Breweries in Illinois produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries. Illinois is the 25th most extensive and the fifth most populous of the 50 states, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities, great agricultural productivity, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base.

In 2012 Illinois' 83 breweries and brewpubs employed 1,300 people directly, and more than 45,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.^[1][2] Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply Illinois' breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by Illinois' breweries and related industries was more than $1.4 billion.^[2] Consumer purchases of Illinois' brewery products generated almost $450 million extra in tax revenue.^[3] In 2012, according to the Brewers Association, Illinois ranked 36th in the number of craft breweries per capita with 68.^[4]

For context, at the end of 2013 there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries.^[5] In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.^[6]

An analysis done in 2015 reported that Chicago craft brewers occupied more square feet of commercial real estate than those of any other U.S. city. According to the same study, Chicago had 144 craft breweries, second only to Portland, Oregon which had 196.^[7] In 2017, the Chicago Tribune reported that "the Chicago area has the most breweries in the nation, with 202 – topping Denver's 198 and Seattle's 168. The Chicago area includes small portions of Indiana and Wisconsin."^[8]

Breweries

Notes:

1. For the purposes of this list, a brewpub is a taproom with a kitchen; that is, it's a restaurant as well as a brewery.
2. This list includes locations that produce cider, mead, and makgeolli. Those beverages have an alcohol content similar to that of beer, but they are fermented, not brewed. For locations that produce wine, see List of wineries in Illinois.

Name	Bottling or canning	Brewpub	Taproom	Location and other information
25 O'Clock Brewing Company	N		N	Urbana, opened in 2017, added a taprooom in 2018.[9][10]
4204 Main Street Brewing Company	N			Belleville. The original brewpub opened in 2014.[11] A second, larger brewery and taproom opened in 2017.[12] The original location closed in 2021, with the production brewery and taproom remaining in operation.[13]
93 Octane Brewery		N		St. Charles,[14] opened in 2019.
Adams Street Brewery		N		Opened in 2019 in the Berghoff restaurant in Chicago.[15]
Afterthought Brewing Company	N		N	Lombard, opened in 2016. The separate taproom opened in 2021.[16][17]
Alarmist Brewing	N		N	Chicago, opened in 2015.[18] Added a taproom in 2017.[19]
All Rise Brewing Company		N		The brewery began operations in 2014, inside the existing Cobra Lounge in Chicago.[20][21]
Alter Brewing Company	N	N	N	The brewery and taproom in Downers Grove opened in 2015[22] and added a canning line in 2017.[23] The brewpub in St. Charles opened in 2020.[24] The brewpub in Oak Brook opened in 2022.
Alulu		N		Chicago, opened in 2017.[25]
Analytical Brewing			N	Lexington, opened in 2022.[26]
Anvil & Forge Brewing and Distilling			N	Springfield,[27] opened in 2018.
Apple Knocker Hard Cider	N		N	Cider brewery in Cobden, opened in 2012.[28]
Arrowhead Ales Brewing Company		N		New Lenox, opened in 2016.[29]
Artesia Brewing			N	Thawville, opened in 2021.[30]
Art History Brewing	N		N	Geneva, opened in 2020.[31][32]
Banging Gavel Brews	N	N		Founded in 2014. Initially the beer was contract brewed.[33] Opened their own brewery in Tinley Park in 2023.[34]
Begyle Brewing Company	N		N	Chicago,[35] opened in 2012. The taproom opened in 2015.[36][37]
Belly Up Beer Company	N			Western Springs, opened in 2016.[38]
Bent River Brewing Company	N	N	N	Brewpub in Moline, bottling line and taproom in Rock Island.[39] Founded in 1997.
Big Muddy Brewing	N		N	Murphysboro, founded in 2009.[40]
Big Thorn Brewery	N		N	Georgetown, opened in 2016.[41]
Bixi Beer		N		Chicago, opened in 2018.[42][43][44]
BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse		N		BJ's Restaurants is a chain of restaurants and brewpubs that started in Santa Ana, California in 1978. The location in Orland Park opened in 2023.[45]
Black & Gray Brewing Company			N	East Dundee,[46] opened in 2019.
Black Horizon Brewing Company	N		N	Willowbrook, opened in 2017.[47][48]
Black Lung Brewing Company			N	Started in 2019 as an alternating proprietorship brewing and distributing out of ZümBier in Waukegan.[49] Opened their own brewery and taproom in Round Lake Beach in 2021.[50]
Blind Pig Brewery	N		N	Champaign. The beer bar opened in 2004. The separate microbrewery and taproom opened in 2009.[51]
Blue Island Beer Company			N	Blue Island, opened in 2015.[52]
Bosacki's Brewery			N	Mundelein, opened in 2016.[53]
BrickStone Restaurant & Brewery	N	N		Bourbonnais.[54][55] Added a brewery to the existing restaurant in 2006. Opened a separate production brewery in 2015.
Broken Tee Brewing Company			N	Highwood, opened in 2022.[56]
Brother Chimp Brewing	N		N	North Aurora, opened in 2020.[57]
Brothership Brewing	N		N	Mokena, opened in 2020.[58][17]
Bubblehouse Brewing Company			N	Lisle, opened in 2021.[59]
BuckleDown Brewing	N		N	Lyons, opened in 2013.[60]
Buffalo Creek Brewing			N	Long Grove, opened in 2017.[61]
Burning Bush Brewery			N	Chicago, opened in 2020.[62]
Bust'd Brewing			N	Peoria Heights, opened in 2023.[63]
Buzz Bomb Brewing Company			N	Springfield, opened in 2018.[64] Added a second brewery, in Illiopolis, later that year.[65]
Carbondale Craft Beer	N		N	Ava, makers of Little Egypt beer, founded in 2012.[66]
Carlyle Brewing Company	N		N	Rockford. Opened in 2003,[67] closed in 2021,[68] reopened in 2022,[69] under new management in 2023.[70]
Cary Ale House & Brewing Company		N		Cary. The restaurant opened in 2015. They added an in-house brewery in 2018.[71]
Casper Brewing Company			N	Bloomington, opened in 2021.[72]
Church Street Brewing Company	N	N		Itasca, opened in 2012.[73]
Coal Creek Brewing Company			N	Princeton, opened in 2023.[74]
Corridor Brewery & Provisions	N	N		Chicago, opened in 2015.[75] Added a canning line in 2017.[76]
Crushed by Giants		N		Chicago, opened in 2020.[77]
Crust Brewing		N		Rosemont, opened in 2022.[78]
Cruz Blanca	N	N		Founded by chef Rick Bayless in 2015, the beer was originally contract brewed.[79] The brewpub in Chicago opened in 2016.[80]
Crystal Lake Brewing	N		N	Crystal Lake, opened in 2014.[81]
D and G Brewing Company	N		N	St. Charles,[82] opened in 2018.
Decatur Brew Works			N	Decatur, opened in 2016.[83]
Demo Brewing Company			N	Chicago, opened in 2024.[84]
Destihl Restaurant & Brew Works	N	N	N	The brewpub in Normal opened in 2007, and the one in Champaign opened in 2011. The production brewery in Bloomington opened in 2013.[85][86] It was replaced with a new brewery and taproom in Normal in 2017.[87][88] The brewpub in Champaign closed in 2020.[89]
District Brew Yards	N	N		Chicago, opened in 2019 as a brewery run cooperatively by three brewing companies – Burnt City Brewing, Around the Bend Beer Company, and Bold Dog Beer Company.[90] Added a fourth company, Casa Humilde Cervecería Artesanal, later that year.[91] In 2022 Bold Dog left, and Twisted Hippo Brewing joined after their own brewpub was destroyed in a fire. Later in 2022 District Brew Yards opened a second location, in Wheeling, and added another brewing company, Histrionic Brewlab.[92]
Door 4 Brewing Company			N	Decatur, opened in 2017.[93]
Double Clutch Brewing Company		N		Evanston, opened in 2021.[94]
Dovetail Brewery	N		N	Chicago, opened in 2016.[95][96]
DryHop Brewers		N		Chicago, opened in 2013.[97][98][99]
Duneyrr Artisan Fermenta Project			N	Chicago brewery specializing in beer cofermented with wine, opened in 2021.[100]
Elmhurst Brewing Company		N		Elmhurst, opened in 2018.[101]
Emancipation Brewing Company			N	Fairbury, opened in 2019.[102][103]
Emmett's Brewing Company	N	N		West Dundee, Palatine, Downers Grove;[104] founded in 1998.
Energy City Brewing	N			Batavia, opened in 2017.[105]
Engrained Brewing Company	N	N		Springfield, opened in 2013.[106]
Eris Brewery and Cider House	N	N		Cider and beer brewery and restaurant in Chicago, opened in 2018.[107][108]
Evergreen Farm Brewing			N	Metamora, opened in 2021.[109]
Evil Horse Brewing Company	N		N	Crete, opened in 2016.[110]
Excel Brewing Company	N			Breese. Founded as a soft drink company in 1936, Excel Bottling Company started brewing beer in 2012.[111]
Fibs Brewing Company			N	Des Plaines, opened in 2019.[112]
Flapjack Brewery		N		Berwyn,[113] opened in 2017.
Flipside Brewing		N		Tinley Park, opened in 2022.[114]
Flossmoor Station Brewing Company	N	N		Flossmoor. Brewpub opened in 1996, bottling operation started in 2008.[115]
Forbidden Root	N	N		Founded in Chicago in 2013, the beer was initially brewed at various locations.[116] The brewpub on Chicago Avenue opened in 2016.[117] The Columbus, Ohio location opened in 2019.[118] The Cultivate brewpub on Ravenswood Avenue opened in 2021.[119]
Forgottonia Brewing			N	Macomb, opened in 2019.[120]
Foxes Den Meadery			N	Yorkville meadery, opened in 2023.[121]
Fox Republic Brewing			N	Yorkville, opened in 2023.[122]
Galena Brewing Company	N	N	N	The brewpub in Galena[123] opened in 2010. The taproom in Moline opened in 2019[124] and closed in 2023.[125]
Garage Band Brewing			N	Plainfield,[126] opened in 2019.
Generations Brewing Company			N	Freeport, opened in 2014.[127]
Geneseo Brewing Company			N	Geneseo,[128] opened in 2015.
Ginger Road Brewing Company			N	Utica, opened in 2023.[129]
Go Brewing	N		N	Naperville, brewer of no-alcohol and low-alcohol beers, opened in 2022.[130]
Golden Fox Brewing			N	Decatur, opened in 2018.[131]
Goldfinger Brewing Company	N		N	Downers Grove, opened in 2020.[132][133]
Good Times Brewery		N		Chicago, opened in 2023.[134]
Goose Island Beer Company	N	N	N	Founded in Chicago in 1988 as a brewpub on Clybourn Avenue, Goose Island opened a production brewery on Fulton Street in 1995, and a second brewpub, in the Wrigleyville neighborhood, in 1999. The production brewery and its beers, but not the brewpubs, were purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2011. Goose Island now has national distribution, and some of the beer is produced at other breweries.[135][136] A taproom at the Fulton Street brewery opened in 2015.[137] The Wrigleyville brewpub closed in 2015.[138] The Clybourn Avenue brewpub was acquired by AB InBev in 2016;[139] it closed in 2023.[140] The brewpub on Blackhawk Street opened in 2024.[141]
Grainology Brewstillery			N	Brewery and distillery in Batavia, opened in 2023.[142]
Granite City Food & Brewery		N		With its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Granite City operates several dozen brewpubs in the Midwest,[143] including two in Illinois, in Naperville and Schaumburg.
Great Central Brewing Company	N		N	Contract brewery in Chicago, opened in 2016.[144] The taproom opened in 2017.[145]
Greenstar Brewing		N		Located at the Uncommon Ground restaurant in Chicago, Greenstar began production in 2014 as the first organic brewery in Illinois.[146]
Guinness Open Gate Brewery	N	N		Guinness was founded in Dublin, Ireland in 1759. The brewpub in Chicago opened in 2023.[147]
Hailstorm Brewing	N		N	Tinley Park, opened in 2014.[148][149]
Hairy Cow Brewing Company		N		Byron, opened in 2018.[150]
Half Acre Beer Company	N	N		Half Acre was founded in 2007, with the beer initially contract brewed in Wisconsin. The brewery on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago started production in 2009, and the tap room opened in 2012.[151] In 2015, a second, larger brewery started production on Balmoral Avenue, a mile and a half from the first location.[152] The Lincoln Avenue tap room added a kitchen in 2016.[153] The Balmoral Avenue brewery added a brewpub in 2017.[154] The Lincoln Avenue location closed in 2021.[155]
Half Day Brewing Company		N		Lincolnshire, opened in 2016.[156]
Hand of Fate Brewing Company			N	Petersburg, opened in 2016.[157][158][159]
Harbor Brewing Company			N	Winthrop Harbor,[160] opened in 2018.
Hardware		N		Brewpub in North Aurora, opened in 2016, home of BBGB Brewery and Hop Farm..[161]
Haymarket Pub & Brewery	N	N		The brewpub in Chicago[162] opened in 2010. The second brewpub and production brewery in Bridgman, Michigan opened in 2017.[163]
Hickory Creek Brewing Company			N	New Lenox, opened in 2018.[164] Moved to a new location in 2023.[165]
Highway 20 Brewing Company			N	Elizabeth, opened in 2020.[166]
Holzlager Brewing Company			N	Woodstock, opened in 2019.[167]
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