Looking for breweries that are open during the coronavirus crisis? Check out our guide to reopened breweries with outdoor space here.

Everything is better with beer. You knew that already, but if you needed proof, you could just take a look at the events calendar of almost any of our local breweries. There are now places in Boston for you to drink a beer while doing yoga, listening to poetry, speed dating, buying farm fresh produce, watching The Bachelorette, adopting a rescue dog, and speaking at a neighborhood zoning ordinance meeting. Breweries are great.

But not all breweries are created equal. To help you sort through them all, we visited each one and ranked them based on a combination of tap room atmosphere, beer selection, food, anything else they might offer. For the sake of defining exactly what is a Boston brewery, we limited our search to places that (1) are on the T or within a reasonable rideshare distance (sorry, Lord Hobo in Woburn), and (2) actually brew beer on site (sorry, Lord Hobo in Cambridge). That left us with 21 spots, so visit two of these a month and then come back in a year to yell at us about what we screwed up.