Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

Brewery counts and quarterly beer production and removals by state.

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Beer produced and removed for sale in each state, in barrels, from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's quarterly state reports.

Organization: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
Dataset: Quarterly Statistical Report by State, Beer
Geography: States
Time coverage: 2015 through 2025 for production; 2025 for taxable removals
Update frequency: Quarterly
Original file: https://www.ttb.gov/statistics/2025-quarterly-beer-state-statistical-releases
License: Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Our copy: Quarterly Statistical Report by State, Beer

A barrel is 31 gallons, as the report states.
Production is beer brewed in the state, which is not beer drunk in the state; a large brewery ships most of what it makes elsewhere.
Taxable removals are beer leaving a brewery for sale, which is a measure of what was shipped and taxed rather than of what residents consumed.
TTB publishes these figures quarterly and this repository's period vocabulary has no quarter, so each annual figure is the sum of that year's four quarterly reports; a year is a figure only where all four quarters are published and the state reports in all four, and a state missing from one quarter carries no figure for that year rather than a total of the remaining three.
A cell the report prints as a dash is not reported and produces no observation; it is not treated as zero, because the same tables print an explicit zero elsewhere.
Taxable removals begin in 2025. Earlier editions print no single taxable removals column: a merged header spans three sub-columns, in bottles and cans, in kegs, and tax-determined for premises use, and because a sub-column can read as a dash where another reads zero, a dash is not reported rather than none, so no total can be summed from them without understating it. Those years contribute production only.
The third quarter of 2024 is published under a title naming its month rather than its quarter, so the puller reads a month name as well as a quarter number; missing it voided the whole of 2024 under the all-four-quarters rule.

Beer produced (barrels): Beer produced in the state during the year, in barrels of 31 gallons, summed from the four quarterly state reports.
Beer removed for sale (barrels): Beer removed from breweries in the state subject to tax during the year, in barrels of 31 gallons, summed from the four quarterly state reports.

The number of breweries holding an active TTB Brewer's Notice in each state, as of December 31 each year, from 1984 to 2024.

Organization: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
Dataset: Brewery Count by State
Geography: 50 states and the District of Columbia
Time coverage: 1984-2024
Update frequency: Annual
Published: May 2025
Original file: https://www.ttb.gov/system/files/2025-07/brewery_count_by_state_2024.xlsx
License: Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
Our copy: Brewery Count by State

Counts breweries holding an active TTB Brewer's Notice as of December 31 of each year, not breweries that shipped beer that year.
A brewery that is bankrupt, under a cease-and-desist order, on hold for a violation, or pending revocation is counted in a nationwide 'Other' total the source publishes outside the state breakdown, and is not included in any state's count here.
The publisher withholds a state's count for a year when it has no reportable data; that state has no observation for that year rather than a zero.

Breweries (count): Number of breweries holding an active federal Brewer's Notice, as of December 31.

This page was last updated October 16, 2026.