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Top 50 Craft Breweries For 2016

March 15, 2017 By Jay Brooks

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The Brewers Association just announced the top 50 craft breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2016, which is listed below here. I should also mention that this represents “craft breweries” according to the BA’s membership definition, and not necessarily how most of us would define them, as there’s no universally agreed upon way to differentiate the two. For the ninth year, they’ve also released a list of the top 50 breweries, which includes all breweries. Here is this year’s craft brewery list:

Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies

Rank Brewing Company City State
1 D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc Pottsville PA
2 Boston Beer Co Boston MA
3 Sierra Nevada Brewing Chico CA
4 New Belgium Brewing Fort Collins CO
5 Gambrinus San Antonio TX
6 Duvel Moortgat Paso Robles/Kansas City/Cooperstown CA/MO/NY
7 Bell’s Brewery, Inc Comstock MI
8 Deschutes Brewery Bend OR
9 Stone Brewing Escondido CA
10 Oskar Blues Brewing Holding Longmont CO
11 Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn NY
12 Minhas Craft Brewery Monroe WI
13 Artisanal Brewing Ventures Downington/Lakewood PA/NY
14 Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton DE
15 SweetWater Brewing Atlanta GA
16 New Glarus Brewing New Glarus WI
17 Matt Brewing Utica NY
18 Harpoon Brewery Boston MA
19 Alaskan Brewing Juneau AK
20 Abita Brewing Abita Springs LA
21 Great Lakes Brewing Cleveland OH
22 Anchor Brewing San Francisco CA
23 Stevens Point Brewery Stevens Point WI
24 August Schell Brewing New Ulm MN
24 Long Trail Brewing Bridgewater Corners VT
26 Summit Brewing Saint Paul MN
27 Odell Brewing Fort Collins CO
28 Shipyard Brewing Portland ME
29 Full Sail Brewing Hood River OR
30 Rogue Ales Newport OR
31 21st Amendment Brewery Bay Area CA
32 Flying Dog Brewery Frederick MD
33 Ninkasi Brewing Eugene OR
34 Gordon Biersch Brewing San Jose CA
35 Allagash Brewing Portland ME
36 Narragansett Brewing Providence RI
37 Green Flash Brewing Co San Diego CA
38 Tröegs Brewing Hershey PA
39 Uinta Brewing Salt Lake City UT
40 Bear Republic Brewing Cloverdale CA
41 Karl Strauss Brewing San Diego CA
42 Surly Brewing Minneapolis MN
43 Sixpoint Brewery Brooklyn NY
44 Left Hand Brewing Longmont CO
45 Lost Coast Brewery Eureka CA
46 Revolution Brewing Chicago IL
47 North Coast Brewing Fort Bragg CA
48 Avery Brewing Boulder CO
49 Real Ale Brewing Blanco TX
50 BJ’s Brewery Huntington Beach CA

Here is this year’s press release. The last couple of years, the BA has helpfully annotated the list, saving me lots of time, since I’ve been annotating the list for the last nine years, but they’ve abandoned that practice for a second year. So for the ninth consecutive year, I’ll also posted an annotated list, showing the changes in each brewery’s rank from year to year, but it will take me some time to put together so I’ll have that again later tonight or tomorrow.

And similar to last year, the BA created a map showing the relative location of each of the breweries that made the list.

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