List of breweries in Alabama

Breweries in Alabama produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally and regionally.

In 2012 Alabama's then 17 breweries, importers, brewpubs, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers employed 60 people directly, and another 12,300 in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.

[1] Consumer purchases of Alabama's brewery products generated another $205 million in tax revenue.

According to The New Yorker when discussing beer production, "from 2011 to 2012, annual production grew faster in the South than just about anywhere else, with the fastest-growing producers including Alabama (first out of all fifty states)..."[8] The Code of Alabama defines beer as being fermented malt liquor containing between 0.5% alcohol by volume (ABV) and 13.9% ABV.

[96] In 2006 and 2007 a grassroots lobbying organization called "Free The Hops"[97] introduced bills in the state House and Senate, intending to raise the limit on beer to 13.9% ABV.

[96] In May 2012, the Alabama house passed Senate Bill 294, allowing the sale of beer containers up to 25.4 ounces (750 milliliters), effective August 1, 2012, into law.

[104] In March 2016, Free the Hops supported the Alabama Brewers Guild's Growler Bill which was signed into law; allowing breweries to sell a small amount of product directly to the public "to go", removing some unusual location restrictions on where breweries could locate, and allowing for charitable donations to be made directly to a non-profit event.