BREWERY AWARDS
Each year, we acknowledge the breweries that collectively produced the highest-rated beers as evaluated in our Official Review. 2024 was chock-full of amazing beers and featured the highest number of World Class offerings our judges have ever had the privilege to review, many of which came from the three best breweries of the year. Read on to reveal 2024’s best breweries!
How We Award
We look at the top three highest-scoring beers (as rated by our judging panel) for each brewery in the calendar year.
We then consider how many of the three finishes in the 100 to 96: World Class category and the 95 to 91: Exceptional category. For example, a brewery with two world-class beers and one exceptional would rate higher than a brewery with a single higher-scoring world-class beer and two exceptional beers.
The brewery with the most World Class beers followed by the most Exceptional beers is awarded the Brewery of the Year.
If two or more breweries have the same number of World Class and Exceptional beers, then the brewery with the highest point total wins.
In the event of a tie, a fourth reviewed beer is counted as a tiebreaker.
If a fourth beer was not reviewed, we look at the highest score total among the brewery’s two top-scoring beers.
Congratulations to this year’s winners! Cheers!
pFriem Family Brewers
2 World Class Beer
1 Exceptional Beers
Total Score: 287
Highest-scoring beers:
pFriem Double IPA – Rated 97
Nelson Pale – Rated 96
pFriem Hazy IPA – Rated 94
pFriem Family Brewers in Hood River, Oregon is tied as the first runner-up for Brewery of the Year in 2024. pFriem is no stranger to our Brewery of the Year section, as the picturesque Oregon brewhouse achieved Brewery of the Year status in both 2018 and 2019 and was our first runner-up in 2021.
