The Great American Brewery Boom & Bust

1873 – 2024 · Real brewery locations · Real national history
1900
Current Year
US Breweries (National Total) REAL
0
Mapped Below (Open Brewery DB, modeled timing)
0
Top State
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🚫 PROHIBITION — 0 LEGAL BREWERIES NATIONWIDE
States Mapped 0
1900s
1900
Year
Brewery locations are real (Open Brewery DB, ~5,900 current US breweries with real names/cities/coordinates). The year each one "opens" here is a modeled estimate based on documented regional craft-beer growth waves and the real national brewery-count curve — not that brewery's actual founding date. The National Total counter is real, separately-sourced history (Brewers Association / CraftBeer.com): 1873 peak 4,131 · 1920–33 Prohibition 0 · 1978 historic low 89 · 2015: 4,847 · 2020: 9,092 · 2024: 9,922 (verified anchors; other years interpolated).