Craft Beer Regions
The Best Way to Explore the Country is Not With Your Eyes...It's With Your Tastebuds
Our Craft Beer of the Month Club is the best way to taste and enjoy the finest craft breweries from our very own 50 states. Every single month our Craft Beer Club members receive a new set of exceptional, limited-production brews from a variety of small, independent breweries all over the country, sent right to their front door.
Each shipment contains four unique styles of craft beers from two of our featured independent craft breweries. To ensure you’re getting a variety of flavors and styles, the breweries we select are located states apart from one another and have limited distribution. For example, one month you could get six craft beers from a small brewery in California plus six craft beers from New York in the same shipment! Check out the map below to see all of the craft breweries we've featured so far.
Below you will find our complete list of States that we have featured in our monthly Craft Beer Club. Select a state, check out its unique beer history and see which craft beers we've uncovered and offered to our members from that state. You will also find the list of breweries from that state and and even see the location of each craft brewery on Google Maps. Not only does this show you the scope from which we get our craft beers, but maybe it can be motivation for you to go out there and explore our country the best way possible: one beer at a time.

Alabama
Yellowhammer State
We have featured a number of craft beers from Alabama in our Craft Beer of the Month Club, which include some from Straight to Ale Brewery located in Madison an ...
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Arizona
The Grand Canyon State
Arizona's craft beer scene is forging ahead with new craft breweries opening each year. We are lucky enough to have featured some of the state's innovative cra ...
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Arkansas
The Natural State
In 2009 you could count the Arkansas breweries on one hand, today there are 40 or more that exist. With such a small Arkansas craft beer history in existence s ...
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California
The Golden State
California is the birthplace of the craft brewing movement tracing all the way back to the Gold Rush in 1849 when German brewer Gottlieb Brekle and his family ...
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Canada
Above the Rest
Early on, brewing beer was done in homes for personal consumption and special events. The first Canadian brewer there are records of was Jesuit Brother Ambrois ...
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Colorado
The Centennial State
Colorado is another beer state whose history began with the Gold Rush. Upon the 1858 discovery of gold in the Rocky Mountains, so came the brewers. Many of the ...
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Connecticut
The Constitution State
While most of the brewing scene started on the west coast at the time of the gold rush, the East Coast brewing scene started a bit earlier around the 1630s. Be ...
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Delaware
The First State
Known to many as the First State, we have Delaware. The beer history in Delaware traces back to the early 1600s when the first Dutch, English, and Swedi ...
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District of Columbia
A State of Mind
The District of Columbia’s first brewery, Andrew Wales Brewery, came about in 1770. However, Cornelius Coningham started the first modern day brewery in 1796 j ...
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Florida
The Sunshine State
The Florida craft beer history got off to a bit of a slower start than most of the other states. The first Florida beer company opened in 1896 in Tampa, under ...
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Georgia
The Peach State
Georgia’s brewing history started back in the year 1738. Around this time, Major William Horton had a home and farm on Jekyll Island. On this Island, he grew m ...
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Hawaii
The Aloha State
Beer on the Hawaiian Islands began thanks to the introduction by Europeans. In the early 1850s the first brewery emerged, and produced the islands first succes ...
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Idaho
The Gem State
Along with many other states in the U.S. beer began booming in Idaho as a result of the Gold Rush in the mid-1800s. Prior to the Civil War English immigrants d ...
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Illinois
Prairie State
Illinois has breweries aplenty that have a rich history of brewing a variety of beers in an assortment of styles. With breweries of all sizes, we are happy to ...
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Indiana
The Hoosier State
The state of Indiana was founded on the influx of immigrants from all over the world and because of that, has one of the strongest beer cultures in the US toda ...
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Iowa
The Hawkeye State
Iowa’s beer history was off to a rough start before it was even declared a state in 1846. Prior to 1846, state legislators used all the power they had to limit ...
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Kansas
The Sunflower State
Kansas was the state with a great potential in the craft beer industry; that was until the idea of Prohibition began circulating. In the mid 1800s brewing w ...
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Kentucky
The Bluegrass State
Kentucky is widely known for its bourbon distilling history, but has recently joined in on the craft beer movement. The most prolific Kentucky brewery was the ...
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Louisiana
The Pelican State
Prior to Prohibition, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, New Orleans was leading the South in hometown brewing with over 30 breweries in the city. The ...
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Maine
The Pine Tree State
The beginning of brewing history in Maine goes a long way back to the 1700s when Maine was technically still a part of Massachusetts. At this point in time, be ...
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Maryland
The Old Line State
Way back in 1703, in the Annapolis area of Maryland, the first brewery was established. Along with many other states, people (mostly women) began brewing beers ...
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Massachusetts
The Bay State
Massachusetts is where most would agree beer began in America. It was here that the Mayflower dropped the Pilgrims off to guarantee they had enough beer for th ...
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Michigan
The Great Lakes State
Back in the mid 1800s a German immigrant named Christoph Kusterer opened what he called City Brewery in Grand Rapids. Back then, horse-drawn carriages were use ...
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Minnesota
The North Star State
The Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild has claimed that the number of Minnesota Breweries was once over 100. That lofty number has planted roots and the quality of ...
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Mississippi
The Magnolia State
Mississippi took arguably the hardest hit from the Prohibition with an early start in 1907, and an extended duration lasting until 1966, making it the last of ...
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Missouri
The Show Me State
The Missouri brewing history began back in 1840 with John Adam Lemp and the establishment of his brewery Western Brewing. This brewery was passed from father t ...
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Montana
The Treasure State
Along with many other western states, Montana breweries began emerging in the 1860s at the time of the gold rush. The first well-known brewery in the state was ...
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Nebraska
The Cornhusker State
Some may call Nebraska a “fly-over state” with its never-ending fields of corn and vast plains, however, the state may actually be flying under the radar when i ...
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Nevada
The Silver State
The states very first brewery was Carson Brewing in Carson City, and opened 4 years before Nevada even became a state. In operation for 88 years, Carson Brewin ...
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New Hampshire
The Granite State
Brewing in New Hampshire beer started back in 1640 by a man named Henry Sherburne. He was one of Portsmouths earliest colonizers, settling in 1631. Sherburne w ...
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New Jersey
The Garden State
If there were one word that could be used to describe the brewing and craft brewing history in New Jersey it would be, complicated! The first brewing occurrenc ...
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New Mexico
The Land of Enchantment
It is believed that the first New Mexico beer brewers were part of the Pueblo tribe. However, it wasn’t until 1848 just after New Mexico officially became a st ...
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New York
The Empire State
New York Breweries, much like all of New York cuisine, takes advantage of being the world’s biggest mixing pot to produce some amazingly delicious and diverse ...
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North Carolina
The Tar Heel State
Brewing in North Carolina has been recorded as early as 1585. Back then, ale was a safer hydrator than most untouched waters, making beer and home brewing quit ...
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North Dakota
The Peace Garden State
North Dakota was a state with an early prohibition, but had interesting ways to continue the beer industry around the dry clause. At the time, illegal taverns ...
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Ohio
The Buckeye State
Ohio brewing began in Cincinnati, in 1812. The 1830s rolled around and German and Bohemian immigrants came flocking to the state. With so many breweries in Ohi ...
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Oklahoma
The Sooner State
With a deep Native American history, Oklahoma’s first beers came from the Choctaw tribe. In 1894, this beer, which has come to be known as Choc Beer, was made ...
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Oregon
The Beaver State
The brewing history of Oregon begins back in 1852 with Liberty Brewing. Liberty Brewing was the first of many Oregon breweries to come, opened by German man He ...
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Pennsylvania
The Keystone State
Pennsylvania brewery history began in 1663 when William Penn II created his own brewery in Pennsburg. This Pennsylvania brewery is how beer was introduced to t ...
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Rhode Island
The Ocean State
Founded as a state in 1636, Rhode Islands brewing history began shortly after with its first brew house emerging merely 3 years later. At the beginning of th ...
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South Carolina
The Palmetto State
Something significant in South Carolina’s beer history is the unique liquor laws they enforced. Way back in the 1890’s Governor Benjamin Tillman created the So ...
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South Dakota
Mount Rushmore State
The beginning of beer from South Dakota came with the arrival of the German and European immigrants in 1866. These immigrants brought their expertise of farmin ...
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Tennessee
The Volunteer State
German immigration to Tennessee in the 1800s is what sparked the brewing practice and industry. Making Nashville the capital of Tennessee in the year 1843 was ...
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Texas
The Lone Star State
They say everything is bigger in Texas...and the beer is no different. Texan beer lovers take their beer seriously and are proud to be the only state with an o ...
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Utah
The Beehive State
The first Utah brewery was opened near Lehi in 1856 and given the name, the Hot Springs Brewery Hotel. Railroad workers and miners were the main Utah beer cons ...
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Vermont
The Green Mountain State
Vermont’s early beer history was slow moving. In fact, in 1798, a Vermont beer law was put in placed, which limited the sale of strong beers, ales, and ciders. ...
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Virgin Islands
While the beer scene in the Virgin Islands is small, it is gradually growing! The Virgin Islands consist of St. John, St. Thomas, St. Croix, and a few other ti ...
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Virginia
The Old Dominion State
The colonists that first came and settled into the Virginia region of what they knew as the New World, were also the first to brew here. Early on in the later ...
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Washington
The Evergreen State
Washington Brewery was the name of the very first brewery opened in the state in 1854. The founder of this establishment, Antonio B. Rabbeson, initially sold i ...
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West Virginia
The Mountain State
The early leaders in West Virginia brewing were located in Wheeling, the capital of West Virginia, around the 1830s. The Ohio River made Wheeling a desirable b ...
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Wisconsin
The Badger State
Many consider Owens Brewery in Milwaukee to be the start of Wisconsin’s brewing history, opening in 1840. Milwaukee was quite the hot spot for Wisconsin brewer ...
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Wyoming
The Equality State - The Cowboy State
The first to kick off the beer scene in Wyoming was Green River Brewery, which was founded in 1872 by Adam Braun. By the start of Prohibition the brewery had u ...
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