List of breweries in Kansas

Breweries in Kansas produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally and regionally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries to microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.

Kansas ranks 32nd nationally in craft breweries per capita.[1]

In 2012, Kansas's 21 breweries and brewpubs employed 70 people directly, and more than 10,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.[2][3] Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Kansas' breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Kansas' breweries and related industries was more than $190 million.[3] Consumer purchases of Kansas' brewery products generated more than $90 million in additional tax revenue.[3] By 2019, according to the Brewers Association, Kansas ranked 32nd in the number of craft breweries per capita with 59 and 34th in the United States for overall number of breweries statewide.[4]

For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries.[5] In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.[6]

Open breweries

The following is a list of breweries and microbreweries. The largest brewery in Kansas is Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Brewery	Location
15-24 Brew House[7]	Clay Center
23rd Street Brewery[8]	Lawrence
Augustino Brewing Company[9]	Wichita
Barristers Brewing[10]	Topeka
Belleville Brewery[11]	Galena
The Black Stag Brewery[12]	Lawrence
Blind Tiger Brewery[8][13]	Topeka
Blue Skye Brewery and Eats[8][14]	Salina
Boiler Room Brewhaus	Fort Scott
Brew Lab[15]	Overland Park
Center Pivot Restaurant and Brewery	Quinter
Central Standard Brewing[8][16]	Wichita
Defiance Brewing Co.[8][17]	Hays
Dodge City Brewing, Co.	Dodge City
Down Under Brewery	Beloit
Drop the H Brewing Company	Pittsburg
Fields & Ivy Brewery	Lawrence
Flat Mountain Brewhouse[18]	Garden City
Fly Boy Brewery & Eats[19]	Sylvan Grove
Free State Brewing Company	Lawrence
Hank Is Wiser Brewery[8][20]	Cheney
Happy Basset Brewing Company[21]	Topeka
Hopping Gnome Brewery[8][22]	Wichita
Iron Rail Brewing	Topeka
Indy Brew Works	Independence
Kansas Territory Brewing Company[19]	Washington
Lawrence Beer Co.[23]	Lawrence
Limestone Beer Company[8]	Wichita
Limitless Brewing[24]	Lenexa
Lb. Brewing Co.[8][25]	Hays
Lost Evenings Brewing Company	Shawnee Mission
Manhattan Brewing Company[26]	Manhattan
Norsemen Brewing Company[27]	Topeka
Nortons Brewing Company	Wichita
Not Lost Brewing Company	Ottawa
Outfield Beer Company	Edwardsville
Pathlight Brewing	Shawnee Mission
Radius Brewing Company[8][28]	Emporia
Red Crow Brewing Company[19][29]	Olathe
River City Brewing Company[8][30]	Wichita
Salt City Brewing Co.	Hutchinson
Sandhills Brewing	Mission
Servaes Brewing Company[31]	Shawnee
Tallgrass Tap House	Manhattan
Third Place Brewing[8][32]	Wichita
Three Rings Brewery[33]	McPherson
Transport Brewery[34]	Shawnee
Wakarusa Brewery	Eudora
Walnut River Brewing Company[8][35]	El Dorado
Wichita Brewing Co. and Pizzeria[8][36]	Wichita
Yankee Tank Brewing Company[19]	Lawrence

• BJ's Restaurant & Brewery (Huntington Beach, California-based) has one location in Wichita.[8]
  
• Gordon Biersch Brewing Company (Palo Alto, California-based) has one location in Leawood.[37]
• Granite City Food and Brewery (St. Cloud, Minnesota-based) has four locations in Kansas City, Olathe, East Wichita, and West Wichita.[8]
  

Former breweries

The following is a list of breweries and microbreweries that have closed or have ceased brewing; this list is for tracking former locations.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Brewery	Location
Aero Plains Brewing[38]	Wichita
Beaver Brewery @ Mo's Place[39]	Beaver
Big Johns's Brewing Co.	Salina
Little Apple Brewing Company[40]	Manhattan
Plum Creek Restaurant	Beloit
Tallgrass Brewing Company[41]	Manhattan

See also

• Beer in the United States
• List of breweries in the United States
• List of microbreweries
• List of wineries in Kansas

References

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