This is a list of notable microbreweries. A microbrewery is a brewery which produces a limited amount of beer.[1] The qualifications to be classified as a microbrewery vary by country. The term "microbrewery" originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s to describe the new generation of small breweries which focused on producing traditional cask ale. The first example of this approach was Selby Brewery founded by Martin Sykes in 1972 in the Yorkshire town of the same name.[2] Although originally "microbrewery" was used in relation to the size of breweries, it gradually came to reflect an alternative attitude and approach to brewing flexibility, adaptability, experimentation, and customer service. The term and trend spread to the United States in the 1980s, where it eventually was used as a designation of breweries that produce fewer than 15,000 U.S. beer barrels (1,800,000 liters) (475,000 U.S. gallons) annually.[3]
Notable microbreweries
- Located in the United States unless otherwise noted.
0–9
- 5 Rabbit Cervecería (founded 2009)
A
- Abbey Brewing Company (founded 2003)
- Abita Brewing Company (founded 1986). Original location is now the Abita Brew Pub
- Agassiz Brewing (1998–2010), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Alaskan Brewing Company (founded 1986), Juneau, Alaska
- AleSmith Brewing Company (founded 1995)
- Allagash Brewing Company (founded 1995)
See also
- Beer and breweries by region
- Gypsy brewer
- Homebrewing
- List of bars
- List of countries by beer consumption per capita
- List of defunct breweries in the United States
- List of public house topics
- Lists of breweries
- Microdistilling
References
- Alison Boteler. The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Beer Quarry Books, 2009, retrieved 21 July 2011^
- Brian Glover. New Beer Guide A Guide to Britain's Small Brewery Revolution, David & Charles, 1988^
- Welcome to the Brewers Association Brewers Association, retrieved 2012-03-16^