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Eel River LogoEel River Brewery


Eel River

Located in Fortuna, California

Eel River Brewing Company, located on the banks of the Eel River, was built on the site of the historic Clay Brown Redwood Mill, in the heart of California's Redwood Country

Eel River is unique for its distinction in being the country's first Certified Organic Brewery. In 1999, with a bright vision for the future, the Vivatson's broke new ground by producing ERB Co. Certified Organic Amber Ale as their first certified organic ale. Currently, Eel River Brewing Company has four distinctive ales that are all certified organic!


Emerald Coast Beer Co

Located Birmingham AL

 

The Emerald Coast Beer Company was started in 2006 with the goal of building a brand of beers to satisfy the taste of the southern beer drinker. There are four beers under the brand.

Emerald Coast 30-A Pale Ale
Emerald Coast Sunset Pilsner
Emerald Coast Seaweed Porter
Emerald Coast Seaweed Porter




Feather River Brewing Co

Located in Magalia, California

Brewed and bottled in the rugged foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California by Masterbrewer Roger Preecs.

 



Fiddlehead Brewing Company

Located in Shelburne, Vermont

Matt Cohen brewmaster opened his brewery in Dec 2011.
   

 



Fire Island Beer


Fire Island Beer Company

Located in Ocean Beach, New York

 

Named after a small Island off  Manhatten where no cars are allowed accessed by a feery only

Fire Island Beer Company has emerged from the handiwork of two brothers and a cousin who developed their taste for craft beer and home brewing during the summers they spent on Fire Island

They produce Fire Island Lighthouse ale

 


 

Firestone Walker Fine Ales

Located in Paso California

The company was formed in 1996 by Adam Firestone and David Walker, after developing a patented oak barrel brewing system named "Firestone Union" based off of the 19th century Burton Union brewing method. The ale resulting from this method is called Firestone Walker Double Barrel Ale. The company was named 2004 World Beer Cup Champion Brewery for mid-sized breweries, and their Firestone Pale Ale was named "Best Beer in America" by Men's Journal in 2006 .

 



Flagstaff Brewing Company

Located in Flagstaff, Arizona

The brewery opened in 1994. FBC strives to create hand-crafted ales and lagers that stretch the limits of typical style guidelines. Beer connoisseurs have long considered FBC to produce some of the finest brews available in the region . They make more ales than anything from their Agassiz Amber to the Great Golden Ale, Three Pin Pale Ale and Bubbaganouj IPA, a.k.a. the “Pride of Flagstaff.”
   

 



Flying Dog Brewery

Located in Denver, Colorado

The beer has been around for 17 -18 years and  just recently moved all of its production facilities to Frederick, MD

 


 

Flying Fish Brewing Company

Located Cherry Hill, New Jersey

 Founded in 1995 it is now the largest of New Jersey's craft breweries. Their Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel is an exceptionally complex beer with many interwoven flavors. This classic-style Abbey beer features an immense head with a fruity nose and a generous body.

Their Hopfish IPA is closer to an English version of India Pale Ale, more subtle and malt-based than those West Coast monsters



Fordham Brewing Company

Located in Dover, Delaware

The Company can trace its routes back to 1703. They produce German style beers.

Beers produced by Fordham include Copperhead Ale , C126 Light (light lager ), Fordham Lager ( Helles ), Tavern Ale ( pale ale ), and Oyster Stout ( stout ). Fordham distributes throughout Maryland, Delaware , the District of Columbia , and Virginia .

 


Fort Collins Brewery


Fort Collins Brewery

Located in Fort Collins , Colorado


A small brewery. Pubcrawler rates their beers as Awesome

Beers include

  • 1900 Amber
  • Major Tom Pomegranate Wheat
  • Kidd Black Lager
  • Z
  • Chocolate Stout




Fort George Brewery

Located in Astoriai, Oregon


The Fort George Brewery + Public House is located  at 1483 Duane Street Astoria. They produce about eight different beers including; Golden Goose, Quick Wit, Sunrise Oatmeal Pale Ale and Cavatica Stout


Full Sail Brewing Co

Located in Hood River, Oregon

The brewery began in 1987 and became independent, employee-owned company in 1999

Their Lupulin Alewon the Beervana's Satori Award. Sessions lager won gold at 2008 Great American Beer Fest.



Glacier Brewhouse

Located at Anchorage, Alaska

You can only find their beers in Alaska and Washington State. They make over 40 beers with Big Woody Barleywine been a consistant medal winner





Golden Brewing Company

Located in Chico, California.

 

Golden West Brewing Company, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiary, Golden West Brewing Company, produces organic craft beers in the United States. Its brews comprise Organic Ale, Organic Porter, Organic India Pale Ale, Organic Pilsner, Mount Shasta Pale Ale, and Mount Shasta Strong Ale, as well as seasonal brews, including Winter Ale, Organic Spring Run, and Christmas Cranberry Ale. The company distributes its products to supermarkets, warehouse stores, liquor stores, taverns and bars, restaurants, and convenience stores through direct sales personnel and distributors in 24 states. Golden West Brewing Company was founded in 1996  They own Buttle Creek

 



Golden Valley Brewery

Located in McMinninville, Oregon

 

Peter and Celia Kircher owned a cattle ranch when they started the brewery and Pub. They now provide the pub and restaurant with beef.

The beers include Third Street Wheat,Dundee Porter and Chehalem Mountain IPA



Good People Brewing Company

Located in Birmingham, Alabama

The brewery began in 2007. It was a hobby that turned into a passion and then a business due to the constant request for their beer.

They have a strong reputation for good beer


Holy Mackerel Beer


Gordash Brewering Company

Located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Robert K. Gordash began making beer at home in 1993 . He began entering contest and was very successful. In 2003 he inroduced Holy Mackerel Beers

 

 

 



Gordon Biersch Brewing Company

Located in San Jose, California

Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch joined together in 1987 to create a brewery restaurant.Only authentic, German-style beers would be served, and in the tradition of the ones Dan brewed while attending The Technical University of Munich, or the most renowned brewing school in the world. Beer would be brewed according to Reinheitsgebot (the age-old German Purity Law of beer) with only the finest ingredients: Hallertauer hops, two-row malted barley, and a special yeast strain imported directly from Germany. In 1997, Gordon Biersch opened a state-of-the-art brewery and bottling facility in San Jose, CA in order to begin bottling and distributing its famed, German-style beers.



Grand Teton Brewing Company

Located in Victor, Idaho

Founded in 1988 by Charlie and Ernie Otto as Otto Brothers' Brewing Company, which was the first modern “micro” brewery in the state of Wyoming. As their production grew they needed to improve their facilities. the Spring of 1998 ground was broken for a new 10,000 barrel brewery at the base of Teton Pass in Victor, ID. The name was changed in 2000



Granite City Brewery

Located In St Cloud Minnesota


Granite City Food & Brewery®, a casual dining restaurant with an on-site brewery. The initial restaurant commenced operations in St. Cloud, Minnesota, in June 1999. Our second restaurant, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, commenced operations in December 2000, and our third restaurant opened to the public November 20, 2001 in Fargo, North Dakota. There are now 26 stores operating in 11 different states. At Granite City Food & Brewery®,they serve signature beers, including Duke of Wellington (an English ale) and Broad Axe Stout (an authentic Irish beer), and entrees such as London broil. . The handcrafted beers are moderately priced and offer unique styles and flavors not typically produced by major breweries.



Great Dane Brewing Company

Located In Madison, Wisconsin

A Brew Pub with three locations in Madison
The quality of their service and food made them successful. They are now brewing beers worthy of notice

They laso make a unique Old Scratch Barley Wine

Head brewer is Eric Brusewitz



Great Lakes Brewery Company

Located In Cleveland Ohio

Established 1988 by brothers Patrick and Daniel Conway, Great Lakes Brewing Company became the first microbrewery in the state of Ohio .

Approximately 1,000 barrels of beer were produced during the first year. The first brew, a Dortmunder-style beer originally called The Heisman (named for the famed football player who lived around the corner from Great Lakes Brewing Company) was an overnight success. The flagship brew was eventually renamed Dortmunder Gold, which was the highest rated "Dortmunder Style" beer in the world for 9 consecutive years. Other award-winning brews soon followed - Burning River Pale Ale , Edmund Fitzgerald Porter , Eliot Ness Amber Lager and Holy Moses White Ale and seasonal's like Nosferatu , Blackout Stout (commemorating the 2003 North American blackout ), Conway's Irish Ale , Moondog Ale and Christmas Ale.


 

Grimm Brothers

Located Loveland, Colorado

This craft brewery honors two great German traditions: beer making and folklore. Three German-style beers cleverly embody some of the Grimm Brothers' famous tales in both flavor and hue, coupled with enchanting labels by The Tenfold Collective


Gritty McDuff's

 

Gritty McDuff's

Located Portland, Maine

 Began in 1988 as a small brew pub in Portland's Old Port. Gritty's has frequently been awarded the titles of "Maine's Best Brew Pub", "Best Maine Microbrew" and "Best Bar" in statewide polls. Gritty's ales have been repeat winners at the annual Real Ale Festival in Chicago and have also appeared as Featured International Selections at the Great British Beer Festival.

Their beers include Black Fly Stout,Original Pub style and Best Bitter


 

Hair of the Dog Brewing Company, Inc.

Located Portland, Oregon

Hair of the Dog Brewing Company was founded in November of 1993   It was originally called Adambier after a German beer style that was no longer being produced. The inspiration for Adam and for Hair of the Dog Brewing came from columnist Fred Eckhardt while he was speaking about beer styles that had fallen to extinction

Partners Alan Sprints and Doug Henderson, specialize in bottle-conditioned, high-gravity, strong ales.

The brewery's flagship brand is Adam, patterned after the famously potent 19th century Dortmunder Adambier, which is reputed to have put Prussian King Frederick William IV under the table for a whole day


 

Harpoon Brewery

Located Windsor, Vermont

Orginal location is in Boston. In the Summer of 2000, they purchased the Catamount Brewery in Windsor, Vermont in order to meet the growing demand for Harpoon beer. The brewery features a Production Viewing Area where you can check out the Brewhouse "up close" and learn about Harpoon.

Producers of UFO Hefeweizena and Harpoon Leviathan Imperial IPA



Harvest Moon Brewing Company

Located In Belt Montana

A small brewery located near Great Falls. Perhaps best known for it's award winning dark ale Pig Ass Porter. an original London style, lighter in body than a stout but with the same alcohol content.

Another award winning ale which is a mild version of a Belgian classic. Brewed with equal amounts of northwestern malted wheat and malted barley, hopped with Czechoslovakian Saaz hops and finished with a touch of coriander and orange peel- BELTIAN WHITE



Highland Hallow Brewhouse

Located in Boise, Idaho

Offering a beer for every season, this pub brews a variety of handcrafted beers, including the Maui Light for summer sippers

 




Hill Farmstead Brewery

Located in Greensboro, Vermont

Founded in 2010 the Hill Farmstead Brewery with headbrewer Sean Hill as front man has already marked it self as one of the absolute elite breweries in the world. Awarded best new brewery and worlds 34th best brewery in the world in 2010 by www.ratebeer.com Hill Farmstead couldn't have had a better start.

They focus upon crafting beers that are softly elegant, palatable, and succinct. The majority of the beers brewed are greater than 85 ibus and dry hopped. They rarely brew the same beer more than once or twice a year (with the exception of Edward, an India Pale Ale)



Hog Haus Brewing Company

Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas

Kari Larson and Julie Sill opened the Hog Haus Brewing Company in 2004



hoppin' Frog brewery

Hoppin Frog Brewery

Located in Akron, Ohio

A small but popular brewery

Hoppin’ Frog is the concept of owner and established brewmaster Fred Karm, who has designed and produced more award-winning beers than any other professional brewer in Ohio since 2000. All of these awards were won at the 2 most prestigious contests in the world, including the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup. Mr. Karm has been a brewer of specialty beers since 1994, a life-long Akron, Ohio resident, and is a graduate of the University Of Akron.

 

 



Hoppy Brewing

Hoppy Brewing Company

Located in Sacramento, California

Troy Paski founded the brewery in 1991
The original name was T.ROY's but that was changed in 2003

 



 

 


Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Company

Located in Cincinnati , Ohio

Hudepohl was founded in 1885 by Ludwig Hudepohl II. Schoenling Brewing Co. was created in 1933. The two breweries merged in 1986, and in 1999 the company was sold to Snyder International Brewing Group. Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing Co. is the last of the great Cincinnati breweries.

 When Burger Brewing Company , a once dominant Cincinnati brand, announced its closure. Hudepohl stepped in and purchased the brands and recipes of Burger, which included Burger Beer, Bohemian Tap and Red Lion Malt Liquor. Burger Beer became Hudepohl's budget priced brand.


Idaho Brewing Company

Idaho Brewing Company

Located in Idaho Falls, Idaho

 

Robin and Leon Wolfram (the owners producing a full range of beers. Their reputation is growing



Karll Strauss


Karll Strauss

Located in San Diego, California

Back in 1988 college buddies Chris Cramer and Matt Rattner
opened a brew pub in San Diego. Chris's Uncle just happened to be Master Brewer Karl Strauss, a renowned German brewmaster who had been in the beer business his whole life. Karl believed handcrafted microbrew beer would be “the beer of the future” – so they got to work.

Success followed due to the good taste of their beers, including, Karl Strauss Amber Lager, Woodie Gold, Red Trolley Ale, Karl Strauss Oktoberfest, and others



Kassik's Kenai Brew Stop

Located at Kenai, Alaska

 

In May of 2005 Kassik's purchased a used
seven barrel system, and then remodeled their building to accommodate the equipment with the help of family and friends.  The brewery opened Memorial Weekend 2006 with their first brew Beaver
Tail Blonde, their Moose Point Porter was on tap a few weeks later



Kennebec River Pub & Brewery

Located at The Forks, Maine

Kennebec River Pub & Brewery is located at Northern Outdoors Adventure Resort in the North Woods logging village of The Forks, Maine.


Beers are unfiltered and all natural, with no preservatives, additives or stabilizers


Kettle House


Kettle House

Located at Missoula, Montana

 

Known lovingly as the “K-hole” by Missoulians, this tiny brewery features an even smaller taproom where you’ll find some raelly good beers. Cold Smoke Scotch Ale and Lake Missoula Amber been a favourites.




 


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