Breweries in Kansas 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 to microbreweries 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 2023, according to the Brewers Association, Kansas ranked 34th in the number of craft breweries per capita with 77 and 34th in the United States for overall number of breweries statewide.
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.
Open breweries The following is a list of breweries and microbreweries. The largest brewery in Kansas is Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence
Brewery Location 15-24 Brew House Clay Center 23rd Street Brewery Lawrence 785 Beer Company Topeka Aggieville Brewing Company Manhattan Black Stag Brewery Lawrence Blind Tiger Brewery Topeka Blue Skye Brewery & Eats Salina Brew Lab Brewery + Kitchen Overland Park Center Pivot Restaurant & Brewery Colby Central Standard Brewing Wichita Defiance Brewing Company Hays Dodge City Brewing Dodge City Drop the H Brewing Company Pittsburg Dry Lake Brewing Great Bend ExBEERiment Brewing Gardner The Farm & The Odd Fellows Minneapolis Fields & Ivy Brewery Lawrence Flat Mountain Brewhouse Garden City FlappyDuck Brewery Mulvane Force of Nature Brewinghttps://www.kansascity.com/news/business/openings-closings/article291023150.html De Soto Free State Brewing Company Lawrence Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing Company Hays Hank Is Wiser Brewery Cheney Happy Basset Brewing Company Topeka Hidden Trail Brewing Garden City Hopping Gnome Brewery Wichita Indy Brew Works Independence Iron Rail Brewing Topeka Irrigation Ales Courtland Jolly Fox Brewery Pittsburg Kansas Territory Brewing Company Washington Ladybird Brewing Winfield Lawrence Beer Company Lawrence The Leprechaun's Lab Wichita Limitless Brewing Lenexa Manhattan Brewing Company Manhattan Nortons Brewing Company Wichita Not Lost Brewing Company Ottawa Outfield Beer Company Bonner Springs Oz Brewing Phillipsburg Pathlight Brewing Shawnee Radius Brewing Company Emporia Range 23 Brewing Kansas City Red Crow Brewing Company Olathe River City Brewing Company Wichita Riverbank Brewing Council Grove Rockcreek Brewing Company Mission Salt City Brewing Company Hutchinson Sandhills Brewing Hutchinson & Mission Servaes Brewing Company Shawnee Tall Trellis Brew Co. Olathe Third Place Brewing Wichita Three Rings Brewery McPherson Transport Brewery Shawnee Union Works Brewing Company Humboldt Walnut River Brewing Company El Dorado Wichita Brewing Company WichitaWillcott Brewing Company Leavenworth Yankee Tank Brewing Company Lawrence
BJ's Restaurant & Brewery (Huntington Beach, California-based) has one location in Wichita. Gordon Biersch Brewing Company (Palo Alto, California-based) has one location in Leawood. Granite City Food and Brewery (St. Cloud, Minnesota-based) has two locations in Kansas City and Olathe.
Former breweries The following is a list of breweries and microbreweries that have closed or have ceased brewing; this list is for tracking former locations.
Brewery LocationAero Plains Brewing Wichita Beaver Brewery @ Mo's Place Beaver Boiler Room Brewhaus Fort Scott Fly Boy Brewery & Eats Sylvan Grove Little Apple Brewing Company ManhattanLost Evenings Brewing CompanyLenexa Norsemen Brewing CompanyTopeka Tallgrass Brewing Company Manhattan
See also Beer in the United States List of breweries in the United States List of microbreweries List of wineries in Kansas
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