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 ...

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

produce many different styles of

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. Some breweries package their beer in bottles or cans for retail sale. Some breweries produce

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s of beer, to be sold on

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at taverns and restaurants, or at the brewery's own tap room. Brewpubs combine brewing operations with full-service restaurants. Commercially licensed breweries use one or several of these methods to sell their products.

Breweries

Other beer companies

*Big Bay Brewing Company – Contract brewer formerly out of

Milwaukee Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is ...

, now at ''House of Brews'' out of

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. *BluCreek Brewing Company –

– Founded in 2000 and originally targeted to a Japanese market. Produced by Sand Creek Brewing in

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. *Fauerbach Brewing Company –

– Brand revived in 2005 and produced by Gray Brewing Company in Janesville. *Horny Goat – Milwaukee – Founded in 2009. Brewpub and experimental brewing facilities in Milwaukee were open until 2015. Produced by

Stevens Point Brewery Stevens Point Brewery is a regional American brewery located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The brewery is the fifth-oldest continuously operating brewery and the third-oldest privately owned brewery in the nation. The company's sales volume among ...

. *III Dachshunds Beer Company – Cudahy – Brewing since 2003. Available only on tap at City Lounge in Cudahy. Produced by Stone Cellar Brewery in Appleton. * James Page Brewing Company - James Page Brewing was founded in 1986, and much of its beer was produced under contract, by other breweries. It is currently made by the

. *Lithia Beer – West Bend – Founded in 1898, merged into the West Bend Brewing Company in 1889. Brand revived in 2008 and is currently produced by Sprecher Brewing Company. *Pangaea Beer Company – Neshkoro – Produced by Sand Creek Brewing in

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Closed breweries

;Milwaukee *

Pabst Brewing Company The Pabst Brewing Company () is an American company that dates its origins to a brewing company founded in 1844 by Jacob Best and was, by 1889, named after Frederick Pabst. It is currently a holding company which contracts the brewing of over ...

(1844–1996) (has since re-opened a brewery in 2017) *

Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company The Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and once the largest producer of beer in the United States. Its namesake beer, Schlitz (), was known as "The beer that made Milwaukee famous" and was adve ...

(1849–1982) *

Valentin Blatz Brewing Company The Valentin Blatz Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It produced Blatz Beer from 1851 until 1959, when the label was sold to Pabst Brewing Company. Blatz beer is currently produced by the Miller Brewing Compan ...

(1851–1959) *

Cream City Brewing Company The Cream City Brewing Company was an American brewery that was located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1853 until 1937. The brewery was one of seven to survive Prohibition in the city. One structure remains from the old brewery complex; a 25,000 squ ...

(1853–1937) * A. Gettelman Brewing Company (1856–1961) * Independent Milwaukee Brewery (1901–1964) ;Others *John Philips Brewery – Mineral Point (1835) (earliest known brewery in Wisconsin, then known as the

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) *

Joseph Huber Brewing Company The Joseph Huber Brewing Company was founded in 1845 in Monroe, Wisconsin. Originally called The Blumer Brewery, it adopted the Huber name in 1947. It is the oldest continually operating brewery in the Midwest and second oldest in the United Sta ...

– Monroe (1845–1985) *

G. Heileman Brewing Company The G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, was a brewery firm that operated from 1858 to 1996. It was ultimately acquired by Stroh's, and its independent existence ceased. From 1872 until its acquisition, the brewe ...

–

La Crosse La Crosse is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, La Crosse County. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's populat ...

(1858–1996) *

Gambrinus Brewing Co. The Gambrinus Brewing Co. was a brewery located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is no longer in production. It was founded by Lorenz Kuenzl, a native of Bohemia in the Austrian Empire, and operated by Kuenzl, his wife Barbara Walters, and his brother- ...

– Oshkosh (1864–1971) * Ashland Brewing Company – Ashland (1874–1937) * George Walter Brewing Company – Appleton (1885–1972)The George Walter Brewing Company - Brewers of Adler Brau Beer
/ref> * Walter Brothers Brewing Company – Menasha (1888–1956)Trade Names for the brewery at 134/144 Nicolet Blvd & Commercial Street in Menasha, WI.
/ref> * John Walter Brewing Company – Eau Claire (1893–1990)Walter's Beer Eau Claire
/ref> * Hibernia Brewing – Eau Claire (1985–1988) *Rockhound Brewing Company - Madison (2016-2020)

Breweries

Other beer companies

Closed breweries

See also