Open Brewery DB API

Free brewery directory API with no key: search breweries by name, city, state, country and type, with addresses and coordinates. Tested curl example.

No API key requiredCORS enabledHTTPSFree tier

Endpoint tested and returned HTTP 200 on 19 Aug 2026

What is the Open Brewery DB API?

Open Brewery DB is a free, key-free API listing breweries worldwide with names, types, full addresses, phone numbers, websites and coordinates, searchable by location and brewery type.

Open Brewery DB is a genuine open dataset of real businesses rather than generated placeholder data, which makes it unusually useful for practising location-based features — mapping, distance sorting, radius search — with data that behaves like production data.

It also has realistic messiness worth building against: some records lack coordinates, phone numbers or websites. Handling those gaps gracefully is exactly the skill that synthetic datasets never teach.

Quick facts

Base URL: https://api.openbrewerydb.org/v1
Authentication: No key required.
Rate limit: No published hard limit; fair use expected.
Pricing: Free open data.
CORS: Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript
Official docs: Read the docs

How to use the Open Brewery DB API

Every request below was executed against the live API on 19 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

1. List breweries from the directory

GET https://api.openbrewerydb.org/v1/breweries?per_page=1

curl

curl 'https://api.openbrewerydb.org/v1/breweries?per_page=1'

JavaScript (fetch)

const res = await fetch("https://api.openbrewerydb.org/v1/breweries?per_page=1");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Python (requests)

import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.openbrewerydb.org/v1/breweries?per_page=1", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

Response — HTTP 200

[
  {
    "id": "ae7b3174-8be8-4d53-a3a5-9b8240970eea",
    "name": "'s",
    "brewery_type": "brewpub",
    "address_1": "Friesener Straße 1",
    "address_2": null,
    "address_3": null,
    "city": "Kronach",
    "state_province": "Bayern",
    "postal_code": "96317",
    "country": "Germany",
    "longitude": 11.327765,
    "latitude": 50.241246,
    "phone": "+49 9261 628000",
    "website_url": "http://www.antla.de",
    "state": "Bayern",
    "street": "Friesener Straße 1"
  }
]

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`by_city`	string	Optional	Filter by city name. `san_diego`
`by_state`	string	Optional	Filter by state or province. `california`
`by_country`	string	Optional	Filter by country. `united_states`
`by_type`	string	Optional	micro, nano, regional, brewpub, large, planning, contract or closed. `micro`
`per_page`	integer	Optional	Results per page, up to 200. `20`
`by_dist`	string	Optional	Sort by distance from lat,lng coordinates. `32.88,-117.16`

Response fields

id / namestring: Brewery identifier and name.
brewery_typestring: Category such as micro, brewpub or regional.
address_1 / city / state / postal_codestring: Full address components.
latitude / longitudestring|null: Coordinates as strings; null for some records.
phone / website_urlstring|null: Contact details, frequently null.

What you can build with the Open Brewery DB API

Build a brewery finder with map and distance sorting
Practise location-based search with real, imperfect data
Add a local business directory to a travel or food site
Teach defensive handling of nullable fields

Common errors and how to fix them

Empty array

No breweries matched the filters.

Fix: City and state values use underscores for spaces, e.g. `san_diego`.

Null coordinates

Not every brewery has been geocoded.

Fix: Filter out records without latitude and longitude before plotting on a map.

Open Brewery DB API — frequently asked questions

Is Open Brewery DB free?

Yes, completely free open data with no API key or registration required.

How do I search breweries near a location?

Use `by_dist` with `latitude,longitude` to sort results by distance from that point, then combine with `per_page` to limit how many you render.

Why are some fields null?

It is a real-world open dataset, so coverage is uneven — phone numbers, websites and coordinates are missing for some breweries. Handle nulls rather than assuming every field is present.

How do I format multi-word city names?

Replace spaces with underscores, so San Diego becomes `san_diego`. The same applies to state and country filters.

Tools that pair with this API

JSON Formatter

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Open Brewery DB is an independent third-party service and is not affiliated with ByteTools or ByteVancer. Details on this page were verified on 19 Aug 2026; always check the official documentation before relying on this API in production, as terms and limits can change.