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 ...
in
Nebraska produce a wide range of
beers in different
styles that are marketed locally and regionally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and
microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.
In 2012 Nebraska's 38 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 100 people directly, and more than 6,700 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Altogether 19 people in Nebraska had active brewer permits in 2012.
Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Nebraska's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Nebraska's breweries and related industries was more than $132 million. Consumer purchases of Nebraska's brewery products generated more than $70 million extra in tax revenue. In 2012, according to the
Brewers Association, Nebraska ranked 16th in the number of
craft breweries
A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale prod ...
per capita with 19.
For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822
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 ...
in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237
brewpubs
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 ...
, 1,412
microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries. In that same year, according to the
Beer Institute
Beer Institute is a national trade association, headquartered in Washington, D.C. representing companies which produce and import beer sold in the United States.
Beer Institute was organized in 1986 from the United States Brewers' Association The ...
, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.
Breweries
The following is a list of Nebraska-based breweries, meaderies and cideries.
Closed Breweries
See also
*
List of breweries in the United States
*
List of microbreweries
References
External links
"Nebraska Brewery Listings" ''Brewery Collectibles Club of America'', retrieved 11 April 2017.
"Breweries in Nebraska, United States" ''Beer Me!'', retrieved 18 February 2014.
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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 ...