German Breweries
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Germany is the third-largest beer producer in the world, after the U.S. and China. Germany's breweries make about 100 million hectoliters of beer a year (about 2.6 billion U.S. gallons or 85 million U.S. barrels). U.S. breweries by comparison make a tad more than twice that much beer (about 180 million barrels a year), but for a population more than three times that of Germany.

Almost 90% of the German beer production is consumed within the country, which means that, purely statistically, every German, including babies and seniors, drinks about 117 liters (about 31 gallons) of beer per year. German beer consumption is about 60% higher than the average for all of Western Europe. The Czechs, incidentally, are the world record holders in beer-drinking. They down about 160 liters (about 42 gallons) per person per year. Americans by comparison drink about 65 liters (17 gallons) a year, roughly half as much as the Germans.

German Per-Capita Beer Consumption in Liters (excl. non-alcoholic beers) Data courtesy of the Deutscher Brauer-Bund (German Brewers Federation)
Year	1970	1980	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Volume in liters	141	146	128	128	125	122	122	118

 

 

 

 

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