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The Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania as Per Perplexity

B. Kline — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:43:26 +0000

Breweries in Pennsylvania – Top 10 (as per Perplexity)

The Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania

This is a generated list using Perplexity AI. It is based off of an aggregate of values – mostly rating system based sites like Untappd, Yelp, TripAdvisor, Beer Advocate, and Rate My Beer. It also factors into play certain key blogs – VinePair, our website (The Beer Thrillers), BiPA, and more.

Since its middle of December, I thought it’d be a good time to take a look back at the best breweries of 2023. This list is just breweries in PA, and just for statistical purposes the year of 2023. It was ran through Perplexity AI and put in a few different times to make sure the list was accurate and not just a sequence of things, it was told to use user ratings and check in apps, and it was told to just include 2023 and just to include Breweries in PA. It was also done several times with the same parameters to ensure that the AI was selecting the same breweries and not just throwing out random breweries. The AI also provided its sources.

Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania for 2023

The top 10 breweries in Pennsylvania in 2023, according to various sources, are as follows:

Other Half Brewing
The Referend Bier Blendery
Imprint Beer Co
Fermentery Form
Hidden River Brewing
Antifragile Brewing
D.G. Yuengling and Son Brewery
Troegs Brewing Company
Yards Brewing Company
Lancaster Brewing

Additionally, the highest-rated beer in Pennsylvania in 2023 is “Le Roar Grrrz” from Bullfrog Brewery, according to VinePair. These rankings are based on various factors such as user ratings, reviews, and check-ins on platforms like Untappd and Yelp.
Perplexity AI

Sources

Untappd
Untappd Blog
Yelp
Beer Advocate
TripAdvisor
The Beer Thrillers
ABC27 News
WHTM News
Rate My Beer
Community: Beer Advocate
Community: Rate My Beer
BiPA
The Full Pint
BrewBound
Google
Bing
Perplexity AI Lens

Untappd

Untappd is the most heavily used source and rated source for lists like this. Tomorrow we will be posting the Top 10 Breweries of PA via Untappd, up to and including December 9th. (Statistics were compiled at 11:59:59 PM EST last night.)

Stay tuned for that article tomorrow.

Top Breweries

Some recent lists about top breweries:

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The Top Ten Craft Breweries That Brewed the Most New Beers in the Year 2022

B. Kline — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:16:00 +0000

Untappd logo – Drink Socially (photo courtesy of Untappd)

Another End of the Year Article

Yes, this is yet again – ANOTHER – end of the year article. Part of a series that Untappd has put out, and I’ve followed and kept an interest and an eye on. (I do have to admit, despite nearly failing high school math, I’ve always enjoyed statistics, data, and how to read and interpret all the information.) You can see our previous articles of the Untappd series here:

What Regions Drank The Most in 2022
The Top Ten Craft Beers with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022
The Top 10 Craft Breweries With the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022
The Top 10 Craft Breweries that Created the Most New Beers in 2022

I even went and made my own chart (or graph or whatever) on Canva using the information from the beers article (The Top 10 Craft Beers With the Most 5-Star Check-Ins of 2022). So be sure to check out the articles above to see the data and how they correlate.

This one is a little bit different. This list is looking at unique output. How many new beers did these breweries create (and added to Untappd) just this year. Its an interesting look at not just volume, but how much new volume these breweries have created.

Now, what constitutes a ‘new’ beer for Untappd can be a bit nebulous. If I make Beer A, and then make Beer B and just call it Beer B (2022) technically thats a new beer as far as Untappd unique beers would be concerned. Even though its Mad Elf, Mad Elf (2021), and Mad Elf (2022). In that example, Untappd would treat it as three unique beers, despite obviously its the same beer.

So let’s take a look at the latest Untappd ‘end of the year’ list and article:

The Top 10 Breweries With the Most Beers Created in 2022

10. Orchestrated Minds Brewing (Fort Lauderdale, FL) – 186 Unique Beers Added
9. Humble Sea Brewing (Santa Cruz, CA) – 187 Unique Beers Added
8. Burial Beer Company (Asheville, NC) – 195 Unique Beers Added
7. Three Notch’d Brewing (Charlottesville, VA) – 204 Unique Beers Added
6. TailGate Brewing Company (Nashville, TN) – 205 Unique Beers Added
5. Imprint Beer Company (Hatfield, PA) – 206 Unique Beers Added
4. Mirror Twin Brewing (Lexington, KY) – 215 Unique Beers Added
3. Odell Brewing Company (Fort Collins, CO) – 224 Unique Beers Added
2. Other Half Brewing Company (Brooklyn, NY) – 281 Unique Beers Added
1. Tree House Brewing Company (Charlton, MA) – 362 Unique Beers Added

Data

A chart of the new beers by brewery

The lower numbers are relatively close to each other, 186, 187, 195, then a small jump to 204 and then its followed by 205 and 206, and then a bigger jump to 281 and then the final jump to 362. So this is another list that Tree House Brewing Company has made (thats three now – they were also included in the most five star check ins by beer and most five star check ins by brewery), Other Half also has made it onto two lists now as well (also with most five star check ins by brewery).

Two breweries from Pennsylvania made the list. Imprint Beer Company made the list with 206 unique beers, and multi – state brewery Other Half Brewing Company (New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington D. C. ) made it with 281 unique beers.

All data was compiled from January 1st through December 9th 2022.

To see Untappd’s full article click here: The Top 10 Breweries With the Most Beers Created in 2022.

End of the Year

As I said in our last end of the year article: What Regions Drank the Most (2022):

Its the end of the year, and what that usually entails is a whole slew of “end of the year lists”. Top 10 this… top 38 that… top 69 (heeheehee) this and that…. Top 314.181928102810 Pies, etc.

We are going to post a few this year. In the past we’ve kinda shied away from posting these sorts of articles, because the metrics and information is kind of… biased in a way. Its basically just reading off Untappd’s information and lists and going with it. For example, recently Breweries in PA did a final end of the year Top 10 Pennsylvania Breweries listing article, using Untappd’s information, and well… it was received as well as you can imagine. Mainly because they didn’t put in any filters or restrictions or limits to it. So just before the list was posted, Country Club Brewing Company (see an article about them here: Country Club Brewing Company Announces Opening) had their grand opening. They had roughly 1,000 check – ins on the Untappd app, and being a grand opening most of them were very favorable (mostly four caps or better). So needless to say this put a lot of readers and breweries themselves up in arms about it. It actually listed them at number three (out of ten). (The other thing that irked most was that Other Half Brewing Company was listed, when they have several non – Pennsylvanian locations.)

But… I’m gonna go out on a limb and use Untappd to post some of these lists. If nothing else we can look back at them as just data charts and analyze them for the statistics. At best, they prompt some conversation and discussion (and we all know how well that goes on the internet).
.What Regions Drank the Most (2022) / The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022 / The Top Ten Craft Beers with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

Looking for other articles involving the brewery in this end of the year list? Check these out:

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Like I said in our previous post, lots still going on here at the blog despite it being the end of the year. I’m also heading back to work in a few days time, so things will be picking up work wise as well. So it’ll be holidays, work, baby Scarlet, and the blog. Busy. Busy. Busy. But, like I did say on the last post, Josh and I were invited out to Central PA Pour to do a podcast, which was an absolute blast. We filmed and recorded that on the 18th, and that will be going live just before New Years. So look for that. Should be entertaining and fun. We had a blast.

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-B. Kline

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The Top Ten Craft Beers with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

B. Kline — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:50:00 +0000

Chart showing five of the breweries involved.

Untappd’s logo and user interface (photo courtesy of Untappd – Drink Socially)

Part Two of Two

This is the second part of two articles that are pretty closely similar. As I said in the first part (The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022) Untappd through their blog has just put out a lot of “End of the Year” lists / articles. I’m not going to rehash all of them, but the ones I found interesting I am covering here on The Beer Thrillers blog. This one ties in with the other one very nicely, and I think we can kind of correlate the two to get some better ideas and information. The first part was about the breweries themselves. This one is about the craft beers in particular.

Between these two articles we should be able to take some looks and figure out some trends from 2022. Discussing the first article with my friend Drew and Josh, I came to realize that Yuengling being second probably represented a lot of “nostalgic” love for Yuengling and people giving their Traditional Lager a high five star rating – for reasons like nostalgia, their ‘hometown’ (even if they live in the corners of the state), its the beer their dad grew up drinking and so did they (before getting into craft beer proper), and who else knows why. I thought the other big thing was how much of a jump it went from the second spot to the first spot – a 32,000 check in increase. When number two is at 19,000, and spot one is at 51,000; thats a crazy big jump.

So let’s see how that then plays into which of the craft beers themselves were checked in with five star ratings the most.

The Top 10 Craft Beers With the Most 5 – Star Check – Ins of 2022

10. Duvel (Duvel Moortgat) – 3,796 Check Ins
9. Hopslam Ale (2022) (Bell’s Brewery) – 3,910 Check Ins
8. Focal Banger (The Alchemist) – 4,044 Check Ins
7. Trappist Westvleteren (Brouwerij DeSint – Sixtusabdij Van Westvleteren) – 4,097 Check Ins
6. King Julius (Tree House Brewing Co.) – 4,574 Check Ins
5. Zombie Dust (Three Floyds Brewing Co.) – 4,999 Check Ins
4. Two Hearted Ale (Bell’s Brewery) – 5,823 Check Ins
3. Traditional Lager (Yuengling Brewing) – 8,529 Check Ins
2. Heady Topper (The Alchemist) – 9,994 Check Ins
1. Pliny the Elder (Russian River Brewing Company) – 10,635 Check Ins

So this is a bit interesting. Despite coming in first with 51,000 check ins that were five star, Tree House only has one beer on the top ten list. Bell’s Brewery and The Alchemist both have two. (Bell’s Brewery was also number two on the craft brewery list, and The Alchemist was number five.)

Data

A bar graph and percentage chart showing five of the ten breweries and their total number of five star rated check ins.

So giving the data above, I made a quick chart / graph on Canva to show five of the ten beers. I decided on the two breweries that had two beers listed – Bell’s Brewery and The Alchemist; as well as including the number one – Russian River; and included Tree House since they were the number one from the previous article (The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022), and chose Yuengling lastly just because they are the “local boys” and an interesting factoid (given how people’s views on them being ‘craft’ are).

I totaled up the ten beers and it came out to be 60,401 check ins. I then did the math to figure out what percentage these five breweries were in the total. As you can see they make up a total of 78.6% of the total. That leaves three other breweries making up the remaining 21.4%.

Another interesting note – if Zombie Dust had just one more five star check in, they would have had 5,000 exactly.

You can find Untappd’s original article here: The Top 10 Craft Beers With the Most 5-Star Check-Ins of 2022.

Our Articles

If you are looking for more articles involved with some of the beers and breweries above, you can find them here:

End of the Year

As I said in our last end of the year article: What Regions Drank the Most (2022):

Its the end of the year, and what that usually entails is a whole slew of “end of the year lists”. Top 10 this… top 38 that… top 69 (heeheehee) this and that…. Top 314.181928102810 Pies, etc.

We are going to post a few this year. In the past we’ve kinda shied away from posting these sorts of articles, because the metrics and information is kind of… biased in a way. Its basically just reading off Untappd’s information and lists and going with it. For example, recently Breweries in PA did a final end of the year Top 10 Pennsylvania Breweries listing article, using Untappd’s information, and well… it was received as well as you can imagine. Mainly because they didn’t put in any filters or restrictions or limits to it. So just before the list was posted, Country Club Brewing Company (see an article about them here: Country Club Brewing Company Announces Opening) had their grand opening. They had roughly 1,000 check – ins on the Untappd app, and being a grand opening most of them were very favorable (mostly four caps or better). So needless to say this put a lot of readers and breweries themselves up in arms about it. It actually listed them at number three (out of ten). (The other thing that irked most was that Other Half Brewing Company was listed, when they have several non – Pennsylvanian locations.)

But… I’m gonna go out on a limb and use Untappd to post some of these lists. If nothing else we can look back at them as just data charts and analyze them for the statistics. At best, they prompt some conversation and discussion (and we all know how well that goes on the internet).
What Regions Drank the Most (2022) / The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

Thanks For Reading

Cheers All!

-B. Kline

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

The Beer Thrillers are a blog that prides itself on writing beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, news (especially local to the Central PA brewery scene), as well as covering other topics of our interests – such as hiking, literature and books, board games, and video games which we sometimes stream with our friends over at Knights of Nostalgia. We are currently listed as #7 on FeedSpot’s “Top 100 Beer Blogs” and #9 on FeedSpot’s “Top 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. Thank you for reading our site today, please subscribe, follow, and bookmark. Please reach out to us if you are interested in working together. If you would like to donate to the blog you can here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thank you!

The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

B. Kline — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:03:00 +0000

Untappd’s logo and user interface (photo courtesy of Untappd – Drink Socially)

Part One of Two

Untappd just recently spat out about ten different “end of the year” articles, and some are less noteworthy or interesting as others. I thought this and the part two to this article, were both interesting; interesting enough to collate it into an article here for my blog.

The first one of the two articles is simply: “The Top 10 Craft Breweries with the Most Five Star Check Ins”. They did a follow up article: “The Top 10 Craft Beers with the Most Five Star Check Ins”. They don’t state though how exactly the data is integrated. If for example, I have Mad Elf as a five star beer and I check into it thirty six times, does that count as thirty six – or because I am just one person; does it count as just one?

I think the list is pretty obvious in some ways. I think we can all guess at least several of the breweries that will be on the list. I think the check in totals are illuminating, especially when you get to the lower (the better) numbers. The comparison from Number Two to Number One is really incredible.

I think with this and the next article (the part two) it should be interesting to take a look at the numbers and put the two together.

End of the Year

As I said in our last end of the year article: What Regions Drank the Most (2022):

Its the end of the year, and what that usually entails is a whole slew of “end of the year lists”. Top 10 this… top 38 that… top 69 (heeheehee) this and that…. Top 314.181928102810 Pies, etc.

We are going to post a few this year. In the past we’ve kinda shied away from posting these sorts of articles, because the metrics and information is kind of… biased in a way. Its basically just reading off Untappd’s information and lists and going with it. For example, recently Breweries in PA did a final end of the year Top 10 Pennsylvania Breweries listing article, using Untappd’s information, and well… it was received as well as you can imagine. Mainly because they didn’t put in any filters or restrictions or limits to it. So just before the list was posted, Country Club Brewing Company (see an article about them here: Country Club Brewing Company Announces Opening) had their grand opening. They had roughly 1,000 check – ins on the Untappd app, and being a grand opening most of them were very favorable (mostly four caps or better). So needless to say this put a lot of readers and breweries themselves up in arms about it. It actually listed them at number three (out of ten). (The other thing that irked most was that Other Half Brewing Company was listed, when they have several non – Pennsylvanian locations.)

But… I’m gonna go out on a limb and use Untappd to post some of these lists. If nothing else we can look back at them as just data charts and analyze them for the statistics. At best, they prompt some conversation and discussion (and we all know how well that goes on the internet).
What Regions Drank the Most (2022)

So, without further adieu, let’s get to the list.

The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

10. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, DE) – 11,656 Check Ins
9. Yuengling Brewery (Pottstown, PA) – 11,816 Check Ins
8. Sierra Nevada Brewing (Chico, CA) – 12,142 Check Ins
7. Samuel Adams (Boston, MA) – 13,398 Check Ins
6. Toppling Goliath (Decorah, IA) – 14,014 Check Ins
5. The Alchemist (Stowe, VT) – 14,737 Check Ins
4. Other Half Brewing Co. (Brooklyn, NY) – 15,900 Check Ins
3. Russian River Brewing Company (Windsor, CA) – 18,276 Check Ins
2. Bell’s Brewery (Comstock, MI) – 19,340 Check Ins
1. Tree House Brewing Company (Charlton, MA) – 51,964 Check Ins

Data

Look at that jump from number two to number 1! A 32,000 some totals jump! That’s really incredible. Pennsylvania did make the list with Yuengling Brewery hitting at number 9. And I guess technically again with both Samuel Adams and Other Half Brewing with Pennsylvania now having a production facility for Sam Adams and a brewery for Other Half. (See our article on Other Half Brewing opening in Philadelphia: Other Half Brewing Opening in Philadelphia.)

This information is all based on Untappd and their data keeping and their app. The statistics ran from January 1st through December 9th of 2022.

To see the full article, click here: The Top 10 Craft Breweries With the Most 5-Star Check-Ins of 2022

Our Articles

Looking for beer reviews or other articles based on the breweries above? You might recall that we have done some beer reviews of several of the breweries above. You can find them here below:

Thanks For Reading

Cheers All!

-B. Kline

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

The Beer Thrillers are a blog that prides itself on writing beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, news (especially local to the Central PA brewery scene), as well as covering other topics of our interests – such as hiking, literature and books, board games, and video games which we sometimes stream with our friends over at Knights of Nostalgia. We are currently listed as #7 on FeedSpot’s “Top 100 Beer Blogs” and #9 on FeedSpot’s “Top 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. Thank you for reading our site today, please subscribe, follow, and bookmark. Please reach out to us if you are interested in working together. If you would like to donate to the blog you can here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thank you!

Top Ten Breweries - The Beer Thrillers

The Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania as Per Perplexity

The Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania

Top 10 Breweries in Pennsylvania for 2023

Sources

Untappd

Top Breweries

Thank You For Reading

The Top Ten Craft Breweries That Brewed the Most New Beers in the Year 2022

Another End of the Year Article

The Top 10 Breweries With the Most Beers Created in 2022

Data

End of the Year

Related Articles

Other End of the Year Articles

Thanks For Reading

The Top Ten Craft Beers with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

Part Two of Two

The Top 10 Craft Beers With the Most 5 – Star Check – Ins of 2022

Data

Our Articles

Other End of the Year Articles

End of the Year

Thanks For Reading

The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

Part One of Two

End of the Year

The Top Ten Breweries with the Most Five Star Ratings of 2022

Data

Our Articles

Other End of the Year Articles

Thanks For Reading