{"id":683,"date":"2009-04-15T09:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:15:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T16:15:17","slug":"beer-top-50-craft-breweries-list-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Beer: Top 50 Craft Breweries List Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers Association released their list of top craft brewing companies (based on &#8217;08 sales). Go, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagunitas.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lagunitas<\/a>!  See <a title=\"Brewers Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/ba\/media_2009\/Top_50_Release.html\" target=\"_blank\">the full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chico\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anchor Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Francisco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stone Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Escondido\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Biersch Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Jose\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n<strong>27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Lagunitas Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Petaluma\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<\/strong><br \/>\n28\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Firestone Walker Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paso Robles\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n31\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 BJ&#8217;s Restaurant &amp; Brewery\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Huntington Beach\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n39\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karl Strauss Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Diego\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n41\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eureka\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n44\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Coast Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fort Bragg\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<br \/>\n49\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anderson Valley Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boonville\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While 11 of the 50\u00a0 top-selling craft brewers are from California, it&#8217;s Vermont that has the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beertown.org\/craftbrewing\/statistics.html\" target=\"_blank\">breweries per capita<\/a>. I think we&#8217;re too busy enjoying local brews to brew our own. That&#8217;s my excuse, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brewers Association released their list of top craft brewing companies (based on &#8217;08 sales). Go, Lagunitas! See the full list. 2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chico\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anchor Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Francisco\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA 18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stone Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Escondido\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gordon Biersch Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 San Jose\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CA 27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Lagunitas Brewing Co.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Petaluma\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[284,291,282,287,286,288,52,289,290,53,283,285],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-anchor","tag-anderson-valley-brewing","tag-brewers-association","tag-firestone-walker","tag-gordon-biersch","tag-karl-strauss-brewing","tag-lagunitas","tag-lost-coast-brewery","tag-north-coast-brewing","tag-petaluma","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-stone-brewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryumlaut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}