List of breweries in Kentucky
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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.
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