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Breweries in Kansas produce a wide range of
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s in different styles that are marketed locally and regionally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries to
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to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries. In 2012, Kansas's 21 breweries and brewpubs employed 70 people directly, and more than 10,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Kansas' breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Kansas' breweries and related industries was more than $190 million. Consumer purchases of Kansas' brewery products generated more than $90 million in additional tax revenue. By 2019, according to the
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, Kansas ranked 32nd in the number of
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per capita with 59 and 34th in the United States for overall number of breweries statewide. For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822
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in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237
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, 1,412
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and 119 regional craft breweries. In that same year, according to the
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, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.


Open breweries

The following is a list of
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and
microbreweries Craft beer is a beer that has been made by craft breweries. They produce smaller amounts of beer, typically less than large breweries, and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as having an emphasis o ...
. The largest brewery in Kansas is Free State Brewing Company in
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* BJ's Restaurant & Brewery (
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-based) has one location in Wichita. *
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company Gordon Biersch Brewery is an American brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, Germany, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, Cal ...
(
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-based) has one location in
Leawood Leawood is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 33,902. History 19th century After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the area ...
. * Granite City Food and Brewery (
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-based) has two locations in
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and Olathe.


Former breweries

The following is a list of
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and
microbreweries Craft beer is a beer that has been made by craft breweries. They produce smaller amounts of beer, typically less than large breweries, and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as having an emphasis o ...
that have closed or have ceased brewing; this list is for tracking former locations.


See also

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Beer in the United States Beer in the United States is manufactured by more than 7,000 breweries, which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced 196 million barrels () of beer in 2012, and consumes roughly of beer ...
*
List of breweries in the United States At the end of 2017, there were total 7,450 breweries in the United States, including 7,346 craft breweries subdivided into 2,594 brewpubs, 4,522 microbreweries, 230 regional craft breweries and 104 large/non-craft breweries. From 2017 data, acco ...
*
List of microbreweries This is a list of notable microbreweries. A microbrewery is a brewery which produces a limited amount of beer. The qualifications to be classified as a microbrewery vary by country. The term "microbrewery" originated in the United Kingdom in the l ...
* List of wineries in Kansas


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Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
Breweries A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer. The place at which beer is commercially made is either called a brewery or a beerhouse, where distinct sets of brewing equipment are called plant. The commercial brewing of bee ...