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Maddy Lauria
The News Journal
Visitors to Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton wait in line for them to open for tours and tastings.

Delaware’s Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s free tours have been voted among the best in the nation.

The Milton-based brewery, known for its "off-centered" ales and funky steam-punk tree house, ranked second best brewery in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards contest by popular vote, beating out big names like Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, Great Lakes Brewing Co. and many others that didn’t make the cut.

“For beer lovers, grain to glass tours go into normally off-limits parts of the facilities, including cold storage, the grain handling room and the barrel-aging room,” the contest states.

New Belgium Brewing Co. based in Colorado and North Carolina earned the No. 1 spot for best brewery tour.

USA Today’s third annual 10Best contest includes dozens of categories from food, lodging and destinations that are judged by travel experts and then voted on by USA Today readers.

For a full list of winners, go to www.10best.com.

IF YOU GO

WHAT: Dogfish Head brewery tours

WHERE: 6 Cannery Village Center (for GPS, use 511 Chestnut St.), Milton

WHEN: For free tours: every hour, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays; on the half hour, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays, every hour, noon-5 p.m. For grain to glass tours: April through Sept. 2, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturdays and 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Sundays; plus June through August, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Fridays.

COST: $30 for grain to glass tours

MORE INFORMATION: (888)-8DOGFISH or www.dogfish.com.

Sam Calagione, who founded Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in 1995 with his wife Mariah, has been named the country's best brewer by the James Beard Foundation.

Contact reporter Maddy Lauria at (302) 345-0608, mlauria@delawareonline.com or on Twitter @MaddyinMilford.

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