The Best New Craft Breweries of 2025 | VinePair

As a writer, finding negative narratives in craft beer is a breeze. Sales are declining. Closures are climbing. Let’s blame all those IPAs! Or Gen Z! Or THC!

Instead of focusing on deflating news, though, this story is centered on an uplift. Even in a challenging year, brewers are still pushing forward to open new breweries by capitalizing on inexpensive used equipment and taking over vacant brewing spaces and taprooms. If restaurants can reinvent former kitchens, breweries can also take over brew kettles to ferment new futures.

For this year’s edition, I reached out to brewers, bartenders, writers, bar owners, and more to create a national list of breweries and beer brands that are instilling excitement in beer, against all odds. We tried to only feature breweries that opened by mid-2024, but we left a little leeway for breweries that opened a few months earlier, or ones that moved to open new brick-and-mortar locations.

Here are 26 of the best new breweries to seek out right now. I promise they all don’t serve IPAs.