Hop Culture is out with its list of America’s 10 best breweries, and Birmingham’s TrimTab made the list.

The site devoted to beer and beer culture, in a piece by Kenny Gould, picked 10 breweries out of more than 7,500 nationally as those that “best represented the brewing landscape in 2019.”

TrimTab sits alongside breweries from Massachusetts, Colorado, California, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Maine. The breweries were picked for several factors, including safety, consistency and quality control as well as community engagement and education.

The piece notes that two years ago, “if you’d told us that we’d name an Alabama brewery as one of our Top 10 of 2019, we would’ve politely challenged you to a duel.”

“But the southern state has come a long way, led in part by Birmingham-based TrimTab,” Gould writes. “Within the winning framework of ‘experimental IPA, expressive stout, and fruited sour’ they’ve managed to innovate, creating a line of tiki and cocktail-inspired sours as well as a Japanese lager, a West Coast IPA, and even a Berliner that tastes like Lemon Berry Icebox Pie. But, what really makes this brewery sing is its line of incredibly impressive stouts.”

Earlier this year, TrimTab Brewing introduced a first-time collaboration on a beer with LaGrange, Ga. -based Wild Leap Brew Co.