The Best Beers of 2024 by Style Category
The year’s best beer categorized by the most populated beer styles in the 2024 Official Review. A one-stop shopping list of the best brews on shelves today.
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Brewers around the world continued to produce top-flight examples of beer excellence in 2024, and our judges were lucky enough to sample a fair few of them.
Each year, we like to produce a list of some of the most interesting and populous style categories that our judges reviewed. 2024 saw a wide range of styles cross our judges’ desks (and palates).
Read on to discover some of the most flavorful and interesting beer styles from the year that was.
Top 15 IPAs of 2024 (All Styles)
Top 5 Hazy IPAs
Top 3 American IPAs
Top 5 Double IPAs
Top 12 Lagers of 2024 (All Styles)
Top 3 German Wheat Beers
Top 5 Fruit Beers
Top 3 Munich Helles
Top 4 Pale Bitter European Beers
Top 9 Specialty Wood-Aged Beers
Top 15 IPAs of 2024 (All Styles)
1. pFriem Double IPA
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 97
2. New Grist IPA
Lakefront Brewery
Rated 95
3. Easternmost Double IPA
Batson River Brewing & Distilling
Rated 94
4. pFriem Hazy IPA (2024)
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 94
5. Ube Hazy IPA
Garage Brewing Co.
Rated 94
6. Tasty IPA
Manhattan Brewing Co.
Rated 93
7. Double Perpetual IPA
Tröegs Independent Brewing
Rated 93
8. PsycHOPathy (2024)
MadTree Brewing Co.
Rated 93
9. Dad Strength IPA
Dad Strength Brewing
Rated 92
10. Double Jucifer
Gnarly Barley Brewing Co.
Rated 92
11. Sinfully Wicked
The Original 40 Brewing Co.
Rated 90
12. Alpha Abstraction Vol. 27
Wild Leap Brew Co.
Rated 90
13. Clausthaler IPA
Radeberger
Rated 90
14. Turd Ferguson
Moniker Brewery
Rated 89
15. Hazy Dawn
Cape May Brewing Co.
Rated 88
Top 5 Hazy IPAs
1. pFriem Hazy IPA (2024)
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 94
2. Ube Hazy IPA
Garage Brewing Co.
Rated 94
3. Clausthaler IPA
Radeberger
Rated 90
4. Turd Ferguson
Moniker Brewery
Rated 89
5. Hazy Dawn
Cape May Brewing Co.
Rated 88
Top 3 American IPAs
1. Tasty IPA
Manhattan Brewing Co.
Rated 93
2. PsycHOPathy (2024)
MadTree Brewing Co.
Rated 93
3. Sinfully Wicked
The Original 40 Brewing Co.
Rated 90
Top 5 Double IPAs
1. pFriem Double IPA
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 97
2. Easternmost Double IPA
Batson River Brewing & Distilling
Rated 94
3. Double Perpetual IPA
Tröegs Independent Brewing
Rated 93
4. Double Jucifer
Gnarly Barley Brewing Co.
Rated 92
5. Alpha Abstraction Vol. 27
Wild Leap Brew Co.
Rated 90
Top 12 Lagers of 2024 (All Styles)
1. Acadian Skies
Batson River Brewing & Distilling
Rated 98
2. Lagered Hedonism 01
Moniker Brewery
Rated 97
3. Dive Beer
Lakefront Brewery
Rated 96
4. Lagered Hedonism 03
Moniker Brewery
Rated 95
5. Riverwest Stein NA
Lakefront Brewery
Rated 95
6. HelleSent
Wallenpaupack Brewing Co.
Rated 94
7. Old 121 Lager
Old 121 Brewhouse
Rated 92
8. Praga Pilsner
Praga Brewing Group
Rated 92
9. For the Love of Lager: German-Style Pilsner
Wallenpaupack Brewing Co.
Rated 92
10. Kanga Brew
New Realm Brewing Co.
Rated 92
11. Amendment Lager
21st Amendment Brewery
Rated 91
12. Lucente
Attic Brewing Co.
Rated 90
Top 3 German Wheat Beers
1. Andechser Weissbier Dunkel
Kloster Andechs
Rated 98
2. Andechser Weissbier Hell
Kloster Andechs
Rated 96
3. Weltenburger Helle Weisse
Weltenburger Kloster
Rated 93
Top 5 Fruit Beers
1. Place to Imagine Vol. 4 – Blueberry Pie
Social Fox Brewing
Rated 95
2. Tropical Mist
Pure Project Brewing
Rated 94
3. Peaceful Groove
New Realm Brewing
Rated 93
4. Hell or High Twilight
21st Amendment Brewery
Rated 91
5. In Between Times – Hibiscus Blood Orange
Social Fox Brewing
Rated 91
Top 3 Munich Helles
1. Andechser Hell
Kloster Andechs
Rated 95
2. HelleSent
Wallenpaupack Brewing Co.
Rated 94
3. pFriem Lager
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 94
Top 4 Pale Bitter European Beers
1. Rain
Pure Project Brewing
Rated 96
2. 99Xperiment
Mutation Brewing
Rated 94
3. For the Love of Lager: German-Style Pilsner
Wallenpaupack Brewing Co.
Rated 92
4. Früh Kölsch
Cölner Hofbräu Früh
Rated 91
Top 9 Specialty Wood-Aged Beers
1. Corylus
Pure Project Brewing
Rated 97
2. Grape Expectations
Irrigation Ales
Rated 96
3. Dark Woods Barrel-Aged Stout
Batson River Brewing & Distilling
Rated 95
4. Bourbon Barrel Aged French Macaron Stout
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 92
5. The Peanut Butter Solution
Gnarly Barley Brewing Co.
Rated 92
6. pFriem Rum Barrel-Aged Porter with Coconut
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 91
7. 2024 Vinifera Saison
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 91
8. Double Barrel Imperial Korova
Gnarly Barley Brewing Co.
Rated 90
9. Barrel Aged Saison VII
pFriem Family Brewers
Rated 89
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