Top 50 American Craft Brewers – 2020

Our friends at the Brewers Association just released their annual list of the Top 50 American Craft Breweries of 2020…And, as always, we found it interesting and thought you might as well.

“The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed where Americans purchased alcohol in 2020. Breweries who had established packaging and distribution capacity were best positioned to take advantage of the boom in off-premise sales and weather market uncertainty,” said Bart Watson, chief economist, Brewers Association.

“These businesses also saw variation in performance based on geography and business model, with different parts of the country seeing very different beer trends, and draught-heavy breweries suffering.”

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

Rank	Brewery	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	Paso Robles, Kansas City, Cooperstown	CA, MO, NY
5	Gambrinus	Berkeley, Shiner	CA, TX
6	CANarchy	Longmont, Tampa, Salt Lake City, Comstock, Inglewood, Dallas	CO, FL, UT, MI, CA, TX
7	Bell’s Brewery, Inc	Comstock	MI
8	Artisanal Brewing Ventures	Downington, Lakewood, Brooklyn	PA, NY, NY
9	Stone Brewing	Escondido	CA
10	Deschutes Brewery	Bend	OR
11	SweetWater Brewing Co	Atlanta	GA
12	New Glarus Brewing Co	New Glarus	WI
13	Matt Brewing Co	Utica	NY
14	Brooklyn Brewery	Brooklyn	NY
15	Harpoon Brewery	Boston	MA
16	Stevens Point Brewery	Stevens Point	WI
17	Odell Brewing Co	Fort Collins	CO
18	Minhas Craft Brewery	Monroe	WI
19	Abita Brewing Co	Covington	LA
20	Troegs Brewing Co	Hershey	PA
21	Summit Brewing Co	Saint Paul	MN
22	Great Lakes Brewing Company	Cleveland	OH
23	August Schell Brewing Company	New Ulm	MN
24	Three Floyds Brewing Co	Munster	IN
25	Rhinegeist Brewery	Cincinnati	OH
26	Alaskan Brewing Co	Juneau	AK
27	Gordon Biersch Brewing Co	San Jose	CA
28	Georgetown Brewing Co	Seattle	WA
29	Allagash Brewing Company	Portland	ME
30	Kings & Convicts Brewing/Ballast Point	Pleasant Prairie, San Diego	WI, CA
31	Long Trail Brewing Co	Bridgewater Corners	VT
32	Narragansett Brewing Co	Pawtucket	RI
33	Ninkasi Brewing Co	Eugene	OR
34	21st Amendment Brewery	Bay Area	CA
35	Flying Dog Brewery	Frederick	MD
36	Surly Brewing Company	Minneapolis	MN
37	Rogue Ales Brewery	Newport	OR
38	Lost Coast Brewery	Eureka	CA
39	Revolution Brewing	Chicago	IL
40	Modern Times Beer	San Diego	CA
41	BrewDog Brewing Company	Canal Winchester	OH
42	Saint Arnold Brewing Co	Houston	TX
43	Toppling Goliath Brewing Co	Decorah	IA
44	Two Roads Brewing Co	Stratford	CT
45	Fremont Brewing	Seattle	WA
46	Shipyard Brewing Co	Portland	ME
47	Left Hand Brewing Company	Longmont	CO
48	Creature Comforts Brewing Co	Athens	GA
49	Montauk Brewing Co	Montauk	NY
50	New Holland Brewing	Holland	MI

 

The Brewers Association’s full 2020 industry analysis, which shows regional trends and sales by individual breweries, will be published in the May/June issue of The New Brewer®, available in May 2021.