Tally's Beer Universe

Preserving the Past. Verifying the Present. Connecting the Future.

One universe of beer, kept in separate rooms. The archive is the record, and nothing sold anywhere else can change it. Everything else connects to it: the app, the research, the stories, the store and the businesses that make brewing possible.

Enter the Archive Open the app

What brings you here?

One universe, three ways in. Choose the door for what you came to do; every door leads to the same archive.

Door 1 · I'm a beer lover

Explore the world of beer

Discover breweries, beers, history, ownership, fascinating stories, and places worth exploring. Collect your discoveries with Tally's Beer Passport.

The archive is free to read. The store and anything else for sale is marked as such and kept apart from the record.

Explore the Beer Universe Open my Beer Passport

Door 2 · I'm a brewery

Your brewery. Your history. Your beer.

Every real brewery deserves an accurate place in brewing history. Find your free archive listing, contribute corrections, preserve your story, or explore optional independent beer provenance research.

Find or add my brewery
FREE
Search your listing, submit a brewery not yet listed, identify yourself as its representative, and add history, beers, people, awards and ownership. Every submission is reviewed for authenticity and evidence.
Find or add my brewery →
Update my brewery history
FREE
Send documented changes. Editorial decisions stay independent, and corrections are open to anyone, not only owners.
Submit a free correction →
Tally's Verified
OPTIONAL · PAID
A separate service: one named beer investigated field to glass against a written standard. Not a listing fee, not an approval of the brewery, and no guaranteed result. $400 CAD to open a Record, $100 CAD a year to recheck, with introductory terms on the page.
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Find or add my brewery — free Submit a free correction

Door 3 · I'm in the beer industry

Connect with the brewing universe

From grain growers and maltsters to hops, yeast, equipment, packaging, and technology, discover and document the businesses behind the beer.

Join the industry directory
FREE
Find, add, claim or correct your company's listing, update its contact link, and add documented history and business relationships. Submissions are reviewed so no invented or fraudulent company is listed. There is never a checkout for a listing.
Find or add my company →
Founding Partnerships
OPTIONAL · PAID
A separate sponsorship: a disclosed category credit and a commissioned film. A Founding Partner gets no better listing, no better grade and no editorial control.
Explore Founding Partnerships →

Find or add my company — free Explore Founding Partnerships

Door 3 · Agriculture · Free for every farm

From farm to glass — and back to feed cattle

Discover the farmers, grain handlers, maltsters, brewers and cattle producers connected through beer. Follow the ingredients into the glass and explore how brewery by-products can return to agriculture.

Explore Agriculture Add my farm or agricultural business — free

Planned Explore the agricultural supply chain: lot-by-lot tracing from seed to beer, once partners supply the lots.

Research & AI innovation

Build the future of brewing knowledge

Grounded AI that answers from the archive and cites it, never from a model's memory. What runs today, what is a pilot, and what is not built yet, each marked as such.

AI & digital systems

Listings are free. Always.

Every genuine brewery and eligible brewing-industry business can be included in Tally's Beer Universe at no cost. We review submissions to confirm that the businesses are real and the information is supported by evidence. Listing, claiming a profile, and correcting facts are always free. Payment never determines inclusion, placement, or editorial findings. How listing works

Every room in the universe

Knowledge

The Archive

Live

The permanent historical record of global brewing culture: 10,990 breweries in 159 countries, 1,462 of them closed. Free to read.

Tally Answers

Live

Questions answered from the archive with their sources, on its pages, in AI assistants and in the app. Never trained on it, so every answer can be checked.

Tally's Agriculture

Live

From farm to glass, and back to feed cattle: the growers, maltsters, ranches and feedlots connected through beer. Free for every farm.

Verification & Integrity

Tally's Verified

Pilot

Independent research into where one beer comes from, field to glass. The research is paid for; the findings are not.

Tally's Trust

Live

The rules every room keeps: a source under every fact, unknowns published as unknown, and no payment that touches a record.

Audience & Experiences

The app

Live

Stamp what you drink. A passport for beer, with the archive behind every stamp.

Tally's Take & Closed Ledger

Live

Stories from the archive: essays, and films about breweries that closed.

Tally & Pixie

Planned

The characters, and the worlds still to come.

Commerce & Industry

The Store

Live

Posters and 3D-printed merch, from the Shazebo on Etsy.

Founding Partners

Live

One partner per industry category, credited and disclosed. It buys no position and no record.

For the trade

Live

Suppliers and breweries: what the archive documents about the businesses behind beer, and how to work with it.

Industry Intelligence

Live

Research reports built from the archive for businesses carrying risk in brewing.

Physical Future

Tally's Brewarnia

Planned

A brewery, a museum of brewing history and a collectors' gallery under one roof. A concept, not yet a project.