Saturday, November 15, 2014

Pennsylvania Breweries - How Many?


Pennsylvania Statewide Brewery Count

November 12, 2014: Date of License Search

There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania and I have listed the number of breweries and brewery-pubs licensed by the Commonwealth to operate as such. The Liquor Control Board issues the licenses and to find a brewery or pub visit their site at https://www.lcbapps.lcb.state.pa.us/webapp/PublicLicenseeSearch/
The state issues a G license for a manufacturer of malt beverage by a brewery and after that has been issued a GP license can be issued so the brewery can also operate as a restaurant. Some home brewers have websites that infer that they are a brewery and may have actually formed a brewing company, but as they are not licensed to brew they are not a part of this work.

Here is a quick summary:
Pennsylvania has 219 breweries of which 87 are brewery-pubs as of the date shown above.

45 Counties have breweries, 22 do not.
Of the 45 brewing counties, 30 have brewery-pubs
Lancaster has 24 breweries. Allegheny is second with 21.
Philadelphia County is in 6th place with only 11 breweries.
First place Lancaster is also first in brewery-pubs with 12. Pittsburgh is in 4th place with 7 brewery-pubs. Philly has only 3 as do 3 other counties.
15 Counties that have breweries do not have any brewery-pubs. Sad.
There are 8 counties in which every brewery is a brewery-pub.
York County has the highest ratio of brewery-pubs to breweries with 10/13 other than the 8 having 100%.

The List:
Adams County: 5 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Allegheny County: 21 breweries, 7 brewery-pubs
Armstrong County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Beaver County: 2 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Bedford County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Berks County: 5 breweries, 3 brewery-pubs
Blair County: 2, none of which are brewery-pubs
Bradford County: 1 brewery, which is also a brewery-pub
Bucks County: 10, 4 brewery-pubs
Butler County: 6 breweries, 3 brewery-pubs
Cambria County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Cameron County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Carbon County: 1, which is also a brewery-pub
Center County: 5 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Chester County: 13 breweries, 7 brewery-pubs
Clarion County: 1, which is also a brewery-pub
Clearfield County: 2 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Clinton County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Columbia County: 4 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Crawford County: 3 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Cumberland County: 6 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Dauphin County: 7 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Delaware County: 4, none of which are brewery-pubs
Elk County: 1 brewery, which is NOT brewery-pub
Erie County: 6 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Fayette County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Forest County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Franklin County: 1, which is also a brewery-pub
Fulton County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Green County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Huntington County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Indiana County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Jefferson County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Juniata County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Lackawanna County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
Lancaster County: 24 breweries, 12 brewery-pubs
Lawrence County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Lebanon County: 1 brewery, which is a brewery-pub
Lehigh County: 5 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Luzerne County: 6 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
Lycoming County: 5 breweries, 2 brewery-pubs
McKean County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Mercer County: 1 brewery, which is a brewery-pub
Mifflin County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
Monroe County: 2 breweries, none are brewery-pubs
Montgomery County: 15 breweries, 9 brewery-pubs
Montour County: 3 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Northampton County: 3 breweries, none of which are brewery-pubs
Northumberland County: 2 breweries, none of which are brewery-pubs
Perry County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Philadelphia County: 11 breweries, 3 brewery-pubs
Pike County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Potter County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Schuykill County: 3 breweries, none of which are brewery-pubs
Snyder County: 1 brewery, which is also a brewery-pub
Somerset County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
Sullivan County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Susquehanna County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
Tioga County: 2 breweries, 1 brewery-pub
Union County: 2 breweries, neither of which are brewery-pubs
Venango County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Warren County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
Washington County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Wayne County: No breweries or brewery-pubs
Westmoreland County: 8 breweries, none of which are brewery-pubs
Wyoming County: 1 brewery, which is NOT a brewery-pub
York County: 13 breweries, 10 brewery-pubs