Voting Is Now Open for USA Today 10Best – 2021 Beer Edition

A new year means another listicle to vote for compliments of the USA Today. The polls are now open for the USA Today 10Best – 2021 Beer Edition through 9:00am on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Winners will be announced on Friday, March 26.

For this year’s USA Today 10Best – Beer Edition, there are eight categories, one of which is cider. These categories include Best Beer Bar, Best Beer City, Best Beer Garden, Best Beer Label, Best Brewpub, Best Cidery, Best New Brewery, and Best Small Town Beer Scene. Each category has 20 nominees all handpicked by six panelists from the beer industry. This panel includes Dr. Mike Arra and Dr. Ruth Berman from Bon Beer Voyage; Latiesha Cook, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Beer Kulture; Gary Monterosso, an award-winning freelance critic; Dennis Malcolm Byron aka Ale Sharpton, beer writer and blogger; and AJ Keirans, host and founder of The 16oz. Canvas – The Art of Craft Beer.

Of the 160 nominations, ten came from breweries and a cidery from either Oregon or Washington. The cities of Portland, Bend and Seattle have each been nominated for Best Beer City while Hood River received a nomination for Best Small Town Beer Scene. Three Creeks Brewing from Sisters, Oregon received a nomination for Best Brewpub, the only one to be nominated from the PNW.

The Best New Brewery category sees two nominees from the PNW with The Good Society and Boss Rambler Beer Club. To come up with the nominees for this category, the five-person panel looked at breweries that were founded in the past three years (since the beginning of 2018).

Hailing from Seattle, The Good Society open its doors one year ago in February 2020. Later that same year, the brewpub was awarded Small Brewpub and Small Brewpub Brewer of the Year at the 2020 Great American Beer Festival. Boss Rambler Beer Club from Bend, Oregon is the other nominee from the PNW in Best New Brewery. This brewery arrived on the scene in the summer of 2018 with its beers brewed by co-founder Jake Bansmer at a handful of breweries in Oregon as it continues to prep for its own brewery on the outskirts of Bend. A few months later Boss Rambler opened its popular taproom on Bend’s westside in early 2019.

Other regional nominees include Great Notion Brewing for its Jammy Pants in Best Beer Label; Prost! of Portland, Oregon for Best Beer Garden; and One Tree Hard Cider of Spokane, Washington for Best Cidery.

Here’s a complete look at all 20 nominees from the eight categories.

Best Beer Bar
Max’s Taphouse – Baltimore
BierWax – Brooklyn, New York
Falling Rock Tap House – Denver
Salud Beer Shop – Charlotte, North Carolina
HopCat – Grand Rapids, Michigan
Laser Wolf – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Novare Res Bier Café – Portland, Maine
Boxelder – Miami
Brick Store Pub – Decatur, Georgia
Burnhearts – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
ChurchKey – Washington, DC
The Porter Beer Bar – Atlanta
El Bait Shop – Des Moines
Slows Bar BQ – Detroit
Meddlesome Moth – Dallas
Harlem Hops – New York
Wades Wines – Westlake Village, California
The Independent Bar – St. Petersburg, Florida
Kickbacks Gastropub – Jacksonville, Florida
The Birch – Norfolk, Virginia

Best Beer City
Grand Rapids – Michigan
Asheville – North Carolina
Portland, Maine
Denver – Colorado
San Diego – California
Atlanta – Georgia
Indianapolis – Indiana
St. Louis – Missouri
Chicago – Illinois
Milwaukee – Wisconsin
Madison – Wisconsin
Fort Collins – Colorado
Portland, Oregon
Boston – Massachusetts
Philadelphia – Pennsylvania
Bend – Oregon
Charlotte – North Carolina
Seattle – Washington
New York – New York
San Francisco – California

Best Beer Garden
New Realm Brewing Company – Virginia Beach
Funkatorium Biergarten – Asheville, North Carolina
Tucker Brewing – Tucker, Georgia
The Raleigh Beer Garden – Raleigh, North Carolina
Lowry Beer Garden – Denver
The Pharmacy Burger Parlor & Beer Garden – Nashville
The Charlotte Beer Garden – Charlotte, North Carolina
Dacha Beer Garden – Washington, DC
Saint Arnold Brewing Company – Houston
Green Bench Brewing Company – St. Petersburg, Florida
Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Escondido, California
Sheffield’s Beer Garden – Chicago
Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden – Queens, New York
Estabrook Beer Garden – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VBGB Beer Hall and Garden – Charlotte, North Carolina
Frankford Hall – Philadelphia
Easy Tiger Bake Shop & Beer Garden – Austin
Prost! – Portland, Oregon
SweetWater Brewery – Atlanta
Truck Yard – Dallas

Best Beer Label
Sea For Yourself – Vitamin Sea Brewing
You’re Fired! – Call to Arms Brewing Company
Prague Underground – CityBuilt Brewing
Fuck 2020 – Abomination Brewing
Remedy – Housatonic River Brewing
Pump It Up – Fifth Frame Brewing Co.
Bimini Bay – Tripping Animals Brewing
Judgy Eyes – Missing Mountain Brewing Company
Quiet Car – Eight & Sand Beer Co.
Wander On – Saint Errant Brewing
Don Dada Cardamom Stout – Spaceway Brewing Co.
Curiosity One Hundred Two – Tree House Brewing Company
Worth A Visit, Worth A Lifetime – Bissell Brothers
Sparkle Muffin – Revision Brewing Company
Dogcatcher Nitro – Coda Brewing Co.
Triple Scoop – Back East Brewing Company
Garden Beer – Wild Heaven Beer
Jammy Pants – Great Notion
Galactic Melt – Modern Times Beer
Nowaday – Allagash Brewing Company

Best Brewpub
The Brewery LBK – Lubbock, Texas
City Built Brewing Company – Grand Rapids, Michigan
Old Irving Brewing Co. – Chicago
From the Earth Brewing Company – Roswell, Georgia
Alulu Brewery and Pub – Chicago
Three Creeks Brewing – Sisters, Oregon
Salt Springs Brewery – Saline, Michigan
18th Street Brewery – Hammond, Indiana
HOMES Brewery – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bhramari Brewing Company – Asheville, North Carolina
Forbidden Root Restaurant & Brewery – Chicago
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. – Asheville, North Carolina
Jekyll Brewing – Alpharetta, Georgia
Edmund’s Oast – Charleston, South Carolina
Stronghouse Brew Pub – Telluride, Colorado
Torched Hop – Atlanta
Bold Monk Brewing Co. – Atlanta
UpCountry Brewing – Asheville, North Carolina
Wicked Barley – Jacksonville, Florida
Hopstix – Chamblee, Georgia

Best Cidery
Diskin Cider – Nashville
UrbanTree Cidery – Atlanta
Ploughman Cider – Aspers, Pennsylvania
Citizen Cider – Burlington, Vermont
Virtue Cider – Fennville, Michigan
Waldschänke Ciders + Coffee – Denver
One Tree Hard Cider – Spokane, Washington
Threadbare Cider and Mead – Pittsburgh
Green Bench Mead & Cider – St. Petersburg, Florida
Bad Seed Cider Co. – Highland, New York
Broad Street Cider – New Orleans
California Cider Company – Sebastopol, California
Noble Cider – Asheville, North Carolina
Downeast Cider House – East Boston, Massachusetts
Cider Corps – Mesa, Arizona
Bantam Cider Company – Somerville, Massachusetts
Milk & Honey Ciders – St. Joseph, Minnesota
Mercier Orchards – Blue Ridge, Georgia
North Country Hard Cider – Rollinsford, New Hampshire
Paradise Ciders – Honolulu

Best New Brewery
Torch & Crown Brewing Company – New York
The Seed: A Living Beer Project – Atlantic City, New Jersey
Young Blood Beer Company – Madison, Wisconsin
Walt & Whitman Brewing Company – Saratoga Springs, New York
Raíces Brewing Company – Denver
Boss Rambler Beer Club – Bend, Oregon
Red Clover Ale Company – Brandon, Vermont
The Good Society – Seattle
The Drowned Lands – Warwick, New York
Tripping Animals Brewing – Doral, Florida
Crowns & Hops – Inglewood, California
Sideward Brewing Co. – Orlando
Fire Maker Brewing Company – Atlanta
Corporate Ladder Brewing – Palmetto, Florida
Wild East Brewing Co. – New York
Islla St. Brewing Co. – San Antonio
Hella Coastal – Oakland, California
Gilded Skull Brewing and Blending Co. – Woburn, Massachusetts
FREETHOUGHT – Brooklyn, New York
Zydeco Brew Werks – Tampa

Best Small Town Beer Scene
Avondale Estates – Georgia
Derby – Connecticut
Traverse City – Michigan
Berlin – Maryland
Breckenridge – Colorado
Hood River – Oregon
Boone – North Carolina
Portsmouth – New Hampshire
Decorah – Iowa
Waitsfield – Vermont
Rehoboth – Delaware
Bar Harbor – Maine
Fredericksburg – Texas
Saratoga Springs – New York
Tarpon Springs – Florida
Taos – New Mexico
Lake Placid – New York
Spearfish – South Dakota
Hammonton – New Jersey
Maple Shade – New Jersey

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