Microbreweries I've enjoyed (some more than others)

In no particular order. The list will be updated when i rank them all.

Updated 8/1/06. This is as best as I can do in limited time to rank them. The rankings are based on beer quality. This is all my own opinion but its pretty accurate because I know everything about beer so I can be considered an expert. A few of these places brew awesome beers but aren't the best place to go and sit and drink a beer at for various reasons, on the contrary, other places are wonderful places to go and have a beer at it's just too bad they brew shitty beer. For example, the Water Street Brewery is a very cool place with old beer collectibles all over the walls but the beer tastes like a smoothy, worst I've ever had. Keep this in mind if you plan on visiting an establishment. I'll work on ranking establishments and beer for all of them in a score system of some kind. I'll be updating this soon.
Updated 8/27/06: I've decided against a scoring system and I think I'm going to write one blog for every few (or so) breweries. That way I can give a reasonably detailed description of each. This way (should anyone actually read the blog and actually have a desire to go to one of the breweries) one will have some idea of what to expect. Last updated: 09/20/09

Town Hall Brewery, (Minneapolis, MN)
Bell's Brewery, (Kalamazoo, MI)
Emmett's tavern, (West Dundee,IL)
Great Lakes Brewing Co., (Cleveland, OH)
Great Dane, (Madison, WI)
Half Acre Beer Co. (Chicago, IL)
Milwaukee Ale House, (Milwaukee, WI)
Goose Island, (Chicago, IL)
Mickey Finns, (Libertyville, IL)
Two Brothers Tap Room, (St. Charles, IL)
Front Street Brewery, (Wilmington, NC)
Lunar (Villa Park, IL)
The Wild Onion, (Barrington, IL)
Janesport Brewery, (Janesport, MI)
Kraftbrau, (C) (Kalamazoo, MI)
Weeping Radish Brewery, (C) (Manteo, NC)
Lakefront Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
J.W. Plateks, (Richmond, IL)
Potosi Brewing Co, (Potosi, WI)
Prairie Rock Brewing Co, (Elgin/Schaumburg, IL)
Green Man, (Ashville, NC)
Piece, (Chicago, IL)
Peninsule bay Brewing (Kalamazoo, MI)
Lucky Monks, (Schaumburg, IL)
Hereford and Hops, (Escanaba, U.P. MI)
Flatlanders, (Lincolnshire, IL)
Walter Paytons Roundhouse (Aurora, IL)
M.T. Barrels, (C) (West Dundee, IL)
Governors Public House, (C) (Carpentersville, IL)
Sprecher Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
Hops, (C) (Minneapolis, MN)
Maummee Bay Brewing, (Toledo, OH)
Miller (Milwaukee, Wi)
The courthouse Pub, (Manitowoc, WI)
Grand Cayman Brewery, (can't remember the name)
The Ram, (Schaumburg, IL)
Brass, (C) (Schaumburg, IL)
Brockway Chophouse, (C) (Palatine, IL)
Shipwrecks, (Door County, WI)
Milrose Brewery, (Schaumburg, IL)
Waterstreet Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
Stockholm's (Geneva, IL)

(C) indicates brewery has closed down