Public Standards
Methodology
The live brewery catalog is built around legal producer identity and facility proof. We would rather remove an unsupported placeholder than leave an unverified brewery active.
64
Active Breweries
23
Licensed
Regulatory match attached
41
Officially Verified
Strong operator proof
9
Verification Queue
Needs review
Source Ladder
Higher-trust sources can create or upgrade a brewery record. Lower-trust sources can enrich a record, but they cannot create one by themselves.
Level 1
Regulatory
National Tax Agency liquor-license publications are the strongest positive proof that a brewery facility exists and is licensed.
Level 2
Corporate
NTA corporate-number records corroborate the legal operator, rename history, and registry status behind the brewery.
Level 3
Official Operator
The brewery’s own site, taproom pages, and operator-controlled announcements confirm facility identity, address, and active operations.
Level 4
Association
Industry listings are useful corroboration, but they do not create canonical records on their own.
Level 5
Community and Commercial
Untappd, maps, marketplaces, and social profiles enrich a brewery after legitimacy is established. They do not create breweries by themselves.
Classification Rules
Licensed
Regulatory match plus facility/operator alignment. This is the highest-confidence active producer state in the catalog.
Officially Verified
Strong official-site corroboration exists, but a regulatory match is not yet attached in the dataset.
Probable Brewery
Evidence suggests a legitimate brewery, but sourcing is not yet strong enough for official confirmation.
Brand-only or venue-only
These records are tracked separately when needed, but they are not treated as standalone breweries.
Record Policy
Unsupported placeholders, contract-only brands, and venue records are not silently left in the live brewery catalog. If the evidence is too weak, the record is removed or held out of the active set until corroboration exists.
This is why the verification queue can reach zero without inflating the live brewery count: questionable records are not allowed to remain active just to preserve coverage optics.
When a new record appears, the first questions are legal operator, facility address, and license/operator proof. Product pages, social profiles, or maps results come later.
Recent unmatched NTA new-license rows move into the active research queue first. Older unmatched rows remain visible in a separate legacy backlog until they are resolved, rather than silently dropping out of the workflow.