Top 50 American Craft Brewers – 2021

American Craft Beer|April 5th, 2022|

(Photo © Brewers Association)

Our friends at the Brewers Association just released their annual list of the Top 50 American Craft Breweries of 2021…And, as always, we found it interesting and thought you might as well.

They also included a ranking of overall breweries too which led with the usual suspects (AB InBev, Miller and Pabst now #3) which is interesting if only for the fact that 4O of those overall companies, were craft breweries.

And here are last year’s “Serious” Top 50….Respect.

Rank	Company	City	State
1	D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc	Pottsville	PA
2	Boston Beer Co	Boston, Milton	MA, DE
3	Sierra Nevada Brewing Co	Chico	CA
4	Duvel Moortgat USA	Paso Robles, Kansas City, Cooperstown	CA, MO, NY
5	Gambrinus	Berkeley, Shiner	CA, TX
6	Bell’s Brewery, Inc	Comstock	MI
7	CANarchy	Longmont, Tampa, Salt Lake City, Comstock, Dallas	CO, FL, UT, MI, TX
8	Artisanal Brewing Ventures	Downingtown, Lakewood, Brooklyn	PA, NY, NY
9	Stone Brewing	Escondido	CA
10	SweetWater Brewing Co	Atlanta	GA
11	Deschutes Brewery	Bend	OR
12	New Glarus Brewing Co	New Glarus	WI
13	Brooklyn Brewery	Brooklyn	NY
14	Matt Brewing Co	Utica	NY
15	Gordon Biersch Brewing Co	San Jose	CA
16	Abita Brewing Co	Covington	LA
17	Minhas Craft Brewery	Monroe	WI
18	Stevens Point Brewery	Stevens Point	WI
19	Great Lakes Brewing Company	Cleveland	OH
20	Odell Brewing Co	Fort Collins	CO
21	Harpoon Brewery	Boston	MA
22	Summit Brewing Co	Saint Paul	MN
23	Allagash Brewing Company	Portland	ME
24	Troegs Brewing Co	Hershey	PA
25	Georgetown Brewing Co	Seattle	WA
26	Three Floyds Brewing	Munster	IN
27	Athletic Brewing Company	Stratford	CT
28	Rhinegeist Brewery	Cincinnati	OH
29	Kona Brewing Co	Kailua-Kona	HI
30	August Schell Brewing Company	New Ulm	MN
31	Alaskan Brewing Co	Juneau	AK
32	Narragansett Brewing Co	Pawtucket	RI
33	Rogue Ales Brewery	Newport	OR
34	Kings & Convicts Brewing/Ballast Point	San Diego	CA
35	Flying Dog Brewery	Frederick	MD
36	Long Trail Brewing Co	Bridgewater Corners	VT
37	Lost Coast Brewery	Eureka	CA
38	Revolution Brewing	Chicago	IL
39	Surly Brewing Company	Minneapolis	MN
40	Ninkasi Brewing Co	Eugene	OR
41	Creature Comforts Brewing Co	Athens	GA
42	21st Amendment Brewery	Bay Area	CA
43	Maui Brewing Co	Kihei	HI
44	Saint Arnold Brewing Co	Houston	TX
45	Scofflaw Brewing Co	Atlanta	GA
46	Shipyard Brewing Co	Portland	ME
47	Left Hand Brewing Company	Longmont	CO
48	Modern Times Drinks	San Diego	CA
49	Fiddlehead Brewing	Shelburne	VT
50	North Coast Brewing Co Inc	Fort Bragg	CA