AleSmith Named California’s Best & World’s 2nd Best Brewery

San Diego-based craft brewery named a standard-bearer the world over by users of highly acclaimed beer-rating site, RateBeer.com

San Diego, California (February 5, 2016) — For the past 16 years, imbibing enthusiasts looking for the most trustworthy information and reviews on beers spanning the globe have relied on the bank of evergrowing information on RateBeer.com. Regarded as the Internet’s foremost beer-rating site, RateBeer.com recently held its inaugural RateBeer Best Awards Ceremony and Beer Festival in Santa Rosa, Calif. on January 30-31. That celebration included a ceremony at which the top breweries for each U.S. state were named along with planetary overall rankings and awards for best beers in the world. San Diego-based AleSmith Brewing Company took top honors as the best brewery in California, following that up by ranking second place in the entire world for calendar year 2015. These honors came as a result of great showings by several of the company’s beers in a wide array of styles highlighted by a whopping four wins in the Strong Stout categories.

“Humility is a highly valued quality here at AleSmith. We love our beers, but prefer to let fans of craft beer do the talking when it comes to our family of ales. So it’s particularly gratifying to receive such incredible accolades from a consistently reliable, fan-driven entity like RateBeer,” said AleSmith Owner, CEO and Brewmaster Peter Zien. “We’re all about honoring traditional recipes while introducing bold sensory experiences tempered by balanced textures and overall flavor profiles. This is a big part of what RateBeer’s crowd appreciates, so it is rewarding to see they feel we are doing right by them.”

The following is a full list of awards won by AleSmith at the RateBeer Best Awards Ceremony:

• Best Brewery in California
• Top Brewer in the World (second place)
• Top New Beer Release in the World: AleSmith Velvet Speedway Stout
• Top Beers in the World:
  • AleSmith IPA
  • o AleSmith Speedway Stout
  • Bourbon Barrel-Aged AleSmith Old Numbskull Barleywine
• Best Beer by Style Category for:
  • India Pale Ale: AleSmith IPA (fourth place)
  • English Pale and Bitter: AleSmith Anvil ESB (fifth place)
  • Strong Ale: Bourbon Barrel-Aged AleSmith Old Numbskull Barleywine (fourteenth place)
  • Strong Stout:
    • Bourbon Barrel-Aged AleSmith Vietnamese Speedway Stout (fifth place)
    • Bourbon Barrel-Aged AleSmith Speedway Stout (seventh place)
    • AleSmith Speedway Stout (thirteenth place)

    Bourbon Barrel-Aged AleSmith Kopi Luwak Speedway Stout (fourteenth place)

AleSmith has fared well on RateBeer historically, winning Top Brewer in the World three times and remaining within the top ten for more than a decade. Currently, the company has dozens of 100-point beers on the site—IPA, Double IPA (formerly Summer YuleSmith), Double Red IPA, Evil Dead Red Ale, Reforged, multiple versions of its Old Numbskull Barleywine, Speedway Stout and Wee Heavy, and five editions of its annually changing Decadence Anniversary Ales. It’s the strength of those ratings that fueled another solid showing by AleSmith this year.

RateBeer’s top brewers in the world are tallied according to a summary score based on all available reviews. The summarization is based on 10 different weighted scales that place reviews on the past year and top performing beers but also includes historical all-around performance, a brewer’s range of performance across styles, and other factors to compare newer and older, larger and smaller brewers under a singlemethod process. Over 22,500 breweries were in contention for this honor.

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ABOUT ALESMITH BREWING COMPANY: Forged in 1995, AleSmith has been recognized by consumers and critics alike as one of the world’s foremost craft brewing companies behind accolades that include medals won at prestigious national and international beer competitions as well as being named Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. AleSmith is on the verge of celebrating its 21st year in business and recently expanded, moving into a 105,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art brewery featuring a new 80-barrel brewing system that will allow the company to increase its production ten-fold. The expansion also included constructive of the largest brewery tasting room on the West Coast (25,000 square feet) with an outdoor beer garden that will soon be joined by a second-story indoor-outdoor mezzanine, private rooms and a museum dedicated to San Diego Padres legend Tony Gwynn. AleSmith’s line of acclaimed beers, which includes Speedway Stout, IPA, San Diego Pale Ale .394, Nut Brown Ale and Old Numbskull Barley Wine, is distributed in 19 U.S. states and five countries. The company’s social media channels include Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (@AleSmithBrewing), and its official website URL is— http://www.alesmith.com.

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