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A guide to Nebraska breweries, brewpubs, and taprooms

50+ Craft Breweries in the Cornhusker State for you to enjoy.

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Nebraska is brewing up quality craft beer, from the Omaha Metro area, to the Nebraska Panhandle. Cities like Lincoln, suburbs like La Vista, and even rural towns like Fairfield (pop. ~400) and Holdrege, all have craft breweries in operation.

Breweries in Nebraska are concentrated in the major cities, with 12 breweries in Lincoln and 12 breweries in Omaha. However, the highest concentration of craft beer joints per capita belongs to La Vista, with ~17k people and 4 microbreweries. If you discount 30% of the population for children, then you're talking about a taproom for every 2500 people. Fantastic!

Regions of Nebraska

Nebraska breweries span the Dissected Till Plains into the Great Plains. You can find great beer anywhere in the state, not just in Omaha. Each region of the Cornhusker State has a few noteworthy taprooms and brewpubs. These regions include the Central Plains, Omaha Metro, Southeast, Three Rivers, and the Western region.

Central Plains

If you're farming and raising cattle, you're gonna wanna drink some beers. Cities and towns like Grand Island, and Kearney, towns that grew up as train depots, are arriving on the Nebraska brewery map as watering holes for the locals, thanks to microbreweries such as Prairie Pride Brewery in Grand Island and the Platte Valley Taphouse in Kearney.

Omaha Metro

Omaha and the surrounding Metro area is obviously conducts more commerce than rural life on the plains. That extends to brewing operations as well, as craft breweries like Infusion Brewing Company operate out of 3 locations. Nebraska Brewing Company runs two, one in Papillion and one in La Vista.

Southeast

Southeast Nebraska includes the state's other large city, Lincoln. Zipline Brewing Co., who asserts that they are Nebraska's best craft brewery, offers up a bevy of fresh lagers and ales, including their Alpha Modern IPA, their DOPE! IPA, and their Local Time lager, a casual adult beverage for post-work drinking. Grab yourself a beer and a steak at Misty's Steakhouse and Brewery. Or, "Pursue the Brew" over at Empyrean Brewing Company with a SuperNova.

Too bad about Spilker Ales closing some time back.

Three Rivers

The Three Rivers region of Nebraska is an interesting corner of the United States. Wayne and Norfolk aren't exactly Omaha and Lincoln, you know? That doesn't stop Johnnie Byrd and Divots from brewing up pint after pint of Amber Waves of Wayne and Corduroy Ninja. Skol!

Western

The Western part of Nebraska is not to be forgotten when it comes to Midwest craft brewing. Cities such as McCook & Scottsbluff each have a microbrewery. Best to load up at Flyover Brewing if you're headed West, because the next brewery is Open Barrel Brewing in Torrington, Wyoming.

Nebraska Craft Brewery Tours

There are companies who host brew tours, but COVID-19 has kind of squashed things a bit. It's best if you do your own research.

Speaking of tours, the caves underneath Blue Blood Brewing Company is something you may want to check out.

A List of Craft Beer Breweries in Nebraska

Each listing includes their street address and/or contact information. Some breweries include both. For the ones that we have patronized, we have listed a write-up review with some thoughts on their beer, food, menu, tasting room, etc.

Feel free to reach out to us if the information is inaccurate, or the brewery closed, or, if you really just wanna talk about beer - we are here for you.

Nebraska Breweries

All breweries, taprooms, and brewpubs in NE. Now go visit them.

  1. Brewpub | 5730 Hidcote Drive, Lincoln, NE 68516 | (402) 875-5588

  2. Microbrewery | 500 W South Street, Lincoln, NE 68522 | (402) 515-4263

  3. Taproom | 6059 Maple Street, Omaha, NE 68104 | (402) 934-8668

  4. Taproom | 129 N 10th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 | (402) 261-8775

  5. Taproom | 420 E 1st Street, Valentine, NE 69201 | (402) 259-5180

  6. Brewpub | 45145 829th Road, Taylor, NE 68879 | (308) 942-3440

  7. Taproom | 230 S 5th Street, Seward, NE 68434 | (402) 646-5847

  8. Microbrewery | 817 E 3rd Street, Alliance, NE 69301 | (308) 761-2719

  9. Microbrewery | 1116 Jackson Street, Omaha, NE 68102 | (402) 933-2613

  10. Brewpub | 102 N Main Street, Atkinson, NE 68713 | (402) 925-2629

  11. Brewpub | 74896 Johnson Lake Drive 25A, Elwood, NE 68937 | (308) 785-4012

  12. Taproom | 200 S Antelope Valley Parkway, Lincoln, NE 68510 | (402) 318-5888

  13. Taproom | 6800 P Street, Lincoln, NE 68505 | (402) 730-8807

  14. Brewpub | 4200 W Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701 | (402) 844-2985

  15. Microbrewery | 729 Q Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 | (402) 434-5970

  16. Brewpub | 415 N D Street, Fairfield, NE 68938 | (402) 726-2447

  17. Brewpub | 3558 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE 68131 | (402) 401-6086

  18. Taproom | 119 N St Joseph Avenue, Hastings, NE 68901 | (402) 834-2400

  19. Brewpub | 1824 Broadway, Scottsbluff, NE 69361 | (616) 322-4564

  20. Brewpub | 2804 13th Street, Columbus, NE 68601 | (402) 562-6488

  21. Brewpub | 6200 O Street, Lincoln, NE 68510 | (402) 466-1900

  22. Brewpub | 1630 P Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 |

  23. Microbrewery | 134 S 4th Street, Albion, NE 68620 | (402) 395-8733

  24. Taproom | 73892 332 Avenue, Imperial, NE 69033 | (308) 882-7772

  25. Microbrewery | 6115 Maple Street, Omaha, NE 68104 | (402) 934-2064

  26. Taproom | 1406 South 13th Street, Omaha, NE 68108 | (402) 401-6431

  27. Microbrewery | 6271 S 118th Street, Omaha, NE 68137 | (402) 934-2064

  28. Brewpub | 10922 Elm Street, Omaha, NE 68144 | (402) 392-7331

  29. Taproom | 121 N Pearl Street, Wayne, NE 68787 | (402) 833-1522

  30. Brewpub | 20560 Elkhorn Drive, Elkhorn, NE 68022 | (402) 779-8496

  31. Microbrewery | 43860 Paulsen Road, Broken Bow, NE 68822 | (308) 872-8348

  32. Microbrewery | 10411 Portal Road, La Vista, NE 68128 | (402) 779-7990

  33. Microbrewery | 2566 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE 68131 | (319) 533-1801

  34. Brewpub | 210 N 7th Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 | (402) 434-5636

  35. Brewpub | 211 Road 20, Ohiowa, NE 68416 | (402) 314-5266

  36. Brewpub | 404 W A Street, McCook, NE 69001 | (308) 345-5198

  37. Taproom | 614 3rd Avenue, Holdrege, NE 68949 | (308) 995-0503

  38. Microbrewery | 11941 Centennial Road, La Vista, NE 68128 | (402) 763-8868

  39. Microbrewery | 6950 South 108th Street, La Vista, NE 68128 | (402) 933-6757

  40. Brewpub | 7474 Towne Center Parkway, Papillion, NE 68046 | (402) 934-7100

  41. Taproom | 4520 South Buffalo Bill Avenue, North Platte, NE 69101 | (608) 807-9332

  42. Microbrewery | 10411 Portal Road, La Vista, NE 68128 | (402) 359-1418

  43. Brewpub | 14 E Railroad Street, Kearney, NE 68847 | (308) 237-0751

  44. Brewpub | 1630 P Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 |

  45. Taproom | 115 E South Front Street, Grand Island, NE 68801 | (308) 850-5375

  46. Microbrewery | 2946 O Road, Syracuse, NE 68446 | (402) 304-6347

  47. Brewpub | 62193 710th Road, Pawnee City, NE 68420 | (402) 852-2400

  48. Taproom | 141 S 16th Street, Ord, NE 68862 | (308) 728-5050

  49. Taproom | 3922 Farnam Street, Omaha, NE 68131 | (402) 991-0506

  50. Taproom | 17111 S 138th Street, Springfield, NE 68059 | (402) 253-2479

  51. Taproom | 717 W 1st Street, Hastings, NE 68901 | (402) 519-4205

  52. Taproom | 301 Court Street, Beatrice, NE 68310 | (402) 806-4664

  53. Brewpub | 18 E 21st Street, Kearney, NE 68847 | (308) 237-1558

  54. Brewpub | 514 S 11th Street, Omaha, NE 68102 | (402) 344-0200

  55. Brewpub | 3501 Center Street, Omaha, NE 68105 | 402-884-4082

  56. Microbrewery | 720 Van Dorn Street, Lincoln, NE 68502 | (402) 261-6078

  57. Microbrewery | 2100 Magnum Circle, Lincoln, NE 68522 | (402) 475-1001

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