These beers rank highest on the hopIQ Score — a nightly-updated weighting of style authenticity, award history, and community signals. Filter by style family or country to narrow the list; the top-3 podium and full ranking below always reflect the current day’s data.
How this ranking works
The hopIQ Score judges every beer against its style first: it rewards medals from competitions that judge within style categories and deducts points where a beer measurably deviates from its style reference. Community ratings add to that. Non-alcoholic excluded. No paid placement — order follows the data alone. Ranking spans 16907 beers from 1621 breweries.
Top 5 of 50
Allagash WhiteBest Overall
ABV
5.2%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
pale gold 3
Allagash White is a Belgian-style wheat beer and the beer the brewery opened with in 1995. Oats plus malted and raw wheat give it a hazy, pale straw appearance, while Nugget, Crystal and Czech Saaz hops stay in the background. Coriander… Ranked on fit to the Wheat Beer reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
ABV
9.0%
Bitterness
Lightly bitter
Colour
golden 5
Allagash Tripel is a strong golden ale in the Belgian abbey tradition, brewed only with the brewery's two-row barley blend and local pale malt, hopped with Nugget and Hallertau and fermented with the house yeast. Herbal notes and passion… Ranked on fit to the Belgian-style reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
ABV
8.2%
Bitterness
Lightly bitter
Colour
dark 22
First brewed in 1907 under Mathilde Schneider, Aventinus is the brewery's wheat doppelbock: a dark ruby, bottle-conditioned wheat bock of equal parts wheat and barley malt, brewed from 18.5 °Plato, open-fermented and hopped with… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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ABV
5.6%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
golden 7
The beer the brewery was built on, first brewed in 1980 and hopped exclusively with Cascade, a variety that was new at the time. Two-row pale and caramelized malts give a smooth, lightly toasty base with a touch of caramel sweetness. The… Ranked on fit to the Pale Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
5
Shiner BockBest Session
ABV
4.4%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
deep amber 18
Originally a seasonal, Shiner Bock has been brewed year-round since 1973 and remains the beer most closely tied to the town. Despite the name, the brewery itself calls it an American-style amber lager, made with roasted barley malt and… Ranked on fit to the Lager reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
Ranks 6–10
6
A dark wheat beer brewed from fine dark wheat and barley malt, which gives it an amber colour and unusually firm head retention. The aroma is yeasty and malt-driven, with orange peel and banana over a bread-crust base. It drinks strongly… Ranked on fit to the Wheat Beer reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
7
Vitus is a pale Weizenbock brewed to 16.5 °P and given an extra-long maturation. It shines bright gold under a creamy head, with fine yeast in suspension. The nose brings dried apricot and citrus, and the palate adds clearly defined clove… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
8
Diebels Alt is a top-fermented Altbier from Issum on the Lower Rhine, brewed from dark special malt that gives it an amber to deep copper colour under a dense, long-lasting head. The nose is malty with a light peppery hop note. On the… Ranked on fit to the Amber-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
9
A toffee-accented malt character drives this malt-forward Scotch ale, rich brown in color and 9.3% ABV. It is built on Crystal malt and hops from England and fermented with the house English ale yeast, and the name comes from a crew of… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
10
A sip of this copper-hued smoked lager is meant to land you at a crackling campfire in the Alaskan wilds at dusk. Brewed in the style of a traditional German Rauchbier, it is a smoky, crisp and exceedingly drinkable classic, and each sip… Ranked on fit to the Lager reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 21 lean malt-forward and 16 lean hop-forward.