Breweries in Alabama
Based on the breweries in the brewery.fyi register and their own websites, read September 2026.
Alabama's beer map has two centers of nearly equal weight. Birmingham and Huntsville each hold a little under a fifth of the places listed. Add Mobile, and about two fifths of them sit in those three cities.
The rest are spread across dozens of towns, including Jasper, Guntersville, Dothan, Opelika and Montgomery. Roughly four in five places listed are breweries, and the rest are beer stores. Where size is known, most are small microbreweries, with a handful of brewpubs.
Huntsville offers three good examples. Straight to Ale runs a brewery, distillery and gastropub inside the former Stone Middle School, and Yellowhammer Brewing draws on Belgian and German brewing with a Southern twist. Green Bus Brewing, on Eustis Avenue in downtown Huntsville, opens early every day of the week.
Most reviewed in Alabama
4.5 (1,468 on Google)
Straight to Ale
Huntsville, AL
4.6 (1,360 on Google)
Old Black Bear Brewing Company
Madison, AL
4.7 (824 on Google)
Big Beach Brewing
Gulf Shores, AL
4.7 (811 on Google)
Monday Night Brewing - Social Club
Birmingham, AL
4.5 (806 on Google)
Back Forty Beer Company Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
4.7 (783 on Google)
Yellowhammer Brewing
Huntsville, AL
Planning a brewery trip in Alabama
Birmingham and Huntsville make the easiest bases, since the most breweries cluster in those two cities. In Birmingham, Avondale Brewing Company, Good People Brewing Company and Back Forty Beer Company Birmingham are among the most reviewed in the state.
Mobile, Madison and Guntersville each add a few stops of their own. Every brewery page on brewery.fyi has hours, a map and what to know before you go. Check it on the day, since taproom hours can change.