What we have not established
Open Questions
Every archive has gaps. Most of them hide the gaps, which makes the whole record impossible to check — if you cannot see what is missing, you cannot tell a thorough entry from a thin one. So here is ours, written as questions, each one attached to the brewery it belongs to.
None of these are guesses waiting to be printed. They are blanks, and they stay blank until something establishes them. If you can answer one, you will have improved a public record permanently.
Totals as of 2026-10-22 · build 1f03h7m
876 breweries
Is it still brewing?
We have a brewery, a place, and no reliable answer to the most basic question anyone asks about one. A dead website is not proof of closure and a live website is not proof of production, so these sit unconfirmed rather than being called either.
- Birra AltenbergAlbania
- Birra e Shtëpisë LushnjëAlbania
- Birra GjallicaAlbania
- Birra Ikon production installation, BudullAlbania
- Birra KarabashAlbania
- Birra Norga breweryAlbania
- Birra PukaAlbania
- Birra SaraçiAlbania
- Birra TiranaAlbania
- Birraria e GjyshitAlbania
- Brahause BeerAlbania
- DystAlbania
- Elbar brewery / AlfaAlbania
- ILIRIA BREWERY / StelaAlbania
- Kaon BreweryAlbania
- 3 MonjesArgentina
- AWASH BrewingArgentina
- Cerveza PiltriArgentina
- Chaura Cerveza ArtesanalArgentina
- Grans ValArgentina
- MambaArgentina
- Grand Bahama Brewing CompanyBahamas
- 10 Saints Brewery Co LtdBarbados
- 13 Litar / БаупивоBelarus
- Astika / Kamenitza Haskovo breweryBulgaria
- Boliarka VT ADBulgaria
- Britos EOODBulgaria
- GlarusBulgaria
- Kamenitza Plovdiv industrial breweryBulgaria
- Pirinsko breweryBulgaria
- Rhombus Craft BreweryBulgaria
- Shumensko breweryBulgaria
- Zagorka ADBulgaria
- 21st Street BreweryCanada
- Armoury Brewing CompanyCanada
- Army and Navy BreweryCanada
- Authentic Seacoast Distillery & BrewhouseCanada
- Back Forty BreweryCanada
- Banished BrewingCanada
- Bay de Verde Brewing CompanyCanada
- Bent Nail BreweryCanada
- Better Brother Brewing Co.Canada
- Bluez On 2nd — brewery programCanada
- Bonzzini's Brew PubCanada
- Brasserie Bois BlancCanada
- Brasserie ÉlémentsCanada
- Brasserie L'Histoire Sans FinCanada
- Brasserie Les 2 FrèresCanada
- Brasserie UpsilonCanada
- Brewsters Brewing Co. & Restaurant — ReginaCanada
- Bridges Ale House and Eatery — brewery programCanada
- Brig & Barq BrewingCanada
- Brightwood BreweryCanada
- Caledonia BreweryCanada
- Caporal MicrobrasserieCanada
- Carling O'Keefe Breweries of Canada — ReginaCanada
- Chillers Brew PubCanada
- City Limits BrewingCanada
- Clark's Crossing Pub & BreweryCanada
- Copperhead Brewing CompanyCanada
and 816 more
1,269 breweries
When did it stop?
These closed. We could not establish the year with enough confidence to print one, so we print none. Oldest foundings first — the further back a closure sits, the fewer people are left who could date it, and the more it matters that someone does.
- founded 1650 — closed ?Historic Brasserie Motte-CordonnierArmentières, Nord / Hauts-de-France, France
- founded 1792 — closed ?Distillerie-brasserie Young / de BeauportBeauport (Québec City), Quebec, Canada
- founded 1813 — closed ?Carnegieska Porterbruket / CarnegiebryggerietKlippan / Majorna, Gothenburg, Sweden
- founded 1826 — closed ?Brasserie CourtoisSaint-Nicolas-de-Port, Meurthe-et-Moselle / Grand Est, France
- founded 1836 — closed ?Parčevski / Raudondvaris estate breweryRaudondvaris, Nemenčinė area, Lithuania
- founded 1839 — closed ?Brasserie du VaisseauSaint-Nicolas-de-Port, Meurthe-et-Moselle / Grand Est, France
- founded 1839 — closed ?Brasserie Tourtel de TantonvilleTantonville, Meurthe-et-Moselle / Grand Est, France
and 1,209 more in the closed ledger
1,302 breweries
What proves it?
These carry our two highest confidence grades and no source you can follow. That is a contradiction, not a detail: either the citation was lost on the way in, or the grade was generous. Both are worth knowing, and neither is worth hiding while we work through them.
- Brauerei Schwechatgrade B
- St. Marx Brewerygrade B
- Ambev / Brahma brewery systemgrade A
- 100 Acre Brewing Companygrade A
- 46 North Brewinggrade A
- A & R / Righton's / Kootenay Brewerygrade A
- Abandoned Rail Brewing Cograde B
- Alchemy Brewing Companygrade A
- All My Friends Beer Co.grade B
- Alley Kat Brewing Companygrade B
- Anchor Brewery (Joseph Knight Boswell)grade A
- Anderson Craft Alesgrade A
- Annex Ale Projectgrade B
- Anormalt - Brasserie artisanalegrade A
- Arrowhead Brewing Companygrade A
- Atlin Brewing / Northern Brewing Co.grade A
- Au Maître Brasseur / AMB - Maître Brasseurgrade A
- Au Vide Sacgrade B
- Aubier Microbrasseriegrade B
- Backcountry Brewinggrade B
- Backroads Brewing Companygrade B
- Bad Dog Brewing Companygrade B
- Badlands Brewing Companygrade A
- Bancroft Brewing Co.grade A
- Banded Goose Brewing Companygrade A
- Banished Brewinggrade A
- Barbe Broue Microbrasseriegrade A
- Barkerville Brewery lineagegrade A
- Barley Mill Brew Pubgrade B
- Barnside Brewinggrade B
- Barrel Heart Brewinggrade B
- Batch 44 Brewery & Kitchengrade A
- Bay de Verde Brewing Companygrade A
- Bayview Brewing Companygrade B
- Beach Fire Brewinggrade B
- Beacon Brewinggrade B
- Bear Brewing Company Ltd.grade A
- Beat & Betterave Nanobrasseriegrade A
- Beau’s Brewerygrade A
- Beauregard Brasserie Distilleriegrade A
- Bellwoods Brewerygrade B
- Bench Brewinggrade B
- Bercée Microbrasseriegrade B
- Beva Brewing & Blendinggrade B
- Beyond the Pale Brewing Co.grade B
- Bicycle Craft Brewerygrade B
- Bièrerie Sheltongrade A
- Big Rig Brewerygrade A
- Black Gold Brewerygrade A
- Black Oak Brewing Co.grade A
- Block 3 Brewing Co.grade A
- Blood Brothers Brewinggrade B
- BNA Brewing Co. – Kelownagrade A
- BNA Brewing Co. – Vernongrade A
- Bob Magnale Artisans Brasseursgrade A
- Bobcaygeon Brewing Companygrade A
- Bogue et Bière / Coopérative Brassicole de l'Autre Mondegrade A
- Boshkung Brewing Co.grade A
- Boswell Brewery / Boswell and Brothergrade A
- BR77 Microbrasseriegrade B
and 1,242 more
The whole picture
Where the gaps are
| Question | Unanswered | Of archive |
|---|---|---|
| Is it still brewing? | 876 | 8% |
| When did it stop? | 1,269 | 12% |
| When did it start? | 5,128 | 47% |
| What proves it? | 3,206 | 29% |
A brewery can appear against more than one question, which is why these do not sum to the total above.
How to close one
If you know the answer
Open the brewery, and send us what establishes the answer — a newspaper notice, a licence record, a company filing, a photograph of a sign with a date on it. We would rather have one sourced correction than fifty confident recollections, and we will record where it came from. Breweries correcting their own entries are welcome and are treated the same way: the source gets named.
If the honest answer is that nobody knows, that is also worth telling us. A question we have established to be unanswerable is a different thing from one nobody has tried, and the archive should say which.
When a question closes
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Why a brewery might be missing entirely rather than listed here is a different question, covered in how we count.