The Mass Tun: List of Breweries and Beer Brands in Massachusetts

The web lacks a reliable, convenient, and comprehensive list of all the breweries and contract beer brands now operating in Massachusetts. This endeavors to be just that! I make no claims to perfection, so please let me know if I have missed any - also, scroll to the bottom for an overwhelming list of breweries known to be in planning!

B = Brewery Bp = Brewpub C = Contract brand    CF = Contract Brewing Facility
Italics= indicates contract brand
* = the contract brand publicly indicates a city of identity, although not brewed in that city. Therefore, the brand is listed twice (under city of identity AND under its contract brewing facility)
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Greater Boston and Metro West

Ayer

Still River Brewing Company - B

Boston

*Backlash Beer Company** - C (Paper City/Holyoke)

Boston Beer Works - Bp (3 locations in Boston)

Deadwood Cafe & Brewery - Bp (bowling alley!)

Harpoon Brewery - B

Percival Beer Company* - C (Paper City / Holyoke)

Portico Brewing Company* - C (Ipswich)

Samuel Adams - B

Trillium Brewing Company - B

Cambridge
Cambridge Brewing Company - Bp

John Harvard's Brewery and Ale House - Bp

Canton
Blue Hills Brewery - B

Chelsea

Mystic Brewery - B

Everett

Idle Hands Craft Ales / Enlightenment Ales - B

Night Shift Brewing Company - B

Framingham
Framingham Beer Works - Bp

Jack's Abby Brewing Company - B

John Harvard's Brewery & Alehouse / Framingham - Bp

Hingham
Entitled Brewing Company* - C (Ipswich)
Hingham Beer Works - Bp

Hull
Sea Dog Brew Pub - Bp

Newton
Hopsters - Bp (and brew-on-premise)

Norfolk

Eagle Brook Saloon - Bp C (Bp w/ beer contract brewed at Ipswich)

Somerville

Aeronaut Brewing Company - Bp
Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project* - C (Buzzard's Bay / Westport)

Slumbrew* - American Fresh Taproom at Assembly Row - C (Ipswich) Bp (Somerville)

Waltham

Watch City Brewing Company - Bp WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2014. TO BE REPLACED BY A BEER WORKS.

Woburn
Sea Dog Brew Pub - Bp WENT OUT OF BUSINESS IN 2014.

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North of Boston - North Shore and Merrimack Valley

Amesbury

Cody Brewing Company - B

Gloucester

Cape Ann Brewing Company - Bp

Haverhill

The Tap Brewing Company - Bp

Ipswich

Ipswich Ale Brewery / Mercury Brewing Company - B CF for:

Bad Martha Beer* - C
Battle Road Brewing Company - C

Brash Beers - C

Clown Shoes Beer Company - C
Entitled Brewing Company* - C

Notch Brewing Company - C

Offshore Ale Company* - C
Portico Brewing Company* - C
Slumbrew* - C
White Lion Brewing Company* - C

Lowell

Do Can Brewery - B

Lowell Beer Works - Bp
Navigation Brewing Company - B

Newburyport

Newburyport Brewing Company - B

Riverwalk Brewing Company - B

Pepperell
50 Back Beer - C (Olde Saratoga / Saratoga Springs, NY)

Salem

Salem Beer Works - Bp

West Newbury
Merrimac Brewing Company - B

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Southeastern MA - including Cape Cod and the Islands

Barnstable / Hyannis
Cape Cod Beer - B

Barnstable / Osterville
Naukabout Beer Company* - C (Holyoke / Paper City)

Berkley
Berkley Beer Company - B

Lakeville
Goodfellow's Brewing Company - B

Martha's Vineyard/ Edgartown
Bad Martha Beer* - C (Ipswich)

Martha's Vineyard/ Oak Bluffs
Offshore Ale Company - Bp / C (Retail bottles brewed at Ipswich)

Nantucket
Cisco Brewers - B

Sea Dog Brew Pub - Bp

Norton
Bog Iron Brewing Company - B

Plymouth
Independent Fermentations / IndieFerm - B

Mayflower Brewing Company - B

Westport
Buzzard's Bay Brewing - B Cf for:
Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project* - C
Wicked Pissa / Mashjuga Beverage Company - C

Whitman
Old Colony Brewing Company - B

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Central Massachusetts - Worcester and Worcester County

Bolton
Nashoba Valley Brewery - B

Gardner
Gardner Ale House - Bp

Southbridge
Bentley Brewing Company - Bp

Spencer
The Spencer Brewery - B

Sturbridge
Rapscallion Barrel & Taproom - B

Webster
Kretschmann Brewing Company - B

Westborough
Owen O'Leary's - Bp

Westminster
Wachusett Brewing Company - B

Worcester
3Cross Brewing Company -B
Wormtown Brewery - Bp (inside Peppercorn's Restaurant)

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Western Massachusetts

The Berkshires - The Berkshires refers to Berkshire County only

Clarksburg
Busbee Brewing Company - B

Great Barrington
Barrington Brewery / Berkshire Mountain Brewers - Bp

Hancock
John Harvard's at Jiminy Peak - Bp

Lee
Glass Bottom Brewery - B

Pittsfield
Wandering Star Craft Brewery - B

Sheffield

Big Elm Brewing - B

Connecticut River Valley: Franklin, Hampshire, & Hampden Counties

Amherst

Amherst Brewing Company - Bp

High Horse Brewing - Bp

Colrain

Stoneman Brewery - B

Deerfield

Berkshire Brewing Company - B

Easthampton

Abandoned Building Brewery - B
Fort Hill Brewery - B

Greenfield
Lefty's Brewing Company - B
The People's Pint - Bp

Hampden

Scantic River Brewery - B

Hatfield

Howler Brewery - B

Holyoke
Paper City Brewing Company - B CF for:
Backlash Beer Company* - C
Brewmaster Jack* - C
3 Beards Beer Company - C

Bay State Beer Company - C

High & Mighty Beer Company - C
Landmark Beer Company (Brand owned by Paper City)
Naukabout Beer Company* - C
Percival Beer Company* - C
Preference Beer Company - C
Swing Oil Beer Company - C

Ludlow
Iron Duke Brewing

Millers Falls (Montague)

Element Brewing Company - B

Monson

Tree House Brewing Company - B

Northampton

Brewmaster Jack* - C (Paper City / Holyoke)

Northampton Brewery - Bp

Southampton

Opa Opa Brewing Company - Bp

Southwick

Westfield River Brewing Company - B

Springfield
White Lion Brewing Company* - C (Ipswich)

Williamsburg