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Zymurgy magazine’s provides this annual list of the best commercial beers in America. The American Homebrewer’s Association publishes the magazine, who conducts a poll of its members each year asking for their favorite beers. And though the results sometimes overlap a bit with the annual list put out by RateBeer and Beer Advocate, this list tends to skew a bit more towards easier to find mass-market beers. Helping you to become a first class beer snob.
Top-Ranked Beers
For 2013, Russian River’s Pliny the Elder, a double IPA, claimed the top spot for the fifth straight year. Finishing second for the fourth straight year was Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, an IPA.
T= tie
1. Russian River Pliny the Elder |
2. Bell’s Two Hearted Ale |
3. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA |
4. Bell’s Hopslam Ale |
5. Ballast Point Sculpin IPA |
6. Founders Breakfast Stout |
7. Arrogant Bastard Ale |
8. Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye IPA |
T9. Lagunitas Sucks |
T9. Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale |
T9. Stone Ruination IPA |
T12. North Coast Old Rasputin |
T12. Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA |
T12. Stone Enjoy By IPA |
15. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale |
16. The Alchemist Heady Topper |
T17. Firestone Walker Double Jack |
T17. Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout |
19. Oskar Blues Dale’s Pale Ale |
20. Firestone Walker Wookey Jack |
T21. Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA |
T21. Three Floyds Zombie Dust |
T23. Firestone Walker Union Jack |
T23. Lagunitas Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ |
25. Goose Island Bourbon County Stout |
26. Surly Furious |
T27. Deschutes Black Butte Porter |
T27. Green Flash West Coast IPA |
T27. Troegs Nugget Nectar |
30. Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA |
31. Russian River Consecration |
T32. Boulevard Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale |
T32. New Belgium La Folie |
T32. Russian River Supplication |
35. Avery the Maharaja |
36. Lagunitas IPA |
37. Stone IPA |
38. Odell IPA |
T39. Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald |
T39. Left Hand Milk Stout |
T39. Russian River Pliny the Younger |
T42. Odell Myrcenary |
T42. Russian River Blind Pig I.P.A. |
T42. Stone Sublimely Self-Righteous |
45. Firestone Walker Parabola |
T46. Ommegang Hennepin Saison Ale |
T46. Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro |
T48. Ommegang Three Philosophers |
T48. Deschutes the Abyss |
T48. Green Flash Palate Wrecker |
T48. Lagunitas Brown Shugga’ |
4 out of 5 beers bobs for this list. Would have given it 5 but you can’t drink the list!