Small Breweries, Somewhere Screensaver
The Small Breweries, Somewhere screensaver shows a rotating draw from the Open Brewery DB, key-less. The random endpoint is used deliberately: the main listing is alphabetical, which pins a permanent wall of names beginning with digits and punctuation to the top and never moves. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
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Press ESC to leave fullscreen. Settings are saved in your browser only.
How the Small Breweries, Somewhere screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
A rotating draw from the Open Brewery DB, key-less. The random endpoint is used deliberately: the main listing is alphabetical, which pins a permanent wall of names beginning with digits and punctuation to the top and never moves.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours and any options can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
About the Open Brewery DB
Open Brewery DB is a free, open-source dataset and API covering breweries, cideries, brewpubs and bottleshops. The API needs no key, and the data is also available as CSV, JSON and SQL. It is maintained on GitHub, where contributors submit corrections and additions as pull requests that are reviewed before they are merged, so it is a community-maintained dataset and not an official licensing register.
Coverage is uneven by country. The project reports more than 23 countries, but the United States accounts for the large majority of entries, followed by Germany and Australia. Each record has a name, a brewery type, and city, state or province and country; a website is included where known.
The type field distinguishes micro, nano, regional, brewpub, contract and proprietor operations. Planning marks a brewery not yet open and closed marks one that has shut down, which is why you will sometimes see a brewery that has not opened yet or one that no longer exists. The documentation also lists large and bar, both deprecated. The saver uses the random endpoint, which returns breweries drawn at random, so there is no ranking and nothing about size or quality is implied.
A worked example
A rotating draw from the Open Brewery DB, key-less. The random endpoint is used deliberately: the main listing is alphabetical, which pins a permanent wall of names beginning with digits and punctuation to the top and never moves.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Every value on screen comes from the live source — nothing is simulated.
- Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.
- Why might my local brewery be missing?
- The dataset is community-maintained and uneven by region, with most entries in the United States, so some places are thoroughly covered and others barely at all. A random draw also shows only a small slice at a time.
- What do the brewery types mean?
- They are categories in the dataset: micro (most craft breweries), nano (very small, usually local), regional, brewpub (beer-focused restaurant or bar with on-site brewing), contract, proprietor, planning (not yet open) and closed.
- How can a missing brewery be added?
- The dataset is maintained on GitHub. Contributors fork it, add or update entries in the CSV files and submit a pull request, which is reviewed before merging.