page_title: List of microbreweries
section_title: M
hierarchical_section_title: List of microbreweries / Notable microbreweries / M
caption_attribution_description: English: Mt. Shasta Brewing Company in Weed, Siskiyou County, California. Photographed in the evening with Mount Shasta in the background.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable microbreweries. A microbrewery is a brewery which produces a limited amount of beer. The qualifications to be classified as a microbrewery vary by country. The term "microbrewery" originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s to describe the new generation of small breweries which focused on producing traditional cask ale. The first example of this approach was Selby Brewery founded by Martin Sykes in 1972 in the Yorkshire town of the same name. Although originally "microbrewery" was used in relation to the size of breweries, it gradually came to reflect an alternative attitude and approach to brewing flexibility, adaptability, experimentation, and customer service. The term and trend spread to the United States in the 1980s, where it eventually was used as a designation of breweries that produce fewer than 15,000 U.S. beer barrels annually.
context_section_description: Mad River Brewing Company
  Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery
  Malt Shovel Brewery
  Mammoth Brewing Company
  Marble Brewery
  Marshall Brewing Company
  Matilda Bay Brewing Company
  Matt Brewing Company
  McAuslan Brewing
  McMenamins
  Mendocino Brewing Company
  Metropolitan Brewing
  Michigan Brewing Company
  Midnight Sun Brewing Company
  Mikkeller
  Mill Street Brewery
  Milwaukee Brewing Company (founded in 1997, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  Mt. Begbie Brewing Company
  Mount Hope Estate
  Mt. Shasta Brewing Company
  Muskoka Cottage Brewery
caption: Mount Shasta stands to the east of Mt. Shasta Brewing Company.
exif: {}