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Brewpub

A brewpub is a combination restaurant and microbrewery that sells the majority of its beer on premises. The first brewpub was Grant's Brewery Pub in Yakima, Washington, which opened in 1982. According to Merriam-Webster, the term was first used in 1984.

July 2003 estimates published by the Association of Brewers show there are over 1000 brewpubs in the United States. Over a third of those are in the west coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California, with Oregon having the highest number of brewpubs per capita of any state in the country.