Experiences
The map
Every pin is a brewery whose location somebody actually established. Most of the archive is not on it yet, and that is said here rather than hidden behind a guessed dot.
585
Breweries on the map
7.4%
Of the archive
7
Countries
445
From a licensing regulator
2
Closed, still placed
Brewing ClosedMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Why most breweries are not on this map
585 of 7,896 records carry a coordinate, and every one of those came from a researched source — 445from a licensing regulator's own record of the premises, the rest from a surveyed site or a research pass. The archive never places a brewery by guessing from its city name. A missing pin means “not yet placed”, never “we are not sure”, and closing that gap is research, not a script. If you know exactly where a brewery stood, that is worth sending.