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As has been tradition in January here at the Tap Takeover for the previous five years, I present the annual roundup of my favorite new to me beers of the previous calendar year. Why a \u201c12-pack?\u201d Well, everybody does a top 10 list and beer is generally sold in quantities of 6 and 12 packs. This Favorite of the Year 12-pack will feature the highest rated beers I\u2019ve had the previous year. Of the twelve beers, there was only one beer I rated below 4.5 bottle caps on untappd, which is to say that I had some high-quality beers in 2022. This 12-pack is what I deemed\u00a0 as \u201cBest\u201d beers of the 349 unique beers I checked into untappd in 2022, from 126 different breweries.\u00a0 I think in previous years, a few beers I rated at 4.25 bottle caps made the list. According to untappd, I tried 105 different styles of beer, but what probably shouldn\u2019t be a surprise at this point is the style I checked in the most: Pilsner \u2013 Czech.<\/p>\n

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As always, for the purposes of this post New means \u201cNew to Me\u201d because a some beers on this list have been around for many, many years, but I had the beer for the first time in 2023.<\/p>\n

Before diving into the list, here\u2019s another plug for my old Blog o\u2019 Stuff, which is where I write, rant, and rave about Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction books<\/a><\/strong>. I brought it back to life this year with a few reviews and a monthly reading wrap up, not too dissimilar to the monthly six packs here at the Triple T.<\/p>\n

Back to our regularly scheduled beer programming\u2026<\/p>\n

While I had more beers from NJ breweries this year than probably any other year, only 5 of them make the top 12, which still comprises the dominant State. Again, as in past years, the annual 12-pack could have easily been comprised of 3 or 4 breweries, but the one rule I\u2019ll stick to from past years is allowing only one beer per brewery to appear. That rule made it difficult to whittle down some breweries from whom I\u2019ve had upwards of 10 beers in 2022.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019ve done a full review of the beer here at The Tap Takeover, the beer name links to that review, otherwise the beer name links to my untappd check-in for the beer. For the beers that I\u2019ve reviewed, I\u2019ve provided a truncated blurb of my beer review.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the style breakdown for the 12 beers below:<\/p>\n