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The best breweries,
wherever you go
Every brewery gets one score, based on the beer it actually brews — not on reviews of the parking lot. 30,585 breweries across 200 countries, and 435 of them rate Exceptional.
United States
Best states for beer
Best states for beer
Ranked number #1California864 breweries
Ranked number #2Pennsylvania514 breweries
Ranked number #3New Jersey175 breweries
Ranked number #4New York563 breweries
Ranked number #5North Carolina336 breweries
Ranked number #6Rhode Island37 breweries
Ranked number #7Florida364 breweries
Ranked number #8Massachusetts208 breweries
Ranked number #9Illinois292 breweries
- Vermont83
- Georgia128
- Iowa101
- Maine121
- Connecticut150
- Washington374
- Texas350
- South Carolina101
- Oregon257
- New Hampshire98
- Ohio351
- Colorado362
- Virginia277
- Michigan367
- Arizona107
- Minnesota228
- Oklahoma57
- Tennessee142
- District of Columbia18
- West Virginia30
- Missouri149
- Indiana162
- Maryland138
- Louisiana47
- Nebraska62
- Kentucky72
- Alaska51
- Wisconsin262
- Arkansas47
- Montana98
- South Dakota37
- Delaware27
- Nevada51
- Alabama40
- Hawaii21
- New Mexico99
- Utah45
- Idaho80
- Kansas62
- Mississippi19
- Wyoming37
- North Dakota19
Worldwide
Top beer countries
Top beer countries
Ranked number #1United States8,679 breweries
Ranked number #2Belgium907 breweries
Ranked number #3England1,722 breweries
Ranked number #4Canada1,424 breweries
Ranked number #5Brazil823 breweries
Ranked number #6Netherlands956 breweries
Ranked number #7Germany1,988 breweries
Ranked number #8Italy1,351 breweries
Ranked number #9Australia739 breweries
City guides
Top US beer cities
Top US beer cities
City guides
Top beer cities worldwide
Top beer cities worldwide
The score
One score, five grades
Our score weighs how a brewery's beers rate, how much evidence there is behind those ratings, and how consistent it is across its whole range. That collapses into a grade you can read at a glance — the same color the app paints on the map. Here is how all 30,585 of them fall out.
- Exceptional
4351%
A short list of extraordinary breweries worth planning a trip around.
- Great
1,8946%
Consistently produce world-class beer.
- Fine
6,86122%
Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.
- Poor
7,90126%
Not bad beer so much as unremarkable beer.
- Limited
13,49444%
Most craft beer drinkers pass these by.
On iPhone
What the app adds
A color-coded map
Purple is exceptional, then red, orange, yellow, grey. Find the best beer near you without reading a single review.
Know what they pour
See which styles each brewery actually makes, so you are never surprised by a taproom of saisons when you wanted a stout.