# Finding Beer — The best breweries, wherever you go

> Independent rankings for 30,553 breweries in 200 countries, scored on the beer they actually brew.

*Canonical page: <https://finding.beer/> · data updated 2026-09-05*

Finding Beer ranks 30,553 breweries in 200 countries on the quality of the beer they actually brew, not on reviews of the taproom. Every brewery gets one score out of 5 and a grade; every country, region and metro area gets a ranked list.

Coverage: 30,553 breweries · 200 countries · 72 states and provinces · 959 metro areas.

## Start here

- [Brewery rankings by country, state and city](https://finding.beer/breweries.md) — the directory root
- [The 100 best breweries in the world](https://finding.beer/breweries/top.md)
- [Best new breweries in the United States](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states/new.md)
- [Best new international breweries](https://finding.beer/breweries/new.md)
- [How we rank breweries](https://finding.beer/how-we-rank.md) — the full method

## A few places to start

- [Best breweries in United States](https://finding.beer/breweries/united-states.md) — 8,666 breweries
- [Best breweries in Belgium](https://finding.beer/breweries/belgium.md) — 907 breweries
- [Best breweries in England](https://finding.beer/breweries/england.md) — 1,718 breweries
- [Best breweries in Canada](https://finding.beer/breweries/canada.md) — 1,423 breweries
- [Best breweries in Brazil](https://finding.beer/breweries/brazil.md) — 823 breweries
- [Best breweries in Netherlands](https://finding.beer/breweries/netherlands.md) — 956 breweries
- [Best breweries in Germany](https://finding.beer/breweries/germany.md) — 1,986 breweries
- [Best breweries in Italy](https://finding.beer/breweries/italy.md) — 1,349 breweries

## The grades

| Grade | Value | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Exceptional 😍 | 6 | A short list of extraordinary breweries worth planning a trip around. |
| Great 😀 | 5 | Consistently produce world-class beer. |
| Fine 🙂 | 4 | Make genuinely good beer, if not the pint you will still be talking about next year. |
| Poor 😐 | 3 | Not bad beer so much as unremarkable beer. |
| Limited 😕 | 1 | Most craft beer drinkers pass these by. |

## The app

Finding Beer for iPhone is free and is the only place with the map: every brewery around you colour-coded by grade, sorted by distance, with scores for the individual beers each one makes. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finding-beer/id1082135126

## Machine-readable

- Every page on finding.beer has a Markdown version at the same URL with `.md` appended.
- Site summary: <https://finding.beer/llms.txt>
- Full rankings corpus: <https://finding.beer/llms-full.txt>
- Sitemap index: <https://finding.beer/sitemap.xml>

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Finding Beer scores breweries on the beer they brew rather than on the venue. Method: <https://finding.beer/how-we-rank.md>. Rankings by place: <https://finding.beer/breweries.md>. The iPhone app adds a live map of what is around you: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/finding-beer/id1082135126