Breweries in Missouri produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. The greatest concentration of breweries is in the Greater St. Louis area, which is home to at least 65 different breweries, including a number of brewpubs and microbreweries. St. Louis is also the North American headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, one of the world's largest brewers. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.
In 2012 Missouri's 58 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 3,890 people directly, and more than 21,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Altogether 51 people in Missouri had active brewer permits in 2012.
Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Missouri's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Missouri's breweries and related industries was more than $2.5 billion. Consumer purchases of Missouri's brewery products generated more than $142 million extra in tax revenue. In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Missouri ranked 23rd in the number of craft breweries per capita with 47.
For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries. In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.
Breweries
BreweryTypeCityMetropolitan areaDate Opened2nd Shift BrewingMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis20094 by 4 Brewing Company (Galloway)MicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield20174 by 4 Brewing Company (Fremont Hills)MicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield20234 Hands Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2011Alpha Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2013Anheuser-BuschInternationalSt. LouisSt. Louis Banter Brewing Co.MicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2021Beard Engine Brewing Co.MicrobreweryAlbaJoplin2020Before and After BrewingMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2023Bluewood BrewingMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. LouisBorder Brewing Co.MicrobreweryKansas CityKansas CityBoulevard Brewing CompanyRegionalKansas CityKansas City1989Broadway BreweryBrewpubColumbiaColumbiaBur Oak Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryColumbiaColumbiaCenter Ice Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2017Calibration BreweryMicrobrweryNorth Kansas CityKansas City Cinder Block BreweryMicrobreweryKansas CityKansas CityCivil Life Brewing Co.MicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2011Crane BrewingMicrobreweryRaytownKansas City Double Shift Brewing Co.MicrobreweryKansas CityKansas City Earthbound BeerMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2014Flat Branch Pub & BrewingBrewpubColumbiaColumbiaFriendship Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryWentzvilleSt Louis2016Gordon Biersch Brewery RestaurantBrewpubKansas CityKansas CityGreat Escape Beer WorksMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2018Griesedieck Brothers beerContractSt. LouisSt. Louis Heavy Riff BrewingMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2013Hold Fast BrewingMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2019Kansas City Bier CompanyMicrobreweryKansas CityKansas CityLevi Garrison & Sons Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryHamiltonKansas CityLogboat Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryColumbiaColumbiaMartin City Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryKansas CityKansas City2013Modern Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. LouisMother's Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2011Narrow Gauge Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryFlorissantSt. LouisO'Fallon BreweryMicrobreweryMaryland HeightsSt. LouisPerennial Artisan AlesMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. LouisPoint Labaddie BreweryMicrobreweryLabadieSt. LouisRock Bridge Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryColumbiaColumbiaRockwell Beer CoMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. LouisSaint Louis Brewery (Schlafly)RegionalSt. LouisSt. Louis Show-Me BrewingMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2016Side Project BrewingMicrobreweryMaplewoodSt. LouisSix Mile BridgeMicrobreweryMaryland HeightsSt. LouisShortleaf BrewingMicrobreweryO'FallonSt. Louis2019Shortleaf BrewingMicrobreweryCamdentonCamdenton2022Springfield Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield1997Steampunk Brew WorksMicrobreweryTown and CountrySt. Louis2016Third Wheel BrewingMicrobrewerySt. PetersSt. Louis2017Tie & Timber Beer Co.MicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2018Urban Chestnut Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2011Wellspent BrewingMicrobrewerySt. LouisSt. Louis2017White River Brewing CompanyMicrobrewerySpringfieldSpringfield2012Wire Road Brewing CompanyMicrobreweryBattlefieldSpringfield2022
Former breweries Falstaff Brewing Corporation - the once large brewery based in St. Louis. George Muehlebach Brewing Company - in Kansas City, purchased by Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company in the 1950s, discontinued in 1973. Kirkwood Station Brewery - in Kirkwood, MO opened in 2009 and closed on February 28, 2019. Lemp Brewery - a former brewery established in 1840 in St. Louis.
See also Beer in the United States List of breweries in the United States List of microbreweries
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