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WEBVTT GAINED BIG INTERNATIONAL ACCOLADES LAST MONTH AFTER THE NATIONAL PUBLICATION RATE- BEER-DOT-COM RANKED IT AS ONE OF THE TOP BREWERIES--NOT IN THE COUNTRY--BUT IN THE WORLD!!! ACTION NEWS REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ, TELLS US MORE ABOUT HOW SANTE ADAIRIUS RUSTIC ALES MADE THE LIST. "We're just making good beer. We're not trying to do anything more than that!" SANTE ADAIRIUS RUSTIC ALES HAS BEEN DOING THAT SINCE IT OPENED IN 20-12. IT'S A SMALL BREWERY LOCATED OFF THE BEATEN PATH ON KENNEDY DRIVE CAPITOLA NOW GOI INTO ITS SEVENTH YEAR OF BUSINESS---A NATIONAL PUBLICATION HAS RANKED THEM AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST BREWERIES IN THE WORLD. "I do think having a more packaged prodcut like that allows people access to beer who don't live here and who might be accessing, ratebeers web site to rate our beer. CO-OWNERS ADAIR PATERNO AND TIM CLIFFORD BREW TWO THOUSAND BARRELLS OF BEER A YEAR. IT'S A SMALL BREWERY BUT THEY HAVE A BUSINESS MODEL THAT THEY'VE FOLLOWED SINCE THEY OPENED "Small Businesses that are direct to consumers who aren't worried about being in large distribution networks can frankly do more with a lot less." PATRONS OF SANTE ADAIRIUS RUSTIC AL SHARE THE BREWERIES, BOTTLES AND CANS THROUGH ON-LINE BEER TRADING COMMUNITIES THAT HAS HELPED ENABLE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD TRY THEIR BEERS AND A FEW MOUSE CLICKS LATER ---- "They send them to their friend and then they rate them and so we'veen able to get our beers into the hands of people who aren't in Capitola." LOCAL BEER AFECIONADOS KNOW WHAT HIGH QUALITY CRAFT BEERS ARE PRODUCED HERE AND THEY'RE WILLING TO SHARE THAT WITH OTHERS AROUND THE GLOBE. "I really like craft bneer from all arund the world and this place seems like its always with the best in the world and so I'm not surprised at all" "The list of bewers that we're listed with, they're all phenominnal brwers we're very humbled to be included with them THE BREWERY HAS BEEN LISTED IN THE TOP ONE HUNDRED SINCE IT OPENED HOWEVER THIS TIME IT'S TAPPED IN TO THE TOP TEN BY RATEBEER DOT COM IN SANTA CRUZ, PHIL GOMEZ, KSBW ACTION NEWS EIGHT.

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Santa Cruz and its surrounding areas are known for many things — the Boardwalk, a petite wine country, banana slugs, horror movies and random Keanu sightings — but this week, for the second year in a row, it's the craft beer that's pushing the area's fame.Capitola's Sante Adairius Rustic Ales, a tiny craft brewery specializing in mixed-fermentation saisons, has again been voted into the top-10 ranking for the best breweries in the world. Better yet, this year the brewery, founded by Adair Paterno and Tim Clifford, jumped up one spot from No. 10 to No. 9.Sante Adairius — sometimes called "SARA" for short — was voted into the annual RateBeer Best ranking by thousands of annual users. RateBeer, a beer-ranking site and app, examines "more than 640,000 beers by over 33,000 brewers around the world" every year for the multi-category contest. The site awards across several categories including best new brewers, best beers by style and best beers in the world. But its most prominent category over the last 20 years of the contest has been its list of the 100 best brewers in the world."It is always a privilege to be recognized for your craft, but especially when the acknowledgement comes from the consumers who drink your beer," said Paterno in an email to SFGATE. "And as a very small producer (we made less than 2000 Bbl of beer last year), we are honored to be mentioned alongside industry greats like Hill Farmstead, Side Project, and the other incredible brewers on the list. In the end, we just feel so lucky to be able to do what we love, with and for customers we love, in one of the most beautiful places to drink beer in the world."This year, RateBeer tweaked its scoring methodology, as founder Joe Tucker explained in a post."While every year prior, brewer awards were based on performance mostly of the last year and considering their entire historical record, this year we’ve updated our formula to better assess the brewery in today’s times," he writes. "We’re taking an approach that’s provided more relevant, meaningful results by considering the last four years with an emphasis on performance in the last year."The RateBeer Best 100 list's top 10 tends to be heavily dominated by American breweries like Hill Farmstead (Vermont), Side Project (Missouri) and Trillium (Massachusetts), but elsewhere on the list are iconic international brewing classics, like Belgium's Cantillon, Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen and Abdij St. Sixtus, Westvleteren and others across Europe.In addition to Sante Adairius, 17 other California breweries claimed positions on the Best Brewers list. This includes Northern California favorites Russian River in Santa Rosa (No. 37), Sierra Nevada in Chico (No. 46), Cellarmaker in San Francisco (No. 50), Drake's in San Leandro (No. 79), Almanac in Alameda (No. 82) and Lagunitas in Petaluma (No. 87).Other Northern California breweries were honored across other categories, including Fieldwork in Berkeley, which earned best brewer taproom for California; Russian River, which won best California brewpub and best beer (Pliny the Younger); and Carmel's Yeast of Eden, an offshoot of Alvarado Street, which won best new brewery in California.Video is from last year's report of them ranking #10.