DCBeer.com’s Snallygaster 2018 Power Rankings!

For the third year, we’ve taken it upon ourselves to sort out the massive list of beers at Snallygaster and power rank them! Snallygaster, the seven annual beer festival brought to you by the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, is one of the best beer festivals in the United States and one of the crown jewels of our beer scene.

Your DCBeer editors (and some knowledgeable local folks) have sorted through the list and ranked them. Per usual, the standard is “what we’ve done here is think about what our predilections would be on the day of. Which beers would we be most likely to shell out tickets for? This takes into consideration a great number of things: the esteem in which we hold a brewery, our relative style preferences, our understanding of a given beer’s reputation, ABV, cost, availability (we’re not, by and large, going to Snallygaster to drink things we can typically get). In some cases, but not all, we’ve consulted rating sites like Untappd, Beer Advocate, and RateBeer [and we thank