Free State Brewing Company
Kansas's most historic craft brewery and the first legal brewpub in Kansas after Prohibition ended in the state in 1987. Founded in 1989 in Lawrence — the college town that has always been Kansas's most progressive city. Free State has been brewing American craft beer for over 35 years, making it one of the oldest brewpubs in the Great Plains. Their Ad Astra Ale is named after the Kansas state motto.
Beers by Free State Brewing Company
30 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Free State Brewing Company brew a broad range across 9 style families.
Across these 30 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Wheat State Golden
Their beers place in the Top 71% of the catalogue on average, across 3 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Free State Brewing Company
Kansas's most historic craft brewery and the first legal brewpub in Kansas after Prohibition ended in the state in 1987. Founded in 1989 in Lawrence — the college town that has always been Kansas's most progressive city. Free State has been brewing American craft beer for over 35 years, making it one of the oldest brewpubs in the Great Plains. Their Ad Astra Ale is named after the Kansas state motto.
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