Breweries in Kentucky 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 Kentucky's 21 breweries and brewpubs employed 270 people directly, and more than 8,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Kentucky's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Kentucky's breweries and related industries was more than $167 million. Consumer purchases of Kentucky's brewery products generated more than $160 million in additional tax revenue. In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Kentucky ranked 43rd in the number of craft breweries per capita with 14.
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
Active breweries 3rd Turn Brewing – Jeffersontown/Crestwood Abettor Brewing Company – Winchester Against the Grain Brewery – Louisville Akasha Brewing Company – Louisville Alexandria Brewing Company – Alexandria Apocalypse Brew Works – Louisville Big Rock Bar & Brew - Louisville Birds Nest Brewing Company – Danville Blue Stallion Brewing – Lexington Braxton Brewing Company – Covington/Bellevue/Fort Mitchell Country Boy Brewing – Lexington/Georgetown The Dam Brewhaus – Benton Darkness Brewing – Bellevue Dry Ground Brewing Company – Paducah Ethereal Brewing – Lexington Falls City Brewery – Louisville Flywheel Brewing – Elizabeththown Hop Atomica- Louisville Hop Hound Brew Pub – Murray HubHaus – Elizabethtown Jarfly Brewing Company – Somerset Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company – Lexington Mash Cult Brewing – Florence Mile Wide Beer Co. – Louisville Paducah Beer Werks – Paducah Tap on Main Brewing – Somerset West Sixth Brewing – Lexington/Frankfort/Louisville White Squirrel Brewery– Bowling Green Wooden Cask Brewing Company – Newport Yancey's Gastropub & Brewery – Glasgow Stainless Brewing and Spirits – Frankfort
Defunct breweries Oldenberg Brewery, a defunct brewery and pub in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and The American Museum of Brewing Arts part of a Greater Cincinnati tourist expansion.. Great Flood Brewing Co. Bluegrass Brewing Company – Louisville Shippingport Brewing – Louisville
See also Beer in the United States List of breweries in the United States List of defunct breweries in the United States List of microbreweries
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