Vermont's Hill Farmstead Brewery named Best Brewery in the World 2013 (Ratebeer)

Hill Farmstead Brewery, of Greensboro Bend, Vermont, has been named 2013 Best Brewery in the World, as well as Best Brewery in Vermont and Best Brewery in New England by RateBeer, the world’s largest, most popular beer review and rating website. Also, eight of its beers were listed in the top ten new beers in the world by RateBeer.

The RateBeer awards are determined solely by the reviews of RateBeer’s millions of active members. RateBeer is home to the most experienced beer critics in the world with 108 master beer tasters having over 5,000 documented beer reviews. RateBeer is also home to countless certified cicerones, GABF, GBBF and BJCP judges.

From Joe Tucker, Executive Director, RateBeer, LLC.:

“Of the nearly 14,000 brewers in the world, Hill Farmstead Brewery was judged by hundreds of thousands of beer reviewers worldwide as being the best in the world. Hill Farmstead not only took the top slot, but for the first time in the 11-year history of the contest, the top brewer ran away with it. This was ‘The (First?) Year Of Hill Farmstead’ where Hill Farmstead not only won Top Brewer but also dominated the New Releases top 10 (8 out 10 top new 2012 releases) and took a record 31 awards in the Best Beers By Style list.

“Quietly, out off a dirt road in rural Vermont, Hill Farmstead founded a revolutionary kind of brewing for beer aficionados with a new aesthetic replete with a wide range of characteristics that can be floral, vinous, citric, rustic, roasty and over a wide range of heft and quaffability.

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Hill Farmstead is just down the road from me as is what's widely considered to be one the best artisan cheese producers in the Country.

http://www.cellarsatjasperhill.com/