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Top 25 Ethanol distilleries based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 317 ethanol distilleries headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 3,436 professional contacts across them, including 1,351 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers ethanol distilleries headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest ethanol distilleries based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 376 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MGP is a leading U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alto Ingredients, Inc, formerly Pacific Ethanol, is a leading producer of specialty alcohols and essential ingredients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marquis has a 50-year-long history of driving innovation in American biofuel production, strengthening rural economies, and securing our nation’s energy future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Big River Resources currently has four subsidiaries beneath it which include Big River Resources West Burlington, LLC; Big River Resources Galva, LLC; Big River Resources…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Journeyman Distillery is a family-owned and operated distillery with a focus on small-batch premium spirits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Middle West Spirits launched in Columbus, OH in 2008 using ingredients grown in Ohio to build an expansive line of craft spirits highlighting the unique flavors of the midwest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Glacial Lakes Corn Processors (GLCP), was formed in May 2001 as a South Dakota Cooperative comprised of over shareholders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Conceived over 20-years ago, CIE has grown into a globally recognized, world-class distiller producing a variety of Alcohols whose quality is unmatched.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Western Son is an independently owned, American-made, small-batch, craft distillery launched in 2011.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sugarlands Distilling Company is a craft distillery producing award-winning moonshine, rum, cream liqueurs, and rye whiskey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About SanTan Brewery, Distillery + Eatery In 2007, SanTan Brewing Company opened the doors of our original brewpub, located in the heart of Historic Downtown Chandler.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cardinal Ethanol delivers a portfolio of high-value products derived from corn.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Distilling is baked in Louisville's culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Whiskey House of Kentucky is the most advanced distillery in the world, designed from the ground up, to provide the highest-quality, customized American Whiskey for the most…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Search the seven seas if you must, but you won't find a more enchanting set of spirits than that of the honey-laced gems from Caledonia."- Robert Plotkin, American Cocktails Our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SIRE is a state of the art dry-mill grain processing facility that produces over 110 million gallons of fuel grade ethanol per year.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KOVAL Distillery creates an extraordinary line of whiskey, gin, and specialty spirits using unique grains, signature techniques, and only the absolute best quality distillate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guardian Energy is an ethanol manufacturer with locations in Janesville, Minnesota, Hankinson, North Dakota and Lima, Ohio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southern Distilling Company ~ Home of Statesville Contract Distilling & Makers of Southern Star Whiskeys.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our story begins nearly 3 decades ago with a single product and an industry beginning to expand with the use of ethanol as an oxygenate to reduce carbon monoxide tailpipe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tennessee Distilling Group is a distiller of traditional Tennessee Whiskey, American Bourbon, Rye, Corn, and Single Malt Whiskeys.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In the roaring twenties, Detroit fueled prohibition and an entrepreneurial spirit that didn't follow the rules.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kings County Distillery is New York City’s oldest operating whiskey distillery, the first since prohibition.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CH is Chicago's leading artisan spirits producer with an extensive portfolio including the only organic vodka made from Illinois grain and a variety of core and specialty spirits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al-Corn Clean Fuel, based in Claremont, MN, is a leader within the renewable fuel sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: ethanol distilleries. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names ethanol distilleries.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of ethanol distilleries, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name ethanol distilleries. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Ethanol distilleries based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 317 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among ethanol distilleries, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “ethanol distilleries”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names ethanol distilleries), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among ethanol distilleries, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,351 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names ethanol distilleries, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many ethanol distilleries are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 317 ethanol distilleries headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
MGP Ingredients, headquartered in Atchison, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most ethanol distilleries?
Chicago leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Portland (3) and Akron (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,351 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 317 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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