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
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.