2013 has been a crazy beer exploration year for us. We visited 74 new breweries and drank numerous numerous new beers. This is our best attempt at “Top 10” lists….this was much harder than I thought. Hope everyone also had an eventful beer year!
Our Top 10 New Beers:
1) Dayman Coffee IPA – Stone Brewing
2) Parabola – Firestone Walker
3) Heady Topper – The Alchemist
4) Peanut Butter Milk Stout – Belching Beaver
5) Beatification – Russian River Brewing
7) Hazelnut Porter – Rip Current
8) Syndicate No 1 – Speakeasy Ales & Lagers
9) Blueberry Ale – Cascade Brewing
10) Utopias – Boston Beer Co
Our Top 10 New Breweries:
1) Firestone Walker – Paso Robles, CA
2) Drakes Brewing – San Leandro, CA
3) Belching Beaver – North Park – San Diego, CA
4) The Rare Barrel – Berkeley, CA
5) Heretic Brewing – Fairfield, CA
6) Rip Current Brewing – San Marcos, CA
7) Bike Dog Brewing – West Sacramento, CA
8) Faction Brewing – Alameda, CA
9) Out of Bounds Brewing – Rocklin, CA
10) Discretion Brewing – Santa Cruz, CA
Our Top 5 Beer Moments:
1) Our first beer interview with the North Bay Bohemian for beer traveling!
2) Attending San Francisco Beer Week for the first time!
3) Meeting my two beer travelings favorites Chris & Meredith Nelson from thebeergeek.com and Maria Scarpello & Brian Devine from The Roaming Pint
4) Earning our 1000 Unique Beers on Untappd – getting closer to 2,500 now!
5) Visiting San Diego for San Diego Beer Week.
Wishing you the Best New Year!
– Sparklinglover & my fantastic husband
Glad to see the Belching Beaver in your top 10… It’s one of my favorites too. I guess I need to get out and about more as Rip Current is the only other one I have visited! Ofc yours are in a much wider area. I did just get back from Idaho where I visited 8 new ones. Definitely a fun way to travel is picking the breweries you will visit! I can imagine a TOP 10 is extremely difficult when you have tried as many as you have. Congrats on your milestones and here is to hitting even more in 2014! ~Laurie (82SanDiegoBreweries.com)
PS. Have not figured out how to comment with my blog that fits the blog I am reading!
You are welcome to Vietnam, just 40 breweries and about 80 beers…
Honored to have made the list! Sounds you had a great year in beer travel. Hope 2014 is just as fun.
We’re honored that Discretion Brewing is one of your top 10 new breweries! Thanks for checking us out and for the support! Cheers 🙂
Of course! Really loved the beer and the whole vibe. Cheers!