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.
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. 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. Consumer purchases of Kansas' brewery products generated more than $90 million in additional tax revenue. By 2023, according to the Brewers Association, Kansas ranked 34th in the number of craft breweries per capita with 77 and 34th in the United States for overall number of breweries statewide.
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. 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.

Open breweries

The following is a list of breweries and microbreweries. The largest brewery in Kansas is Free State Brewing Company in Lawrence
BreweryLocation
15-24 Brew HouseClay Center
23rd Street BreweryLawrence
785 Beer CompanyTopeka
Aggieville Brewing CompanyManhattan
Black Stag BreweryLawrence
Blind Tiger BreweryTopeka
Blue Skye Brewery & EatsSalina
Brew Lab Brewery + KitchenOverland Park
Center Pivot Restaurant & BreweryColby
Central Standard BrewingWichita
Defiance Brewing CompanyHays
Dodge City BrewingDodge City
Drop the H Brewing CompanyPittsburg
Dry Lake BrewingGreat Bend
ExBEERiment BrewingGardner
The Farm & The Odd FellowsMinneapolis
Fields & Ivy BreweryLawrence
Flat Mountain BrewhouseGarden City
Fly Boy Brewery & EatsSylvan Grove
Force of Nature BrewingDe Soto
Free State Brewing CompanyLawrence
Gella's Diner & Lb. Brewing CompanyHays
Hank Is Wiser BreweryCheney
Happy Basset Brewing CompanyTopeka
Hidden Trail BrewingGarden City
Hopping Gnome BreweryWichita
Indy Brew WorksIndependence
Iron Rail BrewingTopeka
Irrigation AlesCourtland
Jolly Fox BreweryPittsburg
Kansas Territory Brewing CompanyWashington
Ladybird BrewingWinfield
Lawrence Beer CompanyLawrence
The Leprechaun's LabWichita
Limitless BrewingLenexa
Manhattan Brewing CompanyManhattan
Norsemen Brewing CompanyTopeka
Nortons Brewing CompanyWichita
Not Lost Brewing CompanyOttawa
Outfield Beer CompanyBonner Springs
Oz BrewingPhillipsburg
Pathlight BrewingShawnee
Radius Brewing CompanyEmporia
Range 23 BrewingKansas City
Red Crow Brewing CompanyOlathe
River City Brewing CompanyWichita
Riverbank BrewingCouncil Grove
Rockcreek Brewing CompanyMission
Salt City Brewing CompanyHutchinson
Sandhills BrewingHutchinson & Mission
Servaes Brewing CompanyShawnee
Tall Trellis Brew Co.Olathe
Third Place BrewingWichita
Three Rings BreweryMcPherson
Transport BreweryShawnee
Union Works Brewing CompanyHumboldt
Walnut River Brewing CompanyEl Dorado
Wichita Brewing CompanyWichita
Willcott Brewing CompanyLeavenworth
Yankee Tank Brewing CompanyLawrence

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.
BreweryLocation
Aero Plains BrewingWichita
Beaver Brewery @ Mo's PlaceBeaver
Boiler Room BrewhausFort Scott
Little Apple Brewing CompanyManhattan
Lost Evenings Brewing CompanyLenexa
Tallgrass Brewing CompanyManhattan

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