Nominate The Best Craft Beer of 2016
It’s been a crazy year for craft beer, and an explosive one at that. This was the year where we saw a decline in core brands but major growth in new, small breweries and “one off” specialty beers. Every year, we hold our flagship poll, The Best Craft Beer of 2016. We plan to run this poll the last week of December, and want to gather a nice list of beers that were new and exciting in the year of 2016. Please read on for criteria and some nominations from the editor. PUT YOUR NOMINEES IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW.
Criteria
- Must be a new, packaged (canned or bottled) beer in 2016 or at the wee tail end of 2015, where the beer didn’t widely roll out until 2016.
- If it’s an old taproom favorite rebranded and had its recipe tweaked, it’s eligible if it’s now widely available.
- If the brewery of a beer you like was acquired by AB-InBev or MillerCoors or similar, from February on, it is still eligible.
- If The Brewers Association considers the beer “craft beer”, so do we. Link 1 Link 2
Tips
- Small batch, brewery only releases typically don’t do well because they haven’t been tried by enough people so try avoiding nominating nearly obscure beer.
- Use websites like RateBeer.com and Untappd to get an idea of when the beer was born and when it started to become available.
Editor’s Nominees
New Belgium Citradelic
Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion
Jester King – SPON
Oskar Blues Beerito
Stone Mocha IPA
Dogfish Head Flesh & Blood IPA
December 13, 2016 @ 7:49 pm
Summit Brewing Company’s Keller Pils
December 13, 2016 @ 5:58 pm
Melvin IPA
One of my “Go to” IPA’s
December 13, 2016 @ 5:46 pm
Really enjoyed both Stone’s Mocha IPA and Lagunitas’ Born Yesterday Pale Ale
December 13, 2016 @ 5:43 pm
Other Half Double Dry Hopped Double Mosaic Dream
December 12, 2016 @ 9:22 am
HOLGATE BREWHOUSE WILD RED ALE would be hard to beat.
December 8, 2016 @ 4:53 am
Kane 5th
December 7, 2016 @ 7:42 am
Great Notion’s Juice, Jr
Breaksides Boubon Barrel Salted Carmel Stout
Fort George 3-Way IPA
De Garde The Lily (Batch 2)
December 7, 2016 @ 2:03 am
Boneyard Notorious IIIPA
December 6, 2016 @ 5:51 pm
Sunday Morning Stout by Weyerbacher. Rivals KBS…
December 6, 2016 @ 12:30 pm
Real Ale Axis
December 6, 2016 @ 8:29 am
Gun Hill Brewery Roll Call EC no 3
December 5, 2016 @ 5:17 pm
Night Shift Brewing “Morph” has FW Luponic Distortion beat
December 5, 2016 @ 12:26 pm
Monkish (any version really will do) IPA
Editor's Pick - 2016 Craft Beer of The Year: Firestone Walker Luponic Distortion • thefullpint.com
December 5, 2016 @ 11:12 am
[…] is taking nominations for The Best Craft Beer of 2016 from you, the loyal readers. Head on over to http://dev.thefullpint.com/beer-news/nominate-best-craft-beer-2016/ to select a few great beers from 2016 for our flagship poll at the end of the […]
December 5, 2016 @ 10:03 am
Sierra Nevada Otra Vez
December 4, 2016 @ 8:16 pm
POG IPA Maui Brewing co.
December 4, 2016 @ 5:55 pm
Green Flash Sea to Sea Zwickle
December 4, 2016 @ 11:47 am
Luponic Distortion 4
December 4, 2016 @ 11:44 am
Firestone: Luponic Distortion
December 3, 2016 @ 5:18 pm
A throwback craft brewery that no one pays attention too, Otter Creek 25th Anniversary Double IPL. Easily the best lager I drank this and certainly one of the best beers in general.
We have IPA/DIPA customers who refuse to drink lagers but they all love the 25th.
December 3, 2016 @ 12:15 pm
Moko Jumbie Rum Barrel Aged Stout by North Country Brewing Co.- Slippery Rock, PA
December 3, 2016 @ 11:06 am
Monkish/Other Half collab, JFK2LAX TIPA
December 3, 2016 @ 10:48 am
Malotov cocktail evil twin brewery NY
December 3, 2016 @ 10:32 am
Jester King – SPON 2016
December 3, 2016 @ 5:06 am
Misbeehavin Meads Big Black
December 2, 2016 @ 6:14 pm
Lonerider Brewing Co: Hoppy Ki Yay
December 2, 2016 @ 1:38 pm
Luponic Distortion
December 2, 2016 @ 11:25 am
Bottle Logic Ground State
December 2, 2016 @ 6:11 am
Troegs Nimble Giant
December 1, 2016 @ 11:58 pm
1.Phantom Bride-Belching Beaver
2.El Camino (Un) Real- Stone, 21st, Firestone Colab.
3. Born Yesterday-Lagunitas
December 1, 2016 @ 5:24 pm
Lagunitas born yesterday
December 1, 2016 @ 3:20 pm
Modern Times : Fruitlands passion fruit guava
December 1, 2016 @ 2:54 pm
I believe that the Veil Brewing Co. Crucial Taunt IPA as the best craft beer and Veil Brewing the best new small brewery of the year! Matt Tarpey should also be nominated as best brewer of these amazing beers from this great brewery and taproom located in Richmond, Virginia.
December 1, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
Dark Cherry Imperial Kettle Sour – Fort Collins Brewery
December 1, 2016 @ 2:38 pm
Pulp Fusion Blood Orange IPA by Boulder Beer Company!
December 1, 2016 @ 2:35 pm
Cycle/3 Sons: Rare Scooop
December 1, 2016 @ 11:45 am
Moonraker Yojo
December 1, 2016 @ 11:19 am
Lagunitas Born Again Yesterday
December 1, 2016 @ 11:18 am
Fremont Field to Ferment