TTB List of Permittees · August 2026

Federal alcohol permit key findings

Counts compiled from PlainAlcohol's rebuild of the public TTB List of Permittees: 84,273 FAA Act Basic Permits in 52 jurisdictions. Vintage August 2026. Registry facts only; not a brewery census and not drinking advice.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.
84,273
Basic Permits
52
states & territories
38,957
wholesaler
11,126
cities

TTB List of Permittees · August 2026

PlainAlcohol lists 84,273 federal alcohol Basic Permits from the TTB List of Permittees, August 2026. 38,957 are wholesaler (46.2%). California holds 21,002 (24.9%).

84,273
Basic Permits
38,957
wholesaler
21,002
CA premises
52
jurisdictions

According to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) List of Permittees, published August 2026. See methodology. Figures recompute from the permit table.

According to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) List of Permittees, published August 2026, 84,273 federal alcohol Basic Permits are on file across 52 states and territories. Read the methodology.

Key findings

Standalone, citable statements from this TTB rebuild. Free to reuse with attribution to PlainAlcohol.

  • 84,273 federal alcohol Basic Permits are in this PlainAlcohol rebuild of the TTB List of Permittees (August 2026). Four FAA Act classes only: winery, distillery, importer, wholesaler. Breweries are not in this file.
  • 38,957 (46.2%) are wholesaler, the largest slice of this file. Distillery are the smallest class at 5,670 (6.7%). Class is the TTB permit type on the row, not a sales ranking.
  • 21,526 vs 18,120 importers (25.5%) outnumber wineries (21.5%) in this file. Distilleries are 5,670. This registry is not a producer-only census.
  • 21,002 permits list a California premises (24.9% of 84,273 across 52 jurisdictions; 25.3% of the 50-state 83,049). California wholesalers (9,346) outnumber California wineries (6,400) in the same file.
  • 70.0 / 100k Oregon is the densest jurisdiction in this file (Census Vintage-2023 population in the denominator; 2,963 permits). California is 53.9 per 100k despite the count lead. Density is permit premises per resident, not consumption.
  • 6,400 California winery permits are 35.3% of the national winery class (18,120). Washington is second (1,430).
  • 1,811 permit premises list Napa, California as the city of record, the largest city grain in this file: 797 wineries and 755 wholesalers. City is the TTB premises city, not a winery-only census.
  • 4,274 of 11,126 cities in this file have exactly one permit holder (38.4%). Miami, Florida is the second-largest city (1,235) and is importer + wholesaler (662 + 550), with 9 winery rows.

Permit classes in this file

Count of rows by TTB Basic Permit type. Wholesaler is the largest slice of this file, not a claim about alcohol sales.

Wholesaler38,957Importer21,526Winery18,120Distillery5,670
Permit-class counts among 84,273 TTB Basic Permits (August 2026)
08427321002
California premises: 21,002 of 84,273 Basic Permits (August 2026)

Source: TTB FOIA List of Permittees Federal Alcohol Administration Act Basic Permits (winery, distillery, importer, wholesaler) · 2025 Counts are this rebuild of the August 2026 list, not a brewery census and not a live TTB search.

Largest jurisdictions in this file

Permit premises by state or territory. California is a quarter of the national file; Oregon leads on permits per 100,000 residents.

CA21,002FL5,936NY5,887TX5,153WA4,139OR2,963PA2,450IL2,342
Top jurisdictions by TTB Basic Permit count (August 2026)

How to read these numbers

Each row is one FAA Act Basic Permit in the TTB List of Permittees published August 2026. City and state are the premises on that permit, not a ranking of drinks sold. Breweries hold a Brewer's Notice under the Internal Revenue Code and are not in this public list. Confirm a permit's current status against the official TTB Public Permit Search before a business decision. Download the state landscape CSV or open the Permit Explorer.

What this file is for

These 84,273 rows are the same TTB rebuild behind the Permit Explorer and the producer directory.

This page reports TTB Basic Permit counts. It is not drinking advice, not a brewery list, and not a live status search.

According to the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's List of Permittees, the August 2026 List of Permittees source contains 84,273 federal Basic Permit records. PlainAlcohol renders those records directly from the source; no figure is typed in by an editor. This page's Key Findings are aggregates over the producers, states, and cities tables, the same TTB rebuild as the Permit Explorer. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data & editorial changelog, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.