Map: 10 biggest craft breweries in California

The craft brewing commerce group Brewers Affiliation has launched its record of the nation’s 50 greatest craft breweries for 2021 — which embody 10 in California.

Ranked by beer gross sales quantity are the next breweries thought of each small (annual manufacturing of 6 million barrels of beer or much less) and impartial (lower than 25% owned by an alcoholic beverage firm that’s not itself a craft brewer).

Click on right here for beer author Jay R. Brooks’ evaluation of the brand new numbers and what they are saying concerning the state of California brewing.

The highest 10:

1. Sierra Nevada, #3 in U.S.
2. Duvel Moortgat (Firestone Walker), #4 in U.S. Contains Boulevard in Kansas Metropolis and Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y.
3. Gambrinus (Trumer), #5 in U.S. Contains Shiner in Texas.
4. Stone, #9 in U.S.
5. Gordon Biersch, #15 in U.S.
6. Kings & Convicts (Ballast Level), #34 in U.S. Contains the dad or mum firm in Illinois.
7. Misplaced Coast, #37 in U.S.
8. twenty first Modification, #42 in U.S.
9. Fashionable Instances, #48 in U.S.
10. North Coast, #50 in U.S.

Due to the affiliation’s standards, some notable names in Bay Space brewing aren’t on the craft beer record: Lagunitas (owned by Heineken), Anchor (Sapporo) and Magnolia (New Belgium/Kirin). Inexperienced Flash and Alpine, initially from San Diego County, are not thought of Californian by the group, being included below Atlanta-based SweetWater.

The most important California-based brewery of any sort is Los Angeles-based Pabst, whose manufacturers additionally embody Schlitz, Rainier, Lone Star and Pearl.

The nation’s greatest craft breweries final 12 months had been Yuengling, in Pottsville, Pa., and Boston Beer Co., which incorporates Sam Adams and Dogfish Head.