List of breweries in Kentucky

Breweries in Kentucky 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 Kentucky's 21 breweries and brewpubs employed 270 people directly, and more than 8,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Kentucky's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Kentucky's breweries and related industries was more than $167 million. Consumer purchases of Kentucky's brewery products generated more than $160 million in additional tax revenue. In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Kentucky ranked 43rd in the number of craft breweries per capita with 14.

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.

Active Breweries

 * 3rd Turn Brewing - Jeffersontown/Crestwood
 * Abettor Brewing Company - Winchester
 * Against the Grain Brewery - Louisville
 * Akasha Brewing Company - Louisville
 * Alexandria Brewing Company - Alexandria
 * Apocalypse Brew Works - Louisville
 * Birds Nest Brewing Company - Danville
 * Blue Stallion Brewing - Lexington
 * Bluegrass Brewing Company - Louisville
 * Braxton Brewing Company - Covington/Bellevue/Fort Mitchell
 * Country Boy Brewing -  Lexington/Georgetown
 * The Dam Brewhaus - Benton
 * Darkness Brewing - Bellevue
 * Dry Ground Brewing Company - Paducah
 * Ethereal Brewing - Lexington
 * Falls City Brewery - Louisville
 * Great Flood Brewing Co. - Louisville/Middletown
 * Hop Hound Brew Pub - Murray
 * Jarfly Brewing Company - Somerset
 * Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company - Lexington
 * Mash Cult Brewing - Florence
 * Mile Wide Beer Co. - Louisville
 * Paducah Beer Werks - Paducah
 * Shippingport Brewing - Louisville
 * Tap on Main Brewing - Somerset
 * West Sixth Brewing  - Lexington/Frankfort/Louisville
 * Wooden Cask Brewing Company - Newport
 * Yancey's Gastropub & Brewery - Glasgow
 * Stainless Brewing and Spirits - Frankfort

Defunct Breweries

 * Oldenberg Brewery, a defunct brewery and pub in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky – and The American Museum of Brewing Arts part of a Greater Cincinnati tourist expansion.
 * White Squirrel Brewery  - Bowling Green