Open Brewery DB

Open Brewery DB is a free and open-source REST API providing public information on breweries, cideries, brewpubs, and bottleshops worldwide. The database contains 11,000+ entries across 23+ countries and 212+ states and regions. No API key, authentication, or registration is required. Data includes brewery name, type, address, city, state, country, coordinates, phone, and website. The API processes over 720,000 requests per week and bulk dataset downloads are available in CSV, JSON, and SQL formats.

Open Brewery DB publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Breweries API. Tagged areas include Beer, Bottle Shops, Brew Pubs, Breweries, and Cider.

The Open Brewery DB catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Open Brewery DB’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 8 more developer resources.

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25.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 66/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

BeerBottle ShopsBrew PubsBreweriesCider

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 25.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 11.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Brewery DB Breweries API

Brewery listing, retrieval, search, autocomplete, and metadata operations.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Open Brewery DB Breweries API

OPEN COLLECTION

Open Brewery DB

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Open Brewery DB MCP Server

Remote MCP server at api.openbrewerydb.org over HTTP; 4 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Open Brewery DB API pricing

Not yet checked against Open Brewery DB's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free free	Free

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Open Brewery Db Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Open Brewery Db Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Open Brewery DB

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Open Brewery Db Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Brewery Context

3 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Brewery Example Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Open Brewery DB — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BreweryMeta

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Brewery

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Brewery Meta

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Brewery Single

16 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Open Brewery Db Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Open Brewery Db Agentic Access

6 operations

6 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: open-brewery-db
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-brewery-db/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/open-brewery-db-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/open-brewery-db-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/documentation
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/openbrewerydb
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/news
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/
- type: X
  url: https://bsky.app/profile/openbrewerydb.org
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-brewery-db/refs/heads/main/plans/open-brewery-db-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-brewery-db/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/open-brewery-db-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/open-brewery-db/refs/heads/main/finops/open-brewery-db-finops.yml
apis:
- aid: open-brewery-db:open-brewery-db-breweries-api
  name: Open Brewery DB Breweries API
  description: Brewery listing, retrieval, search, autocomplete, and metadata operations.
  humanURL: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/
  tags:
  - Breweries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/open-brewery-db-breweries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.openbrewerydb.org/documentation
name: Open Brewery DB
tags:
- Beer
- Bottle Shops
- Brew Pubs
- Breweries
- Cider
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/open-brewery-db.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-11-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
position: Consuming
description: Open Brewery DB is a free and open-source REST API providing public information on breweries, cideries, brewpubs,
  and bottleshops worldwide. The database contains 11,000+ entries across 23+ countries and 212+ states and regions. No API
  key, authentication, or registration is required. Data includes brewery name, type, address, city, state, country, coordinates,
  phone, and website. The API processes over 720,000 requests per week and bulk dataset downloads are available in CSV, JSON,
  and SQL formats.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

Open Brewery DB API — frequently asked questions

Does Open Brewery DB have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Open Brewery DB, including Open Brewery DB Breweries API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Open Brewery DB API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Open Brewery DB, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Open Brewery DB API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Open Brewery DB, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Open Brewery DB have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Open Brewery DB: Remote MCP server at api.openbrewerydb.org over HTTP; 4 tools listed.

Is the Open Brewery DB API ready for AI agents?

Open Brewery DB has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 40.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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