Craft beer market showing big growth in Norway
My source for the number of breweries is a list I maintain, with all breweries plus opening and closing years, based on Ratebeer, Wikipedia, and personal knowledge. It goes back to 2001, and shows exactly the same trend. 2012 was a record year, with 57 breweries, no less than 16 more than in 2011. This, of course, is a large part of the reason why there were so many new beers in 2012.
(We’ve updated this post and removed a previous inaccurate version).
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I’m afraid that quote is rather misleading out of context. This is wine monopoly sales only. So bar/restaurant sales, and shop sales of beers at less than 4.75% (which is most beer) are not included. So these statistics cover only 1.2 million liters out of a total of some 250 million liters.
The brewing association just informed me that craft beer production is at 1.6% of total beer production in Norway.
So I’m afraid that headline is not quite right.
Ah, didn’t read through the whole thing but just saw the second-to-last paragraph with the disclaimer. I’ll make an adjustment/retraction.
Thanks! After seeing your post I realized it’s probably pretty easy to misread this in countries that don’t have an alcohol monopoly. Sorry about that.
No worries. If you are sharing it to folks in other countries, I’d recommend moving the easier-to-digest new brewery/beer stats near the top and the monopoly stats toward the bottom. Cheers!