Wednesday, February 3, 2010

RateBeer 2010 Awards

THE BEST BEERS IN THE WORLD - OVERALL
The best 100 beers in the world as rated by tens of thousands of our worldwide tasters. All beers listed are gold medal winners

#82 Ommegang Rougue Grand Cru
#83 Captain Lawrence Cuvee de Castelton

Editor's Note: 17 of the top 20 are Imperial Stouts. Sounds pretty biased.

THE BEST BEERS IN THE WORLD BY STYLE CATEGORY
All beers listed are gold medal winners. (Note: In some instances the displayed scores are equal for beers of different places. This is not an error. Our calculations simply render much greater detail than we can display.)

English Style Pale & Bitter
English Pale Ale Bitter Golden Ale/Blond Ale Premium Bitter/ESB

#4 Southern Tier Harvest Ale


Belgian Session
Belgian Ale Saison Sour Ale Bière de Garde Abbey Dubbel

#5 Captain Lawrence Cuvee de Castleton

Wheat
German Hefeweizen Wheat Ale Weizen Bock Belgian White (Witbier) Berliner Weisse German Kristallweizen

#3 Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

THE BEST BREWERS IN THE WORLD
All brewers listed are gold medal winners. (The total number of brewers in our contest is over 8700. The 100 listed represent the top 1.1% of all brewers -- the creme de la creme of world brewing; a greater percentage of the population qualifies as genius for comparison.)

#18 Southern Tier Brewing Company
#36 Brooklyn Brewery
#49 Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
#55 Brewery Ommegang
#89 Ithaca Beer Company

Editor's Note: Five of the best breweries in the world reside in the Empire State. I agree that these are the top five breweries in New York (maybe Sixpoint), although I think you could argue the order here.

BEST BEERS BY COUNTRY
All beers listed; gold, silver and bronze medal winners. Ratings are by RateBeer representatives living in each country tasting the beers available there. Only countries with adequate representation are listed below.

United States - Best Beers

Editor's Note: Shut. Out.

BEER PLACES
Rated by RateBeer locals and those RateBeer representatives traveling to these destinations from outside the country. U.S. places awarded gold, silver, and bronze, except homebrew shops.

BEST BEER BARS

#19 Spuyten Duyvil
#24 Rattle 'N' Hum
#47 Bling Tiger Ale House

BEST BREWPUBS

Editor's Note: Nothing.

BEST BEER RETAILERS

#12 Half Time - Poughkeepsie

Editor's Note: Well deserved. Half Time is amazing.

BEST RESTAURANTS FOR BEER

#13 Coles - Buffalo
#19 Fette Sau - Brooklyn

Editor's Note: Unfortunatly, I have never been to either place.

BEST BREWERIES TO VISIT

#22 Defiant Brewing Company
#23 Captain Lawrence Brewing Company
#36 Ithaca Beer Company
#50 Blue Point Brewing Company

Editor's Note: New York brewery staffs are friendly. I have visited both Captain Lawrence and Ithaca. Brewers Scott and Jeff are amazing people.

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