Glam shots of high-end restaurants and next-level chef artistry. And in a year when many a brewery played things safe, the brewery aggressively grew its Hazy Little Thing line and even expanded its Strainge Beast Hard Kombucha family.Scroll through your favorite streaming service and you’ll find countless shows and travel series dedicated to the culinary world. Sierra Nevada Brewing, which also has an East Coast brewery in Mills River, NC, stayed the course as well, easily retaining its #5 position with over 526k check-ins. A network made all that more important throughout the pandemic. Considered a Macro Brewery by Untappd, as opposed to a regional like Tree House and Other Half, Founders, which is now majority-owned by Mahou San Miguel of Spain, continued to benefit from its extensive distribution reach.

In spite of the economic toll brought on by COVID-19 Founders Brewing retained its #4 ranking in 2021. Obviously the pandemic, which shut down its more than 100 bars around the world, was a factor in this dip. In spite of an incredible 810,000 check-ins, the Scotland-based global craft brewing company, BrewDog took a slight hit in 2021 dropping from its #1 position, to #3. It also made big moves in direct-to-consumer distribution throughout the pandemic. Up from number five in 2019 and number three in 2020, the Brooklyn-headquartered company has a larger production facility near Rochester, NY and a boutique brewery in Washington, DC. You have to travel to one of their locations to enjoy their beers.Īnother American regional Other Half Brewing was ranked as the #2 most checked in brewery in the world in Untappd’s year-end ranking. But what makes Tree House Brewing’s dominance all the more striking is that the brewery doesn’t distribute. Tree House Brewing, which in addition to its flagship production facility in Charlton has two additional breweries in Deerfield and Sandwich, MA and a farm location in Woodstock, CT, reclaimed the top spot in 2021 after a brief stint in the #2 position in 2020. Untappd is an immensely popular geosocial networking service and mobile phone app that allows its users to rate the beers they’re drinking, and share those check-ins and their locations with their friends.įounded by Greg Avola and Tim Mather in 2010, Untappd has an enormous following among beer lovers whose check-in’s provided the data used in this ranking.Īnd now (drum roll please) Untappd’s Top 5 Breweries of 2021

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