America has been blessed with the growing presence of breweries. With this in mind, the House Method team did a deep dive to find the most popular brewery in every state and the 150 most popular in the United States. We pulled data on over 2,200 breweries and looked at four factors to determine the most popular: Facebook followers, Instagram followers, Yelp score, and number of Yelp reviews.
Here’s a graphic of the state-by-state findings:
After checking out the website, we found that Illinois and Wisconsin had some pretty impressive results. See for yourself:
ILLINOIS
- Most Popular Brewery in the state – Goose Island Beer Co. – Chicago, IL
- Illinois has 7 breweries that ranked among the top 150 in the nation! They are as follows (including their ranking):
- Goose Island (#3) – Chicago
- Lagunitas Brewing Co (#11) – Chicago
- Printer’s Row Brewing (#31) – Chicago
- Revolution Brewing (#38) – Chicago
- Pipeworks Brewing (#148) – Chicago
- The top five most popular breweries in IL are (in order of popularity):
- Goose Island Beer Co – Chicago
- Lagunitas Brewing Co – Chicago
- Printer’s Row Brewing – Chicago
- Revolution Brewing – Chicago
- Half Acre Beer Co – Chicago
WISCONSIN
- The Most Popular Brewery in the state – New Glarus Brewing Co. – New Glarus, WI
- Wisconsin has 4 breweries that ranked among the top 150 in the nation. They are as follows (including their ranking):
- Milwaukee Brewing Co (#46) – Milwaukee
- Good City Brewing Co (#50) – Milwaukee
- Driftless Brewing Co (#127) – Soldier’s Grove
- Stillmank Brewing Co (#132) – Green Bay
- The top five most popular breweries in WI are (in order of popularity):
- New Glarus Brewing Co – New Glarus
- Milwaukee Brewing Co – Milwaukee
- Good City Brewing Co – Milwaukee
- Potosi Brewing Co – Potosi
- Central Waters Brewing Co – Amherst
To check out the results of this study for yourself and see who ranked where by state – click here!