page_title: List of breweries in California
section_title: Butte County
hierarchical_section_title: List of breweries in California / Breweries by county / Butte County
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior photo of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. facility in Chico, CA.
context_page_description: This list of breweries in California, both current and defunct, includes both microbreweries and larger industrial scale breweries. Brewing companies range widely in the volume and variety of beer produced, ranging from small breweries to massive multinational conglomerates. Since 1983, California has allowed breweries to sell beer on their premises, giving rise to numerous brewpubs and microbreweries.
  Breweries in California produce a wide range of beers in different styles that are marketed locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. In 2012 California's 458 breweries, importers, brewpubs, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers employed over 7,000 people directly, and more than 109,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. Including people directly employed in brewing, as well as those who supply California's breweries with everything from ingredients to machinery, the total business and personal tax revenue generated by California's breweries and related industries was more than $5.1 billion. Consumer purchases of California's brewery products generated another $1.1 billion in tax revenue.
context_section_description: Eckert Malting and Brewing in Chico
  Feather Falls Casino Brewing Company in Oroville
  Feather River Brewing Company in Magalia
  NorCal Brewing in Chico
  Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico
  Secret Trail Brewing in Chico
caption: Sierra Nevada Brewing Company headquarters in Chico
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