Three Ohio breweries, led by Akron-based Hoppin' Frog, have been voted onto

's top 100 world's best breweries list of 2013.

Hoppin' Frog, which sells big beers in big bottles, was ranked 17th best brewer. Great Lakes Brewing Co. of Cleveland came in 35th. Jackie O's Pub and Brewery in Athens was ranked 97th.

Hoppin' Frog says the list is the world's largest beer competition, with more than 13,000 brewers and 180,000 beers considered.

The brewery features mostly big beers, in style and alcohol. Its iconic green and white frog hoists a mug of a different colored brew on each of its 22-ounce "bomber" bottles. Most of the beers are imperial -- that is, a style that intensifies the process for a particular ale or beer. The result is a powerful brew in flavor and in alcohol. Most of Hoppin' Frog's beers top 8 percent in alcohol.

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Ratebeer.com, which has been around since 2000, uses a weighted system involving thousands of voters who register with the site to rank style and quality of a brew or brewer. The site guards against skewed votes, vigilant for obvious bogus rankings or biased votes from brewers on their own products.

"I am surprised at the number of new brewers," said Joe Tucker, ratebeer.com executive director. "For a long time people said craft beer was going to top off, that this would be the year it would top off."

Tucker is familiar with both of Northeast Ohio brewers on the list; his wife's family is from Cleveland.

"There's a lot going on (in the Cleveland-Akron market) and has been for quite some time. The retailers there have always had great selection."

He praised local retailers for "leading beer education and feeding the craft beer geeks there."

About two-thirds of the breweries on the list are American. Tucker said about 70 percent of the 250,000 voters are from the United States.

Hill Farmstead Brewery of Greensboro, Vt., earned top honors from the California-based site's voters.