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Belt’s Beer Garden: Best Beers of 2022

It’s time for the annual look back at the best beers I‘ve discovered over the past 365 days.

And, as always, I like to start with a few stats (because I’m a nerd like that).

This was my biggest year for beer ever! Moving across the country sure helped me find a ton of new places and great brews. Last year I tried 658 beers, this year I CRUSHED that...trying 1094 beers this year (+436!!!) from. So creating this top-10 list was quite difficult.

Belt’s Beer Garden has been going on for more than eight years now and in that time I have featured 661 beers from 440 different breweries (50 new breweries this year!