Brewpub

A brewpub is a restaurant or bar whose owners brew their own beer and sell it on the premises. The first brewpub in the United States was Grant's Brewery Pub in Yakima, Washington, which opened in 1982. As of July 2003, there are over 1,000 brewpubs in the United States.

Originally, all taverns and pubs brewed and sold their own beer. Beginning in the 14th century, brewers began to organize themselves into guilds, so inns and taverns ceased brewing their own beer and buying it from commercial breweries. Some pubs, though, continued to produce their own ales, such as the Blue Anchor in Cornwall, England; today it is regarded as the oldest brewpub in the British Isles. In Germany, though, the brauhaus remained the main source of beer, and there are still over 300 long-established brewpubs there.

The Campaign for Real Ale, which began in the 1970s, revived interest in brewpubs in the United Kingdom; eventually this interest spread to the United States. As laws against selling beer on the same premises where it was brewed were struck down, brewpubs began appearing across America. Oregon has the most brewpubs per capita of any state, but Denver is regarded as America's "beer capitol."