Michael Nolan

Who gets beer around?

Looking around for information about beer and alcohol distribution in the United States, i.e. the business of getting hooch from where it’s made to where it’s sold, I found myself looking at the very useful and well-curated list of North American distributors found here: https://www.findmeabrewery.com/distributors/. The website also has lots of useful reference lists containing information about breweries and beer events throughout the USA and Canada.

In the distributor list specifically I saw an opportunity to organize the data into a csv table. To do that, I built a simple web scraping script that I’ve pushed - along with the most recent version of the distributor information table - to this github repository: https://github.com/m-nolan/beer_distributor_dataset. Table format information can be found in the repo README file.

Thank you to the fine folks at findmeabrewery.com for making this data available.