Missouri Beer

Today in 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.

Missouri

Missouri Breweries

• Amalgamated Brewing
• Amerisports Brew Pub
• Anheuser-Busch InBev
• Augusta Brewing
• Bat Creek Brewery
• Bootlegger’s Restaurant-Brewery
• Boulevard Brewing
• Broadway Brewery
• Buckner Brewing
• Buffalo Brewing
• Bull Rock Brewery
• Cathedral Square Brewery
• Charleville Winery and Microbrewery
• Charlie’s Steak, Ribs and Ale
• Civil Life Brewing
• Crown Valley Brewery
• Dead Canary Brewing
• Doodle Brewing
• Ferguson Brewing Co. Restaurant & Pub
• Flat Branch Brewing
• Fountainhead Brewing
• Gordon Biersch Brewing: Kansas City
• Granite City Food & Brewery: Creve Coeur/Zona Rosa
• Griesedieck Brothers Brewery
• Gruhlke Microbrewery
• Highlands Restaurant and Brewing
• Il Spazio
• Lemp Brewing Company
• McCoy’s Public House and Brewkitchen
• Morgan Street Brewery
• Mother’s Brewing
• 1904 Beerhouse
• O’Fallon Brewery
• Perennial Artisan Ales
• Piney River Brewing
• Prison Brews
• Public House Brewing
• Schlafly/Saint Louis Brewery and Tap Room
• 2nd Shift Brewing
• 75th Street Brewery
• Six Row Brewing
• Springfield Brewing
• Square One Brewery and Distillery
• Tin Mill Brewing
• Trailhead Brewing
• Urban Chestnut Brewery
• Weston Brewing
• Wilderness Brewing
• Wilderness Brewing

Missouri Brewery Guides

• Beer Advocate
• Beer Me
• Rate Beer

Guild: None known

State Agency: Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control

• Capital: Jefferson City
• Largest Cities: Kansas City, Saint Louis, Springfield, Independence, Columbia
• Population: 5,595,211; 17th
• Area: 69709 sq.mi., 21st
• Nickname: Show Me State
• Statehood: 24th, August 10, 1821

• Alcohol Legalized: December 5, 1933
• Number of Breweries: 41
• Rank: 13th
• Beer Production: 4,530,683
• Production Rank: 14th
• Beer Per Capita: 23.8 Gallons

Package Mix:

• Bottles: 32.8%
• Cans: 59.4%
• Kegs: 7.4%

Beer Taxes:

• Per Gallon: $0.06
• Per Case: $0.14
• Tax Per Barrel (24/12 Case): $1.86
• Draught Tax Per Barrel (in Kegs): $1.86

Economic Impact (2010):

• From Brewing: $6,740,265,346
• Direct Impact: $7,922,625,437
• Supplier Impact: $5,170,179,818
• Induced Economic Impact: $4,126,112,200
• Total Impact: $17,218,917,455

Legal Restrictions:

• Control State: No
• Sale Hours: On Premises: Most establishments:
  (Mon–Sat) 6:00am–1:30am
  (Sunday) 9:00am–12:00am
  Special licenses in Kansas City and St. Louis: (Daily) 6:00am–3:00am
  Off Premises: (Mon–Sat) 6:00am–1:30am
  (Sunday) 9:00am–12:00am
  Sales permitted until 3:00 am in those Kansas City and St. Louis bars grandfathered into the ability to double as liquor stores.
• Grocery Store Sales: Yes
• Notes:
  • No open container law.
  • No state public intoxication law.
  • Liquor control law covers all beverages containing more than 0.5% alcohol, without further particularities based on percentage.
  • Cities and counties are prohibited from banning off-premises alcohol sales.
  • No dry jurisdictions.
  • State preemption of local alcohol laws which do not follow state law.
  • Certain bars in Kansas City and St. Louis grandfathered into the ability to double as liquor stores.
  • Special licenses available for bars and nightclubs which allow selling alcohol until 3:00am in Kansas City, Jackson County, North Kansas City, St. Louis, and St. Louis County.
  • Grocery stores, drug stores, and even gas stations may sell liquor without limitation other than hours.
  • Patrons allowed to take open containers out of bars in Kansas City’s Power & Light District.
  • Parents and guardians may furnish alcohol to their children.
  • Missourians over 21 may manufacture up to 100 gallons of any liquor per year for personal use, without any further state limitation, state taxation, or state license. (Obtaining a permit from the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau and meeting other requirements under federal law probably still is required for private citizens to manufacture distilled alcohol — but not wine or beer — for personal use.)

  Missouri law recognizes two types of alcoholic beverage: liquor, which is any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol except “non-intoxicating beer”; and “non-intoxicating beer,” which is beer containing between 0.5% and 3.2% alcohol. Liquor laws apply to all liquor, and special laws apply to “non-intoxicating beer.”

Data complied, in part, from the Beer Institute’s Brewer’s Almanac 2010, Beer Serves America, the Brewers Association, Wikipedia and my World Factbook. If you see I’m missing a brewery link, please be so kind as to drop me a note or simply comment on this post. Thanks.

For the remaining states, see Brewing Links: United States.