Miami brewer Jonathan Wakefield was in Santa Rosa, California, this past weekend swigging some Pliney the Elders at Russian River Brewing Company at the RateBeer Best Awards and Festival January 30.

Thousands of beer fans from as far away as China and Poland converged on the Northern California city to taste the world's top-rated beers, which received the highest scores on beer rating website RateBeer.com. The scores were tallied from all of the reviews left by the website's users in 2015. Nearly a million reviews were posted in 2016, according to RateBeer, with raters ranging from certified cicerones to the beer lover next door.

More than 300,000 beers from 18,500-plus brewers worldwide were tallied for the awards results, with more than 21,000 beers judged in the New Brewers category alone. Of all the beer, only one Florida brewer took home any honors. J. Wakefield Brewing Company nabbed awards for Best New Brewer in Florida in 2015 and World's Top Beer Releases for 2015 for its Dragon Fruit Passion Fruit (DFPF) Berliner Weisse.