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

6) Pumpking – Southern Tier

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