--- description: According to RateBeer.com, the world's top beer is not in the German hills or at a Belgian abbey but down a rural road in tiny... title: The Best Beer Anywhere image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Best Beer Anywhere by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:31 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 30, 2016 12:31 PM CUT According to RateBeer.com, the world’s top beer is not in the German hills or at a Belgian abbey but down a rural road in tiny Greensboro Bend, Vt. (pop. 232). There, Shaun Hill, 37, turns out small batches at Hill Farmstead Brewery, on the site of his grandfather’s old dairy farm. “When you don’t have a long-standing history,” he says, “it encourages you to be creative.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4389103/the-best-beer-anywhere/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4389103/the-best-beer-anywhere/"},"headline":"The Best Beer Anywhere","datePublished":"2016-06-30T12:31:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:57:30.080Z","description":"According to RateBeer.com, the world's top beer is not in the German hills or at a Belgian abbey but down a rural road in tiny...","url":"https://time.com/4389103/the-best-beer-anywhere/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4389103/the-best-beer-anywhere/","name":"The Best Beer Anywhere"}}]}] ```