US & Canadian Distillery Directory
There are 5,458 federally-licensed distilleries in the United States and 58more in Canada. Roughly forty of them produce ninety percent of what you’ve heard of. The other 5,476are why we built this. Every listing is mapped, sorted by state, and cross-linked to bottle reviews and trail guides — not stitched together from Yelp scrapes.
Browse by state
Start where there’s actually something to drink. The twelve states below account for most of North America’s craft and major-brand production.
Featured trail guides
Five trips we’ve actually driven. Each guide has the stop order, tasting-fee math, hotel anchors, and the bottles worth carrying home.
All 68 stops. Buffalo Trace to Bardstown, with the order that actually works and the tasting fee math no one publishes.
Stranahan's, Laws, Leopold's three-chamber rye, and the world's highest distillery at 9,600 feet. Ski and tour the same day.
MGP plus six craft stops. The state secretly making more whiskey than every distillery outside Kentucky combined.
Manhattan's first distillery in a century, Brooklyn's Empire Rye scene, and the Hudson Valley's solera bourbon over four days.
Cool-climate aging, peated local barley, and the city blocks where American single malt was reinvented in the 2000s.
How we built this directory
The US list is rebuilt weekly from the TTB’s Distilled Spirits Plant registry — the federal license database every legal American distillery must be in. The Canadian list is reconciled against the Canadian Craft Distillers Association membership roster and each province’s liquor authority. We don’t scrape Google Maps. We don’t copy from Wikipedia (we cross-check it). Contract bottlers without their own DSP get filtered out. Permanently closed sites stay in the database with a closed-flag so you don’t plan a trip to a building that’s now a coffee shop.
Every listing carries the basics — address, hours, tour policy, parent company, lat/long for the map. The opinion shows up in the connective tissue: state-page rankings (which distilleries are actually worth a tour), trail-guide stop orders, visit-worthiness scores, and the bottle reviews each listing links to. The raw count moves a few dozen each quarter as TTB issues new permits and craft operations open or shutter. We update it. You don’t have to cross-reference six sources before booking a trip.