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 3906 beers from 293 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
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.
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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.
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ABV
9.3%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
dark 22
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.
Ranks 6–10
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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.
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pFriem Japanese Lager follows the Japanese practice of brewing a German-style lager with rice, which lightens the color and dries out the body. Pilsner malt makes up most of the grist, and Perle, Tettnang and Saphir give it a pronounced… Ranked on fit to the Lager reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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DBA, short for Double Barrel Ale, was the brewery's first beer and pays tribute to English ales fermented in wooden casks: it is fermented in American oak barrels. The palate is built on malt rather than hops, with ribbons of caramel and… Ranked on fit to the Pale Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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Guillaume is the Belgian-style blonde ale of Pizza Port's Ocean Beach brewpub, kept deliberately light and low in strength. It pours a clear golden yellow. The Belgian yeast brings a soft note of banana and a touch of clove over a cereal,… Ranked on fit to the Belgian-style reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
10
pFriem IPA is the most bitter of the brewery's year-round beers at 65 IBU. Pale malt and a small share of crystal give it a light copper color and a candy-like backbone, while Chinook, Mosaic and Citra carry the hops. Dank aromas of peach,… Ranked on fit to the IPA reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 17 lean malt-forward and 21 lean hop-forward.