Brewing in New Hampshire

Breweries in New Hampshire produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, and nationally.

Brewing companies vary widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, from small nanobreweries and microbreweries to massive multinational conglomerate macrobreweries.

In 2012 New Hampshire's 21 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 490 people directly, and more than 5,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing.

[2] Consumer purchases of New Hampshire's brewery products generated more than $37 million extra in tax revenue.

[7] New Hampshire has a long history of brewing, though the recent microbrewing movement has been somewhat slower to catch on here than in neighboring states.