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Breweries Per Capita

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Since it’s a statistics kind of week, I thought I’d share this other list recently released by the Brewers Association. I’m not sure what to make of it. It’s Breweries Per Capita, essentially the number of breweries in each state, divided by the population. Since it makes no difference what size the brewery is, a single brewpub producing 10,000 barrels a year is counted the same as one making 10,000,000 barrels. Still, it’s interesting to look at it this way, too, even though it’s doesn’t mean that much. I doubt there will be dancing in the streets of towns throughout Vermont over this news.

California, with more than twice the breweries of the next nearest state, is ranked only 21st. Colorado, who recently overtook California for total barrels brewed by a single state, is ranked 5th.

 
Breweries Per Capita

 
The first figure is the number of breweries and the last is the per brewery population based on the US Census Bureau estimates.

  1. 19 Vermont 32,698
  2. 27 Montana 35,831
  3. 93 Oregon 40,753
  4. 31 Maine 42,466
  5. 103 Colorado 47,956
  6. 14 Alaska 49,021
  7. 10 Wyoming 53,267
  8. 100 Washington 65,492
  9. 7 Delaware 84,548
  10. 66 Wisconsin 85,272
  11. 15 New Hampshire 87,721
  12. 16 Idaho 95,239
  13. 15 Nebraska 118,895
  14. 16 New Mexico 124,022
  15. 70 Michigan 142,906
  16. 5 South Dakota 160,839
  17. 8 Hawaii 161,025
  18. 16 Nevada 162,510
  19. 17 Kansas 164,831
  20. 75 Pennsylvania 165,977
  21. 221 California 166,320
  22. 18 Iowa 166,809
  23. 38 Massachusetts 170,999
  24. 14 Utah 195,459
  25. 29 Missouri 203,848
  26. 5 Rhode Island 210,158
  27. 16 Connecticut 218,828
  28. 28 Indiana 227,743
  29. 22 Minnesota 237,291
  30. 32 Virginia 242,784
  31. 26 Arizona 250,007
  32. 21 Maryland 268,267
  33. 42 Ohio 273,474
  34. 33 North Carolina 279,467
  35. 3 DC 291,031
  36. 6 West Virginia 302,411
  37. 41 Illinois 314,672
  38. 14 South Carolina 319,986
  39. 56 New York 348,041
  40. 14 Tennessee 443,921
  41. 39 Florida 469,957
  42. 18 New Jersey 482,370
  43. 7 Oklahoma 520,337
  44. 16 Georgia 605,359
  45. 7 Kentucky 609,892
  46. 1 North Dakota 641,481
  47. 36 Texas 675,749
  48. 4 Arkansas 713,848
  49. 5 Alabama 932,380
  50. 4 Louisiana 1,102,699
  51. 1 Mississippi 2,938,618

 



Comments

  1. It’s interesting that the bottom 5 are deep South states. They drink, they just dont make it.

  2. In the South, they like their yeller fizzy beer just faaaaahn as it eee-uz. Also note that all the states at the top of the list are cold-weather states.