A picture of craft brewing in Brazil
Ongoing growth | The last annual report from MAPA (the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply, which controls food and alcoholic beverages production in Brazil) shows figures that demonstrate the evolution of Brazilian breweries. This is specially demonstrated by the number of industrial beer plants in the country. While by the end of 2017 there were 679, the report mentions 835 by September 2018, which represents a growth of 156 new plants in thirty-five weeks or, in other words, more than four new breweries per week (fig. 1).