If you set out to visit one Washington brewery every day for a year—just one per day, a different brewery each day, continually for a year—it would take you just about one year to visit all of Washington’s 361 breweries. At the end of the year, rest assured that more breweries will have opened and your journey would continue.
If you tried to do the exact same thing in Seattle it would take you more than two months to visit all 61 breweries currently operating withing city limits.
The number of breweries in Washington has skyrocketed in the past seven years. About 2.8 breweries have opened each month for the past 81 months. Some closed during that time, but since October of 2010 we’ve seen a net increase of 226 breweries.
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Based on stories like this that we’ve posted on the Washington Beer Blog since 2010, the data looks like this:
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Our latest count shows that Washington is now home to 361 breweries. As best we can tell, this is more than any state but California. Colorado is up there too, but the last “official” count of Colorado breweries we saw was 348.
How do we come up with the number 361? We have a method. We have criteria for what we call “a brewery.” We share that information below. I am all but certain that some people will dispute our number and our method. I encourage those people to publish their own lists.
Admittedly, some of the breweries are very small and some only make beer, maybe, a few times a year, but they are still licensed and still producing beer, so we count them.
Don’t get mad at us because we miss something. We are the first to admit that compiling this list and keeping count is very difficult. It would be much more helpful if you contact us and tell us what we got wrong. All we ask is that you understand what it is that we do and do not consider a brewery. Use our contact page to reach out to us.
All of the breweries are listed below, arranged by region.
We have updated our maps of Washington’s breweries to reflect the current information. The maps we provide are a continual work in progress. We are currently working to improve them and add more detailed information about each location.
Our Method and Criteria
The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board shows that nearly 400 entities are licensed to brew beer in Washington. We have access to that list. For various reasons, not every licensed entity is actually brewing beer. Some have not yet started brewing. Some never will. Some brew Kombucha and not beer (same license). Some have held a license for years but never brewed any beer. We do our best to determine which of the licensed entities are actually making beer.
What is a Brewery?
We define a brewery as a licensed, tax-paying brewing business that actually sells beer legally to the public in one way or another. Simply put, a brewery is a building that makes beer for sale to the public.
Our list includes:
- Production-only breweries that are not open to the public.
- Breweries with tasting rooms.
- Brewpubs, which we define as restaurants that have a brewery on site and make beer.
- Brew Your Own facilities, some of which have taprooms.
- We include more than one marker for breweries that produce beer in more than one location. Examples include 7 Seas, Fremont, Reuben’s, and so on. One brewing company, producing beer at multiple breweries: each individual brewery is counted.
- Spokane Brewery Incubator. Three breweries operate out of one location, brewing on a shared system at the Steel Barrel Taproom: Little Spokane Brewing, Young Buck Brewing, and TT’s Old Iron Brewing. They are each licensed separately and operate independently, so we count them as three separate breweries.
What is NOT a Brewery
- Your friend’s neighbor who makes homebrew in his garage and invites his buddies over to drink it. Not a brewery.
- Brewery satellite tasting rooms, which we define as a brewery’s tasting room that is not at the brewery. We count the brewery, but not the remote taproom.
- Breweries in planning that are not yet brewing are not counted as breweries. Yet. We will count them when they start brewing their own beer at their own facility.
- Contract brewers. Companies that produce their beer at another licensed brewery exclusive are not included on our list. In some instances, such contract brewers are breweries in planning.
About our Maps
Because there are so many breweries, we have divided our maps into regions. Also, when you have too many locations on one map things can sometimes slow down or even blow up. Some of the time, where we draw the geographic lines make sense. Other times, it doesn’t. Olympia and Vancouver are both considered part of Southwest Washington, for instance. Snohomish is considered part of Northwest Washington, but Everett is considered part of Western Washington. The lines must be drawn somewhere. We do our best.
Seattle Breweries and Brewpubs (within city limits)
Bad Jimmy’s Brewing
Big Time Brewing
Bluebird Brewing
Burdick Brewing
Cloudburst Brewing
Counterbalance Brewing
Dirty Couch Brewing
Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub
Elliott Bay Public House & Brewery
Elysian Brewery & Public House
Elysian Brewing (production only)
Elysian Brewing TangleTown
Elysian Fields Brewery
Figurehead Brewing
Floating Bridge Brewing
Floodland Brewing
Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery
Flying Lion Brewing
Fremont Brewing Company
Fremont Brewing Company
Georgetown Brewing
Ghostfish Brewing
Gordon Biersch Brewing
Hale’s Ales
Hellbent Brewing
Holy Mountain Brewing
Jellyfish Brewing
Lantern Brewing
Lowercase Brewing
Lucky Envelope Brewing
Machine House Brewing
Maritime Pacific Brewing
McMenamins Queen Anne Hill
Mollusk (formerly Epic Ales)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse
NW Peaks Brewery
Obec Brewing
Old Stove Brewing
Optimism Brewing
Outer Planet Brewing
Outlander Brewery & Pub
Peddler Brewing
Perihelion Brewing
Pike Pub and Brewery
Populuxe Brewing
Pyramid Alehouse, Brewery and Restaurant
Ram Restaturant and Brewery
Ram Restaurant & Brewery of Seattle (RAM International)
Ravenna Brewing
Reuben’s Brews
Reuben’s Brews
Rooftop Brewing
Schooner Exact Brewing
Seapine Brewing
Standard Brewing
Stoup Brewing
Tin Dog Brewing
Triple R Brewing
Two Beers Brewing Company
Urban Family Brewing
West Seattle Brewing
Western Washington Breweries and Brewpubs
(Bremerton, Redmond, Tacoma, Port Townsend, Kent, Everett, and others)
101 Brewing
192 Brewing Company
20 Corners Brewing
7 Seas Brewing
7 Seas Brewing
Adam’s NW Bistro and Brewery
Airways Brewing
American Brewing Company
Bainbridge Brewing
Barhop Brewing
Beardslee Publiic House
Bellevue Brewing Company
Bent Bine Brew
Big Block Brewery
Big E Ales (Ellersick Brewing)
Big Horn Brewing / Ram
BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse
Black Raven Brewing
Brickyard Brewing
Brier Brewing
B-Side Brewing
Bushnell Craft Brewing
Cairn Brewing
Cash Brewing
Chainline Brewing
Circle 7 Brew Works
Cole Street Brewing
Decibel Brewing
Der Blokken Brewery Pub
Destiny City Brewing
Diamond Knot Brewpub
Dirty Bucket Brewery
Dog Days Brewing
Downpour Brewing
Dreadnought Brewing
Dru Bru
Dunagan Brewing
Dungeness Brewing
Dystopian State Brewing
E2W Brewing
Elkhead Brewing
Elliott Bay Brewhouse & Pub
Engine House #9 Brewing
Enumclaw Brewing
Fathom and League Hop Yard Brewery
Flycaster Brewing
Foggy Noggin Brewing
Foot Hills Brewing
Four Generals Brewing
Four Horsemen Brewery
Fox Island Brewing
Gallaghers’ Where U Brew (BOP)
Geaux Brewing
Gig Harbor Brewing
GSP Brewing
Half Lion Brewing
Harmon Pub & Brewery
Harmon Taproom and Brewery
Headknocker Brewery
Hemlock State Brewing
Herbert B. Friendly Brewing
Hideaway Brewing
Hi-Fi Brewing
Hood Canal Brewing
Hop Crew Brewing
Issaquah Brewhouse (Rogue Ales)
Kona Brewing
Lost Woods Brewing
Lovecraft Brewing
Lumber House Brewing
M T Head Brewing Company
Mac and Jack’s Brewery
Maelstrom Brewing
Manfish Brewing
McMenamins Anderson School
McMenamins Mill Creek
Mt. Index Brewery & Distillery
Narrows Brewing
Nine Yards Brewing
No Boat Brewing
North 47 Brewing
Northwest Brewing
Odd Otter Brewing
Odin Brewing Company
Off Camber Brewing
Old Rock Brewing
Pacific Brewing and Malting
Port Townsend Brewing
Postdoc Brewing
Power House Brewery and Restaurant
Propolis Brewing
Puyallup River Brewing
Rail Hop’n Brewing
Rainy Daze Brewing
Ram Brewing
Ram Brewing Tacoma
Ram Restaurant & Brewery of Lakewood (RAM International)
Redhook Ale Brewery
Resonate Brewery & Pizzeria
Salish Sea Brewing
Scamp Brewing
Silver City Brewing
Slaughter County Brewing
Slippery Pig Brewery
Sluggo Brewing
Smitty’s Brewing
Snoqualmie Falls Brewing
Sound Brewery
Strong Arm Brewing
Sumerian Brewing
Tacoma Brewing Company
The Station U-Brew
Triplehorn Brewing
Underground Brewing
Unicycle Ales
Valholl Brewing
Vashon Brewing Co (Cliff’s Beer)
Watts Brewing
Wet Coast Brewing
Wingman Brewers
Northwest Washington Breweries and Brewpubs
(Bellingham, Snohomish, Mount Vernon, San Juan Islands, and others)
210 Brewing Company
5 Rights Brewing
Ale Spike Brewing
Anacortes Brewery – Rockfish Grill
Aslan Brewing
At Large Brewing
Atwood Ales
Bastion Brewing
Birdsview Brewing
Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro
Brewbakers Brewing
Cardinal Craft Brewing
Chuckanut Brewery (South Nut)
Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen
Crucible Brewing
Diamond Knot B2
Double Bluff Brewing
Farmstrong Brewing
Flyers Restaurant and Brewery
Friday Harbor Brewing
Gruff Brewing
Haywire Brewing
Island Hoppin’ Brewery
Justice Brewing
Kulshan Brewing
Kulshan Brewing (K2)
LaConner Brewing
Lake Stevens Brewing
Lazy Boy Brewing
Lopez Island Brewing
Lost Canoe Brewing
Mansfield Brewing
Menace Brewing
Middleton Brewing
North Fork Brewers
North Sound Brewing
Ogres Brewing
Prison Break Brewing
River Time Brewing
San Juan Island Brewing
Scrappy Punk Brewing
Skagit River Brewing
Skagit Valley Malting
Skookum Brewing
SnoTown Brewery
Sound to Summit Brewing
Spada Farmhouse Brewing
Stone’s Throw Brewing
Structures Brewing
Swinnerton Brewery
Thirsty Crab Brewery
Three Bull Brewing
Wander Brewing
White Wall Brewing Company
Southwest Washington Breweries and Brewpubs
(Vancouver, Olympia, Aberdeen, Chehalis, and others)
54-40 Brewing
Amnesia Brewing
Ashtown Brewing
Backwoods Brewing
Barrel Mountain Brewing
Beerded Brothers Brewery
Blackbeards Brewing
Bog Water Brewing
Brother Ass Brewing
Brothers Cascadia
Cascade Homebrew
Dick’s Brewing
Doomsday Brewing
Dwinell Country Ales
Everybody’s Brewing
Fish Brewing, Leavenworth Beers
Five Dons Brewing
Fortside Brewing
Ghost Runner Brewery
Heathen Brewing
Heavy Metal Brewing
Hillbilly Brewing
Hopworks Urban Brewery
Keyhole Valley Brewing
Loowit Brewing
McMenamins – East Vancouver
McMenamins – Spar Cafe
McMenamins on the Columbia
Mill City Brew Werks
North Jetty Brewing
Northwest Passage Brewery
Northwood Brewery and Public House
O-Town Brewing
Old Ivy Brewery
Olympic Club (McMenamins)
Parker’s Steakhouse
Railside Brewing
River Mile 38 Brewing
Rusty Hop Brewing
St. Helens Brewing
Steam Donkey Brewing
Three Magnets Brewing
Top Rung Brewing
Trap Door Brewing
Triceratops Brewing
Trusty Brewing
Victor 23 Brewery
Walking Man Brewing
Willapa Brewing
Eastern Washington Breweries and Brewpubs
(Walla Walla, Leavenworth, Spokane, Yakima, and others)
238 Brewing
Alpine Brewing
Atomic Ale Brewpub and Eatery
Badass Backyard Brewing
Badger Mountain Brewing
Bale Breaker Brewing
Bellwether Brewing
Benniditos Brewpub
Berchmans Brewing
Big Barn Brewing
Black Label Brewing
Blewett Brewing
Bombing Range Brewing
Bottle Bay Brewing
Bron Yr Aur Brewing
Burwood Brewing
Chief Springs Fire & Iron Brewpub
Columbia Valley Brewing
Cowiche Creek Brewing
Dog and Pony Brewing
Doghaus Brewery
English Setter Brewing
Four Eyed Guys Brewing
Haas Innovations Brewing
Hop Nation Brewing
Hopped Up Brewing
Hops Extract Corp
Horse Heaven Hills Brewery
Ice Harbor Brewery & Pub
Icicle Brewing Company
Iron Goat Brewing
Iron Horse Brewery
Laht Neppur Brewing
Lake Chelan Brewery
Lost Falls Brewery
Milepost 111 Brewing
Mill Creek Brewpub -Big House Brewing
Mule and Elk Brewing
New Boundary Brewing
No-Li Brewhouse
Northern Ales, Inc.
Nosdunk Brewing
Old Opera Brewing
Old Schoolhouse Brewing
Orlison Brewing Taproom
Paper Street Brewing
Paradise Creek Brewery
Perry Street Brewing
Quartzite Brewing
Quirk Brewing
Redifer Brewing
Republic Brewing Company
River City Brewing
Riverport Brewing Company
Rocky Coulee Brewing
Roslyn Brewing
Shrub Steppe Smokehouse Brewery
Snipes Mountain Microbrewery & Restaurant,
Spokane Brewery Incubator
Square Wheel Brewing
St. Brigid’s Brewery
Steam Plant Brewing
Stormy Mountain Brewing
Ten Pin Brewing
Top Frog Brewing
Twelve String Brewing
V Twin Brewing
Varietal Beer Company
Waddell’s Brewpub & Grille
Wandering Hop Brewing
Water Buffalo Brewery
Wenatchee Valley Brewing
Whipsaw Brewing
White Bluffs Brewing
Whitstran Brewing
Yakima Craft Brewing Co.
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Thanks for the information and definitions. I just learned that I’ve been categorizing a brew pub incorrectly. Meaning “Beverage Place Pub” which has many NW brews on tap but doesn’t brew their own I’ve been calling a brew pub (they serve craft beer but don’t have a restaurant). Because I don’t consider it a tavern of course. Maybe it’s a “Pub”.
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