Three local breweries named among the 50 best in the world

Let's hope San Francisco Beer Week hasn't soured you on brews yet.

The annual 10-day festival taking place across the Bay Area has indeed wrapped, but these last two weeks have nevertheless yielded new taproom openings and new awards for Northern California breweries.

Most prominent among them is the annual RateBeer Best Awards, which, regardless of where you fall on the great AB InBev debate, is A Very Big Deal for all kinds of breweries all over the world. As expected, California made an outsized splash at this year's contest, landing 18 breweries in the ranked list of the top 100 brewers in the world. Not bad!

But what's perhaps most notable about the list — at least, for Bay Area beer fans — is that Sante Adairius Rustic Ales landed at No. 9 this year, up from No. 10 last year. The unassuming Capitola brewery, which also has a second taproom in downtown Santa Cruz, has quietly been crafting some of the best mixed-fermentation saisons in the United States, and, according to RateBeer users, the world.

Other local winners in RateBeer's best breweries in the world list included Russian River (No. 37) and San Francisco's Cellarmaker Brewing (No. 50), among a few others. Fieldwork and Alvarado Street's Yeast of Eden earned their own best-in-California medals.

This Beer Week also crowned another surprising champion of an iconic local competition: Lincoln, Calif.'s Slice Beer Co., which, at less than a year old, won both people's choice categories at the the Bistro's 20th Annual Double and Triple IPA Festival in Hayward. It's the first time the same brewery has taken both categories, said Bistro co-owner Cynthia Kralj. The judged category winners included Kern River (for best double IPA) and Heretic (for best triple IPA).

Elsewhere in the Bay, other breweries are making different kinds of waves. Barebottle has opened its new family-friendly taproom in Santa Clara and Harmonic Brewing has announced it will be headed to a second taproom inside the Chase Center. It will be accessible seven days a week to the ticketless public, the post reads, and will open in the Spring.

Alyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor. Email: alyssa.pereira@sfgate.com | Twitter: @alyspereira