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 770 beers from 469 breweries.
Top 5 of 50
Schneider Weisse TAP6 AventinusBest Overall
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.
ABV
7.7%
Bitterness
Lightly bitter
Colour
dark 22
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.
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.
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ABV
12.0%
Bitterness
Mild
Colour
dark 28
Made since 2002, Aventinus Eisbock concentrates Aventinus by freezing it and drawing off part of the water as ice, an idea the brewery traces to a consignment that froze in transit in the 1930s. It is brewed from 25.5 °Plato, hopped with… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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ABV
6.5%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
deep amber 15
Resinous notes and spikes of citrus meet liquorice, Marsala wine, caramel and spicy orange, and a flicker of dark fruit freshens the finish. The strong ale (6.5%, copper-bronze) was first brewed in 1998 for the brewery's tercentenary,… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
Ranks 6–10
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Created in 2007 as a transatlantic collaboration with a New York brewer and part of the range since 2008, Hopfenweisse is a strong, bottle-conditioned wheat bock brewed from 18.5 °Plato. Hallertauer Tradition and Saphir go in during the… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
7
The strong beer of the Kloster range, which the brewery links to the monks' old custom of drinking 'liquid bread' during Lent. It is brewed from an especially high original gravity and lagered for a long time before release. Golden in the… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
8
A traditional barley wine at 7.5%, deep copper in colour and brewed for December. Biscuity malt and rich, vinous fruit are balanced by a strong hop bitterness; the aroma recalls Christmas pudding and wine, and roasted malt adds depth on… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
9
Smooth caramel, stone fruit and fresh toasted grains layer into a dark, malty and crisp doublebock. The recipe calls for so much grain that Tröegs custom-built its brewhouse around it. Chocolate, Munich and Pilsner malts meet German… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
10
Asam Bock is a dark Doppelbock named after the Baroque painter and architect Cosmas Damian Asam. At 18.2 °P and 7.3 % ABV it is the strongest beer of the house. Dark barley, caramel and colouring malts produce an intense, sweet aroma with… Ranked on fit to the Strong-Ale reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 37 lean malt-forward and 8 lean hop-forward.