A register, not a lead broker

Why this exists

Most brewery directories sell leads or sell placement. This one publishes what public sources say about each place, with the source named on every page.

Where the data comes from

Names, locations, ratings and hours come from public listings and community registers. There is no national list of brewers to check anyone against, so we do not claim a licence match.

How each page is made

Every page starts with the brewery's own website and its Google listing, read on the date shown. We write down what they say and credit their claims to them.

Many breweries run more than one location. We only use what the website ties to the place on the page, and we leave out the rest.

There is no national list of American brewers to check a licence against, so we never claim one. We have not visited these places, so nothing here is a tasting note.

Size, where the register records it

Open Brewery DB classifies 2,729 breweries by how they operate. The rest carry no size at all. We leave that blank rather than guess it from a review count.

• microsmall independent producer, most of the breweries in this directory1,674
• brewpubbrews on site and serves a full food menu808
• regionaldistributes across several states169
• taproomserves its own beer on site, limited or no kitchen22
• largenational scale production21
• contractthe brand is real, the beer is brewed on someone else's equipment19
• proprietoran alternating-proprietorship arrangement, sharing another brewery's licensed premises10
• nanosmallest commercial scale, often one or two people and a few barrels at a time6

Counts are of breweries carrying that classification in Open Brewery DB. A brewery with no entry there is not smaller. It is unclassified.

Only breweries you can visit

Breweries still in planning are left off until they open. 290 are waiting. When one opens, it gets a page.

Breweries flagged closed by any of our sources are removed. That is 389 places. If one here has closed, or an open one is missing, tell us and we will check.

What we do not do

We do not sell leads. Paid placement never moves the order on city or state pages. We have not visited these breweries, so nothing here is a tasting note or a recommendation.

Corrections

If a page about your brewery is wrong, contact us. Claiming a listing is free and does not change its position. What owners get, free and paid.

What this register does not claim

We have not been to any of them

Nothing here is a review, a recommendation or a tasting note. It is a record of what public sources say about a business.

It is not complete

A brewery with no website and no reviews may be the best one in the county. It will look thin here, and the page will say which facts are missing rather than fill the space.

Hours and ratings go stale

Every one carries the date we read it. Check before you drive, especially on a holiday.

Nothing here is pay to appear

No brewery paid to be listed and none can pay to rank higher. Claiming a listing is free and does not change its position.