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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 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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42.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
BeerBottle ShopsBrew PubsBreweriesCider

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 42.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 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
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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 1

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

Open Brewery DB

OPEN COLLECTION

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

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 API 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

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.19'