List of breweries in Indiana

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The Evansville Brewing Company building in Evansville

Breweries in Indiana produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, and nationally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.

Front of , located at 1408 Elwood Avenue in South Bend, Indiana, United States. Built in 1911

In 2012, Indiana's 68 breweries and brewpubs employed 260 people directly, and more than 23,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.[1][2] Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Indiana's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Indiana's breweries and related industries was more than $456 million.[2] Consumer purchases of Indiana's brewery products generated almost $192 million extra in tax revenue.[3] In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Indiana ranked 22nd in the number of craft breweries per capita, with 54.[4]

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.[5] In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 2 million Americans in the brewing industry (brewing, distribution and retail) and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.[6]

Breweries and brewpubs[]

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  • 18th Street Brewery – Gary/Hammond – brewpub, Gary location opened in 2013;[7] Hammond location opened in 2016;[8] spinoff brewery called Sour Note Brewing opened in Hammond in 2018,[9] Indianapolis taproom opened in 2020[10]
  • 2Toms Brewing[11] - Fort Wayne - brewpub, opened in 2018
  • 450 North Brewing[12] - Columbus - brewpub, opened in 2012
  • Auburn Brewing[13] - Auburn - taproom, opened in 2018
  • Bare Hands Brewery[14] – Granger – taproom, opened in 2011
  • Barley Island Brewing Company[15] – Noblesville – brewpub, opened in 1999
  • Black Acre Brewing Company[16] – Indianapolis – taproom, opened in 2012
  • Bloomington Brewing Company[17] – Bloomington – Production brewery, opened as a brewpub in 1994, relocated brewery and Lennie’s restaurant in 2019
  • Broad Ripple Brewpub[18] – Indianapolis – brewpub, opened in 1990
  • Bulldog Brewing Company[19] – Whiting – brewpub, opened in 2011
  • Burn 'Em Brewing[20] – Michigan City – taproom, opened in 2013
  • Byway Brewing[21] – Hammond – brewpub, opened in 2016
  • Carson's Brewery[22] – Evansville – taproom, opened in 2013
  • Centerpoint Brewing Company[23] – Indianapolis – taproom, opened in 2016
  • Chapman's Brewing Company[24] – Angola – taproom, opened in 2012
  • Chilly Water Brewing Co. - Indianapolis - brewery opened 2014[25]
  • Civilian Brewing Corps[26] - Spencer - brewpub, opened in 2019
  • Crooked Ewe Brewery[27] – South Bend – brewpub, opened in 2015
  • Crown Brewing[28][29] – Crown Point – brewpub, opened in 2008
  • Daredevil Brewing Company[30] – Speedway - production brewery opened in 2011 in Shelbyville, relocated the brewery to Speedway and added a taproom in 2015
  • Devil's Trumpet Brewing Company[31] – Merrillville - taproom, opened in 2014
  • Evil Czech Brewery[32] – Mishawaka – brewpub, opened in 2014
  • Ellison Brewing[33] - Indianapolis - satellite brewpub of company located in East Lansing, Michigan, opened in 2019
  • Fork + Ale House[34] - Carmel - brewpub, opened in 2019
  • Fortlandia Brewing[35] - Fort Wayne - brewery, opened in 2019
  • Function Brewing[36][37] – Bloomington – brewpub, opened in 2014
  • Garfield Brewery - Indianapolis - opened in 2018 [38]
  • Goshen Brewing Company[39] – Goshen – brewpub, opened in 2015
  • Guardian Brewing Company[40] – Muncie - taproom, opened in 2015
  • Guggman Haus Brewing[41] - Indianapolis - opened in 2019
  • Harry Stuff Brewing[42] - Wawaka, opened in 2019
  • Hog Molly Brewing[43] - Columbus - opened in 2019
  • Iechyd Da Brewing[44] – Elkhart – brewpub, opened in 2012
  • Indiana City Brewing Company[45][46] – Indianapolis – taproom; opened in 2013 in the old Home Brewing Company bottling building
  • Junk Ditch Brewing Company[47] – Fort Wayne – brewpub, opened in 2016
  • Lafayette Brewing Company[48] - Lafayette - brewpub, opened in 1993
  • Mad Anthony Brewing Company[49] – Fort Wayne – brewpub, opened in 1998, several locations
  • Malt Brothers Brewing[50] – St. John - brewpub, opened in 2015 as St. John Malt Brothers Craft Brewers, purchased 95ate5 brewpub and consolidated operations in 2019
  • MashCraft Brewing Company[51] – Greenwood – brewpub, opened in 2014, additional locations in Indianapolis and Fishers
  • Metazoa Brewing Company[52] – Indianapolis – taproom, opened in 2016
  • Myriad Brewing[53] - Evansville - brewpub, opened in 2019
  • New Albanian Brewing – New Albany – brewpub, started as a restaurant in 1987; brewery operations began in 2002
  • New Boswell Brewing[54][55] – Richmond – taproom, opened in 2010
  • New Oberpfalz Brewing[56] – Griffith – brewpub, opened in 2015
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Hops[57] - New Albany - taproom, opened in 2019
  • People's Brewing[58] – Lafayette - taproom, opened in 2009
  • Primeval Brewing[59] - Noblesville - brewpub, opened in 2019
  • Quaff On Brewing Company[60] – Nashville - production brewery, opened in 2012. Brewpubs branded as "Big Woods" in Nashville, Bloomington, Franklin, Noblesville and Speedway.
  • Rad Brewing[61] - Indianapolis - brewpub, opened in 2010 as Flat12 Bierwerks, rebranded in 2019
  • Red Foot Brewing[62] – Jeffersonville – brewpub, opened in 2014, house brewery at Red Yeti[63]
  • Ruhe152[64] - Napanee - brewpub, opened in 2019
  • Salt Creek Brewery[65] – Bedford – brewpub, opened in 2012
  • South Bend Brew Werks[66] – South Bend – brewpub, opened in 2014
  • Shale Creek Brewing[67] – Franklin – brewpub, opened in 2016
  • Shoreline Brewery[68] – Michigan City – brewpub, opened in 2005
  • Summit City Brewerks[69] – Fort Wayne – brewpub, opened in 2010
  • Sun King Brewing[70] – Indianapolis/Fishers– taproom, downtown Indianapolis brewery opened in 2009, Fishers brewery opened in 2015,[71][72] other locations in Broad Ripple[73] and Carmel[74]
  • Taxman Brewing Company[75] – Bargersville – brewpub, opened in 2014. Additional locations in Indianapolis and Fortville.
  • Thieme and Wagner[76] - Lafayette - originally opened in 1863, reopened in 2016.
  • Three Floyds Brewing[77]– Munster - brewpub, brewery originally opened in Hammond in 1996 and moved to Munster in 2000. The brewpub opened in 2005.
  • Tin Man Brewing Company Kokomo[78] – Kokomo – brewpub, opened in 2016
  • Triton Brewing Company - Indianapolis - opened in 2011[79]
  • Trubble Brewing[80] – Fort Wayne – brewpub, opened in 2015
  • Two Deep Brewing Company[81] – Indianapolis – brewpub, opened in 2014
  • Upland Brewing Company – Bloomington/Indianapolis - brewpub, opened in 1998, locations in Bloomington, Carmel, Indianapolis, and Columbus. Upland FSQ satellite brewpub opened in Indianapolis in 2019[82]
  • Viking Artisan Ale[83] - Griffith - production brewery, opened in 2019
  • Wedgewood Brewing[84] – Middlebury – taproom, opened in 2016
  • Wildrose Brewing[85] – Griffith – brewpub, opened in 2015
  • Windmill Brewing[86] – Dyer – taproom, opened in 2015
  • Zwanzigz Pizza and Brewing[87] – Columbus – brewpub, started as a restaurant in 2002, added brewery in 2012

Former breweries[]

See also[]

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