San Diego Beer Blog

Is there anywhere better to live than San Diego? Our weather is perfect. We have miles of beautiful beaches. Low crime rate. Fantastic restaurants. And several world class breweries, bars and brewpubs.

As it has been for the last 7 years, RateBeer Best was again the largest beer competition in the world — over 1.4 million reviews of 76,000 beers from over 8000 brewers worldwide were tallied. A particular emphasis was placed on tastings from the last year’s performance. Additionally, brewpubs, bottle shops, restaurants and bars around the world were awarded prizes. Cheers to all the winners and to everyone who keeps the magical world of craft beer growing!
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Here are the San Diego specific results for this year’s competition.

THE BEST BEERS IN THE WORLD - OVERALL
The best 100 beers in the world as rated by tens of thousands of our worldwide tasters, San Diego took 19 of the top 100. Hats off to Alesmith for 10 beers on the list.

THE BEST BREWERS IN THE WORLD
There are seven San Diego county breweries listed here; Port Brewing/Lost Abbey, Stone Brewing Co., AleSmith Brewing Company, Alpine Beer Company, Ballast Point Brewing Company, Pizza Port (Carlsbad) and Green Flash Brewing Co.

BEST BEER BARS
San Diego took 3 out of 50 places here; The Liar’s Club, O’brien’s and Hamiltons. All excellent establishments. On a side note, #40 is Lucky Baldwin’s located in Pasadena. We’ll have to check it out next time we’re up in the LA area.

There’s more data on RateBeer.com, so go check that out. Thank you RateBeer.com for the excellent data!