With over 7,500 breweries in America and many others around the world, a large majority of which place a premium value on providing consumers with a variety of new offerings each year, attempting to create a compendium of the best beers of 2019 is an impossible task.
That’s not to say we didn’t encounter plenty of top-tier beers, including everything from lagers fit for the fall and revolutionary IPAs. But it all amounts to a tiny fraction of the fluid ounces released over the past 12 months by breweries in all 50 states. So we sought the help of 45 respected beer pros around the globe, asking each to share their favorite new brew of the year, with the only requirement being they select something outside of what they produced or were involved in producing.
