At the end of 2017, there were total 7,450

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 7,346 craft breweries subdivided into 2,594

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 ...

, 4,522

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 ...

, 230 regional

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 ...

and 104 large/non-craft breweries. The following is a partial list of defunct breweries in the United States.

Defunct breweries alphabetical

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* A. Gettelman Brewing Company *

Abner-Drury Brewery The Abner-Drury Brewery, operating from 1898 to 1938, was a brewery in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The brewery went into bankruptcy on July 31, 1935, and subsequently reorganized as Washington Brewery, Inc. It went out of ...

* Albion Brewery *

American Brewing Company (New Orleans) American Brewing Company may refer to: *American Brewing Company (Edmonds, Washington), a brewing company in Edmonds, Washington * American Brewing Company (New Orleans), a former brewing company in New Orleans, Louisiana ** American Brewing Compa ...

American Brewing Company (Providence, Rhode Island) American Brewing Company may refer to: * American Brewing Company (Edmonds, Washington), a brewing company in Edmonds, Washington * American Brewing Company (New Orleans), a former brewing company in New Orleans, Louisiana ** American Brewing Comp ...

Angeles Brewing and Malting Company The Angeles Brewing and Malting Company was a brewery that operated in Port Angeles, Washington. The company is notable for having owned a steamboat, the ''Albion'', that was sunk in a collision on Puget Sound. Business The company began doing ...

* Arcadia Brewing Company * Ashland Brewing Company

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Bachmann's Brewery The Mayer Bachmann Brewery (1851–1881) was the largest of a half-dozen breweries on Staten Island, New York, before its destruction by fire. After rebuilding, it operated as the Bachmann Brewery and then the Bachmann Bechtel Brewery until 1919. ...

* Bavarian Brewing Company * Beverwyck Brewery *

Bosch Brewing Company The Bosch Brewing Company was a small brewery on the Keweenaw Peninsula, in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan, United States. The company operated under different names from 1874 to 1973. The company was founded ...

* Brown's Brewery * Buckbean Brewing Company *

Bunker Hill Breweries Bunker Hill Breweries was a brewery founded in 1821 by John Cooper and Thomas Gould in Charlestown, (Boston) Massachusetts, USA. See also * List of defunct consumer brands * List of defunct breweries in the United States At the end of 2017, t ...

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* Charles D. Kaier Company * Celis Brewing Company *

Christian Heurich Brewing Company The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a Washington, D.C., brewery founded in 1872 and incorporated by Christian Heurich in 1890. First located near Dupont Circle on 20th Street NW, it expanded to a much larger site in Foggy Bottom in 1895 af ...

City Park Brewery City Park Brewery, also known as the Louis Bergdoll Brewing Company was a brewery in north Philadelphia, Pennsylvania built in 1856. Several brewery buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a historic district. ...

Class and Nachod Brewery The Class and Nachod Brewery, is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The house was built in 1911 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 2003. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in North Phila ...

Covington Brewhouse Covington Brewhouse was a brewery in the historic district of downtown Covington, Louisiana. The brewery itself is operated in the old Alexius Hardware building which is situated between the 100-year-old train depot, the landmark water tower, and ...

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 ...

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Dobler Brewing Company The Dobler Brewing Company was a small regional brewery, located in Albany, New York—at the time the largest brewing hub in the country. Dobler was founded in 1865, and had an annual capacity of 25,000 barrels during its height. The brewery wa ...

Dubuque Star Brewery The Dubuque Star Brewery, located in Dubuque, Iowa, is a building that for many years made Dubuque Star beers. The brewery is located just north of the Ice Harbor in Dubuque. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. wit ...

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Evansville Brewing Company Evansville Brewing Company is a historic brewery located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was built between 1891 and 1893, and is a four-story, Romanesque Revival style brick building. ''Note:'' This includes , , and Accompanying photographs I ...

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* Falk Brewing Company *

Falls City Brewing Company Falls City Brewing Company was based in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The company operated from 1905 until 1978. After the company closed the Falls City brand was purchased by differing groups of investors over the years. Falls City was a regional ...

Falstaff Brewing Corporation The Falstaff Brewing Corporation was a major American brewery located in St. Louis, Missouri. With roots in the 1838 Lemp Brewery of St. Louis, the company was renamed after the Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff in 1903. Production peake ...

Fitger's Brewing Company Fitger's Brewing Company was a beer manufacturer in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, from 1881 to 1972. The surviving brewery complex stretches for along the Lake Superior shoreline and East Superior Street, one of Duluth's main roads. The majo ...

Fred Koch Brewery The original Fred Koch Brewery was a small, independent brewery in Dunkirk, New York that produced beer and ale from late 1888 until 1985. Production peaked in the early 1950s with over 100,000 barrels brewed annually. When the Dunkirk, New York ...

* Fuhrmann & Schmidt Brewing Company

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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 ...

Goebel Brewing Company Goebel Brewing Company was a brewing company in Detroit, Michigan from 1873 to 1964 eventually acquired late in its existence by Stroh Brewery Company. The beer was locally popular in Detroit from the company's inception, but grew in popularity and ...

Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company The Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company was a brewery in Newark, New Jersey founded by Gottfried Krueger and John Laible (Gottfried's Uncle) in 1858. The company produced Krueger's Special Beer, the first beer to be sold in cans, in November, 193 ...

* Green River Brewery *Geyer Brothers Brewery

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Haffen Brewing Company Haffen Brewery, later J&M Haffen Brewing Company, and incorporated as Haffen Brewing Company in 1900, operated in Bronx, New York from 1856 until 1917. Owned by Matthias Haffen, (1814–1891), who came to the United States from Bavaria in 1831, i ...

Haffenreffer Brewery The Haffenreffer Brewery, established in 1870, was a former brewer in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. The first Haffenreffer bottles were plate mold bottles and were produced by Karl Hutter of New York and had the traditional lightning stop tops. Acc ...

Hamm's Brewery The Theodore Hamm's Brewing Company was an American brewing company established in 1865 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Becoming the fifth largest brewery in the United States, Hamm's expanded with additional breweries that were acquired in other cit ...

Hinchliffe Brewing Hinchliffe Brewing and Malting Company is a historic brewery in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. History Hinchliffe Brewing was founded in 1861 by John Hinchliffe. The brewery expanded with new investors, so it was known as Shaw, Hinchlif ...

Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery Hot Springs Hotel and Brewery was a Utah Pony Express station, inn and brewery founded in 1856 by Porter Rockwell at Point of the Mountain, modern-day Bluffdale, Utah. It was a contract Pony Express station, ten miles south of Trader's Rest stati ...

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Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh The Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh (IBC) was a conglomerate of brewery, breweries, formed by the merger of fifteen Pittsburgh breweries in 1905. History Around the turn of the century, there were a total of fifty-eight breweries involv ...

* Independent Milwaukee Brewery *Iroquois Beverage Corporation

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Jax Brewery New Orleans 1976 by Leon Winer

Jackson Brewing Company (New Orleans) Jackson Brewing Company, or Jackson Brewery, was a regional brewery operating in New Orleans, from 1890 to 1974. One of two breweries selling ''Jax'' beer, along with Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville's Jax Brewing Company, it was popularly ...

* James Page Brewing Company * John F. Betz & Sons Brewery *

Jordan Brewery Ruins The Jordan Brewery Ruins include a complex of limestone buildings built between 1861 and 1900 by brewer Frank Nicolin. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jordan, Minnesota, United States. A microbrewery was planned to o ...

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 ...

Philipp Jung Philipp Jung (December 23, 1845 – July 10, 1911) was a German immigrant to the United States who became a prominent businessman in Wisconsin. Personal life Jung was born on December 23, 1845 in Dorn-Assenheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, which today is a ...

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Kingsbury Breweries Company The Kingsbury Breweries Company was founded in 1847, at which time it was the Kunz & Bleser Brewing Company. The main location was Manitowoc, Wisconsin, with other locations in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1926, the firm was s ...

* Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery *

Krug Brewery __NOTOC__ Krug may refer to: * Krug (surname), people with this surname * Cossack krugs, the assemblies of several Cossack hosts. * Champagne Krug, a prestige brand of Champagne * 2K11 Krug or Lyulev 9M8 Krug, a Soviet and now Russian medium-ran ...

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* La Brasserie Brewery *

The Lembeck and Betz Eagle Brewing Company The Lembeck and Betz Eagle Brewing Company was founded in 1869 by Henry B. Lembeck and John F. Betz in Jersey City, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The brewery, bounded by 9th, 10th, Grove, and Henderson streets in downtown Jerse ...

* Littig Brothers/Mengel & Klindt/Eagle Brewery *

Lone Star Brewing Company The Lone Star Brewery, built in 1884, was the first large mechanized brewery in Texas. Adolphus Busch, of Anheuser-Busch, founded it along with a group of San Antonio businessmen. The castle-like building which was once its brewery now houses ...

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Manhattan Brewing Company of New York Founded by entrepreneurs Richard Wrigley and Robert D'Addona, the Manhattan Brewing Company was one of the earliest brewpub concept on the East Coast of the US. The first working brewery in New York City for decades, operations started as a large ...

* Mayfield Brewery *

Metz Brewery The Metz Brothers Brewing Company was among the first brewers in the U.S. state of Nebraska, having been established in the city of Omaha in 1859. It was among the earliest manufacturers in the city. After originally opening as the McCumbe Brewery ...

Michigan Brewing Company The Michigan Brewing Company was a brewery operating in Webberville, Michigan. It operated from 1996 to 2012. History Michigan Brewing Company began operations in 1996 by owner Bobby Mason. Its original facility had previously been a large truck ...

* Minneapolis Brewing Company

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Narragansett Brewing Company The Narragansett Brewing Company ( ) is an American brewery founded in Cranston, Rhode Island in 1890. Founders included John H. Fehlberg, Augustus F. Borchandt, Herman G. Possner, George M. Gerhard, Constand A. Moeller, and Jacob Wirth. Narrag ...

(original incarnation) National Capital Brewery - Washington, D

National Capital Brewing Company The National Capital Brewing Company was founded in 1890 by Albert Carry and Robert Portner, two successful Washington, D.C., area brewers. The brewery could produce 100,000 barrels of beer a year and was considered state-of-the-art for the time ...

New Albion Brewing Company The New Albion Brewing Company is known as the first American craft beer brewery. Founded in 1976 by Jack McAuliffe, Suzy Stern, and Jane Zimmerman in Sonoma, California, New Albion is acknowledged as the first United States microbrewery of the ...

* Northwestern Brewery

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Jacob Obermann Jacob Obermann (March 23, 1819 – April 24, 1887) was a German immigrant to the United States who became a prominent businessman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin's brewing industry. Personal life Obermann was born in Germany on March 23, 1819. He immi ...

The Old Brewery The Old Brewery was the name given to Coulthard's Brewery (built in 1792, in lower central Manhattan, on land that was then on the outskirts of New York City) after which it was consolidated within the city limits as the neighborhood of the Five ...

* Oldenberg Brewery, a defunct brewery and pub, and in

Fort Mitchell, Kentucky Fort Mitchell is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 8,702 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. History Fort Mitchell was the site of one of seven Civil War fortifi ...

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Greater Cincinnati The Cincinnati metropolitan area and also known as the Cincinnati Tri-State area, or Greater Cincinnati) is a metropolitan area centered on Cincinnati and including surrounding counties in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The area i ...

tourist expansion. *

Olympia Brewing Company The Olympia Brewing Company was a brewery in the northwest United States, located in Tumwater, Washington, near Olympia. Founded in 1896 by Leopold Friederich Schmidt, it was bought by G. Heileman Brewing Company in 1983. Through a series of co ...

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P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company was an American brewery founded in 1840, making Ballantine one of the oldest brands of beer in the United States. At its peak, it was the 3rd largest brewer in the US. The brand is currently owned and ope ...

Pabst Brewery Complex The Pabst Brewery Complex, on a hill northwest of the downtown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the former brewery of the Pabst Brewing Company, where the company innovated to improve their beer and increase production until in 1892 it was the largest ...

Paterson Consolidated Brewing Company Paterson Consolidated Brewing Company is a conglomerate brewery that came about in 1890 with the union of four breweries Braun Brewery, Sprattler & Mennell, Graham Brewery, The Katz Brothers, and Burton Brewery after an English syndicate offered ...

Pearl Brewing Company The Pearl Brewing Company (also known as the Pearl Brewery or just Pearl) was an American brewery established in 1883 in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. In 1985, Pearl's parent company purchased the Pabst Brewing Company and assumed ...

* Periolat brewery *

Pete's Brewing Company Pete's Brewing Company was founded by homebrewer Pete Slosberg and Mark Bronder in 1986. Its major product line was Pete's Wicked Ale, an American Brown Ale that is 5.3% alcohol by volume. The company was acquired by the Gambrinus Company in 19 ...

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* Quinnipiac Brewery

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130px, Reymann Brewing Company (1889) *

Rainier Brewing Company The Rainier Brewing Company was an American brewery based in Seattle, Washington. It brewed Rainier Beer, a popular brand in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Although Rainier was founded in 1884, the Seattle site had been brewing beer s ...

Rheingold Brewery Rheingold Brewery was a New York state brewery which sold Rheingold Beer from 1883 to 1976. The brewery held 35% of the state's beer market at its peak. The company was sold by the founding Jewish American Liebmann family in 1963. According t ...

* Reisch Beer * Reymann Brewing Company *Rio Salado Brewing Company *Rochester Brewing Company

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San Diego Brewing Company The San Diego Brewing Company was a historic brewery in San Diego, California. History The San Diego Brewing Company opened in 1896 as the first commercial brewery in San Diego County. It was financed by wealthy locals including John D. Spreckel ...

Schaefer Beer Schaefer Beer is a brand of American beer first produced in New York City during 1842 by the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company.The Shaefer Beer Stor The company relocated to Brooklyn in the early 20th century. It went public in 1968 with a $1 ...

Schoenhofen Brewing Company The Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company was an American brewery established in 1861 by Peter Schoenhofen and Matheus Gottfried in the Lower West Side, Chicago, Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The company is notable for producing and selli ...

Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company The Southwestern Brewery and Ice Company is a historic brewery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, located adjacent to the BNSF railroad tracks in East Downtown. Built in 1899, it is one of the only surviving 19th-century commercial buildings in the downto ...

*Standard Brewing Company *Standard-Rochester Brewing Company *

Stroh Brewery Company The Stroh Brewery Company was a beer brewery in Detroit, Michigan. In addition to its own Stroh's brand, the company produced or bought the rights to several other brands including Goebel, Schaefer, Schlitz, Augsburger, Erlanger, Old Style, L ...

* Sugar Loaf Brewery * Sweetwater Brewery

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* Tennessee Brewing Company * E. M. Todd Company * Triaca Company * Triangle Brewing Company * Traveler Beer Company

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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 ...

* Virginia Brewery

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Walter Brewing Company The Walter Brewing Company had several locations founded by brothers, one in Pueblo, Colorado in 1898 by Martin Walter, with addition of a Trinidad, CO location, The Walter Brewing Co. in Eau Claire founded in 1889 by Johannes Walter following a ...

Washington Brewery Company The Washington Brewery Company was a beer brewery in Washington, DC. It operated from 1890 to 1917 on Square 811 (bounded by 4th, 5th, E, and F Street NE). History The first brewery The first brewery was built in 1857 by George Juenemann in par ...

Weinhard Brewery Complex The Henry Weinhard Brewery complex, also the Cellar Building and Brewhouse and Henry Weinhard's City Brewery, is a former brewery in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In that same year, c ...

* White Squirrel Brewery - Bowling Green

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Yakima Brewing Yakima Brewing & Malting Co, also known as Grant's Brewery Pub, was a brewpub founded by Bert Grant in Yakima, Washington. With its opening in 1982, it was regarded as the first in the United States since Prohibition. The company produced beer indep ...

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Zoller Bros-Independent Malting Co. The Zoller Bros-Independent Malting Co. building is located at 1801 W 3rd St, Davenport, IA 52802 on the edge of an industrial area in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places s ...

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