page_title: List of microbreweries
section_title: S
hierarchical_section_title: List of microbreweries / Notable microbreweries / S
caption_attribution_description: A seminal US ale. 5.6% ABV.
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: Saint Arnold Brewing Company
  St Arnou
  Saint Louis Brewery
  San Francisco Brewing Company
  Santa Fe Brewing Company
  Saranac
  Sea Dog Brewing Company
  Shipyard Brewing Company
  Shmaltz Brewing Company
  Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
  Silver Gulch Brewing & Bottling Company
  Sixpoint Brewery
  SKA Brewing
  Small Town Brewery
  Smuttynose Brewing Company
  Southern Star Brewing Company
  Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
  Sprecher Brewery (founded in 1985, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
  Steam Whistle Brewing
  Steelback Brewery
  Surly Brewing Company
caption: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
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