Press Sales of beer down 2.7% in the first half of 2019

Press release No. 290 of 1 August 2019

WIESBADEN – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the beer producing and storing establishments in Germany sold 4.6 billion litres of beer in the first half of 2019. That was a decrease of 2.7% from the corresponding period of the previous year.

Basic data and long time series are available in table Sales of beer, breweries in operation (73421-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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