: 100 American Breweries in 30 Days! It will commence September 15 upon my arrival in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. The list leaves a mere 8 spots open, and is subject to change. I want to hear YOUR comments. Who should make one of those final spots? And why? What is the ONE beer from them that deserves to be included? I can’t wait to hear from you!!
- Abita
- Alaskan
- Alesmith
- Allagash
- Alpine
- Anchor
- Anderson Valley
- August Schell
- Avery
- Ballast Point
- Bear Republic
- Bells
- Bend
- Big Sky
- Bison
- Bluegrass Brewing
- Boulevard
- Breckenridge
- Brooklyn Brewery
- The Bruery
- Cambridge
- Captain Lawrence
- Cascade
- Cigar City
- Deschutes
- Dogfish Head
- Drake’s
- Firestone Walker
- Foothills Brewing
- Full Sail
- Flying Dog
- Founders
- Goose Island
- Great Divide
- Great Lakes
- Green Flash
- Hair of the Dog
- Harpoon
- Highland
- Hopworks
- Iron Horse
- Jolly Pumpkin
- Karl Strauss
- Kona
- Lagunitas
- Lazy Magnolia
- Leinenkugel
- Lost Abbey
- Lost Coast
- Magic Hat
- Main Street Brewing
- Marin Brewing Co.
- Moylan’s
- New Belgium
- New England Brewing
- New Glarus
- New Holland
- Ninkasi
- NOLA
- North Coast
- Odell
- Ommegang
- Oskar Blues
- Otter Creek
- Pete’s
- Pike
- Port Brewing
- Portsmouth
- Pretty Things
- Pyramid
- Revolution
- Rogue
- Russian River
- Samuel Adams
- Shipyard
- Sierra Nevada
- Ska
- Smuttynose
- Southern Tier
- Southhampton
- Speakeasy
- Sprecher
- Stone
- Stoudt
- Surly
- Sweetwater
- Three Floyds
- Troegs
- 21st Amendment
- Upright
- Utica
- Victory
- Wachusett
- Weyerbacher
- Yuengling
Laurie Delk 
Try the Nebraska Brewing Company – bronze medal for their Melange a Trois at GABF.
Holy Mackerel makes some great Belgian style brews.
When you have Alaskan, be sure to have the Pale Ale.
What an awesome idea. And well done I must say. I get to wonder the GABF on Friday. Cheers if I see you there.
Hello all!
just found this site and had to share the most recent pint of gold… Toulumne Meadows IPA by Mammoth Brew Co.
AWSOME!
Effinheimer
http://www.effinheimerbeer.com/WelcometoEffinheimerBeer.aspx
Boundary Bay in Bellingham, WA
The Imperial IPA is fantastic!
Berkshire Brewing Company in Mass. Their Octoberfest is out now.
Heavy Seas Beer (Clipper City Brewing Co. – Baltimore, MD) is smack dab in the middle of Flying Dog (Frederick, MD) and Dogfish Head (Rehobeth, DE)
Their flagship beer is Loose Cannon, a “Hop3 Ale”, which just won 2nd place at the Real Ale competition / Michael Jackson Award of the Great British Beer Festival (out of almost 100 beers)
http://beerinbaltimore.com/?p=3869
Definitely give them a look!
Oh, do consider Depot Street (Jonesborough, TN). It’s a mere hour from Asheville and Highland Brewery, and I’d happily serve as guide for a chance to catch up after all these years!!! 🙂
Dark Horse brewery (OH)- Scotty Karate Scoth Ale preferably
New Albanian (IN)- Hoptimus
Two Brothers (IL)
I would recommend Kettlehouse from Missoula, MT, and their Cold Smoke Scotch Ale…I am very particular to it and it’s in cans. I could hook you up, if availability is an issue.
I suggest some more Chicago breweries like Half Acre and Metropolitan. Also, Terrapin Brewery is suppose to be good stuff.
I agree with the Terrapin suggestion. I’ve had some really tasty brews from them.
Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC)
Bavarian Barbarian and Otto’s. I can get them to you.
Bootleggers Brewery – Fullerton, Ca.
http://dbbrewingcompany.com/
Devil’s Backbone…they won a bunch of awards at last year’s GABF. I have not actually had any of their beers, but they are one of the few (If not only) Virginia brewerys at GABF, and I’m curious about what they have to offer (They are in Nelson County, VA, about 3.5 hours from me)
Laurie, nothing to add… All my favorites are listed (Boulevard Single Wide IPA, Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA, and Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale). Good job!
Lucky Bucket Lager. Easily one of the best lagers brewed in the Midwest – also uses organic products in production and is one of the first breweries opened in Nebraska in more than a century. They also brew an IPA that is out of this world.