BarthHaas Report 2025/2026: Global beer market trends downward

Germany | In 2025, global beer production declined slightly, with total output contracting 0.7 percent over 2024 to 1.896 billion hl, the world’s leading hop specialist BarthHaas said on 21 July. Despite varying or, in some cases, contrary trends in individual countries, beer production was down on virtually every continent. The only exception was Africa, which saw a slight increase in beer output. 

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