The States with the most craft breweries in 2017

It appears that Colorado is the 'purple' state: purple on both maps.

Cheers!

 

Very cool. I love staying updated on this kind of information.

 

Missouri is doing pretty good on number of breweries, but not so hot on breweries per capita. Interesting stuff. In fact, both Dakotas beat out us on breweries per capita. Just goes to show how parts of Missouri can be so sparse.

 

Man, we must have a lot of really small breweries. 330 seems like a lot. Cool to see michigan near the top though.

 

We need this as a % of state population.

States like Cali might be ranked at the bottom.

 

NoDak and MissySippy need to up their games. A bit surprised to see that my old home state, NY, is almost close to my current home state, WA.

 

Well, the Dakotas probably have fewer folks than y'all do.

 

Breweries per capita just mainly means not that many folks live there - not really a bragging stat.

Isn't that what the bottom chart is about? The adult population, they didn't include the children.

 

The 2nd map. California is lower, but not at the bottom. North Dakota isn't bad per capita, Mississippi still is worst.

 

After Founders and Bell's the size deminished rapidly. According to the MayJune issue of the MI Beer Guide there are 45 more breweries over 1000 barrels. So that means 85% are "small" if 1000 is the cutoff.

Nationwide there are ~72% below 1000 bbls according to the BA. I think MI has two big breweries skewimg the numbers from the national trend.

 

Not surprised to see Maine #2 on the per capita list. We’ve got like a million people here and seemingly a brewery on every corner.

 

Not surprised that GA is at the bottom. The best brewery here is mediocre at best.

 

Breweries require people to A. Start them
B. Staff them
and C. Keep them in Business

For that reason I'd argue its a more impressive stat. Less people means less total support coming from locals. Gotta import our business from outside the state. With so many breweries per person the competition is fierce.

 

I've had 8 of the top 100 rated brews, and liked 'em all (even Wake n Bake, and I hate coffee). I think y'all are doing just fine.

 

Honestly, I'm not exactly sure how your points work in with the Breweries Per Capita chart. Impressive stat? Hardly. From the chart, you'd thing Montana and Wyoming are booming with craft breweries, but there's less than 100 in the two states together, encompassing all that area. I'll just stay out here in Cali with our 700+ breweries and low per capita chart numbers for whatever those are worth.

 

Perhaps breweries per square mile could be more useful information

Nevertheless I couldn't help but notice some geopolitical and cultural relationships.

 

I don't feel the need to pick which map is more important. They're both interesting and informative and worthwhile. As mentioned above, I would also be interested to see each state's craft beer production in volume.

 

No map - which themselves are somewhat "deceptive" since, obviously, in many cases much of the beer of a number of states' brewers, like #1 PA w/ +million barrel breweries like Yuengling and BBC or #2 CA (Stone & Sierra Nevada), is shipped out of state - but as the article in the OP states:

the B.A.'s page lists every state's "Barrels of Craft Beer Produced per Year".

 

Do you know if the BA's stats split up a brewery's barrelage if they have multiple locations?

For example is Yuengling's barrelage split between PA and Florida? With Florida ranking 4th on the volume list, that seems likely.