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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. 30,535 breweries across 200 countries, and 430 of them rate Exceptional.
United States
Best states for beer
Best states for beer
Ranked number #1California860 breweries
Ranked number #2Pennsylvania512 breweries
Ranked number #3New Jersey174 breweries
Ranked number #4New York568 breweries
Ranked number #5North Carolina336 breweries
Ranked number #6Rhode Island37 breweries
Ranked number #7Illinois290 breweries
Ranked number #8Florida363 breweries
Ranked number #9Massachusetts209 breweries
- Vermont83
- Iowa101
- Georgia130
- Washington376
- Maine119
- Texas347
- Connecticut150
- Oregon260
- South Carolina105
- New Hampshire98
- Ohio348
- Colorado362
- Virginia276
- Arizona109
- Minnesota226
- Michigan365
- West Virginia30
- Tennessee139
- District of Columbia19
- Oklahoma57
- Indiana162
- Missouri150
- Maryland138
- Louisiana47
- Nebraska62
- Kentucky72
- Alaska52
- Wisconsin262
- Montana97
- South Dakota37
- Arkansas47
- Nevada51
- Hawaii22
- Delaware28
- New Mexico100
- Alabama39
- Kansas65
- Utah45
- Idaho82
- Mississippi20
- Wyoming37
- North Dakota19
Worldwide
Top beer countries
Top beer countries
Ranked number #1United States8,682 breweries
Ranked number #2Belgium909 breweries
Ranked number #3England1,713 breweries
Ranked number #4Canada1,418 breweries
Ranked number #5Brazil818 breweries
Ranked number #6Netherlands955 breweries
Ranked number #7Italy1,352 breweries
Ranked number #8Australia742 breweries
Ranked number #9Russia496 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 30,535 of them fall out.
- Exceptional
4301%
A short list of extraordinary breweries worth planning a trip around.
- Great
1,9426%
Consistently produce world-class beer.
- Fine
6,83922%
Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year.
- Poor
7,80926%
Not bad beer so much as unremarkable beer.
- Limited
13,51544%
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.