AB-InBev to build world’s second largest brewery

Who thought that size matters in brewing? Apparently, in Mexico they do. Sporting some fairly large breweries already, the country will get another superlative-beating one when Grupo Modelo’s new brewery in Apan, located in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo, will go on stream in the first quarter of 2019.

According to Forbes magazine, the new site is expected to be the world’s second largest brewery. It will have an initial annual capacity of twelve million hl, but this is expected to double in the future.

The leading Mexican brewer, Grupo Modelo, which was bought out by AB-InBev in 2013, currently has seven plants in Mexico. Heineken’s subsidiary, Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, will also have seven once its new brewery in Meoqui, in the state of Chihuahua, is completed at the end of this year, while Constellation Brands has two and a third one in the works.

Mexico produced 105 million hl beer in 2016, an 8.1 percent increase from 2015, it was reported.

In 2016 Mexico surpassed Germany as the world’s fourth largest beer producer